The Weapon Guid
Legend:
STR build - majority of player's stat points are put into STR
• INT build - majority of player's statpoints are put into INT
• all STR - all of player's stat points are put into STR
• all INT - all of player's stat points are put into INT
• 2:1 - player's stat points are put approx. twice as much in STR than INT
• 1:2 - player's stat points are put approx. twice as much in INT than STR
• 1:1 - player's stat points are put approx. equally into STR and INT (a.k.a. Balance build)
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• Sword - One handed magical weapon
• Blade - One handed physical weapon
• Spear - Two handed magical weapon
• Glaive - Two handed physical weapon
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• Weapon skills - skills in one of three weapon skill trees (Bicheon (Sword/Blade), Heuksal (Spear/Glavie), Pacheon (Bow))
• Force skills - Four different skills you can use (Cold, Lightening, Fire, Force)
• Mastery Level - level of a certain skill
Stat Points: Basics:
When a player levels, she is given 5 stat points.
2 of those stat points are automatically allocated for you, 1 to STR and 1 to INT.
3 remaining need to be allocated by the player.
A stat point to STR will add HP, Physical Attack, Physical Defense
A stat point to INT will add MP, Magical Attack, Magical Defense
Builds: Basics
For obvious reasons, Blade and Glaive users usually do STR builds.
Sword and Spear users do INT builds.
Bows can go both ways.
You can also do a 1:1 build…More on that below.
STR builds:
Your main damage skills will be your Weapon skills.
You will have a harder time levelling than INT builds.
In my opinion, STR builds should put close to all their stat points into STR.
The 2:1 build is not recommended.
Benefits for adding to your INT aren't worth the stuff you'll be losing for not putting it in STR.
When learning Force skills, particularly the first row ones that add damage to your weapon, it is usually best to keep them at lvl1 or 2, not higher, for better MP efficiency.
Also, consider levelling Bowmanship to lvl10 even if you are not a Bow user. The Bowmanship tree has an accuracy passive skill at lvl10 which is beneficial to all STR builds. The physical attack passive in Spearmanship is also obviously beneficial to all but it is only 1% at level 1 so it is up to you to determine if it's worth it
If run speed is important to you level Lightning to lvl12 for Wind Walk skill lvl1
INT builds:
Your main damage skills will be your Force skills.
You will level fast, but will find it hard to beat the high HP of STR builds in PVP later on.
All INT and 1:2 builds are both viable choices. All INT build will do more damage but 1:2 build has more survivability.
Balance (1:1) builds:
Balancing INT and STR is not impossible, but unless you spend a lot of time farming SP the build will be difficult to do well. The benefit of concentrating on STR or INT is that STR builds can concentrate their SP on Weapon skills and INT builds can concentratet their SP on Force skills. As a Balance build you will have to put as much SP as you can into both in order to make the best of both worlds.
Guides to Common Builds
Blade:
• Blade - STR Build
o Stat points: All STR
o Skill Trees:
Swordmanship: Concentrate on Chain Sword Attack series, Blade Force series and the Shield Protection passive. Hidden Blade and Killing Heaven series aren't really used in PvE but good to have for PvP. Shield Technique is very good for defensive players.
Force Skills: Cold or Fire. Cold for defensive builds and Fire for offensive.
Cold: Cold Force series, Frost Nova series, and Cold Armor passive.
Fire: Fire Force series, Flame Body series and Flame Devil passive.
Sword:
• Sword - INT Build
o Stat points: All INT or 1:2
o Skill Trees:
Swordmanship: Concentrate on Chain Sword series and Shield Protection passive. A little bit of Hidden Blade and Killing Heaven also suggested.
Force Skills: For PvP go Cold + Lightning. For PvE go Fire + Lightning.
Lightning: Wind Walk series, Lion Shout series, Heaven's Force passive
Cold: Cold Force series, Frost Guard series, Cold Armor passive, maybe one Frost Nova and Snow Storm series
Fire: Fire Force series, Fire Protection series and Flame Wave series
Glavie:
• Glavie - STR Build
o Stat points: All STR
o Skill Trees:
Spearmanship: Concentrate on Soul Departs series, Chain Spear series, Cheolsam HP passive. Flying Dragon series just to Flying Dragon-Fly lvl1. Ghost Spear series optional. Fanning Spear optional for those that do a lot of AoE hunting.
Force Skills: Fire and Cold both have their advantages.
Fire: Fire Force series, Flame Body series and Flame Devil passive
Cold: Cold Force series, Frost Nova series, and Cold Armor passive
Also spend some SP on Lightning and Heal for their passives. Both are learned at mastery lvl10.
Spear:
• Spear - INT Build
o Stat points: All INT recommended since Spearman ship gives HP bonus passive. 1:2 ok also.
Spearmanship: Cheolsam passive, Chain Spear is good to learn.
Force Skills: Lightning highly suggested. Thunder Force series, Wind Walk series, Lion Shout series, Thunderbolt series, Heaven's Force passive.
Bow:
• Bow - ALL Build
o Stat points: All STR
o Skill Trees:
Bowmanship: Concentrate on Anti Devil series, Arrow Combo series, White hawk and Blue Hawk, Break Heaven series, Mind concentration passive.
Force Skills: Cold highly suggested. Cold force series, Frost Guard and Cold Armor. Lvl1 Frost Nova-Wind can save your ass in bad situations.
Have FUN!!!
GLAVIE 
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