1. Introduction
2. Skill Build
2.1 Why I chose these skills
3. Equipment
3.1 Equipment Suggestions
3.2 Accessories Builds
4. Plates
5. References
6. Updates
7. Coming Soon
8. Additional Information
9. Screenshots and Videoes
1.Introduction
Hello, welcome future moonlords to my guide. My name is Timmy while my Ingame name is Kyronos or my Alt Chronos. In this guide I will go indept on what my build is for my PVE moonlord and why I chose these skills. I thank you personally for reading my guide, hopeful it'll help you understand moonlord.*Note: Don't follow my guide blindly*
2. Skill Build
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2.1 Why I chose these skills
*Note Warrior skill don't need to be explain most of it common sense*
Lv 1 Triple Slash: A good push back skill if you want to break thru mobs if there surrounding you plus you need it to unlock Aerial Combo.
Lv 1 Aerial Combo: A good aerial counter skill if you seem to be surround by mobs since you can jump and left click to active the skill
Lv 1Deep Straight:A good evasion skill if bunch of mobs are surronding and also makes for quick get away so you can start up your combo
Lv 1 Dash Slash: A nice skill to use when dashing into mobs to break them up and then use moonlight splitter to kill them or damage them.
Lv 1 Dash Combo:Extra Slash to mobs doesn't hurt anybody plus you can use this skill when tumble to knockback mobs to quickly escape and attack from afar.
Lv 1 Eclispe: A 360 aoe that hits all the mobs surrounding you. It also decrease there Super Armor Attack rate by 40% and it also Magic move too! Great for places that have a lot of mobs coming at you.
Lv 7 Luring Strike/Heavy Hammer: This move is amazing especially on those hefty bosses that seem to have crapload of defense it Increase the damage of magic and physical moves by 40% at Lv 7!!!! This skill is must for moonlords and it counter part.
Lv 1 Aerial Exile: This is basically the magic-counter part of Aerial combo but you must be knock up into the air to send an X shape sword wave to the boss/mob/opponent and it a good damage too
Lv 3 Parry: Your basic warrior blocks but at 11.6% of time. It is also a random life saver in dangerous situations.
Lv 2 CounterSlash: Requirement for Counterwave and it your basic counter skill when you parry
Lv 1 CounterWave:Requirement for the all godly Parry Stance. It is the magic range counterpart of counterslash, useful if you get attacked and then parried from afar
Lv 3 Parry Stance: 100% Parry Rate for 14 seconds... Your basic Life Saver here plus you can spam counter slash and counterwave(CounterWave has 3 sec cooldown) in this stance. This is skill is something that most(maybe all) Moonlords should get... without the parry tree you must relay on dodging skills and moonlords don't have alot of tumbles like acrobats do.
Lv 12 Moonlight Splitter: I didn't max the skill since you only need lv 11 to unlock it EX version. It is your basic DPS move for moonlord... The EX form is even greater in damage and size!
Lv 7 Cyclone Slash:The reason why this is skill is past lv 3 is because the cyclone becomes bigger at lv 6! Bigger Cyclone the more enemies it catches and throws up in the air but you must aim it properly for it to do some real damage.(You keep this at lv 6 and use
Lv 9 Crescent Cleave:EPIC AOE AND EPIC DAMAGE. This move is very destructive on big bosses and excellent for other mobs. Reason why it destructive on Big Bosses is that it sends out 5 shark fin like waves at the boss and it constantly does damage if it hits the boss constantly.
Lv 7 Half Moon Slash: A very damaging skill but... THE COOLDOWN SUCKS but the aoe range for it is amazing but it very slow casting skill too 50% action speed is recommended for this skill.
Great Wave: Your Crazy Damaging Ultimate especially when you alot magic damage.
Lv 2 Moon Blade Dance:This is move is pure awesomeness. You Jump high up in the air and summon 5 slashes from your blade that travel fast and hits hard... especially on slow moving bosses and mobs.
Moon Splitter EX:Your moonlight splitter gets bigger and hit more damage then before! MUST GET skill for all moonlords.
Flash Stance: You become sword wave launching machine with this. Great skill if your attack afar plus the final slash does great damage too!
3. Equipment
Welcome to the equipment section here I suggest what gear you should have every 8 levels. Also I'll suggest what Hidden Potentials you should get.
General Info:
Hidden Pots that you should get on blue(B-Rank) gear(INT and HP or INT AGI and HP)
Hidden Pots that you should get on orange(A-Rank) gear(AGI, INT, and HP or Something with INT and HP)
Hidden Pots that you should get on Purple(S-Rank) Gear(INT AGI HP) Your chances are really high on getting the stats you want.
3.1 Equipment Suggestions
Gear at Lv 24: B-Rank, A-Rank, or Minotaur Set
Crafts you should get at Lv 24: Full Intellect crafts except for gloves since it can't get intellect get Sturdy craft for it.
Gear at lv 32: B-Rank, A-Rank, or Cerberus Set
Crafts you should get at Lv32:Full Intellect crafts except for gloves get Mana craft for it or sturdy if you want. For Weapons get both Magic crafts on them.
Gear at Lv 40: B-Rank, A-rank, Manticore, or Apo.Optional: SeaDragon for Raw Magic damage(Great armor for hybrids)
Crafts you should get at lv 40: Full Life craft except helmet get Intellect craft for it. Then weapons Magic Craft.(Life Craft on one the weapons if you want more survivability in hard nests) or you can get 3 Intellect crafts and 2 life craft parts, it up to you really.
Gear at Lv 50: B-Rank, A-Rank, or Totem.
Crafts you should get at lv 50: Full Life craft except helmet get Intellect craft for it. Then weapons Magic Craft.(Life Craft on one the weapons if you want more survivability in hard nests) or you can get 3 Intellect crafts and 2 life craft parts, it up to you really.
3.2 Accessories Builds
General Info:
Necklaces and Earrings:
Hidden Pots that you should get on Necklace and Earring Rare/B-Rank are: INT AGI HP, INT and HP, or INT.
Hidden Pots that you should get on Necklace and Earring Epic/A-Rank are: INT AGI HP, INT and HP, Or something that INT in it.
Hidden Pots that you should get on Necklace Earring Purple/S-Rank are: INT AGI HP(Chances of getting those stats are high anyways)
Rings:
Hidden Pots that you should get on Rings Rare/B-Rank are: Magic damage and INT, Magic damage, INT, AGI, or something with Magic Damage
Hidden Pots that you should get on Rings Epic/A-Rank are: Magic damage and INT, Magic damage, INT, AGI, and CRIT, Magic damage, INT, AGI, or Something with magic damage
Hidden Pots that you should get on Rings Purple/S-Rank are:Magic damage and INT or Magic damage, INT, AGI, and CRIT. (Chances of getting the stats you want are high)
Skill Accesories:
Special Accesories that increase your skills by +1 and gain random stats.. but it has chance of breaking too. For Earrings you may choose between: Cyclone Slash or Half Moon Slash(Personally I'm going for cyclone slash). For Necklace you may choose between: Crescent Cleave or Moonlight Splitter(Personally I went for Crescent Cleave... gotta love that skill). For rings you should choose Moon blade dance(ONLY FOR LV 50 RINGS) ... everything esle for rings is not needed(At lower levels choose whatever you want).
Critical Build:
Necklace and Earrings: Windswept with INT or VIT(If you want to survive long) or Both or Skillful Necklace and Earrings with Agi being the main stat or the balance version were the Int and Agi are pretty close stat wise.
Rings: Fatal x2, Knightly x2(for damage and crit), or Fatal and Magic. Skillful ring try getting the Knightly version x2
Also try to get crit on the rings with magic damage Pots on the rings
Raw Magic Damage Build:
*Note: Seadragon accessory work perfect here*
Necklace and Earrings: Wise with AGI or VIT(If you want to survive long) or Both OR Seadragon OR Skillful Necklace and Earrings with INT being the main stat or balance version.
Rings: Magic ring x2 or Skillful ring x2 with Magic ATK in them OR Seadragon rings with magic attack
Try aiming for Magic damage Pots on them.
Final Damage Build:
Soon to come
4.Plates
Ah plates the most important thing that we need. Here I will explain what plates you should wear :). You can only wear 8 enhancement plates and 4 skill plates.. later on there will items that will allow you to wear more.
Basic Standard Plate Build:
*Wear either Quailty or Superb(Premium in cDN) Plates*
Magic Damage, Life, Healthy, Windswept, Wise, and Fatal. The last two plates are up to you can choose Ultimate(More final damage),Sturdy(More Defence), Vigor(MP Recovery rate), or Magic Defense(More Magic Defence)
Basic Crit Standard Plate Build:
*Wear either Quailty or Superb(Premium in cDN) Plates*
*3rd Options being Crit except for Fatal which can be Magic or Final damage*
Magic Damage, Life, Healthy, Windswept, Wise, and Fatal. The last two plates are up to you can choose Ultimate(More final damage),Sturdy(More Defence), Vigor(MP Recovery rate), or Magic Defense(More Magic Defence)
Basic Magic Standard Plate Build:
*Wear either Quailty or Superb(Premium in cDN) Plates*
*3rd Options being Magic except for Magic which can be Crit or Final damage*
Magic Damage, Life, Healthy, Windswept, Wise, and Fatal. The last two plates are up to you can choose Ultimate(More final damage),Sturdy(More Defence), Vigor(MP Recovery rate), or Magic Defense(More Magic Defence)
Basic Final Damage Standard Plate Build:
*Wear either Quailty or Superb(Premium in cDN) Plates*
*3rd Options being Final damage except for Ultimate which can be Magic or Crit*
Magic Damage, Life, Healthy, Windswept, Wise, and Fatal. The last two plates are up to you can choose Ultimate(More final damage),Sturdy(More Defence), Vigor(MP Recovery rate), or Magic Defense(More Magic Defence)
Skill Plates:
My Plate Build: Crescent Cleave(Damage), Half Moon Slash(50% action speed), Moonlight Splitter(Damage), and Moon Blade Dance(Damage)
NA/SEA Plate Build:Crescent Cleave(Damage), Half Moon Slash(50% action speed), Moonlight Splitter(Damage), Cyclone Slash(Damage) or Parry Stance(Duration)
5. References
Asena and Carther ML guide They're were the ones that inspire me to become a moonlord
Final Damage guide Where I learn about final damage
Excellent Alternate ML Guide
6. Updates
11/10/2011 New Skill Build, Update section, & Coming Soon Section.
11/11/2011 New "References" Section and rearrange the sections
7. Coming Soon
Screenshots and Videoes
Full Final Damage Accessory build
8. Additional Information
Thank you for reading my guide. If you have any tips, suggestions, or criticism please post it I will glady accept them. If you want to contact me please pm me on the forums or post here if you need help.
