At a glance
What it is good and bad at
Strengths
Versatile fighter, decent resistances, good party potential.
Weaknesses
below average damage, gear reliant, hard to balance stats.
How it plays
The Forgotten Myth
The Raider is an off-tank with large damage overall, capable of fighting in multiple ways.
It has plenty of buffs to protect itself under specific circumstances.
Gameplay Identity
The Raider is the opposite of the Trickster . It's a safe job class that can progress at a steady pace and handle most situations, making this job:
A well rounded warrior with good damage variety, high frontline potential and a simple kit that can cover every situation it faces.
A smart Raider knows what path to take to correctly engage enemies. In risky situations they may favor the use of a 1-Handed Spear with a Shield to keep the enemies at bay. When more comfortable they can swap into the powerful 2-Handed Wyrm Spear to increase their damage potential and Dragon Thrust Level.
Dragon Thrust is a Powerful Opener for the Dracomancer. The level of this skill that is enabled depends on the currently equipped spear. The skill is the center-piece of any Raider or Dracomancer.
The entire kit of a Raider is built around skills that should be used situationally, either by pushing enemies back, increasing defenses or attacking with more offensive power.
Raiders have quick job level growth, hitting the max Job level of 50 well before most other non-thief jobs. However, only the best will be able to continue their training until they peak and become a Dracomancer .
Weapon Skill
Level Available depends on the current weapon
Skill Tree Skills
The job change quest
- Start
- Wandering Knight, Payon Field
pay_fild09 334,264 - Required
- Orphan Job Level 10
- What you do
- Ask the knight about fighting with courage.
- Train to Job Level 10 if you are not there yet, then show him.
- Take the spear and the title.
- What you get
- The Raider job
- A novice spear
Skills
All 12 of them, in the order the game lets you learn them, with the words and the pictures the game itself uses. Damage, cost and cooldown move when the game is balanced, so they are not printed here: every card links to the database, which is rebuilt when they change.
Active6
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Dragon Thrust
ActiveSeveral enemies
Lv 10
Spear-only skill: delivers a quick strong hit against an enemy and it's surrounding with a spear.
Skill Lv is based on current Spear equipped.
Damage hits all targets in 3x3
Skill activates Combo Ready for other skills
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Elusive Feint
ActiveYourself
Lv 5
Quickly parries an attack, with the spear, knocking back the enemy.
Duration is canceled when successful
Damage dealt to enemy is based on Current HP.
Damage is boosted by auto attack power
Learn firstImprove Defense Lv 1
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Heavy Stab
ActiveOne enemy
Lv 10
Spear-only skill: deals a follow-up strike to a hurt enemy.
Damage reduced if not Combo Ready.
Learn firstSpear Mastery Lv 1
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Phantom Spear
ActiveSeveral enemies
Lv 5
Summons a spectral spear, to deal magic damage in a small area.
Learn firstImprove Wisdom Lv 1Increase SP Recovery Lv 1
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Spear Boomerang
ActiveOne enemy
Lv 5
Spear-only skill:
Throws spear at a distant enemy.
Learn firstHeavy Stab Lv 1
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Wind Cutter
ActiveAround you
Lv 5
Spear-only skill:
Spins spear around quickly to hit enemies.
2H-Spear Bonus: 2 Hits.
Damage reduced if not Combo Ready.
Knockbacks all targets 3 cells
Learn firstHeavy Stab Lv 1
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Supportive2
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Life of Dragon
SupportiveYourself
Lv 5
Channels your body with ancient power, boosting defenses.
For Duration:
Has a long cast time.
Learn firstImprove Defense Lv 1
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Spear Quicken
SupportiveYourself
Lv 10
Spear-only skill:
Improves caster's speed and reflexes with spears for duration.
ASPD bonus improves with AGI.
Requires a Shadow Orb.
Learn firstImprove Wisdom Lv 1Improve Defense Lv 1
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Passive4
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Improve Defense
Passive
Lv 10
Increase Max HP
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Improve Wisdom
Passive
Lv 10
Increase Max SP
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Increase SP Recovery
Passive
Lv 10
Increase SP recovery bonus
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Spear Mastery
Passive
Lv 10
Improves fight power
When wielding spears.
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What this job is and how it plays is transcribed from the original server's own wiki. Every skill, with the text the game itself shows, lives in the database. Where the Refuge changed something, it is called out above.