Dragon Nest SEA Guide

Annoucement - DN Jan 2012 Event News

2012-01-07T10:08:00.000+08:00

DN Jan 2012 Event News
A brand new year, a brand new start. Come this 2012, pwn more vicious monsters and conquer the most challenging of Nests!

We’re giving you a slight boost factor with these following events so you can farm more, raid more and grow more powerful than ever. Mark these dates now:

Power level your way into 2012 with Dragon Nest SEA today!

DNG (Dragon Nest Guide) proudly presents to you several guide to help you maximize your experience during these festival season.

Dragon Nest SEA - Leveling Guide 32 to 40 DOTC
Dragon Nest SEA - Leveling Guide 32 to 40 DOTC #2
Dragon Nest SEA - Farming Guide Gate to City of Death (Entry Tickets/Gold) Level 40
Dragon Nest SEA - Farming Guide Summary (Code/Gold) Level 40
Dragon Nest SEA - Farming Guide Ghost Town of Isolated Forest (Code/Gold/Ticket) Level 40

Dragon Nest SEA - Farming Guide (Code/Gold/Ticket) Level 40 Ghost Town of Isolated Forest

2012-01-03T19:16:00.000+08:00

Author's Comment:

I personally prefer NTT over this as NTT does not have Light Resist mobs for Paladins. I think this can be an alternative to NTT if you are grind until you are bored with NTT.

Credits:
http://kazudragonhaven.tumblr.com/

Dragon Nest SEA - Auto-roll Dice

2011-12-28T19:00:00.001+08:00

I notice that many of the Dragon Nest SEA players do not know this great feature of Auto-roll Dice. It is especially useful during grinding as you do not need to manually click the [Yes] button to waste time.
Hope this guide makes your grinding more productive. See you again. Remember to subscribe to our blog for more interesting post.

Dragon Nest China - AceofSpade Gladiator Build

2011-12-27T11:18:00.003+08:00

Introduction
Hello all, recently i was asked to write a bit about Gladiators despite me being the most terribad warrior around. So, what are Gladiators you ask? Well... they are fun as heck slice and dice heroes who deal great consistant damage while looking awesome! Hopefully this guide will be of some use to you fledgling warriors though!

Skills

So why have i picked what i picked?
As a physical swordmaster you may find that the cooldown for the bulk of your abilities are very slow. More over, the damage on many of your abilities are lower in comparison to other class's abilities. In terms of skill builds, there are many other ways to build a Gladiator so feel free to experiment a little as you get several skill reset scrolls as you progress throughout the game. Here's a run though of the bulk of my abilities.

Warrior Skills
So, warrior skills. What do you get? Well the obvious ones are Dash, Tumble and Evade. Beyond that its useful to get the extra HP boost and MP regeneration.

Rising Slash
Get this to level 6 for the extra jump! This follows nicely into Aerial Combo, but don't get into the habit of always using the Aerial Combo in PvP!

Moonlight Splitter
Moonlight Splitter is a useful skill for PvE and PvP. This is mainly because Moonlight Splitter has a lower cooldown than practically all of the physical skills and as a result is a useful opener and bridger between your moves. It also gives you something to do when outside of melee range.

Cyclone Slash
A gladiator lacks any much crowd control with physical skills alone so i got cyclone slash to assist my character in PvE. Its also a useful catcher in PvP, albeit difficult to land.

Triple Slash
Triple Slash is an okay skill. Most of its usefulness comes from the fact that it's instant (like a fair few physical skills) and that you can stop mid-way and dodge if need be. I've levelled it to 11 so that i can use Triple Slash EX. This is another method for air-comboing your enemies.

Physical Skills
The other skills such as Aerial combo and Deep Straight have been left fairly low. I would've left Deep Straight even lower but i no longer have a skill reset scroll . The reason for this is that the damage from these abilities is poor unless you pour all of your skill points into the physical tree. Hacking Stance is another skill you could afford to spend less skill points on as well, but i personally love to use it in PvP and lvled it for a little more damage.

Similarly, Dash Combo, Eclipse and Counter Exile are all fun and useful skills, but their damage capability is low, so its better to spend your extra skill points elsewhere. Eclipse a great skill for when you're surrounded, but when your in a party with people casting AOE abilities, it might be better to save it rather than using it to spread out a group of bunched up enemies.

Line Driver
Such a lovely skill . Line Driver rewards good positioning and is a great damage dealer on large and trapped targets. It does slightly less damage on smaller single targets as it has a tendency to shoot you right through them.

Utility Skills
Skills such as Highlander and Hemorrahage are important skills to have. Highlander is also free... so definitely tap that. It's a good skill for keeping your teammates alive! So if you keep an eye out for drastically falling health bars when in a party, you might just save someone! Hemorrahage benefits the whole team, enhancing everyone's damage, so i've maxed it out.

The Parry Tree is a necessary skill if you intend to go into Sea Dragon Nest parties and survive. It can also be useful in dodging some of those boss attacks in regular dungeons and nests.

Evasion Slash
I'm not quite sure what to think of this ability. As a physical sword master, alot of your abilities thrust you forwards at the enemy, but Evasion Slash does the opposite and twirls you back. I find it useful if you're surrounded. I've levelled it to 2 for the extra damage but you could leave it at 1 as i don't feel its necessary.

Finishing Attack
Another nifty skill. Use it on a boss under 40% hp and revel in the awesome damage!

Build

As a Gladiator you're going to get up close and personal with a lot of bosses. Its vital then you can deal damage and have the survivability to withstand the damage you fail to dodge. My build is still far from optimal but i've chosen to take the critical damage route. Why did i take the critical route? Mainly because Final Damage as a 3rd stat is incredibly hard to find on crests, making it harder to stack effectively and also because Totam Armour doesn't provide any dark %. You should also consider getting Magical Defence crests as Swordmasters typically lack in MDEF.

As mentioned previously, there are many ways to build a Gladiator though, such as stacking dark % or Final Damage. You can see here all of the Swordmaster skills affected by dark damage... which is basically all of the physical ones . For myself, the gears i've gotten are an attempt to balance good damage, consistent criticals and survivability.

Equipment
My critical build consists of:
Great Sword: (Destructive)
Gauntlet: (Destructive)
Head: (Dire)
Top: (Wind)
Bottom: (Dire)
Glove: (Life)
Shoe: (Life)

Accessories
Accessories depend on what type of damage you want to build.
For Critical: Fatal Rings and Wind Necklace and Earrings
For Damage: Destructive Rings and Dire/Wind Necklace and Earrings
For Dark Damage: Tough Necklace and Earrings
For Final Damage: Using Set items such as Discipline Apocalypse Rings are the best way to stack final damage.

Crests
Wind Crest: For better agility/critical
Barrage Crest: For higher MDEF
Destructive Crest: For higher physical damage
Fatal Crest: For higher criticals
Life Crest: For additional health
Healthy Crest: For better defence

Credits

http://forum.mmosite.com/thread/2/217/20110428/Collection_of_Skill_Build_Guide_Information-4e41ebd1bce96e813-1.html

Dragon Nest Korea - Magical & Hybird Moonlord by Carther & Asena

2011-12-26T22:48:00.000+08:00

First of all we will start with full Magical Swordmaster [Moonlord].

The warrior skills dont need any explenation. Its obvious that Rising Slash is lv6 and Impact Wave is lv4.

Lets begin with the Magical skills.

[Moonlight Shatter]
If you're going Moonlord it's kinda logical you get Moonlight Shatter Lv11+ for the EX skill.

[Cyclone Slash]
Why only keep this skill lv3? Because it sucks. It's just a skill we use when other skills are in Cooldown. In PvP its nasty one tho.

[Cresent Cleve]
Get this atleast lv5 to get 5 waves. This skill is very DESTRUCTIVE at big bosses because of the many hits. Max this if youre full MAG.

[Half Slash]
This skill is sooooo slow. Get a heraldry plate with 50% speed. But when you hit it has a big impact on the enemy's health.

[Great Wave]
Why Great Wave? Infinity Edge does so much more damage. But since you are going Moonlord (Mag) you need this skill to get Moonblade Dance.
Btw! It rapes in PvP.

Physical skills.

Why physical skills when you are Magical SM? It's simple. When you're Mag skills are still in CD. Then you gonna need some phys skills. Also when you are surrounded by alot of Mobs it's easy to break out.
Keep the physical skills lv1. You dont need any higher phys skills.

[Heavy Hammer]
Why get Heavy Hammer maxed??? It's a physical skill!
It gives your enemy 42% less Defense/MDefense. This means that you're Magical Skills + your party members do much more damage.

Let's continue with the Parrying tree. In our guild we have 1 SM that doesnt use this skill tree. Why not? Cuz he is Pro.

We do not recommend to leave this skill tree behind. Because it's very usefull to optain less damage.

Hybrid Swordmaster [Moonlord]

For Hybrid SM you have to sacrifise your Cresent Cleve / Heave Hammer / Parrying stance / Counter Exile. What you get in exchange: Line Drive / Hacking Stance!
Both skills are good for PvP. But Hacking Stance is not usefull in PvE for Hybrid SM with focus on Mag of course.

[Hacking Stance]
Said enough.

[Line Drive]
Line Drive Lv3 got so much more Damage then the other lvls. This skill pwns!!

[Heave Hammer]
It's sad you have to sacrifise Heavy Hammer. But this skill still gives 35% buff at lv5. Only 6% less.

Of course you can choose to downgrade Line Drive abit and upgrade Cresent Cleve. But that is up to you.

Credits:
http://forum.mmosite.com/thread/2/217/20110625/MAGHYBRID_SWORDMASTER_Moonlord_by_Carther_Asena-4e05c8a80b49a6813-1.html

Dragon Nest SEA - Farming Guide (Code/Gold) Level 40

2011-12-26T22:19:00.001+08:00

This video is self-explanatory so just watch and learn :D

Credit:
http://kazudragonhaven.tumblr.com/

Dragon Nest SEA - Leveling Guide 32 to 40 DMS

2011-12-26T22:08:00.000+08:00

Recommended Difficulty: Master
Average Solo Run Time: 4~5mins

This dungeon is recommended because we can skip pretty large amount of mobs at the first map. Acro and Warrior will have a easier time dashing through all these mobs while other class may need a slight longer time to do it. Anyway, it is an alternative dungeon to level from 32 to 40 from DOTC. However, DOTC is still preferred due to various reasons.

Dragon Nest SEA - Superarmor and Superarmor Destruction: Mechanics & Case Study

2011-12-25T19:58:00.002+08:00

Superarmor

Superarmor and Stun Resist are different thing. Superarmor is a hidden status for a certain char. Higher superarmor value prevents skills from being disrupted.

Basically all chars have the same base superamor value. However, the value of superarmor on the char increases if certain skills are casted.

Take note:

All boss/mobs have a certain superarmor too, which is the bar below his HP.
Mercenary has 2 buffs that increase the superamor value.
SM has a skill to reduce superarmor of targets
Superamor can't be buffed by armor/gears or whatever other means.

Example of Superarmor

Most lv40 ultimate have very high superarmor value.

Notice that during apo roar, if bow master cast his lvl40 ultimate, his skill won't be cancelled or blown away. If he just stand there doing nothing, he will definitely get blown away. Why is that so? Because while casting the lvl40 ultimate, a certain hidden value of superarmor is given to the bow master. Unless he is hit by a few skills which have very high superarmor destruction ability, his superarmor won't be broken and his skill won't be disrupted.

Superamor Destruction

Now, lets talk about superarmor destruction stats, which is another hidden stats. Superarmor destruction is NOT affected by any of the armor/weapon that you used. Superarmor destruction only increases by a certain value depending on which skill you cast.

Example of Superarmor Destruction

For example, flying swing of mercenary has very high superarmor destruction bonus. Each skills has a unique value of superarmor destruction.

It is especially important to know which skills has high superamor destruction, during the apo electric ogre hugging. If someone is hugged, other members should use high superarmor destruction skills to break the superamor of the ogre, thus saving your party member.

Relationship between Superamor and Stun Resist

Ok. What happen after superarmor is broken?

It will depends on which skill break the superarmor.

Some skills by default causes the target to delay/flinch (hacking stance and alot of Sword Master skills for example), some skills (like Summon Comet of Force User) will cause the opponent to fall down instantly, some skills will cause opponent to stagger (knockback but not yet falling down, but at this stage, the char has very weak superarmor, any single hit would cause him to fall down) and some skill will cause opponent to be floated (like alot of acrobat's skill).

Credit:
http://forum.mmosite.com/thread/2/49/20110508/How_does_Stun_Resist_function-4dc67d200716c4313-1.html#p4dc8cbd7c5d5a6

Dragon Nest SEA - Final Damage and Calculation: Mechanics & Case Study

2011-12-25T19:43:00.000+08:00

INTRODUCTION

Final damage (FD) is a mysterious stat to many players, old or new because the game never really explain much about it.

Before the sea dragon patch, final damage used to be calculated in this way:

Each hit + x final damage

If you have x final damage, you will see an increase of x damage per hit to your damaging skills. So basically, the old calculation of final damage benefits only skills with multiple hits.

However, after the Sea Dragon patch in korea last year (Dragon Nest Infinity patch), final damage calculation have been revamped.

Recently, Catastrophe update has been final damage being boosted.

WHAT IS FINAL DAMAGE?

The korean developer gives the following info and examples with regard to the change of final damage calculation in the official update notice:

1. A level 40 player with 300 FD hits another Lv40 target - deal an extra 12.35 % damage.
2. A level 40 player with 700 FD hits another Lv40 target - deal an extra 65.24 % damage.
3. The damage boost due to FD is dependant on the level of the target: higher damage boost to lower level targets.
4. The maximum additional damage possible from FD is 100% (double damage)
5. The effect of final damage is nerfed in pvp.

First, it must be noted that now all skills regardless of number of hit, enjoys the SAME % of damage increase.

The table below shows the final damage value, with their respective % damage increase, versus target of lvl24, 32, 40 and 50

These information can be plotted as:

HOW TO CONVERT FINAL DAMAGE TO % DAMAGE INCREASE?

Download Link for Final Damage Calculator V4.0

Simply key in the final damage and the excel spreadsheet will tell you the % damage boost to lv 40 and 50 targets.

NOTE: there might be some small discrepancy between the value shown in the spreadsheet and the real ingame % damage boost because the equations are obtained by curve fitting. The error normally would not exceed 1%.

GROWTH OF FINAL DAMAGE

The growth of final damage is non-linear in nature.

For example, from the curve for lv40 target, it can be seen there, the % damage increase curve increases very significantly after the point of inflecton at around 350 final damage.

Before that point, the slope of the curve is actually pretty mild and linear, meaning increase of final damage doesn't give much increase of % damage inc.

However, after the point of inflection, the slope of the curve grows exponentially. A small increase of final damage gives a HUGE increase of % damage inc (for example near 350 final dmg for lvl40 targets)

EFFECT OF TARGET LEVEL

Another interesting properties of Final Damage is that the level of the target actually affects the % damage increase too. ( see the figure above )

Final damage give more % damage boost if your target is lower level.

For example, a player with 600 FD hits a lv40 monster, deal 46.47% extra damage.

The same player with 600 FD hits a lvl50 monster, deal only 18.56% extra damage.

With a fixed FD value, the damage boost reduces against a target of higher level.

In other words, you will need MUCH MORE FD value against high level targets/monsters to have singificantly damage boost.

For example:

To get 100% damage boost against Lv32 monster, you only need about 600 FD.

To get 100% damage boost against Lv40 monster, you will need at least 850 FD.

To get 100% damage boost against Lv50 monster, you will need at least 1300 FD!!!

LIMIT OF FINAL DAMAGE

There is a limit to the % damage inc from FD. [ see the curve above ]

For example, a player with 600 FD hits a lvl 32 monster, deal 100% extra damage.

The same player with a higher 1200 FD hits a lvl32 monster, ALSO deal 100% extra damage.

Boosting FD beyond a certain value doesn't increase the extra damage because of the limit for FD is 100%.

In other words, the damage boost from FD will not go beyond 100%.

FINAL DAMAGE IN PVP

It is also proven in real game test that the effect of FD is nerfed significantly in PVP. The damage increase due to final damage in PVP is almost negligible.

OTHERS

Final damage does NOT affect the healing amount of priest.

Final damage affects the damage from the summon unit of players.

PREVIOUS MISCONCEPTION ON FINAL DAMAGE

At lv40 cap, it was widely believed that the level gap between the player and the target / monster is one of the factor that affects the % extra damage.

This was proven to be INCORRECT when lv50 cap opens.

For example:

A lvl40 player with 600 FD, hits a lvl40 monster deal 46.47% extra damage.

A lv50 player with the same 600 FD, hits a lvl40 monster, deal the same 46.47% extra damage.

The LEVEL OF THE PLAYER HAS NO EFFECT on the damage boost from FD.

Reference:
http://dragonnest.nexon.com/news/page/nx.aspx?url=dragonmail/index&maskPageType=2&n4ArticleSN=133

Dragon Nest SEA - Critical and Critical Resist: Mechanics & Case Study

2011-12-25T16:06:00.002+08:00

INTRODUCTION:

Critical stats is a crucial part in boosting damage in Dragon Nest, especially for damage dealing classes. The mechanics of critical damage will be explained in this guide, with some calculation examples.

MECHANICS

What is Critical Damage?

Critical damage is the damage dealt without taking into account the effect of phy/mag defence of your target. A extra multiplier of 1.25 is imposed on that damage too, which is shown in the following equation:

Normal Non-crit damage = (%Amp * M.att + Add. dmg)*(1 - %dmg reduction from defence)

Crit Damage = 1.25 * (%Amp * M.att + Add. Dmg)

1.25 : 1.25 is the crit damage multiplier applied if crit happen.
%Amp: % of skill amplification in the skill description.
M.att: Your magic attack in stats window.
Add. Damage: Additional damage in the skill description.

In battle, the color of the crit damage figure = yellow/gold.

For the sake of the discussion, i call that “Yellow Critical”.

Critical stats in your stats window is a figure that tells you, the probability to deal critical damage.

The equation that convert the stats to the % probability has been derived and proven to be approximately linear.

Now here comes the other important point question.

What is Critical Resist?

A natural idea that comes to mind, is that Critical resist would reduce the chances of your opponent to deal critical damage to yourself. However, that’s absolutely NOT true.

It has been proven also that Critical Resist is actually related to the chance of reducing the critical damage figure dealt to you.

When critical damage is resisted, in addition to the 1.25 multiplier, another multiplier of 0.35 is applied over the damage.

Resisted Crit Damage = 1.25 * 0.35 * (%Amp * M.att + Add. Dmg)

So, resisted critical damage will be much lower than normal non-crit/crit damage.
Critical damage that has been resisted, will appear whitish with a crack across the word "critical". Hence we normally call it “White Critical”. If you’ve fought electric ogre in apocalypse or lava golem in Sea Dragon Nest, you will see this White Critical very often.

I hope that clears up the concept of Crit and Crit resist.

Interestingly, the investigation doesn’t stop there.

Does higher crit reduce the chances of dealing White Crit?

It has also been proven that 10,000 crit and 20,000+ crit has almost the same probability on dealing white crit on the same target with a constant crit resist.

The only effective way to reduce white crit is by using wind prefix weapon.

Crit resist is actually double edge sword type of stats . It will make your opponent deal alot of white crit if he has very high crit stats, while it is useless against an opponent that has very low crit.

Can White Crit damage be higher than normal non-crit damage?

In order for the damage of high crit to surpass the normal non-crit damage, the boss defence need to exceed a certain threshold:

1.25 * 0.35 > ( 1 - def)

def > 56.25%

as you can note from bishop nest (see table below), none of the boss in bishop has over 56.25% of defence.

It is actually a pretty high value,which translate to 8438 of defence stats.

So in general, you can say that white crit is lower than non-crit damage, with maybe afew exception for bosses with extremely high defence (> 56.25% , such as Green Dragon, Kalahan, Morgan, White Eye Cyclops in Green Dragon Nest)

Ok, if you have understood everything that i described, you must be wondering why would the developer allow players to get seemingly infinite crit stats if there is a cap of 95% crit chance.

The answer is :

The crit chance is dependant on the level of your target.

Against lv32 monster, 6000 crit stats will net you 95% crit chance.
Against lvl40 monster, 10,000~11,000 crit stats will give you 95% crit chance.
Against lv50 monster, 17,000~18,000 crit stats will give you 95% crit chance.

This explain why some people are seeing less crit damage against high level monsters, especially in lv50 abyss and Darklair (with lv100 monster/boss).

Since the critical stats is proven to be linear, you can scale it according to your current crit stats to find out the % chance to deal critical damage.

Do note that the number above are approximate figures only. Since crit damage is based on probability, the real chance can only be obtained with a lot of test.

CASE STUDY:

Is crit good? What is better? M.att or Elemental Attack or Crit?

These are the most common questions asked in various Dragon Nest forum.

Although the answer is not exactly straight forward, but there are exact answers to these question.

To answer them, you will need to know what is your defence of your target.

Crit and Phy/Mag Defence:

I will use bishop nest bosses as examples:

Full stats of the BOSS can be found here:

http://dn.duowan.com/1112/188138585875.html

The bracket behind the boss name shows the stage they appear at.

How do i determine their defence?

1. Take a weapon with no durability (so that your damage won't fluctuate)
2. Use normal attack on the boss.
3. Note down the crit damage and non crit damage.
4. Calculate the m.def by :

M. Def % = 1-  1.25 * Non-crit damage / crit damage

The crit damage is obviously the same, no matter what boss you hit, in my case it is 950 since crit damage ignore the defence of the target.

FYI, The mag / ph def value can be translated to % damage reduction, which are dependant on the ATTACK'S LEVEL (not dependant on the TARGET'S LEVEL).

For a Lv41 Attacker: every 3000 def = 33.33% damage reduction.
For a Lv45 Attacker: every 3000 def = 26% damage reduction.
For a Lv50 Attacker: every 3000 def = 20% damage reduction.

[ see Ref 3]

Note that high crit/non crit ratio for the high defence bosses.

This shows that if you crit against high defence boss such as shadow and bishop base, you will get 2.47 times of damage !! On the other hand, if you crit against low defence boss such as assasin, you will only get 1.54 times of damage.

In general, Critical is more effective when the target has high defence and low critical resist.

Choices of Ring

Now lets say my current majesty stats are:

5500 m.attack, 30% dark elemental attack, 8000 crit

And, i am given a choice between:
A) Lv50 A-ranked Magical Ring (153 m.att, 55int)
B) Lv50 A-ranked Knight Ring (102 m.att, 589crit)
C) Lv50 A-ranked Critical Ring (1325 crit, 61 agi)
D) Lv50 A-ranked Brilliant Ring (76 m.att, 5.8% dark)
E) Lv50 A-ranked Skill Ring (1121 crit, 3.54% dark)

Lets say all of the above doesn't come with potential and i are not wearing any crest or other items with potential (all those will make this example far more complicated, though you can include them once you know the concept)

Assuming no crit resist and no elemental resist on hit, and i am using Lv12 Gravity ball only to deal damage.

Gravity ball lv12: 2.69% + 3760

Which ring should i use?

Since the bosses in bishop nest have very different m.def value, we will take a average for all of them,  which is  34.6%.

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A) Remember that 1 int = 0.75 for mages, so the total damage attack gained is 153 + 0.75*55 = 194

Crit damage = 1.25 * (2.69 * 5694 +3760) * 1.3 = 31000

[ The 1.3 multiper is due to 30% dark elemental attack currently on me ]

Non crit damage = (2.69 * 5694 +3760) * 1.3 * (1-0.346) = 16219

[ The 0.346 is the average damage reduction from defence value of the bishop bosses ]

With 8000 crit, the chance to deal crit damage is

8000/17000*95% = 44.7%.

[ scaling the crit for lvl50 target linearly. ]

Therefore, Average damage = 31000 * 0.447 + 16219 * (1 - 0.447) = 22826

[ average damage = crit damage * crit chance + non crit damage * ( 1- crit chance) ]

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B) Gain 102 m.att and 589 crit.

Crit damage = 1.25 * (2.69 * 5602 +3760 ) *1.3 = 30598

Non crit damage = (2.69 * 5602 +3760) * 1.3 * (1-0.346)  = 16009

With 8000+ 589 =8589 crit, the chance to deal crit damage is

8589 / 17000 * 95% = 48.0%

Therefore, Average damage = 30598 * 0.48 + 16009 * (1-0.48) = 23011

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C) 1 agi = 3.5 critical. So the total gain in crit is 1325+61*3.5 = 1538

Crit damage = 1.25 * (2.69 * 5500 +3760 ) *1.3 = 30152

Non crit damage = (2.69 * 5500 +3760) * 1.3 * (1-0.346)  = 15775

With 8000+ 1538  = 9538 crit, the chance to deal crit damage is

9538 / 17000 * 95% = 53.3%

Therefore, Average damage = 30152 * 0.533 + 15775 * (1-0.533) = 23437

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D) I gain 76 m.att and 5.8% dark by using briliant ring. straight forward.

Crit damage = 1.25 * (2.69 * 5576 +3760 ) *1.358 = 31844

Non crit damage = (2.69 * 5576 +3760) * 1.358 * (1-0.346)  = 16660

With 8000 crit, the chance to deal crit damage is

8000 / 17000 * 95% = 44.7%

Therefore, Average damage = 31844 * 0.447+ 16660* (1-0.447) = 23447

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E) I gain 1121 crit, 3.54% dark

Crit damage = 1.25 * (2.69 * 5500 +3760 ) *1.3354 = 30973

Non crit damage = (2.69 * 5500 +3760) * 1.3354 * (1-0.346)  = 16205

With 8000 +1121 crit, the chance to deal crit damage is

9121 / 17000 * 95% = 51.0%

Therefore, Average damage = 30973 * 0.51+ 16205* (1-0.51) = 23736

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CONCLUSION

Here, if i were to maximize the damage of my gravity ball, i would choose E. Skill Ring.

Having said that, Skill Ring has 10 different stats, which are given at random when crafted and the success chance is only 30%.

It is interesting to note that cheap thing such as Knight Ring is actually better than the expensive magical ring.

However, do note that this conclusion SHOULT NOT BE GENERALIZED.

The answer to the question should depends on your current stats, potential, target monster and your skill.

You have to go through the steps above on your own when making choices.

I will probably have to make another article on how to calculate stats based on your potential, heraldry and stuff soon. After learning all these, you can easily evaluate the gain from each gear and decide which is the best gear for you.

APPENDIX  A:
For a case study on crit calculation for lv32 cap, see
http://forum.mmosite.com/thread/2/217/20101111/Chaos_PVE_Majesty_Guide-4dac375f362242413-19.html#p4eaf7471044cd5

Notice that the priority for dmg boosting can be very different at various level cap.

Reference:
1. http://forum.mmosite.com/thread/2/217/20110317/Mercenary_Tier_3_Job_Barbarian_Destroyer-4dac37601af662213-9.html#p4db04f7127f185
2. http://bbs.duowan.com/thread-21292172-1-2.html
3. http://bbs.duowan.com/thread-22283212-1-2.html

Dragon Nest SEA - IPhone Wallpaper #1

2011-12-25T15:32:00.002+08:00

Original:

First published on Dragon Nest SEA Guide

# Credits go to the respective owner of their original pictures.

Dragon Nest SEA - MorgeStern's Comprehensive Class Guide on Priests

2011-12-25T14:43:00.000+08:00

1. Introduction

Priest is the supporting Character of this game. Priest will always support in teamplay, let it be by Relics, by healing or dishing out some extra DPS. Priests Branch off into 2 different Classes: Inquisitor, The DPS or Saint, The supporter. I do want to note that there are many different kinds of Inquisitors and/ or Saints and you can fill that job in with the idea that you have. Priests are known for Poledancing, Buffing and Zapping away. The advantages that Poledancing and Buffing give, is that you are a Wanted class for Nesting and the one supportive thing that Sets Paladins and Priests apart is that Priests have a Secondary Healing skill namely Healing Relic. Priest also has good defense, hp and mp , Making them durable and possibly even tankers.

However, aside of those advantages,Priests also have weaknesses. They are Slow and have low Superarmour. A priest focussing on DPS will never have the same DPS that for instance a Damage Dealing class like Sorcerer or Archer has. So Overall there arent that many disadvantages.

(+) Pros:

Priest is a Support class of the game.
Priest has many Buffs and 2 good heal skills.
Priest has a very big MP mod, defense and magic defense. Decent HP stat, not as good as Paladin.
Priest is a very good choice of class in a long run nest because of its high survivability, good HP/MP Mods and supportability.
Priest's Smallscale offensive spells have a low cooldown, bigger ones like Bind Relic and Holyburst have a longer cooldown.
Priest has powerful buffs to increase Defense, Lightattack and Magic/ Physical attackpower making them a wanted party class.
Priest is known for Poledancing in PVP. They Protect members in their team with healing/cure relics. While annoying and harrassing the opponents with Lightning Poles, Lightning skills. They can even snatch a fair amount of kills this way.

(-) Cons:

However, a Priest, being the slowest class in the game, are victims for every fast classes if you are not careful. You have to outsmart the speed of every opponent you have using your Poles, dodges and Bindings.
However, a Priest has lowest DPS compared to other classes.
However, a Priest has a few to no evasion skills aside of Aerial Evasion and Sidestep. Block is not counted as an evade skill as you still take hits.

2. Skills

2.1. Cleric Skills

I decided that I will not enlist skills that are not usefull nor beneficial to the Priesthood.
Thus You won't find Paladin oriented skills here or things like Holy Kick.
Do keep this in mind.

Shield Blow - Strike your enemy hard using your shield. Not really usefull for a priest. I used it for a while because of the low cooldown but I prefer the other "Physical"one.
PVP - *
PVE - *

Block - Defend yourself using your shield. Increasing this skill's rank will increase the amount of attack you can block per 15 seconds duration (PVE) and 12 seconds duration (PVP). This makes you block any attack 100% for certain duration. A basic tanking skills for a Priest with reasonable cooldown. Good skill in both PVP but PVE, but beware, it can interupt your other skill when casting.
PVP - ****
PVE - ****

Lightning Strike - Bash your weapon upwards and send a lightning afterwards. Also does an okay damage for a basic skill. Not so good in PVE but useful in PVP as combo chainer. Has Low cooldown so is usefull when other more important skills are on CD.
PVP - **
PVE - **

Charge Bolt - Charges up your weapon with electricity and send it down in four directions. A very good skill in PVE as it can attack multiple enemies and big bosses. Mad usefull in PVP due the fact that it can hit your opponent 4 times on close range. Pesky Warrior's will think twice when coming close. This is also favorable in PVE as it can decrease your opponent's light resistance for.. WUT? 15%!? DO WANT.
PVP - ****
PVE - *****

Half Turn Kick - Kicks an opponent in a half turn. This skill is not used much. The only time ever that it should be used is kicking opponents like Warrior and SM into stun @ Pvp
PVP- **
PVE- *

Holy Bolt - Creates a holy bolt to damage and bind enemies. A very good skill in PVE and PVP. PVE wise it hits nicely on the bigger bosses. IT also is a usefull skill for binding big groups of mobs together placing them right for things like Grandcross or Chargebolt. PVP it binds enemies while damaging so you can A) run away or B) start your combo/killing.
PVP- *****
PVE- *****

Heal- Heals you and your opponents based on the % of HP. Heal heals a % of your Max hp for yourself and for allies it heals the from the max amount of HP they have. A Must for PVP and PVE. Max it naturally. Heal heals the opponent based on the amount of total HP you have + a little more. Very usefull in PVP for healing nice amounts of damage away, same for PVE. The Cooldown is a little long sometimes so thats annoying.
PVP-****
PVE-****

Slidingstep- A dash in any direction you want. Usefull for PVE and PVP. Used for dodging attacks or simply moving forward faster. Must get skill. Makes this slow class move faster.
PVP-****
PVE-****

Aerial Evasion- Avoid Falling down by hitting key. Usefull for PVE and PVP. Especially when locked in annoying flying combinations that you can't break without this. Think of SM's Tornado or Harpy's Tornado for example. Only downside is long cooldown.
PVP-****
PVE-****

Toughness- Physical Defense increases by certain %. I'm not sure if this skill also works in PVP . Ofcourse a must get. Any damage reduction increases our Tankness and survivability. Must max.
PVP-*
PVE-****

Mental Mastery - MP % Increases. Does not work for PVP. A Must to get for Lategame Dungeons. You're going to need alot of MP. The max Amount of MP also has an effect on the amount of MP you recover, The more MP-> The better your MP recovery.
PVP-*
PVE-****

Physical Mastery - HP % Increases. Does work for PVP. Increases your HP, a must get naturally. Your HealSkill is based on the amount of HP that you have so further increasing your hp is better.
PVP-****
PVE-****

Mental Training - Increases MP Recovery. Not sure if this works for PVP. Increases MP recovery, needed for Longterm dungeoneering. You can't support your team if you're out of MP can you?
PVP-?
PVE-****

2.2. Priest Skills

Before listing the skills, I would like to add some informations. Priest has 4 skill trees. The left one is the Magical Skill Tree which is focuses more on doing magical damage and purely made for damage purporses. Inquisitors love this. The second tree is a small Giant AOE tree it holds 2 skills namely Grand Cross and Holy burst. They are Long CD but big and effective AOE's. The 3rd Tree is the Relic tree. It holds damaging , healing and supporting relics. The 4th Tree holds 2 buffs. An armor +% Buff and a damaging+% Buff. Alongside these 4 tree's , a few skills are scattered that all have their uses.

Lightning Bolt- Summons lightning in front of you, can hit multiple targets at once. Has a chance to electrocute. This is the first of the Proper damaging skills a Priest will obtain. This is a very usefull skill for Aoeing, electrocuting and generally just damaging. Has low cool down as well.

PVE- *****
PVP- *****

Mind Breaker- Attack during a dash. Low Cooldown. Personally I use this more in PVP than PVE. It isnt really strong but it always helps to damage somewhat. Dashing+ Attacking at the same time has its benefits in time management thus might prove usefull. Pre-Req for Chain Lightning.

PVE- **
PVP-***

Chain Lightning- Damages and Electrocutes the Enemy, it can "Chain" Lightning to others. When used on a Single Target this attack will hit 3 times. The reason why this skill is a must get, must use and hated skill is because of the area range it can be used in. It virtually can hit anything as long as its close enough. It doesnt need to be target it simply attacks. Plus added to this it automaticly gives the electrocuted status, eletrocuting the enemy every 5 seconds. The only downside is that Eletrocute doesn't seem to halt big bosses in PVE like the Pink Minotaur or the White/Black Bull.

PVP-*****
PVE-****

Detonate- Detonate/Explodes electrocuted enemies. God I love this skill. This is the one skill I have been waiting for every since lvl 24 Cap. If you can electrocute alot of monsters in a dungeon, or boss mobs this skill will go BOOM! Currently the highest I've hit with this skill is 7.6k uncritted on the Boss @ Overlord Keep on Abyss mode. This is also great for PVP. Cast a little chainlightning dodge your enemy's. Press Detonate bamn, they take 4.5k-5k Damage. Makes Relic hugging an even better strategy. I'm rating it a little less for PVE due to the fact that most monsters have died before getting detonated.

PVP-*****
PVE-****

Heaven's Judgement- Floats up and uses a huge and damaging electric AoE Field. This is the ultimate if you follow the line of the first Tree, The Inquisitor tree. While damaging you are Invincible for a small time frame while frying any opponent in your AoE field. A Must get skill for Priests following the Inquisitor Line. In PVE you can use this to damage a boss or big group of enemy's. In PVP its good for trapping+ Damaging an opponent in a high damaging current. Only downside is the Long Cooldown.

PVP-****
PVE-****

Wand Mastery- Increases Magic attack % When using wand. This skill is generally gotten by Saints that use Relics alot. Doesn't have its uses for the Lightning tree much, they are better off being increased by Light% Damage. The Skill is passive so it doesn't have any cooldown. Works for PVE and PVP and increases the damage a lightning relic does+ Healing relic heals.

PVP-****
PVE-*****

Blessing of Light- Increases Light%. This buff increases Light% Meaning it increases the damage on skills as Chainlightning and Lightning Bolt. What is also does for other party members , is increase their Light Resistance. This results into that they take less damage from Light Mobs and skills and also have a higher resistance to getitng electrocuted. Must get.

PVP-*****
PVE-*****

Grand Cross- A giant damaging Cross AoE. This Skill has its advantages and disadvantages. The Disadvantage is that its slow. The advantages are that it is good damage, a Giant AoE and can be shot off into any direction, this also means Vertically not just Horizontally. The CD is allright. PVE wise usefull for Clearing huge mobs and hitting Big Bosses alot. In PVP used for Pushing and Luring.

PVE-****
PVP-****

Holy Burst- Giant Aoe Field damaging enemies. For PVE this skill is God. Clears huge amounts of mobs very easily and the damage does not suck either. The only downside is that the CD is very high so you can't use it that often. The High CD is problematic for PVP where this skill does not see much of its use. I can imagine that in Tandem with Bindrelic/Holy bolt and this skill. Huge groups of People can get hurt badly.

PVE-****
PVP-***

Lightning Relic- Summon a sacred lightning object and the enemy who gets close to the sacred object will suffer lightning attacks. There is a chance to electrocute the enemy. Must have skill for saints. Gives a continual DPS and supports by harrassing enemies in PVP as well as PVE. Has a very Low cooldown. Sometimes you can even have 2 of these down. This can be used as an Aggro Pole/ Diversion from yourself. Monsters will attack the Relic instead of you.

PVE-*****
PVP-****

Healing Relic- Summon sacred recovering object to heal teammates nearby the sacred object. The secundary healing skill. This skill is focussed on your MATK and not your HP like Healskill. The only downside is that the cooldown can be a little tedious if your HP is ticking down faster then you'd like. Also works on Team mates.

PVP-****
PVE-****

Cure Relic- Summon sacred curing object to cure team mates and increase light damage nearby the sacred object. I love this skill. It takes off the obnoxious slowing debuffs and more. It also increases my Lightdamage making my Damage skyrocket even more. I see it more usefull in PVP then PVE for the sole fact that you will get hit with debuffs way more often in PVP then PVE. The cooldown is Mediocre.

PVP-****
PVE-***

Bind Relic- Summon the frontal sacred object to disable the nearby monsters to move. The ultimate skill of Binding. This is Holy Bolts bigger brother. Downside is that it only Binds and does not damage but..who cares! This skill is usefull for trapping in PVP and PVE. I'm not giving this a 5/5 due to the horrendous cooldown it has.

PVP-****

PVE-****

Miracle Relic- Draw a light magical formation and cast it around. Attack enemies and heal allies along with the drop of the magical formation. The Mother of God of all Relics. The Ultimate for any Priest following the Saint line. This skill does pretty much all of it. Only downside is the huge cooldown.. I dont see it as usefull for PVP as PVE due to the fact that its less spammable and the enemy can simply run away. Unlike the way it is with Heaven's Judgement.

PVP-***
PVE-****

Protection Shell- Increase surrounding teammates' physical defense. Must have spell! Everyone will love you for it in PVE and PVP. You will take less damage making your survivability longer then without.

PVP-*****
PVE-*****

Striking -Increase nearby teammate's physical attack. Must have spell! Everyone will love you for it in PVE and PVP. You will love it yourself! We as priests don't have the best DPS in the game and this helps increase it.

PVP-*****
PVE-*****

Vengefull Wave- Launch common assault when being attacked to unleash divine power to slash the nearby enemy. I'd say this skill is useless. I've seen people use it in PVP to counter but I dont think its worth the SP. For the mainfact that it doesnt always work like its said. And you actually have to get hit and I prefer to dodge then getting hit.

PVE-*
PVP-**

First Aid- Have a chance to break out divine power when being attacked and the caster's HP will be restored to a certain proportion. This skill seems interesting at first but its quite poor. And it has the same issue as Vengefull wave, you have to get hit before this actually works. Might have its uses for PVP though.

PVE-*
PVP-**

3. Builds

Okay, down to builds! In this section, I will explain about some builds that I recommend the most. To be noted, some of these builds are taken from other foreign versions like DNCN, JP, etc.

3.1. The DPS Inquisitor Build

This build focusses heavily on the DPS side of Priest. They use the Left Skilltree to their utmost capabilities and also obtain the skill Heaven's Judgement. They Ditch the Relic tree side. They also have the minimum amount needed in buffs. Meaning Lvl 5 Lightbuff, Lvl 2 Shell and Lvl 3 Striking. This build is for the kind that like to be killing Machines and also great @ PvP. The only downside I can think of with this build is that you don't really fit the Criteria as DPS as well as a lets say Sorcerer would. And partywise you will get opted out over a saint due to not high enough buffs.

3.2. Hybrid Inquisitor

This type of Inquisitor Maintains their DPS status while putting in Minimal effort in the Relic tree up to the relic they want, let it be lightning relic + Healing relic or even up to Bind Relic. Hybrid Inquisitors try to have the best of both worlds. The minimum amount they have to spent in buffs is respectively Lvl 5 Lightbuff, lvl 2 Shell and Lvl 3 Striking. Their Damaging skills will have to suffer slightly to follow this build but are more effective in PVE then the Full DPS Inquisitor. In short Hybrid Inquisitor wants to be as supportive as a Saint but is more a DPS type of class.

3.3. Full Support Saint

This Relic Hugging tree totally ignores the Left DPS tree. They Put on the Pure focus for Relics, Buffs and Heals. They want whats best for the party and function amazingly in Party play. They are a little Poor in Soloing in comparison to Hybrid Saints. But hey, support class is support class, we aren't meant to solo! As you are the supportive type of Saint you have to work efficiently with your CD's because as soon as your Relics are on CD and you have buffed everyone, you don't really much else to do but dodge. This is the "Lazier"variant to the full potential of Saint. Because you Follow the Relic Tree your Ultimate will be Miracle Relic helping your party further in reaching their max Potential. Full Support Saints are not PVP material.

3.4. Hybrid Saint

Hybrid Saints are similar to Hybrid Inquisitors as they try to obtain the best of both worlds. Whereas Inquisitor Sacrifice Damage , Saints sacrifice a little on Buffs. They invest the minimum amount of SP in the Lightning Tree. Meaning that they put in enough points to unlock the next skill they want. The Reason why you see quite alot of Hybrid Saints is the pure fact that if you can't find a proper party, you could still Solo the Dungeon if needed. Another plus to Hybrid Saints is that they can work functionally in PVP unlike FS Saints. Because they do have some damaging and killing skills. In short Hybrid saint is a supportive Inquisitor Wannabe.

4. GEARS

4.1. Potentials

Have Gears that are atleast +8. Remember that +10 Green=+8 Blue=+6 Epic.
It doesn't really matter . Potentials you should really look out for are Potentials that increase your magic attack by a % or your Light Attack by a %. Agi/Crit is always wanted and try to balance out your HP/MP using the potentials. Intellect potentials are also greatly appreciated. If you're going Saint Perfect stat usage would be INT/HP, INT/MATK in case of epics Agi is always appreciated but you mainly would want those stats. Inquisitors preferably want INT/AGI or Light/AGI . This boosting their critical rates and Damage.

4.2. Accessories (Rings, Necklace and Earring)

Aim for the best you can get. Preferably Rings/Necklace/Earring with an as high as possible Int bonus on them. There are Rings for Inquisitors that have a standard light % Bonus that helps increase their Lightning Skills. For potentials on Jewelry you should aim for having Int , Light and Magic attack %. Preferably Magic attack % on the Rings if you're going for Saint so that your Relics will do better damage.
Note: I would not recommend getting the cerberus set Jewelry because the regular Epics give better INT potentials and you could always craft int/Element boost or int/Matk on your equipments.
In my opinion you feel the most pain from Cerb set Jewelry on your rings. (Due to them giving Element+int or Matk+int potentials)

4.3. Suffixes
Although suffixes are not as important as the gears themselves, they are important. Many players want a proper suffix. There are so many to choose from so some people get confused. In this section, you can find the most suitable suffixes for your gears depending on your build. Okay, here we go.

Weapon
You might want these suffixes below on your weapons:

Int: This suffix gives you extra damage at a certain %
Fatal: This suffix gives you extra critical rate which is crucial for Critbuildpriests . All classes need critical rate yooo.
Harsh: People always recommend this for the lulz. Gives bleed effect.
Magical Destruction: This suffix increases your magic attack more.

Armors
As for armors, this all down to your preferences, seriously. My personal suffixes for my gears are mostly INT and Iron Wall to balance between MATK and HP, some use Luck builds for PVP but thats up to you. For PVE INT / Iron Wall is best. You could put Wind Heraldy if you're the critbuild Priest. As much INT as possible. If you're going Tankbuild/High HP priest , Vit Suffix is the way you can go as well.

5. Enhancement & Skill Heraldries

5.1. Enhancement Heraldries

Finally, the Heraldry. Heraldry is one factor that make Dragon Nest a unique game. With heraldry you can improve your character's ability and capabilities in terms of skill and stats. To do this, you need the corresporending heraldries and equip it in your heraldry slot. The heraldry window can be found by clicking the "Heraldry" tab below the Costume tab in your equipment below. Now, let me explain you the best heraldries you must get from Cleric - Priest- Saint/Inquisitor

In my Eyes the Enhancement Heraldies you should look out for are

Wise Heraldy
Magician's Heraldy
Fatal Heraldy
Vitality Heraldy
Mp Regen Heraldy
Shining Heraldy
Tent Heraldy
Wind Heraldy
Health Heraldy

These are the Heraldies I have selected for my character. I could tell you what Heraldies you should get but I think everyone knows these things already but I will elaborate the ones I have for now. You can experiment in your own way, this is only a guidance not a Rulebook.

Wise and Magician Heraldy increase your magical attack and Int. Even int grants a small magic attack bonus.
Defense/Magic Defense Heraldy makes sure I survive long Enough in Nest in case I am forced to Tank( Cerberus anyone?)
MP Regen is there for the long run. We have already experienced in Dungeons like Saint Haven that the Dungeons are Very long so having a worthwile MP bar+ MP recovery is worth your money and time.
I have the Fatal Heraldy to increase my Critrate.
Vitality is for the same reason I run Defense/Magic Defense Heraldy. Having a bonified HP stat makes sure you don't die fast and makes you durable in supporting your team. Thus having the Health heraldy increasing your Vit is also an added bonus!
Windplate does the same as Fatal plate only Windplate adds Agi and 4 Agi=1 Crit.. So keep that in mind for all you people who like a critbuild!

There are other heraldies you could check out like Para Resist or Stun Resist, but those are more PVP oriented. As I said...Think out/ Experiment what Heraldy settings you like as long as you atleast get Wise and Magician's Heraldy Because they are a must.

5.2. Skill Heraldies

For a Saint I have a few Skillheraldy sets.
1) Lightning Relic CD, Heal CD, Healing Relic CD, Miracle Relic CD
2) Lightning Relic CD, Heal 3%, Healing relic CD, Miracle Relic CD
3) Heal CD, Healing Relic CD, Miracle CD, Optional

4) Heal 3%, Healing Relic CD, Miracle CD, Optional

Optional meaning you could get Bind/Cure relic CD...or Chargebolt + Damage/ Holyburst etc.
But Having Healing Relic CD/Miracle Relic Cd is pretty much a must.
Heal 3% or Heal CD is up to you.

Inquisitors should get

Lightning Bolt Damage, Detonate Damage, Holy burst Damage, Heaven's Judgement cd
Lightning Relic CD, Healing Relic CD, Lightning bolt Damage, Heaven's Judgement CD 3) Heaven's Judgement CD, Lightning bolt Damage, Optional , Optional.

Heaven's judgement CD is a must, Lightning bolt damage is also a must.
The rest is optional. The first one listed is a pure DPS build. The second one is more suited for Hybrid Inquisitors.
But I think you get the point right? If not...Just ask me in the comments below.

Credit goes to http://forum.cherrycredits.com/forum/topics/view/morgestern-s-comprehensive-guide-on-priests

Dragon Nest SEA - Resolution Customizer Tool

2011-12-24T00:26:00.000+08:00

This great tool allows you to customize your DN window resolution.
It is in Chinese but I have translated everything into English shown in the above picture.

Download: Dragon Nest SEA - Resolution Customizer Tool

Dragon Nest SEA - Gold/Ticket Farming Guide at Level 40 Paladin

2011-12-23T23:43:00.000+08:00

Hello guys, i think there are many of you who have already hit level 40 and wondering how do I farm for the Entry Tickets. The price for Entry Tickets have risen from 3G to 6G in the past few days due to popular demand. I suspect the price may continue raising due to the coming reset on Saturday and next Tuesday. It is good to save up some Entry Tickets (more than 20). I would recommend Gates to City of Death which does not requires excessive amount of running. As a Paladin without Dash, I can complete a Abyss run in 11~12 Mins so I think other classes can run this dungeon at 10~11 Mins.

Dragon Nest SEA - Shiba's Comprehensive Class Guide for Paladin

2011-12-22T23:06:00.002+08:00

Content

Cleric
Paladin
Skill Build

1. Cleric
1.1. Introduction on Cleric
The Cleric is one of four basic classes in Dragon Nest, also, the hardest class to play in my opinion. The Cleric has expert difficulty, unlike the other classes (Can be seen at Character Creation window). Being the hardest class to play, the Cleric has multidute of roles and has so many opportunities in all areas in the game. It's like hitting the 'hard' difficulty on an arcade game when playing a Cleric I tell you that much. The Cleric can advance to either "Paladin" or "Priest' when you hit level 15.

1.2. Cleric's Skills
The Cleric has many skills. Some of them are important for offense, some for defense, etc. So let's see and try to discuss each of the skill.

1. Shield Blow
Strike your enemies by bashing your shield towards them.
A great basic skill for a Cleric. The damage and the AoE are not satisfying, but the short cooldown duration makes up for it. This skill is great in PvP, as it adds extra damage while chaining combos.

2. Lightning Strike
Strike enemies in front of you by swinging your weapon upward and sending a lightning afterward. Does a physical and magical damage. Effective on downed enemies.
While it's not a great crowd controller skill and a weak skill in PVE, it is great skill to be used in PVP. A very great launching skill to raise the potential of your combo in PVP.

3. Half-Turn Kick
Kick the enemies in front of you by clicking [Special Attack]. Spammable due to not having cooldown. Great when paired with Holy Kick.
Great skill to have. This skill acts as a secondary offensive skill when other primary skills are in cooldown. The great thing about this skill is that this skill is spammable, so this skill can act as a primary skill, especially against bosses, due to the knowledge that the AoE of this skill is crap and probably won't be used when facing mobs. In PvP, this skill acts as an extra skill while doing combos. Also used when to bounce your enemy off the wall. You can make this skill more godly by equipping Half-Turn Kick Premiium Heraldry (Action Speed -50%). Then, you will have a fast and spammable skill alongside with Holy Kick.

4. Stomping Kick
Double stomp on downed enemies by clicking [Special Attack]. Hold the [Special Attack] if you want to send your enemies flying with a kick.
Not a very good skill because the lack of the AoE and damage. Use it on downed enemies when your offensive skills are in cooldown. It is not a very great skill to be used in PvP either.

5. Sliding Step
Double-tap a directional arrow or press [Shift] + directional arrow to evade any attacks in that direction.
A very great skill. MAX THIS OR I'LL EAT YOUR BABIES. Increasing the rank of this skill will reduce the cooldown time of this skill thus making this one of the godly skill to have when it is maxed. Why did I say it a godly skill again? Hmm, because it is used for mobility and evasion, and those are two important aspects in both PvP and PvE.

6. Charge Bolt
Charges a bolt of lightning on your weapon and smash it onto the ground. It'll spread in four directions upon contact. Deals light damage.
This skill is great when used against big bosses. Self expalantory. It reduces your opponent's light resistance by 15%. Great skill to be used before other light damaging skills (such as Electric Smite, Lightning Charger, etc. see below: Paladin skills.)

7. Block
Defend yourself using your shield.
Self explanatory. This skill works wonder. Increasing this skill's rank will increase the amount of attack you can block per 15 seconds for PVE, and 12 seconds for PVP. This makes you block any attack 100% for those periods. A basic tanking skills for a Paladin with reasonable cooldown. Good skill in both PVP but PVE, but beware, it can interupt your other skill while casting.

8. Fly Kick
Press [Special Attack] when airborne to strike your enemies as you land.
I don't know the usefulness of this skill so I can't tell you what's good about this skill. The damage in PvE is weak. PvP wise, you can do this skill on downed enemies for the lul. A presrequite skill for Holy Kick. On the contary, this skill is good for evasive purporses, especially in PVE. Use it while after evade airborne using Aerial Evasion or after blocking an attack while airborne via Aerial Block.

9. Counter Blow
Press [Normal Attack] when downed to counter attack as you get back standing.
An okay skill to be learned, although effects aren't as useful as other offensive skills. Go ahead and learn this skill if you know its greatness and use its capability up to the fullest.

10. Low Kick
Click [Special Attack] on stunned enemies to hammer kick and knockdown them.
This skill is useless. The damage from the skill is weak. Don't get this skill. You have been warned.

11. Holy Kick
Press [Special Attack] after Half-Turn Kick to perform a side kick.
Holy Kick is also a great secondary offensive skill to have alongside with Half-Turn Kick. You can enhance the effectiveness of this skill by equipping Holy Kick's Premium Heraldry (Action Speed -50%). Spam this with Half-Turn Kick against bosses, and there. You are now one of the great DPS class out there.

12. Holy Bolt
Send a holy bullet to your enemy. Paralyzes enemies when hit.
A very good catching skills with high amount of Super Armor while being casted. But leave it to the prerequisite (level 3) for Holy Relic. Works wonder with Holy Relic. Holy Relic has long casting time, but with Holy Bolt, you can secure a safe Holy Relic to your enemies.

13. Heal
Heals yourself and your teammates.
Best skill ever if you used it in the right situation. But to be honest, I leave this skill at rank 1. The increase of the heal per level is not satisfying.

14. Sliding Knee Kick
Tap right click after sliding step to knee your enemy. SKK rank 3 allows you to do an extra downward kick to launch your enemy even higher.
The most debated skill in the Cleric tree. If you prefer PVE over PVP, you can choose to leave this. But if you are more into a PVP player, put this to rank 3. Either rank 3 or rank 0. The choice is yours. In PVP, this is useful when you do combos to your enemy. When you are too close to your opponent, there is high chances you might fail in your combos (After the fifth normal attack). This skill will help you make a space between you and your enemy and do some more combos. Also does a pretty high damage.

15. Divine Combo
Dash forward and perform a serial of divine attacks to your enemy. Press the normal attack button to bash your shield while exploding your surrounding with holy power.
A good skill in PVP as it can chain your combos and thus doing Infinite Combo easier. Although in PVE, it is pretty useless mid-endgame.

16. Aerial Evasion
Use the jump button when launched into the air to evade and back onto your feet on the ground.
Without this, have fun juggled by Warriors and Clerics (and some Archers). A very USEFUL SKILL, I tell you once again, very useful. Also a must max skill as it decreases cooldown per level, by huge a decrease per level.

17. Toughness.
Decreases physical damage taken by certain percentages.
A no-brainer skill, MAX IT. The decerased physical damage effect affects in PVP.

18. Physical Mastery.
Increases max HP.
Also a no-brainer skill, MAX IT. The increased max HP affects in PVP.

19. Mental Mastery.
Increases max MP.
Great skill as it increases max MP.

20. Mana Conquer.
Increases MP Recovery per minute.
A must max skill used in larger instances like Nests. Without this, you'll be run out of MP quick.

2. Paladin

2.1. Introduction on Paladin
The Paladin is one of the two advancement classes after you reach level 15 as a Cleric. The Paladin is the main tanker of the game, while the Priest is the main supportive class of the game. You won't find any informations about Priest "here". The thread is only meant for Paladins. The Paladin, given the advantages of having the best defense skills, highest defense and Health in the game, also has disadvantages. Such as, weak DPS capability (can be corrected using kicks, but high prices on heraldries), lack of offensive skills, and etc.

2.2. Paladin Skills
Paladin has many skills which are categorized into 3 skill trees and some additional skills. The statement also explains why Paladin has the most roles in the game aside of their main role, which is a tanker.

2.3. Paladin "Magical" Tree
These skills below are categorized as magical skills, which role is to deal high magical damage which are used for DPS purporses.

1. Holy Relic
Summon an ancient relic to damage enemies ahead of you.
Holy Relic is a great skill for a Paladin, especially if you have high MATK. Even if you don't have, this skill can be used as an opener. This skill has big AoE and light-magical damage is produced upon contact with enemies. You need level 11 Holy Relic to achieve Crusader's Holy Relic EX which is the improvisation of the skill. (Effect(s): +50% Damage from Holy Relic, about twice the size of the previous Relic)

2. Sacred Hammering
Summons the divine hammer to aid you in your attacks (normal attacks). Increases stun rate.
Sacred Hammering skill allows you to fly out divine hammers here and there while striking your enemies with your weapon. Additional 2-3 light-magical damage will be produced each hit. If you uses flail, the attacking animation will be changed of that of a Mace's attacking animation. Great DPS continous-skill for Paladin, especially for those who have great MATK.

3. Lightning Charger
Charges the air in front of you to electrify your enemy. Electrified enemies will send out another attack to electrify the enemies near them.
Lightnin Charger is another great skill for a Paladin. This skill deals great light-magical damage and covers medum-large AoE. This skill reduces your opponent(s)' light resistance by 15% which boost other light skills. (The same debuff like Cleric's Charge Bolt). This skill is like the advanced version of Charge Bolt. In PvP, this skill can interupt your enemy while being struck by three waves of electric/light damage. Best used in tight situation or when the enemy has great amount of escape/evade skills. (Acrobats, Swordmaster, etc.).

4. Electric Smite
Charge yourself with the power of lightning, jumps and pound the ground together with the lightning to deal major damage.
Electric Smite deals the most damage in the magical tree (in comparison to other skills per shot). Deal two portions of damage (physical and magical damage) with reasonable cooldown and has light element. This skill covers a large area of effect and dishes great damage. This skill will also electrify the enemies upon contact with certain chance. (IDK, but some say, the chance to electrocute is 100%)

5. Thor's Hammer
Summons a humongous size of hammer, probably lent from Thor himself, and swing it heavily three times to deal great damage.
Thor's Hammer is one of two ultimate skills. This skill deals humongous amount of damage with great AoE but long cooldown. This skill, like Electric Smite, deals two portions of damage and has light element. You MUST get this skill to be able to learn level 45 Crusader skills.

2.4. Paladin "Physical" Tree
Although not as good as the Magical Skill Tree in terms of damage, this tree focuses on debuffing and threat generating for tanking purporses.

1. Divine Breaker
After doing [Sliding Step] tap the left click once to break your opponent's shin and launch them to the air.
This is by far, your only effective launching skill. Needed in every situations (Except against a unlaunchable bosses). Damage wise, this skill deal mediocre damage with reasonable cooldown. A physical skill, launcher, and generates threat. In PVP, this skill is the most important launching skill you have in your skill tree. Without this, your chance of winning is below 10%.

2. Armor Break
Dash in front slightly, strike enemies by bashing your weapons against them, breaking their defenses.
Probably the best physical skill you will ever gain. This skill does large damage despite on its low cooldown (Only 8 seconds in PVE! 10 seconds in PVE though), generates threat and also decreasing their physical defense. A very good skill for every Physical Paladins to increase their physical damage. In PVP, this skill itself is very good because of its damage and armor reducing capability, but is easy to predict which can bring disadvantages when used in wrong situation. In PVE, use this before doing kicks (If you are a Physical Paladin) to increase the damage, because HTK and/or HK is physical. Large damage, generates threat, and reduces defense. Best skill ever given to Paladin. This skill will close the disadvantages of Paladin of having limited offensive skills.

3. Shield Charge
Charges in using your shield to your enemies and strike them with your weapon after.
While casting this skill, you take less damage from enemies. This skill does great damage but doesn't have outstanding effects unlike Armor Break. In PVE, this skill is better used against boss to inflict massive damage and for mobility. In PVP, this skill is VERY good, not to inflict massive damage, but as mobility. This skill also useful against those classes that have a lot of evasion skills. This skill can kill the evasion skills because it has great amount of hits.

2.5. Paladin "Shield" Tree
This skill tree focuses on tanking capabilities. Skills that categorized in this tree are used for survivabillity, to neutralize damage and to minimalize damage taken from enemies. This tree is what makes Paladin so special in Dragon Nest.

1. Auto Block
Passively blocking any attack in a certain rate.
Auto Block is both good and bad. The good part is that Auto Block can block any attack passively in correct situation, but it is also disadvantageous. Because it interupts you while casting skill, stopping yourself in the middle of the animation. For some people, Auto Block could become your undoing. Unlike Block, this skill is unpredictable and is not situational. The skill itself is not fascinating, but the EX skill that you'll gain later is so much better, see the explanation after this. You need level 8 Auto Block to be able to achieve Guardian's Auto Block EX which is the improvisation of the skill. (Effect(s): Gain 2% STR and 2% INT for each bubble this skill produce through any defensive skill. ex: Block, Auto Block, Stance of Faith, Aerial Block. Stackable to 10 bubbles which grant you a total of 20% STR and INT.)

2. Stance of Faith
Instead of jumping, press [space] / jump button to enter the defensive stance. Upon contact with an attack, this skill will BLOCK that attack, physical or magical and deflect it in a form of magic wave which deals 100% magic damage per block. The magic wave has neutral element.
Stance of Faith, in my opinion is the advanced version of Block and Auto Block. Stance of Faith feature isn't limited for blocking purporse, but also to deflect any damage done to you. A cookie butter skill for every tanker (physical) build. Using this skill in tight situation is very preferable, although you may want to use it after provoking for a safe tanking. A very good skill to be used while facing a huge amount of mobs while waiting the CD of other skills to reset. In PVP, people tend to use this skill to cheat, such as cooldown wh*ring, which "always" been restricted in other version of DN.

3. Aerial Block
Passively block any attack done to you while airborne.
The chance of blocking that Aerial Block offers is somewhat higher than Auto Block. This skill is greater to have actually. Because you won't be able to cast any great skill while airborne. In PVP, this skill is a lifesaver against juggler. Is not that menacing in PVE though. Although there is no reason to increase Aerial Block, because the growth per level is somewhat mediocre. Increasing the rank of this skill could waste your SP for some other important skills.

4. Divine Punishment
Reflect any damage done back to the attacker in a certain percentage from the actual damage for 20 seconds. The reflected damage is calculated on the damage you take without buffs and defense. The reflected damage's element is light.
Actually I couldn't find any goodies from this skill, so couldn't add any comment on this skill, because this skill is the most uncommon skill to use both in PVE and PVP. PVE wise, naturally, monster's attacks are too soft and not that much of a threat, so this skill is utterly useless. PVP wise, people are usually escape when seeing you using this skill.

5. Iron Will
Decrease any damage taken by an enermous amount of percentages.
Need to say more? This skill can decrease any damage taken up to -75%, and you'll be needing this skill. Enough said.

6. Divine Ascension
Uppercut your enemies after blocking. Generates threat.
One of two counter skills. This skill is somewhat useless in PVE, but its cooldown makes up for it. Block has 15 seconds duration which means you can do around 5 Divine Ascesions per block, without counting Auto Block. An okay skill to have if you have some leftover SP.

7. Divine Vengeance
Pound the ground and send shockwave to enemies after blocking. Generates threat and knock the enemies backward.
The last counter skill. This skill, instead of uppercutting your enemies, Divine Vengeance will knock your enemies which is a good opener in PVP. PVE wise, this skill has great damage but unreasonable cooldown.

6. Divine Avatar
Creates an avatar of yourself which deals damage and protect you from any harm for certain duration. So powerful that it gives you enermous powers such as follows:
- Strength +300%
- Vitality +100%
- Intellect +300%
- Movement Speed +50%
Divine Avatar is one of two ultimate skills. Divine Avatar buffs you with a godly amount of percentages (as you can see above) and grants you immortality for 20 seconds (PVE) and 12 seconds (PVP). Deals light-magical damage when casted. If you ever see a runner in PVP, you should use this skill. You must learn this skill to be able to learn level 45 Guardian skills.

2.6. Paladin Additional Skills
The skills that aren't categorized in one of three trees above will be explained below.

1. Provoke
Taunt your enemy to attack you instead of your teammates. This skill will reduce the chance of doing critical and stunning attacks to you.
This skill is great in parties. This skill explains why Paladins are needed in Nests. Paladin is a natural tanker to begin with. With this skill, you can taunt (even bosses) to attack you. Coupled by blocking skills, big HP, and humongous amount of DEF and MDEF, you just name yourself a great tanker.

2. Elemental Aura
Grants you and your teammates in 10m radius an increase of Fire/Ice Attack and Fire/Ice Defense. This skill is toggled which means this skill doesn't have cooldown duration. This skill eats your MP per second.
A great skill to use if you have Elemental Lord in your party. Great against Elemental Lord in PVP either. This skill is Elemental Lords advantages and undoing.

3. Conviction Aura
Grants you and your teammates in 10m radius an increase of Light Attack and Light Defense. This skill, like Elemental Aura, is toggled which means it doesn't have cooldown duration. This skille ats your MP per second.
A very great skill to have to boost your DPS, because the majority of Paladin's skills are light elemented. It's also great against fellow Paladins and Priests.

3. Skill Builds
3.1. Magical Paladin Skill Build

This build is created for Crusader wannabes. The main skills and changes in this build are:

Maxed Electric Smite
Maxed Armor Break
Maxed Holy Relic
Thor's Hammer as the Ultimate.

Here are some suggestions and/or tips from me to finalize your build:

You may want to add Conviction Aura to boost your damage (because majority of your skills have light atribute)
You can also add Elemental Aura, but it won't give you any benefit at all, because Crusader is a DPS oriented class, unlike Guardians who are striving to the support and survivability role.
You may want to decrease Armor Break. I maxed it because Paladins are a good defense debuffing class. Without it, you're useless in parties imo, aside of tanking. It breaks Super Armor as well as generates threat.
Block level 7-9 is viable, but is not recommended. Aside of waste of SP, I think level 6 Block is enough in comparison with its cooldown.
You can increase Lightning Charger, and it is recommended. Some Paladins chose not to max the skill, because the damage growth per level/rank is weak.
You can increase Provoke to 4 to support/help the main tanker in the party.
You may want to not getting Holy Kick. I used to the skill, even as a Crusader. It helps a lot in PVP situation.

3.2.Physical Paladins

Shiba's level 40 Basic Physical Build for Paladin

This build is created for Guardian wannabes. The main skills and changes in this build are:

Maxed Armor Break
Level 4 Provoke for tanking purporse. (It is recommended to have the Premium Heraldry of the skill to infinitely taunt your enemies)
Level 6 Block for survivability.
Level 4 Stance of Faith for survivability.
Divine Avatar as Ultimate.

Here are some suggestions and/or tips from me to finalize your build:

Block level 7-9 is viable, but is not recommended. Aside of waste of SP, I think level 6 Block is enough in comparison with its cooldown.
You may want to add Elemental Aura and max it for survivability and supporting purporses. (To decrease any damage from Elemental Lord significantly and increase Elemental Lord's damage if you have Elemental Lord in your party)
You can also add Conviction Aura to boost your damage from light-elemented skills.
You can max Provoke, but is not recommended in the current caps. (level 4 is enough together with its Premium Heraldry)

Updated 25 Dec 2011

• Shield Blow - Leave it as prerequisite to Block.
•  Lightning Strike - Leave it at level 1.
•  Half Turn Kick - Cleric's basic skill. Essential for Physical Paladin. Level 1 at its max.
•  Stomping Kick - lol one of Cleric's basic skill. No explanation needed right?
•  Sliding Step - It's bad. The skill picture is misleading. lol. Aside of that, everything else about Sliding Step is beyond godlike. Max it.
•  Charge Bolt - Leave it at level 1, although it is possible to level this skill if you have sufficient SP. (Only viable to Crusader want to be.)
•  Block - It is recommended to level this skill to level 6. Actually, you can increase this skill's level to level 7-9. But it is waste of SP, because in my opinion, level 6 gives you an enough amount of block in comparison on its cooldown. Guardian want to be can max this skill to increase his tanking capability.
•  Fly Kick - Learn this skill if you are and are not going to learn Holy Kick. Fly Kick is a life saver sometimes in PVP. If you don't PVP, don't learn this skill if you're not going to learn Holy Kick. Guardian want to be must learn this skill to be able to laern Holy Kick.
•  Counter Blow - Personally, I don't like this skill. Thanks to its long animation, people could predict the time you stand on your ground and launch more attacks. It's all on preferences. You can either leave it or learn it.
•  Low / Axe Kick - Don't get it.
•  Holy Kick - Get this if you're planning to get the premium heraldries of Half Turn Kick and Holy Kick. Very recommended for Physical Paladin. Magical Paladin may get this too, but it's too risky while having not enough PATK. Heed my words Guardians to be, you'll need this effin skill to enhance your DPS.
•  Holy Bolt - Leave this skill at prerequisite for Holy Relic, increasing this skill will only increase the damage done by it, which isn't the main purporse of this skill
•  Heal - I recommend you to put this at level 1, although the idea of being a secondary healer isn't that bad too even if you are a Paladin. If you are intending to increase this skill, go ahead and increase this skill at least level 7. It's either level 1 and 7.
•  Sliding Knee Kick - This skill is only useful for PVP to enhance your combo. Put this skill at level 3 for extra downard kick which is pratically needed in PVP. In PVE, don't learn this skill, at all.
•  Divine Combo - Like Sliding Knee Kick, this is also a PVP oriented skill. If you PVP that much, learn this skill at least level 1. Don't learn if you're not into PVP that much.
•  Aerial Evasion - Max it or put it at least level 1. In PVE, this skill is useless but is also useful while being knocked airborne. The skill is so useful in PVP. You could tell by the cooldown decrease per level. Also being juggled in PVP is normal, this skill is the antidote for that.
•  Toughness and Physical Mastery - Max them.
•  Mental Mastery and Mana Conquer - Mental Mastery is useful and all, but Mana Conquer isn't that good of a skill. Mana Conquer is good only if solo a lot (because soloing will burn your MP fast). You can choose to ditch Mana Conquer, but don't be for Mental Mastery. Put at least level 1 for Mental Mastery.

Credit goes to http://forum.cherrycredits.com/forum/topics/view/guide-the-2nd-edition-of-shiba-comprehensive-guide-on-paladin

Dragon Nest SEA - Apocalypse Nest Guide

2011-12-21T23:24:00.000+08:00

General

Basically, you can enter the Apocalypse Nest 5 times per week for Abyss mode, and 3 times per week for Hell mode. The entry stamp will drop from various Abyss Dungeons from Lv33-40.

When you 1st enter the Nest, you will face a White Soul Boss (seen in DMS). After defeating it, you will obtain 2 keys from a chest which can unlock various gates in the nest. Within this area, you will see 6 seal stones, which will be broken upon opening various gates with your keys obtained after defeating the Nest bosses. For example, after unlocking a gate that requires 2 keys, 2 seal stones will be broken.
I will be labeling the bosses’ names with either (L) or (R) to indicate where they are situated at in the nest. For (L), they can be located after moving through the gates on the left, and for (R), they can be located after moving through the gates on the right. After breaking these 6 seal stones, the gate to the Thunder Beast will open. And upon defeating it, you will now face the final Apocalypse boss.

Boss 1: White Soul

Just like what you see from the picture, the White Soul boss will welcome you with its skeleton minions. Some of its skills include shooting out red eyeballs to you. It moves in a straight line, and has quite a fast moving speed. The damage isn’t that great, but upon getting hit, you will be silenced for a certain time. It can also cast Spectrum Shower which can launch you in the air upon hit. It possess the same features as the Dried Marissa Spring's boss.
You need to finish the boss within 120 seconds. If not, you will never be able to get the bonus Royal Chest (RC) in one of the rooms.

Boss 2: The Death God who fears the Light (L)

Keys Required: 1

Upon entering this stage, you will see a small little statue in the middle of the room. Upon pressing it, light will shine through the window into the room. You have to lure the boss towards the light so that you can successfully hit it. Without light shining into the room, the boss will be invincible.
The light will last about 10-20 seconds. It will appear in a clockwise direction every time you click the statue. When the boss enters the area with light being shine on, it will be stunned for a slight duration. This is the indication that you can start attacking it now.

Take note that after the boss is stunned by the light, it can be attacked as long as the light is shone on the room. It doesn't matter if the boss is being shone or not. The stun is an indication that the boss can be attacked as long as light is still shining through.

Boss 3: 5 Black Smoke Brothers (L)

Keys Required: 1

Upon entering the stage, you will see 5 statues. These statues will be broken a short while later and 5 Black Smoke will be out teleporting here and there, and striking you anytime. This stage can be cleared as long as the real Black Smoke boss is being killed, and this real boss is the first to appear right after the statues are broken. Which means the real one is the one in the middle.

Boss 4: Giant Wisp (L)

Keys Required: 2

In this stage, the Wisp Boss has the ability to teleport wherever in the map within 4 parts of the circular map. There will be small wisp minions around to interfere you with their attacks.

Boss 5: The Iron Skin Ogre (L)

Keys Required: 2

Upon entering the stage, just follow the hints. Enter the door on your right, and destroy any spiderwebs that are obstructing your way. There will be a Single-Eyed boss following you around. Lead the boss to the wall. It will break the wall in order to let you go through. After breaking the wall, you will see a stone slab in the next room. You will have to destroy the stone slab in order to trigger another round of the exact same procedure. Repeat this until you reach a big room where a Spider Boss will spawn.

Simply destroy the stone slab in the middle while also killing the Spider Boss. The main Ogre Boss can only be hit after all the stone slabs are destroyed.

Boss 6: Skeletal Cow (L)

Keys Required: 1

Apart from this Skeletal Cow Boss, there will be various small little ghouls in the stage. When the boss is emitting a red glow, you must kill all the blue ghouls in order to deactivate the boss invincibility. Likewise if the boss is emitting a blue glow, you must kill all the red ghouls.

Boss 7: The Fallen Bull Captain (R)

Keys Required: 3

This boss can be quite easy for its first few HP bars. Simply follow the hints, and destroy the minions generators around the arena. However, when it is down to 2 HP bars, there will be more generators producing more gunner minions which are extremely irritating. At this time, the boss defense will increase very significantly, just like the buffed minotaurs in the Manticore Nest.

Take note that the captain may shoot numerous bullets in one of his skills and it can be very painful.

Upon defeating all the bosses, a room on the right of the stage of the 1st Boss will be unlocked. Within that room, there is a high possibility of a Royal Chest spawning. As for what items you can find within the chest.

Boss 8: Thunder Beast

Omen: The boss lets out a cry.
Skill: it will run forward while emitting various lightning streams on the ground.
Omen: The boss covering its head with both hands and shaking it left and right,
Skill: Long lightning blast in front of him.
Omen: The boss will retrieve a huge bolt from its mouth, and then strike it right in front of him.
Skill: you will be struck by lightning for a good 5-7 seconds
Omen: When the boss shakes its whole upper body left and right very quickly, Skill: it will start to move towards a players and give him/her the hug of life. After the hug ends, please press R.

Final Boss: Apocalypse

For the 1st HP Bar, the Boss focuses more on physical melee attacks accompanying with a few range attacks. For tankers, simply stand in front of the boss and tank/dodge. For other DPSers, stay at the side of the boss.

Laser: When you see the boss twitches its dangling claw slightly, it will be casting several lasers around him. Just stay away from the direction of the claws and you should be fine.
Roar: When it starts to breathe in heavily, it will release a huge breath subsequently to blow you away from it. The damage is incredibly low.
Front Smash: It will shake its head and open its mouth for a while, and subsequently do a head-smash on its front for several times.
Piercing Tentacles: When it shakes and raises its head up, it is about to land 2 sharp spears on the area in front of him.

For the 2nd HP Bar, the Boss will start using several spells to attack.

360* Laser: The boss will open its mouth wide while charging purple energy within it. After about 3 seconds, it will release a huge laser with superb range while rotating itself for 360 degrees. While it is charging the purple energy, try to move towards its back and start moving in the same direction as the boss rotating direction. Remember to stay as close to the boss as possible. If not, you will not avoid the laser for sure.

For the 3rd HP Bar,

Ground Explosion 1: When you see purple light on the ground, move or tumble/blink/slide away. Damage is high.
Rotation: It will do numerous rotation while following one player. Just try to move away from it asap.
Frontal Dash: When the boss disappears for a slight second, it will dash forward to bang its enemies.

For the 4th HP Bar,

Claw Minions: The boss will shake its head and you will hear a very distinct tingling sound. Various claw minions will spawn. They must be destroyed asap because it can hang on to you to restrict you from moving and casting spells.
Apart from releasing claw minions, the boss will also perform the other skills as mentioned above.

For the 5th HP Bar, basically it will still perform the same stuffs as mentioned above. However, if the battle with the final boss exceeds 11 minutes, the boss will now cast Heaven’s Judgment which is a 1-Hit-KO spell.

Tips

1) Try to do Manticore Nest before doing Apocalypse Nest because the former is easier.
2) Utilise your blue revival stones effectively. You can try doing 1 Manti 1 Apo per day, or maybe 2-3 Manti per day, followed by Apo for the subsequent days.
3) I guess you don’t even have to think about completing the Hell mode of these Nests unless your gears are quite top notch.
4) Priests, Paladins, and Force Users will probably rise in popularity even more due to their various roles in a party.
5) Don’t try to kill all the bosses if your equipment is not top notch. You can simply kill about 4-5 bosses and proceed to the Thunder Beast.

Dragon Nest SEA - MOD Costume Sorceress Christmas Suit

2011-12-21T01:16:00.000+08:00

Requirement
- All equipements except weapons to be EPIC grade

How to Install?
- Extract all files into the root folder of Dragon Nest

How to Uninstall?
- Remove all relevant files from the root folder of Dragon Nest

IMPORTANT: Remove all MODs before updating client

Download: Dragon Nest SEA - Sorceress Christmas Suit

Dragon Nest SEA - MOD Memory Usage Reduction Package

2011-12-18T22:43:00.000+08:00

1. Solve the problem of "out of memory"
2. Reduce physical memory usage by 15%
3. Reduce virtual memory usage by 30%
4. Reduce CPU usage by 15%
5. Reduce time for loading
6. Reduce time to display character in town

- Remove some images during loading
- Remove some background sound
- Remove some grass and water effect

How to use:
Just extract the files into the root folder of Dragon Nest

#IMPORTANT : remove all MODs before updating#

Download:
DNSEA MRP Link 1
DNSEA MRP Link 2

Redistributed on http://dragon-nest-sea-guide.blogspot.com/
First distributed on http://bbs.duowan.com/thread-22838135-1-1.html

Dragon Nest SEA - Leveling Guide 32 to 40 DOTC #2

2011-12-18T17:38:00.000+08:00

This is my own account running DOTC in a party of 4. As you can see from the video, there is a glitch at the third map which allows you to jump up the cliff. This reduces 10 seconds running up the field. Overall, with a Acrobat and SM/Mecery, it will take about ~3:30mins for Master run.

Dragon Nest Korea - Level 40 Acrobat Solo Cerberus

2011-12-18T00:22:00.000+08:00

Although Korea Server is different from SEA Server, the difficulty and everything of the Cerberus Nest is the same. I selected this video because it shows us how to pass each stage and avoid Boss's large AOE skills. I recommend beginners to watch this video before going into the Nest.

Dragon Nest SEA - Leveling Guide 32 to 40 DOTC

2011-12-18T00:08:00.002+08:00

Difficulty: Master - 3:30 mins ~ 5:00 mins (Recommended)
Exp: 3% ~ 4% (Decrease when level increases, ~2.5hrs per Level)

Personally I felt that this is the fastest dungeon to level up from level 32 to 40. The map does not have any teleportation or triggers. It is recommended to do it in party of 4 to minimize time consumption.

Taken from http://kazudragonhaven.tumblr.com/