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Why Be A Spearman?

Warrior Job Tree, with the Spearman indicated in red.

A Spearman is a class that is known as the best Warrior class in Maple story. This, in some people's opinions, is true. Spearmen are probably the class with the most builds. A spearman can look forward to becoming a Dragon Knight.

Pros and Cons

All classes have goods and bads. These are the spearmen's:

Pros

Spears and Polearms, Spearmen's weapons, have long range (longest range of all warriors), thus making slash blast a powerful skill as it can hit more enemies.
Higher MP than Fighters and Pages.
Get Hyper Body, a fantastic party skill.
Slash/Stab, dealing even more damage.

Cons

Lower HP than Fighters and Pages.
One of the slower classes.
Can't equip shields (spears and polearms are 2-handed).
A very large damage range, sometimes bad.

Spears or Polearms

Choosing between spears and polearms isn't easy. Look below to find pros and cons for each weapon.

Pros - Spears

Mobs in 3rd job appear in sizes that favor the use of Buster.
Usually cheaper than polearms.
Dragon Blood and Buster combined are quite powerful.

Cons - Spears

Only approximately two-fifths (≈40%) of the attacks are stabs, which weakens the spear's usefulness
Overshadowed by Polearms in the 2nd job due to higher chance of slashing.

Pros - Polearms

Approximately Three-fifths (≈60%) of the attacks are slashes, powerful for polearms and can hit more enemies above and below you.
Better than spears in 2nd job due to higher chance of slashing.
Dragon Fury has less delay than Buster.

Cons - Polearms

Usually more expensive than Spears
Mobs in 3rd job appear in sizes that favor the use of Buster.
Not useful for using Buster, which attacks multiple enemies and hits multiple times.*also like to note that polearms can be found easier than spears in more common areas and look COOL!

Pros - Hybrid

Has the Strength of pole-arms in 2nd job without the cost of them in 3rd.

Cons - Hybrid

When you max Dragon Crusher, you will hardly ever use a Pole Arm again and waste the Mastery on Pole arms, this is because Crusher is alot stronger than Fury / Sacrifice.
Hybrids will either max Final Attack and have low level Spear and Polearm Boosters, or max both boosters and skip Final Attack altogether.

Skills

Main article: Category:Spearman Skills

Spear Mastery Master Level: 20

Increases the spear mastery and accuracy. It only applies when a spear is in hand.

Requirements: None
Level 1: Spear Mastery 15%, accuracy +1
Level 20:Spear Mastery 60%, accuracy +20

Polearm Mastery Master Level: 20

Increases the pole arm mastery and accuracy. It only applies when a pole arm is in hand.

Requirements: None
Level 1: Polearm Mastery 15%, accuracy +1
Level 20: Polearm Mastery 60%, accuracy +20

File:Final Attack Icon.gif Final Attack: Spear Master Level: 30

With a certain success rate, another attack performs after an attacking skill. Only works with a spear in hand.

Requirements: 3 in Spear Mastery
Level 1: 2% success rate, final attack with spear damage 105%
Level 30: 60% success rate, final attack with spear damage 250%

File:Final Attack Icon.gif Final Attack: Pole Arm Master Level: 30

With a certain success rate, another attack performs after an attacking skill. Only works with a pole arm in hand.

Requirements: 3 in Pole Arm Mastery
Level 1: 2% success rate, final attack with pole arm damage 105%
Level 30: 60% success rate, final attack with pole arm damage 250%

Spear Booster Master Level: 20

Use HP and MP to temporarily boost up the attacking speed of the equipped spear. It only applies when a spear is in hand.

Requirements: 5 in Spear Mastery
Level 1: HP -29, MP -29; Increase in spear speed for 10 seconds
Level 20: HP -10, MP -10; Increase in spear speed for 200 seconds

Polearm Booster Master Level: 20

Use HP and MP to temporarily boost up the attacking speed of the equipped pole arm. It only applies when a pole arm is in hand.

Requirements: Level 5 Polearm Mastery
Level 1: HP -29, MP -29; Increase in polearm speed for 10 seconds
Level 20: HP -10, MP -10; Increase in polearm speed for 200 seconds

Iron Will Master Level: 20

Temporarily increases the level of weapon and magic defense on every member of the party around the area.

Requirements: none
Level 1: MP -12; Weapon def. +1, magic def. +1 for 15 seconds
Level 20: MP -24; Weapon def. +20, magic def. +20 for 300 seconds

Hyper Body Master Level: 30

Temporarily increases the Max HP and Max MP of all members of the party around the area.

Requirements: 3 in Iron Will
Level 1:MP -25; MaxHP +2%, MaxMP +2% for 10 seconds
Level 30: MP -50; MaxHP +60%, MaxMP +60% for 155 seconds

AP Builds

Normal Build

DEX = Levelx2, rest into STR

Minimum STR until about 120 DEX Build

Get just enough STR for next armor, rest into DEX

No DEX Build

All points into STR

(Note: Not recommended unless you have a funder) (Another Note: By "Funded" it means have at least 1mil with you- 500k for the Brown Bandana 50k-100k for Fish Spear 400k-450k for 800 and/or 900 Sniper Pots)

Low Dex Build

1 dex = 0.8 acc

For this build you'll need some money :P Low dex warrior build's idea is this: to have low dex and use items that add dex, pretty smart ha? XD low dex warrior has around 40-65 dex.

If you don't have money:

At lvl 35 you will buy blue crusaider chainmail, and make it +10 with 100% scrolls. It will cost you 462.5k (overall is 112.5k and the scrolls are 35k each- 350k, will give you 14 dex). Use green bamboo hat, costs about 15k and adds 3 dex (great ha? :D) At lvl 42 buy icarus cape (2)+5 dex which worth 4mil (ull have the money in that lvl) And buy sniper pills only if you need because it's kinda expensive ;P

so, at lvl 50 instead of having 80-90 dex you will have the base dex u chose (let's say it's 60)+ 22 dex. So you will have 60+22 = 82 dex :D If you still miss the monsters then buy work gloves that adds dex (+6 dex +10 acc worth 4.5mil) When you will have money buy better overall, attack work gloves, cape, and snowshoes + 7 acc or better.

If you have money:

Buy the lvl 35 overall 19-24 dex (19 - 20mil, 24 - 50mil) Buy at lvl 42 Icarus 10 dex (worth 45mil - i think) Buy work gloves 8-15 (rofl 15 XD) attack (8 worth 35 mil, 9 worth 45mil, 10 worth 70mil...) Buy snowshoes 7-13 acc (dont know the price) Buy at lvl 25 green bamboo hat (worth 15k) That's it :P

Max Acc - + 57.6 Min Acc - + 41.4

So if you have 40 base dex you will have 32 acc 32+57.6 = 89 acc which are 111.25 dex!

If you got any questions talk with me-

msn / email: [email protected]

Skill Point Distribution

Level 30: 1 into [weapon] mastery (1)

Level 31: 3 into [weapon] mastery (4)

Level 32: 3 into [weapon] mastery (7)

Level 33: 3 into [weapon] mastery (10)

Level 34: 3 into [weapon] mastery (13)

Level 35: 3 into [weapon] mastery (16)

Level 36: 3 into [weapon] mastery (19)

Level 37: 3 into [weapon] Final Attack (3)

Level 38; 3 into [weapon] Final Attack (6)

Level 39: 3 into [weapon] Final Attack (9)

Level 40: 3 into [weapon] Final Attack (12)

Level 41: 3 into [weapon] Final Attack (15)

Level 42: 3 into [weapon] Final Attack (18)

Level 43: 3 into [weapon] Final Attack (21)

Level 44: 3 into [weapon] Final Attack (24)

Level 45: 3 into [weapon] Final Attack (27)

Level 46: 3 into [weapon] Final Attack (30)

Level 47: 3 into Iron Will (3)

Level 48: 3 into Hyper Body (3)

Level 49: 3 into Hyper Body (6)

Level 50: 3 into Hyper Body (9)

Level 51: 3 into Hyper Body (12)

Level 52: 3 into Hyper Body (15)

Level 53: 3 into Hyper Body (18)

Level 54: 3 into Hyper Body (21)

Level 55: 3 into Hyper Body (24)

Level 56: 3 into Hyper Body (27)

Level 57: 3 into Hyper Body (30)

Level 58: 3 into [weapon] Booster (3)

Level 59: 3 into [weapon] Booster (6)(You just need 6 because you dont need that much of it)

Level 60: 3 into Iron Will (6)

Level 61: 3 into Iron Will (9)

Level 62: 3 into Iron Will (12)

Level 63: 3 into Iron Will (15)

Level 64: 3 into Iron Will (18)

Level 65: 2 into Iron Will (20) 1 into anything you want (last spear mastery advised)

Level 66: Put it to any thing you want (spear booster?)

Level 67: Put it to any thing you want (spear booster?)

Level 68: Put it to any thing you want (spear booster?)

Level 69: Put it to any thing you want (spear booster?)

Level 70: Put it to any thing you want (spear booster?)

Final Results:

19 [Weapon] Mastery

30 [Weapon] Final Attack (Maxed)

6 [Weapon] Booster

20 Iron Will (Maxed)

30 Hyper Body (Maxed)

And, 16 spare points

Edit by a player: I used the non-final atk build, because 3rd job skills don't use final atk! So i mastered both mastery skills and did both boosters to lvl 10, rest is the same

Author's Note

Credits

Iamsorrydude - For starting this guide, I guess

SAMB000 - for editing the skills distribution page which was totally messed up before

You - For reading this guide

Wizet - For making English Maplestory (I can't read Korean!)

MapleTip - For Maplewiki, this way people can just edit this because this guide started out with way too many errors, and I'm too lazy to bother making it detailed.