Spearman
See Hybrid Spearman also.
Why Be A Spearman?
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!
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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.
Edited by another player: I too did a non-final atk build, but I did not master both masteries. I simply put the booster on the weapon I used, in my case a polearm and if I had anything left, use it on the 1st job skills.
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.