Silkroad Online Forums

Here is a guide for PURE INT 4 masteries fully farmed by leveling efficiently:



For starting,THE STAT POINTS:

STR - Don't put any here.
INT - All here.

[NOTE: -This distribution will allow your magical balance to round 90% and physical to round 50% (INT bonus can take you to 100% or higher).
-The game puts 1 point in str and int until around level 60, this will make the balance no lower then 50%, the other 3 its your decision, this case put all INT.]
_________________________________________________________________________

THE ITEMS:


ARMOR -My choice, why?, you don't die much, your strong, more persistent in pvp so you don't die the first hits.
[No disadvantages in ARMOR- Pure int has to much mp, no need for 20% bonus, but you will walk slowly... - Pure int invests on light, walk speed is already a good amount of speed.]

SPEAR -Why?, nuker's with the strongest attack, hp bonus, stunning.
[No disadvantages in SPEAR- Buy a godly block rate shield, when attacking use around 2 nukes, change shield (to defend), use ghost-walk, change spear, 2 nukes, etc...]


Addictions to items ->
---------------------------------
Jade:
STR -MOST IMPORTANT-> Always have as much as you can, more str more hp;
INT -Always have as much as you can, the more you have the bigger your balance is;
(NOTE: STR and INT addictions are like having more levels, stronger in what you put, so having many is like having more 4 or 5 levels.)

HP -ALL YOU CAN, it's allowed in [chest], [legs] and [head]; with 100% in the 3 you will gain a massive amount and the amount gained increases with the level of equipment.
MP -No need to have more, still if you want to have even more..., but what really matters is hp bonus.
(Example: Level 45 armor headgear with 100% bonus hp increases your hp +500, with all 3 with 100% bonus you'll get more 1500hp).

DURABILITY -AS more you have the less times you'll need to repair it; failed alchemy can often lower the durability.
(Advice: In spear its very useful, with at least more 60% you rarely will need to repair in battle).

CRITICAL -No need, nukes don't crit.
(So... it's equal for a nuker to have a 4 critical or a 12 critical spear.)

ATTACK RATING -The more the better, the highest damage you can take.

BLOCK PARRY RATIO -Important to keep moving.
(So... It's not much important, but good to have too.)

CRITICAL PARRY RATIO -Good to prevents crits.
(Remember: The "luck" factor for pure str is based on crits)

-----------------------------------
Ruby (Only most important)->
(WHen the % is low and you can't trade item, use the following tablets):

BLOCK RATIO -If the block rate of the shield is low, get another or buy tablets of agility.
(Remember: 50% of br in minimum, that means br15 or higher, a br20 shield is better for a spear nuker than a som.)

MAGICAL ATTACK/ MAGICAL REINFORCE -In a spear magic is everything, the higher the better.
(So... Always get the highest possible, tablet for m.attack spear->philosophy/ m.reinforce for spear->meditation/ m.reinforce for shield/equipment->spirit.)

PHYSICAL ABSORPTION -For accessories this will be a great help.
(So... Always try to have this, less damage you'll receive; tablet is training.)

ATTACK RATING -You'll attack faster, more damage in less time
(So... If your % in spear is low, tablet is focus.)
-----------------------------------
_________________________________________________________________________

THE SKILLS:

Imbue -FIRE imbue with all your nukes, it'll make it around 45% stronger.

Masteries -For a "PERFECT NUKER" there are 4 masteries, HEUKSAL, ICE, FIRE and LIGHT.

Farming -At level 70 with all 4 masteries at level 70 (masteries we'll be around 280/300),without choosing all the books you will need few less than 300k of sp.

So... FARMING is a must, and since i don't want to be at stronghold for months I've come up with a new ideal farming.

-----------------------------------
THIS WILL BE LOW LEVELING, BUT A HUGE MASTERY TREE.
Slow from lvl15 to 32.
32 to 42 fast leveling.
42 to 52 slow.
52 to 64 fast.
64 to 70 slow (if still not totally farmed)



Start with bow,when level 5 get fire imbue and the anti devil bow.


ALWAYS KEEP A 9 GAP, less is not needed and more will not let you get as much sp.
SAVE MONEY, YOU WILL NEED AROUND 7M AT LVL32.



When lvl 16 your masteries should be at lvl 7 with only the first bow and fire book at 1, go farm at stronghold, no need to buy a godly bow unless you want to farm for months there and never farm again.

When lvl 21 farm on ferry killing white tigers and chakji/chakji workers, your masteries should be at lvl 12, with:
2arrow combo, lvl 5 fire imbue, lvl12 light grass walk flow. [All this cost 174sp, you should have a lot of K's of sp by now]
(Don't keep up light and bow, keep them at lvl12)

When lvl 24, get a glavie (stronger without spear), put sp points until you have: heuksal lvl15 with book "soul spear move", fire lvl15 with book "river fire force" at 6. [428sp spent until now]

When lvl 32, you'll do a lot of stuff:
-Do the cursed heart quest, get 14 potions and take out bow and its books;
-Buy a godly lvl32 sos+ spear, with good magical attack and int bonus,
-Raise light, fire and heuksal to lvl 30: [6,583 sp spent from lvl1 until now.]
In heuksal-> book1 soul spear-move at 1/ book1 ghost spear-petal at 1/ book1 chain spear-tiger at 1/ passive at 3;
In light -> book1 at 3 and book2 piercing force at 1/ book1 grass walk-flow at 7/ book1 lion shout at7/ book1 WOLF's THUNDERBOLT/ passive at 3;
In fire -> book1 at 9 and book2 fire force at 3/ book1 FLAMEWAVE-ARROW at1/ passive at 3.

Go lvl up until getting to lvl39, this will put your gap again at 9, at lvl39 buy a lvl38 spear if it's better than your sos and sell it high.

When lvl42 your 3 masteries should be at lvl33:
-Raise the grass walk flow to 8, phantom walk to 1, lion shout 9, fire extreme force to 5 and nukes to 2;
-Buy a lvl42 godly sos+ spear;
-Go farm at the dead ravine and at red scorpions.

When lvl52 you should have a monstrous amount of sp, if you think you have a pretty large amount:
-Raise masteries to lvl50, put ice too at lvl50 and receive the second nukes books;
-Raise the books that are specified until lvl50;
-Buy a lvl52 godly sos+ spear and it's good to buy a lvl52 high br shield too, because some mobs/players can really hit you hard while you get far;
-Go farm at ishades/Hashades, find a good triangle and you'll lvl up and farm lots of sp.

When lvl56 if you think you got enough sp put the 3rd fire nuke book, the Flame wave-wide;This helps a lot multiple killing enemies.

Finally at lvl64, with the masteries at lvl56 and with a gap of 8, get the best spear you can get,lvl up to 65 and empty the cave (or go to taklaMakan if opened.)

[THIS means in some parts of the game you lvl slow with a 9 gap, in others it's a very fast leveling] -> because some ppl get bored spending a good amount of time farming...
-----------------------------------

About the trees, here is the picture showing it,around 272k sp needed:








-----------------------------------
TIPS:
-Always be in a full xp distribution party for bonus 10% xp;
-You need to be quick changing spear to shield and shield to spear;
-Ghost walk phantom at max you can always, using it will allow you to get far and nuke enemies;
-Always have the fire imbue when nuking;
-You need to have a full surrounding space view, mini map is very useful for this, if not you may die with surrounding mobs, aggressive players (at job);
-Always save money to have a great spear, the more the mag damage the faster you can kill;
-Wolf can help -by attacking first the mobs so you don't take much damage and -in finishing mobs (still not much useful, a bit like black hawk at bow series);
-Do the quests as you level up, if you do all and follow this guide in a 4 xp dist party you'll lvl as fast as a normal player;
-Save your money to buy good stuff, alchemy will start getting lucrative at lvl32 or higher;
-When doing guild wars: -Don't let anyone target you;
-Has nuker you can kill anything a lot above you:
(Example:At lvl32 with 2nukes you can kill a hybrid char of lvl39 using sos armor);
-You're good in hunter because you kill fast enough to don't let anything run and 5 stars is a piece of cake with lvl50/56 nukes (kills the 5 with 1hit);
-At thief you're better in killing high levels with lots of stars, but not in spawning thief's because you can't take well all thief's attacking you;
-At trader you can easily kill 1 star pop up thief's since you can kill anything until some 10 levels higher.
-Force is the worst thing to pure in nuker, only the harmony circle has some advantages; you already have enough mp to use its passive and only full str are good supportive healers;
-If you can't get as much sp as you wished, at lvl70(80 with update) you will have a lot of time to farm sp since you won't gain more xp than 99.9%xp.


Hope you enjoy this guide

EDIT: -/English mistakes corrected/ some meanings fixed/2 years was a mistake, i was confusing with playing online lol.../I'll post the shield change soon, it's often used when you're lied on the floor with knock down/ It IS STILL at gap 70, i'll fix that with time/

PLZ LET ME KNOW OF MORE MISTAKES, trough this past year of playing i learned more things that showed how a I'm wrong...

hmm..spear for pure int? no bicheon? no fire shield? y chains?
im 7x pure int and i would not follow this guide. sorry


but gj puting it together, must have took u days.

( That ********IR AO YOUTUBE*** is something i didn't deleted, it's a video at youtube showing a pure int nuking ishades and swamping to shield, still i didn't found the movie now, maybe it was deleted )

beav, the spear takes the most damage, you can't ever try to hit as hard as a spear nuke; fire shield works like pills, as i do putting autopills with a delay of 0.5 of the best pills makes fire shield useless; the lvl69 spear chains can greatly finish the enemy when this is close.

The biechon tree for most people is the option for most people because of the stab n' smash, hidden series, br of shield,etc; but personnaly when having a monstrous int damage dealer, fast powerfull chains, stuning attacks, hp bonus (max ~1100hp), and a br shield to change in defensive situation seems the propose for a pure int.

Ty for your opinion , the choise of following this guide is free, it's just opinions here.
(Took 2 hours of writing and years of learning ^^)

The only spear skills you really need are: passiv, soul spear, ghost spear.

i'd rather use a spear for lvling/farming and s/s for job/pvp/war, etc...

because you will be the first target person when your holding a spear, in job war/guild war, glavier/blader will target ints at first before taking out pure str.

the curse of the nuker - high damage & lower HP = easy target

I use spear mostly with 1050 bonus HP on my armor, over 40 bonus STR points and over 40 bonus INT points

A blader wearing garment and using Knock Down combos will get me almost every time - this is where the sword/shield with a High BR will keep you alive longer and even allow you to win a few

However I will usually beat pure STR glaivers 2 out of 3 (if they have a full sos set then it swings more towards their favor)

Range is your friend when fighting a pure STR build

I find that a good combo can finish them off as they reach you (a little luck always helps too)

Nuke, Lion Shout followed by a soul spear or even a ghost spear is often enough to finish them off

if they are a bit slow to close then use Nuke, Nuke, Lion shout, soul spear or ghost spear or both can also work

If they hit you with a crit early on in the fight - you will rarely ever recover

always try and get the 1st attack in and never lead the charge


gl to all

wow get spear and change shield to defend u sound like u had special eyes and as if u can are inside the silkroad world.able to prevent and see when they attack and fast enough to change.-.-

In guild wars, it's targeted first garment users, normally they are nukers with a very low defense even with shield (unless they are using blade/glaive), and protectors using spear, these are the most weak comparing to others;

The really true bonus is HP increase, this at max will grant you a lot more hp, with the
When you are nuker, you want high damage, obviously spear was my choise to deal the highest hit;

If someone want to use the biechon with the heuksal, they could not have the force masteries so high and powerfull, and remember, with 4 masteries at 70 you will only have more 20 free (280/300), and heuksal hp bonus is the most important.

( X20Freedom, Changing spear to shield is not hard, just have the inventory menu slightly opened, hit normally 2 nukes and put shield fast, if your enemy is slow he will not even get you but if he is quick the shield will do a very good job protecting you; just ghost spear far behind enemy back (this will give you more time) and start again the nuking series, [rarely something survives 2 nukes around your lvl])

(4agze, In my farming guide i choose bow for first, glavie and finally spear for particular reasons:
-At beggining bow is faster to kill and farm, since you don't have much hp it helps not being atacked,(you'll just need 14 ressussitation potions to put bow 12 at 0 again;
-Glavie has more physical damage, you don't have nukes or anything that stronger and your skills will take more damage;
-The spear at lvl32, and a good if possible, is to start nuking and since you only got a gap of 2 you will lvl up fast.
With these reasons it seems to me that using a spear since lvl 1 is much more slower leveling than starting bow, glavie and ending spear, and later on spear and shield.)

(PB_and_J, i putted more skills so at lvl24 you had good shits with glavie since it does more phys damage; and well you need more,the chains are very good in ending battles fast because they deal a lot of damage and they are faster then some others.)

Ty for posting opinions .

If you use a stone and put more str into items don't lower your mag balance.

If durability goes to 0 you can use it. the durability will not be lowered.

Nukers need crit when they pvp.

Attack rating is not how fast you attack. It gives you higher chance to hit max dmg.

Dont understand what you say in Block parry ratio.

This affect how much crits people do on you. Not your br.

The cap will soon be raised to lvl 80. So why plan on a 70 cap?

How can you say 15-32 is slow but 52-64 fast?!

Always have a 9 gap? What are you talking about? That is dumb...

In wars isnt it better to kill nukers first?

You have played this game for 2 years?...

That what i was wondering

LuCiDiTy, all of what i wrote is from my experience playing the game or from all other guides, opinions of friends and etc:
(I will re-edit it later, when i'm sure of the rest)

/that i wrote from what i read in a guide, i couldn't be sure but since you normally have str and int bonus all the time, it's like putting points on str when you can put on int too,

/It happened to me a lot of times, just let your durability goes 0,repair it and the amount of durability is lowered,

/In pvp, nukes are what you ned at most, when you hit the enemy with phys attacks you won't do much anyway, so basicly crit won't do much to you. (this is supported by a lot of other guides)

/I was in doubt with that, since i read it i thought it was true,

/It's not one of the most important so...

/"This affect how much crits people do on you. Not your br.", What this ?

/Because i used many guides that are at lvl70 not 80, i would invent stuff if i putted to 80, since masteries don't go that much and they may create more...

/Because of the gap you have, and the nukes at lvl50 wil allow you to kill fast so you lvl up faster too,

/Always have a gap of 9, this is a mix of too things: SP farming all the time and "enjoy the game". Many ppl don't farm because they don't like to spend months in the same place, when "-And if i stop playing?, if i was still at lvl 16 what would i have enjoyed?".
Keeping the gap at 9 will allow you to proceed in the game and not to be always at same place, and because stronghold is always full of other sp farmers, that doens't help much too,

/Sure, aren't those the spear guys?, when i said that attacking guys with shield first is bad is because they might block your nuke when you could have dealed half life of another player. Nukers have high mag defense, so doing a nuke at nuker or tank will take them a good amount either way,

/I played first at aege, about to do 2 years.

Ty for posting, i'll change some parts of the guide when i can.

a lot of info here to digest. Overall pretty good.

My 2 cents.

Armor slows you down alot, and if you kill fast you'll rarely get hit. I'd go with protector or garment for the speed and mp use bonus. Besides death means nothing you are basically sp farming.

I've never had the durability of my items break on my nuker, I always run out of potions first. no need to increase dura.

I wouldn't spend any mony on alchemizing anything other than my weapon until 6th degree. It's alot cheaper to buy it from stalls than create.

iSRO is just a few months over a year old. Aege was added 11/14/05 http://www.silkroadonline.net/sro_board ... =30&Num=31

Attack rating does not make your attacks faster (as stated) it increases the minimum damage on your damage range.

I farmed at 42, 52, 64 and 70.

Some quests are a joke (blood devil flowers, ishades, both spider quests for example). I completely skipped them and many others as they were crowded and gave little exp/sp. I got more exp and sp by killing fighters (52), warriors (53) and yetis (54-64). If you have a good weapon it will not be difficult (yes you may die but who cares, you will overcome any exp losses in 15 min).

ok I'll leave this one alone. Too much to explain .

Well Well isnt my ex-union companior / comrade Fasd!!!!

Nice guide, i just wanna add that Full Int are good for leveling but for pvp sucks!!! ihihihihho!

pls dont reply my comments, im just giving a fresh air at the topic!


By the Way where r u now? (after Alps you moved to Eldorado, but that was temporary right??)


Ps: Reply the link for video!

Regards

some people cant read i guess. read it again and try to make more sense of it. it dosent help when u only read what parts u feel like reading he ment from certain lvls u should lvl slow with 9 gap other lvls dont gap and lvl fast atleast i hope thats what he is trying to say

+1 lol
(After some months not coming to the forum...) (Oh and i'll post the movie soon, forgot that xD, but i've seen more ppl using the tactic)

Bislobo , after Alps i waited a long time, then i went to Zeus ^^, i did my guide and after 3 days,~4hours each, i was lvl24, i putted it at lvl32 and used the char to get some good amounts of gold ^^. Then i went to csro and now i will be on Zeus with an Euro char =p

I don't really like this guide, lots of bad information. You say not to put STR on your equip because it will lower your magical balance. That is wrong, it will increase physical but not lower magical since it is just a bonus.

You're right about that, i should had correct it as soon as i posted it , but believe ppl, putting more INT with give you mag power you cannot underestimate, the difference from 96% to 104% is enough to give you a victory, even before then can touch your hp bar. (But adding more str is preferable to not die so easily , but for that go sword/shield and make 2 nukes instead of !1! with spear ...

Please edit in pictures. No one wants to read a novel online in a gaming forum community, it's detailed but use

Tags for your pictures.

After that I think it'll be edited into the Character & Skills sticky.