KNIGHTS

Knights are the masters of melee hand-to-hand combat tracing back to medieval times. When wars are being fought, knights are considered as “captains” of the front compared to the modern military we have now. They command their own squad comprised of swordsmen and other soldiers. Higher ranked knights, more often those who are part of noble families, are considered the commander of the knights. They have social standings equal to counts or what we usually call in Ragnarok as Lord Knights.

Knights in Ragnarok are also held in high regard. Knights are the only class that can wield several types of weapons and can wear almost all armors which contribute to their high defense rating. They can withstand tremendous amounts of damage while dealing great damage at the same time. This characteristic makes knights the ideal party front liner when hunting MVPs, fighting in PVP and especially during WoE.

*Note: Links to items, weapons, armors, monsters and other game references can be found at the latter part of the guide.

 

Knight Builds

Two of the most popular knight builds are the vitality knight (spear knight) and the agility knight (sword knight) . These two builds have sub-variants like the crit-lock agi knight and the power amplifier vit-type knight which are going to be discussed in this section. Agi knights are cheaper to level because they rarely receive damage because of high flee and they attack at lightning -fast speed. Vitality knights are costly to level because they are skill based leveling, spamming pierce and brandish pierce. Generally, agi knights are effective in PvM while vitality knights are more effective in PvP and WoE settings.

Not all of the sub-variant builds are discussed in this guide. Builds presented in this guide are just the basic Knight builds. These builds don’t mandate the players to striclty follow the stats and skills but to make it a reference and get some idea on how to make your own builds. Ragnarok is about personal preference and fun. Other builds are out there waiting for you to discover. (We can also make a follow-up guide about the sub-variant builds if requests start coming in).

*Note: Builds are based on Swordsman job level 50 and Knight 99/50.

 

Standard Vit-Knight (SVD) - The SVD knight or the str-vit-dex knight is the basic knight build for the vitality variant. It has high strength and vitality with mid-high dexterity. Spear knights usually prefer to use one-handed spears in order to weild shields for additional defense. Pike[4] is the favored one-handed spear. Mummy cards are essential for knights because a knight’s main targets in PvP are the low vitality players like hunters, wizards and assassins, which usually have high flee rates.

Stats w/ job bonus:

Str - 92+8

Agi - 1+2

Vit - 80+10

Int - 26

Dex - 54+6

Luk - 1+4

 

Skills:

Sword Mastery -2

Two-Hand Sword Mastery - 10

Increase HP Recovery -10

Bash - 10

Provoke - 10

Magnum Break - 5

Endure - 5

Spear Mastery - 10

Pierce - 10

Brandish Spear - 10

Spear Stab - 5

Spear Boomerang - 5

Riding - 1

Cavalier Mastery - 5

 

Power Amplifier Vit-Knight - This build is the ultimate killing machine for knights. This build produced the first aura knight (lvl99) in iRO, whose name escaped my mind. The downside of this build is that it has very low dex and accuracy. That is why it is highly recomemded to use Quadruple Ancient Pike (mummy card) for added accuracy. The skill build is just the same as the SVD vit-knight.

 

Stat w/ job bonus:

Str - 99+8

Agi - 1+2

Vit - 90+10

Int -35

Dex - 1+6

Luk - 1+4

 

Pure Agi-Knight - This build is the basic agi-knight class that attacks at raging speed along with destructive damage output. It focuses on strength, agility and dexterity to survive. Agility should reach a good level for this build to be sucessful and strength should also be raised for high damage output every single blow. This is the counterpart of the agi-crit build where the stat points are spent on dex rather than luk. Pure agi knights use elemental two-handed swords when leveling and carded two-hand swords for WoE and PvP [mummy, hydra, skeleton worker].

 

Stat w/ job bonus:

Str - 85+8

Agi - 90+2

Vit - 34+10

Int -1

Dex - 44+6

Luk - 1+4

 

Skills:

Sword Mastery - 1

Two-Hand Sword Mastery - 10

Increase HP Recovery - 10

Bash - 10

Provoke - 10

Magnum Break - 5

Endure - 3

Two-Hand Quicken - 10

Auto Counter - 5

Bowling Bash - 10

Spear Mastery - 8

Pierce - 5

Spear Boomerang - 5

Riding - 1

Cavalier Mastery - 5

SPEAR SKILLS ARE OPTIONAL; spear boomerang will prove to be usefull when you have status pikes.

 

Agi-Crit Knights - This build focuses on dealing lightning fast attack speed and land critical hits as well; more like an assassin but with greater or equal speed. Your adavantage is that you will have greater armor and health than them. The preffered weapon for this build is a Muramasa or tqwo hand swords compounded with Skeleton Soldier Cards (Critical) and paired with two brooch of counters (Kobold Card).

Stat w/ job bonus:

Str - 80+8

Agi - 90+2

Vit - 32+10

Int -1

Dex - 20+6

Luk - 46+4

 

Skills:

Sword Mastery - 1

Two-Hand Sword Mastery - 10

Increase HP Recovery - 10

Bash - 10

Provoke - 10

Magnum Break - 5

Endure - 3

Two-Hand Quicken - 10

Auto Counter - 5

Bowling Bash - 10

Spear Mastery - 8

Pierce - 5

Spear Boomerang - 5

Riding - 1

Cavalier Mastery - 5

SPEAR SKILLS ARE OPTIONAL; spear boomerang will prove to be usefull when you have status pikes.

Well’ these are the basic builds or thould I say the most common builds out there. Most of the players would make an agi-build keeping the future Lord Knight in mind because as I have said, agi-knights are cheaper and relatively faster to level. I will be making a Lord Knight guide soon, also some tactics and tips while leveling and going against your friend (PVP, WoE, PK).

Here are the links to the items other things mentioned in the guide. For more information, visit www.ratemyserver.net

Weapons / Equipments :

Pike / Muramasa / Two-Hand Sword / Brooch / Clips

Cards:

Mummy / Soldier Skeleton / Skeleton Worker / Kobold Card

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