Zero Guide

Zero, the children of the goddess of time, Rhinne, is a Warrior class in Maplestory and the Second addition to the RED Update.

Story

Alpha, our starting character.

Rhinne, the Goddess of time, anticipated the day that she would be imprisoned by the Black Mage so in a last resort, she forged a child named Zero. The Black Mage knew of the dangers Zero would bring so he ordered his commanders to split the child into two separate beings, one boy and one girl and to be banished into the Mirror World.

The boy, named Alpha, would serve under the Shadow Knights, an organization built to fend off the evils terrorizing the Umbra Temple outside of their hometown of Shadowvale. As time grew by, Beta grew suspicious of the Knights and what was inside the temple. His suspicions were truly confirmed when he realized that the Knights were guarding a young woman; his female counterpart, named Beta. The Knights grew wise of Alpha's actions and attempted to stop him from releasing Beta to no avail.

Beta escapes the temple with Alpha and the two teams up to know the Knight's true intentions and where they had really came from.

Overview

Beta and Alpha.

Zero brings a couple of special features not available to any other classes. For starters, Zero boasts a "two-in-one" mechanic in which allows you to either switch from Beta to Alpha or to have the two available in unison at the same time. Each character gives a different feel during gameplay and each have their own role.

Unlike the other classes, Zero starts immediately at level 100 instead of level 10 or 1. While this appears to be too good of a fact, Zero is only able to perform quests and level up in Mirror World much until level 180; they are able to travel to Maple World whenever they want, but they are unable to take quests, gain EXP or fight monsters or bosses until their storyline quests are finished, which is at level 180.

The class, like the Demon, Kanna and Angelic Buster, does not use MP but instead uses their own energy source called Time Force. Much like Demon Fury, Time Force can be obtained by attacking your enemies and can recharge over time.

On the matter of equipment, Alpha and Beta will share the same armor and accessories however because you play as both genders, they are unable to wear gender specific equipment. They can wear gender-specific Cash equipment as they don't share the same Cash inventory. They are also able to have their hair, skin and face changed independently as well.

Job	Beginner	Alpha	Beta
Zero	Skills	Skills	Skills

Gameplay

As mentioned above, Zero allows you to play as either Alpha or Beta, each have their own roles in combat. The common mechanics they share is their ability to link their attacks, much like Hayato or Thunder Breakers. You start off Zero with only few skills in your disposal. The class does not have any job branches or advancements, instead new skills are given to the player at intervals of 5 or 10 levels up to level 200. Zero does not possess any Hyper Skills, either.

Alpha

Alpha's gameplay focus primarily on delivering rapid-fast multi-hit attacks on enemy mobs while being as mobile as possible. His weapon of choice is the Tachi, a long and thin sword. It's governed by Lapis, the spirit inside his weapon.

For skills, See: Zero: Alpha Skills.

Beta

Beta's gameplay focus primarily on heavy defenses and delivering singular, slow but hard-hitting attacks towards her enemies. Her skillset gives her a prominent edge over boss enemies. Her weapon of choice is the Big Sword, a well-endowed weapon. It's governed by Lazuli, the spirit inside her weapon.

For skills, See: Zero: Beta Skills.

Beginner Skills

Icon	Skill Name	Description	Type	Mastered	Element	Prerequisites	Required Level
	Doubletime	When you attack the enemy with a skill, the duration is adjusted and the cooldown is reduced. Grants a special buff effect depending on the attacker.	Passive	1	x	-	100
	Rhinne's Blessing	Receive the Goddess Rhinne’s blessings, reducing the damage taken from enemies while ignoring a portion of their defense. Strengthen this skill by collecting Goddess Teardrops.	Passive	5	x	-	x
	Doubletime Recon	For every stack, gain 3% Critical Rate.	Passive	1	x	-	x
	Doubletime Combat	For every stack, gain 1% damage.	Passive	1	x	-	x
	Resolution Time	Inherit the Goddess Rhinne's powers, adding them to your own. Strengthen this skill by collecting Goddess Teardrops.	Passive	5	x	-	x
	Time Distortion	Summon the power of the Transcendents to distort local time.	Supportive	1	x	-	110
	Temple Recall	Return to Zero's Temple.	Supportive	1	x	-	x
	Divine Force	Channels the power of the Transcendents to increase Attack Power, Defense, and Resistance of all nearby party members. Press the Skill Key one more time to cancel the skill. Cannot be used with Divine Speed.	Supportive	1	x	-	x
	Divine Speed	Channels the power of the Transcendents to increase Attack Speed, Movement Speed, Avoidability, and Accuracy of nearby party members. Press the Skill Key one more time to cancel the skill. Cannot be used with Divine Force.	Supportive	1	x	-	x
	Burst Jump	Compresses time while jumping to extend your jump./Speeds up vertical movement.	Active	1	x	-	x
	Burst Step	Compresses local time to move quickly.	Active	1	x	-	x
	Rhinne's Protection	Receive the Goddess Rhinne's protection, increasing all stats of team members for a short time.	Supportive	1	x	-	x
	Dual Combat	A battle style unique to Alpha and Beta.	Passive	1	x	-	x
	Time Dispel	Fastforwards the time of the harmful effect on your character so it wears off right away.	Active	1	x	-	200
	Rewind	Capture this moment in your Hourglass. If you get knocked out, time will rewind to the captured moment instead.	Supportive	1	x	-	140
	Time Holding	Unleash a temportal torrent that resets your skill cooldowns, makes you invincible, and gives you unlimited HP and Time Force.	Supportive	1	x	-	120
	Shadow Rain	Alpha and Beta’s combination attack. Beta crashes down on the enemy with her Great Sword, stopping them in their tracks. Then Alpha follows up from the shadows, dealing critical damage to all targets.	Active	1	x	-	170

Alpha Skills

The male counterpart to Zero and is the starting character before you meet Beta.

Alpha's gameplay focus primarily on delivering rapid-fast multi-hit attacks on enemy mobs while being as mobile as possible. His weapon of choice is the Tachi, a long and thin sword. It's governed by Lapis, the spirit inside his weapon.

Icon	Skill Name	Description	Type	Mastered	Element	Prerequisites	Required Level
	Long Sword Mastery	Increases the Mastery, Attack Power, and Attack Speed of Long Sword type weapons. Damage, Attack Speed, Speed and Jump are also increased when a Long Sword is used.	Passive	10	x	-	100
	Reinforce Body	Strenghtens Alpha's body and increases max HP, max Time Force, and Critical Rate.	Passive	20	x	-	130
	Time Generator	Increases Alpha's Time Force Recovery speed. Also grants a chance to recover Time Force when Alpha attacks an enemy.	Passive	20	x	-	110
	Divine Leer	Increases the minimum and maximum damage of Alpha's Criticals. Also grants a chance to inflict a bleeding effect on the target and restore your HP.	Passive	20	x	-	160
	Shadow Strike	Quickly move to the nearest enemy and attack, unleashing a strike that penetrates and deals additional damage.	Passive	20	x	Level 1 Piercing Thrust	100
	Moon Strike	Draws enemies closer with a brutal attack.	Active	10	x	-	100
	Piercing Thrust	Thrusts your Long Sword foward to knock back enemies with the tip.	Active	10	x	Level 1 Moon Strike	100
	Spin Cutter	Attacks enemies with spinning strikes.	Active	20	x	Level 1 Flash Assault	115
	Flash Assault	Instantly moves forward, damaging enemies in your path.	Active	10	x	-	110
	Advanced Spin Cutter	An even more powerful Blade Ring attack. Increase the Blade Ring's damage and adds a blade that pierces through on both sides for additional damage.	Active	20	x	Level 10 Spin Cutter	150
	Grand Rolling Cross	An even more powerful Rolling Cross attack. Increases damage and produces 3 blades at once that pierce multiple enemies.	Active	30	x	Level 20 Rolling Cross	160
	Rolling Assault	Advances forward while spinning at high speed. Attacks knock back enemies in your path.	Active	20	x	Level 1 Rolling Cross	130
	Advanced Rolling Assault	An even more powerful Rolling Assault attack. Increases damage and produces 3 blades at once that pierces enemies left, right and above.	Active	30	x	Level 20 Rolling Assault	170
	Rolling Cross	Advances forward while spinning at high speed. Attacks knock back enemies in your path.	Active	20	x	Level 1 Rolling Cross	120
	Storm Break	Attacks the enemies in front of you, creating a whirlpool which pushes forward and deals additional damage to enemies in its path.	Active	20	x	Level 1 Wind Striker	150
	Wind Striker	Attacks enemies in front of you and releases a vortex.	Active	10	x	Level 1 Wind Cutter	145
	Wind Cutter	Attacks enemies in front of you, and creates a vortex at the target location that causes additional damage.	Active	10	x	-	140
	Advanced Storm Break	An even more powerful Storm Break. Increases damage and grants a chance for instant KOs. Also creates a moving Vortex with a Shock Field, continually inflicting damage on enemies nearby.	Active	30	x	Level 20 Storm Break	180

Alpha Skill Build

Level 100: + 8 Long Sword Mastery [AUTO]

Level 101: +2 Long Sword Mastery (MAX), +1 Moon Strike, +1 Piercing Thrust (1) [AUTO], +1 Shadow Strike (1) [AUTO]

Level 102:

Beta Skills

The female counterpart of Zero who was bound for quite some time until she was rescued by Alpha.

Beta's gameplay focus primarily on heavy defenses and delivering singular, slow but hard-hitting attacks towards her enemies. Her skillset gives her a prominent edge over boss enemies. Her weapon of choice is the Big Sword, a well-endowed weapon. It's governed by Lazuli, the spirit inside her weapon.

Icon	Skill Name	Description	Type	Mastered	Element	Prerequisites	Required Level
	Heavy Sword Mastery	Increases the Mastery, Attack Power, and Attack Speed of Heavy Sword type weapons. When attacking with a Heavy Sword type weapon, damage increase as the number of enemies hit decreases.	Passive	10	x	-	100
	Solid Body	Strengthens Beta's Body, improving Weapon Defense, Magic Defense, Abnormal Status Resistance, all Elemental Resistance, and Stance Rate.	Passive	20	x	-	110
	Armor Split	Strengthens the Heavy Sword. Grants a chance to split enemy armor and decrease enemy defense rate when attacking.	Passive	20	x	-	130
	Immune Barrier	For every stack, gain 1% damage.	Passive	20	x	-	165
	Critical Bind	Grants a chance to bind enemies in place when Beta attacks. Affected enemies will bleed and be more vulnerable to Alpha’s attacks.	Passive	20	x	-	185
	Rising Slash	Launches enemies in front of you into the air.	Active	10	x	-	100
	Air Raid	Attacks enemies in front of you, stomping on them in midair.	Active	10	x	Level 1 Rising Slash	100
	Air Riot	A more powerful Air Raid, increasing its damage and giving it a wide shockwave.	Active	20	x	Level 10 Air Raid	150
	Throwing Weapon	Throws your Great Sword with all of your might, cleaving through all enemies in its path.	Active	10	x	Level 1 Flash Cut	110
	Advanced Throwing Weapon	An even more powerful Throwing Weapon attack. Increases damage and adds a knockback effect.	Active	20	x	Level 10 Throwing Weapon	155
	Flash Cut	Forcefully swing your long sword to attack multiple enemies in front of you.	Active	10	x	-	105
	Spin Driver	Uses your Great Sword’s weight to revolve in place, creating a whirlwhind that pulls enemies in.	Active	20	x	-	115
	Wheel Wind	Spin like a whirlwind for a short time and attack enemies nearby. Use the Left and Right arrow keys while spinning to move.	Active	20	x	Level 1 Spin Driver	125
	Advanced Wheel Wind	An even more powerful Blade Tempest, increasing its damage and enabling it to draw in monsters.	Active	30	x	Level 20 Wheel Wind	165
	Falling Star	Jumps into the air, driving your sword into the ground in one decisive blow. Creates a shockwave on impact that does damage.	Active	10	x	Level 1 Giga Crash	140
	Earth Break	Jumps high into the air, bringing down the Great Sword hard enough to split the ground beneath you. Creates a shockwave on impact that does damage.	Active	20	x	Level 1 Falling Star	145
	Advanced Earth Break	An even more powerful Groundbreaker. Increases damage and grants a chance for instant KOs. Also creates an Shock Field on the ground, continually inflicting damage on enemies nearby.	Active	30	x	Level 20 Earth Break	170
	Giga Crash	Hammer the ground with your sword to attack front enemies.	Active	10	x	-	135

Beta Skill Build

100: +8 Heavy Sword Mastery (AUTO)

101:

102:

103:

104:

105: + 1 Flash Cut

Training Locations

This part is meant to help you level up with ease!

Job Quests - Mildly Recommended

Level 100-110

Evolving World -Recommended

Alien Cogs and Alien Miners -Recommended

Azwan PQ -Highly Recommended

Magatia PQ Grind -Recommended

Pyramid PQ -Recommended

Master Death Teddies -Recommended

Level 110-120

Evolving World -Recommended

Azwan PQ -Not Recommended

Alien Cogs and Alien Miners -Recommended

Crockies -Highly Recommended

Gigantic Spirit Vikings -Recommended

Dual Ghost Pirates - Recommended

Death Teddys - Mildly Recommended

Level 120-165

125+: Neo City- Good quests for a good medal and a free mastery book -Recommended

LHC (Bearwolves preferably) -Highly Recommended

Temple of Time 120+ Not the best, but an alternative to other crowded training spots -Not Recommended

Azwan 135+ -Not Recommended

Papulatus for free potions. Requires prequests-Recommended

Level 165-200

2nd Drill Hall 165-180/200 Good exp for high levels (Small Map) -Highly Recommended

Hall Of Honor 179-200 come here once you are 179 to get full exp. -Highly Recommended

Evolving World 120+ - Highly Recommended
-Not released in GMS yet

Temple of Time Not the best, but an alternative to crowded spots -Not Recommended

Azwan 135+ -Not Recommended

Papulatus for free potions. Requires prequests-Mildly Recommended

190-200

200-250

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