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[MoyuZ777]

Hi Guys,

 

I recently started playing iRO after a very long long time. I got around 200m in zeny and wanted to know how to spend it best for my Royal Guard and Rune Knight.

 

Both of my characters are PVM/MVP and would like to know what is the best starting gear that I should get. I am still very low level with my Royal Guard, 101, and don't have a Rune Knight yet. Just wondering what leech equips or equips in General should I get. I am running out of SP on my RG very fast making it very hard to level up.

 

Thanks in advanced

[MoyuZ777]

Can anybody help me with this?

 

I am reading different things in other threads. Leech gear and Leveling gear. I wonder if this is considered the same or not.

[kasshin]

+9 vanargand helm is pretty amazing for RG. But then now you have to worry about keeping HP up.

[MoyuZ777]

+9 vanargand helm is pretty amazing for RG. But then now you have to worry about keeping HP up.

 

So this helm should allow me to keep my SP up but not HP?

 

What about Hunter Fly cards, I see some people level up with those but, I would think that damage wise is not very good.

[MoyuZ777]

Do I need a Phen Card so that my Overbrand casts 100% without interruption? I feel like I am getting mobbed too quickly and unable to cast Overbrand.

 

My current Stats are:

 

STR 80

AGI 90

VIT 40

Dex 70

 

What can I do better with this build? I could reset stats if needed.

[kasshin]

Yes you do need phen card to prevent Overbrand from being interrupted. Orleans' Gown also works.

Your stats aren't horrible but generally you don't need AGI for Overbrand / AOE leveling. A lot of RGs tend to go with the AGI / Spear Quicken leveling route early on though so you probably did that as well. Changing your stats now won't really help you though so I don't think it's worth the cost. Just pump VIT until you get it to 90 now.

The only cost efficient method I can suggest is to hotkey switch between a witch hat and a vanargand helm mid-battle. Witch Hat + Alarm Mask for healing and Vanargand right during your attack for SP leech. Some other methods would be to use Snowier Cards and Ice Cream for healing (you have to use Orleans' then since you want both accessories to be Snowier Cards). Hunter Fly Cards are probably pretty bad for an RG because most of the best spears only have one slot and one Hunter Fly Card will barely make any difference.

[MoyuZ777]

Yes you do need phen card to prevent Overbrand from being interrupted. Orleans' Gown also works.

Your stats aren't horrible but generally you don't need AGI for Overbrand / AOE leveling. A lot of RGs tend to go with the AGI / Spear Quicken leveling route early on though so you probably did that as well. Changing your stats now won't really help you though so I don't think it's worth the cost. Just pump VIT until you get it to 90 now.

The only cost efficient method I can suggest is to hotkey switch between a witch hat and a vanargand helm mid-battle. Witch Hat + Alarm Mask for healing and Vanargand right during your attack for SP leech. Some other methods would be to use Snowier Cards and Ice Cream for healing (you have to use Orleans' then since you want both accessories to be Snowier Cards). Hunter Fly Cards are probably pretty bad for an RG because most of the best spears only have one slot and one Hunter Fly Card will barely make any difference.

 

Thanks for the reply.

 

I will pump VIT for now on. As far as the Hunter fly goes, Do you think a +10 Pike quadruple Hunter fly will do the job, or will the damage be too low?

 

I also got a couple of questions about the headgear, There is the Vanargand Helm, Witch Hat and Rideword Helm but I didn't hear you mentioning the Rideword Helm, Any reason as to why?

[kasshin]

Damage will be too low with a pike. Well, it might be "sustainable" and take you 4 hits to kill the monsters and will keep you alive. That depends on whether the HP leeched back (a percentage of your damage) is enough to keep your own HP up, and it might not be enough. I really don't recommend going this route.

Vanargand is pretty much better than rideword hat in almost every situation. Don't get rideword hat unless it's a lot cheaper and a lot more affordable to you.

Soloing in general is pretty tough or expensive. Try out eden gramps TI parties as they're a lot more straightforward.

[SaintMichael]

PVM= Leech gear, MVP= specialized gear(gear that increases your damage output, check out temporal boots). I would start with the leech gear first, then move on to the specialized gear.

 

The leech gear setup for a bruiser(melee) royal guard looks like this:

 

hunting spear/long horn/battle hook with 1 hunter fly card

Rosa shield with racial card or elemental card

rideword hat/pirates folly(cheap alternative) with marduk card

Orleans gown with earth deleter card

nyds garb with raydric card

variant shoes/valk shoes with an experience card

blinker/ dark blinder

umbala spirit/chewing gum/spare card

3 clip/eye stone ring with 2 hell poodle cards + 1 creamy card

 

Rideword hat is superior with  1 hunter fly card since you don't have the chances of two going off each time you hit a monster, so your HP leech will suffer with a Vanargand Helm. I also know from personal experience since I use this setup, in fact I'm currently mob farming vanberks using overbrand, moon slasher, and shield spell 1 for 2-3 hours straight. The only consumable I use is meat, I receive 20% more damage because I'm using an Am Mut card, and I only heal when I'm in the red lol. Additionally you can substitute the nyds garb for an incubus pet, or the hunter fly card with a succubus pet.

 

A Rune Knight setup is slightly different if your going for a two-handed weapon build:

 

Violet fear/Tae Goo Lyeon with 2 hunter fly cards

Vanargand helm/pirates folly(cheap alternative)

armor of naga with sky deleter card

 

The rest is pretty much the same, the main difference as you can see is a 300 mil helm that is currently way over rated lol. Basically since you don't have any racial reduction and two weapon slots instead, it's better to wear a Vanargand which will significantly increase the chances that both hunter fly cards will go off. Also since Vanargand has an extremely high sp proc. with Nyd garb you won't be needing the earth deleter card so swap that for a sky deleter card which will give you even more hp leech and with that you should have no problem surviving without racial reduction. Also you won't need Orleans gown or a phen card on a Rune Knight unless your using bowling bash(last time I checked this skill was interruptible), since pretty much every other skill is uninterruptable. 

 

 

 

 

[MoyuZ777]

Really good information guys. I have been playing around with my own Hybrid build on my knight. Right now it looks something like this.

STR 80
Agi 40
VIT 50
DEX 60

I am actually really enjoying it. I can be a tank or a AGI type. For when hunting with just a click, since some of the mobs cannot be mobbed.

I am using a sword with Andre cards with a shield and kill with bowling bash. Is the damage higher with Double handed swords? But then i lose my shields which sucks for mobbing.

Anyway, I am having tons of fun with my knight, currently level 89.

As a LK, I will be going for a hybrid build again, but starting with Str, Dex, Vit and then I'll start working on the agi last.

Is the a proven hybrid Rune Knight build stat and skill wise for hunting everything?

[MoyuZ777]

So I took the plunge and bought almost all the Leeching gear. I am only missing the headgear. None on sale yesterday.

I had a question, why is the Rosa shield so cheap, but it's got pretty good def?

Edited by MoyuZ777, 30 November 2014 - 10:17 AM.

[PervySageMarty]

i think that is because it doesnt provide the type of elemental reduction like a valk shield does.

[SaintMichael]

Umm you'd have to clarify what your definition of a hybrid is, to me a hybrid Rune Knight is one that uses Ignition Break and Hundred Spears, which isn't really all that great, I can't really give you any advice on your build unless your willing to specialize. Although I can say that you will want 80-100 VIT after job bonuses depending on how much LUK your going to get. 

 

The headgear is important so make sure you get it, o and you don't need to buy the most expensive one right now you can settle for a pirates folly, in fact I used a pirates folly till like 134 then swapped it for a +9 rideword hat when I could afford it. 

 

The reason why Rosa shield is really cheap is because of a few reasons, 1. it's easy to obtain(lots of supply) and 2. it's only available for swordsman class, so demand isn't that high. Also like Marty said it doesn't have any secondary benefits that a valk shield, giant shield, tournament shield, or imperial shield does, but that being said it's the perfect shield to throw a racial card in since it's so cheap and has the best defense. 

[MoyuZ777]

If I gotta specialize that's fine but I want a Rune Knight that could hunt anywhere with the less possible pots. I know I will need to use pots anyway but just want to minimize its use as much as I can.

What build do you suggest for solo leveing and farming items anywhere?

[kasshin]

It's pretty hard for a RG to survive purely from leech gears, especially at the higher levels. DB RK has an advantage here because you don't even need a weapon for DB really, and you can fit in four hunter fly cards. Start looking into healing boosters and cheap healing methods early on so that the cost of the pots you use become mostly insignificant.

[SaintMichael]

If I gotta specialize that's fine but I want a Rune Knight that could hunt anywhere with the less possible pots. I know I will need to use pots anyway but just want to minimize its use as much as I can.

What build do you suggest for solo leveing and farming items anywhere?

 

You can replace potions with meat, if you use 2x the hell poodle cards. Rune Knights have a huge disadvantage when it comes to farming anywhere because their AOE skills are all fire elemental based. That being said there are a lot of monsters weak to fire, so I recommend using a hundred spear+ dragon breath, since you also want to MVP.

 

Level 150 stats:

 

STR-97+3

AGI-1+3

VIT-115+5

INT-86+10

DEX-93+7

LUK-1+5

 

Hundred spears is your MVP killer, while dragon breath is your AOE skill for mobbing, the leech gear setup would be a bit different since Dragon Breath is a ranged attack that isn't neutral based, so I don't think regular leech gear will work with it(need confirmation).

 

Personally though I recommend using a vanishing point+ spear cannon Royal Guard for farming everywhere. Since this build has two neutral property attacks that can be altered with converters making it the ideal mob farmer and MVP killer. In fact this type of Royal Guard can solo incarnations of morroc, and banshees using only ice cream, which a Rune Knight can't really do at all.

[kasshin]

IB is neutral, it just does more damage with fire element endowed...

Everyone knows a quadruple hunter fly weapon is very common for DB RKs.

[SaintMichael]

IB does puny damage against end game mobs if it's not fire endowed.

 

I've seen maybe 1 dragon breath Rune Knight in the past 3 months so clearly everyone doesn't know, also that doesn't mean it's the best choice just because it's "common". Okay so hunter fly works with it, but what about nyds garb or a rideword hat?