Knight

Knight
Job Base:			Swordman
Job Type:			2-1
Changes At:			Prontera Chivalry
Number of Skills:			10
Total Skill Points:			76
Total Quest Skills:			1
Job Bonuses
STR	AGI	VIT	INT	DEX	LUK
+8	+2	+10	+0	+6	+4

Overview

The Knight class is the primary second job for the Swordman class. Being a hack and slash type of character, Knights are granted access to a new mastery that will open a new type of weapon to wield aside from the Swordman's swords. They are also allowed to acquire powerful AoE skills like the famed Bowling Bash and the spear exclusive skill, Brandish Spear.

Jobchange Guide

See Knight Job Change Guide for detailed information.

Changing into a Knight from a Swordman requires the player to complete a number of tasks:

• Item Collection
• A Written Test
• Battle Test
• Word Association Quiz
• A test of self control
• Personality Quiz

After completing these tests, the player will be transformed into a Knight. All this takes place inside the Prontera Chivalry (Prontera xx, yy).

Builds

Hybrid

• STR: 70-90
• AGI: 60-90
• VIT: 60-90
• INT: 1
• DEX: 40-50
• LUK: 1

Weapon: Element endowed and/or carded spears or Two Handed Swords

These knights try to get the best of both worlds. With a solid mix of AGI and VIT, these Knighta gain survivability in some areas while losing it in others. Hybrids are denoted by which stat is the highest. AGI-VIT Knights usually stick with a setup similar to an AGI Knight. VIT-AGI Knights, likewise, generally stay with the setup of a VIT Knight.

Ranking by efficiency, players tend to use the AGI-VIT combination because the higher attack speed allows players to chain Pierce or get a better Twohand Quicken ASPD boost. This build was among the best during the pre-Transcendent Knight era.

AGI Two-Hand Sword

• STR: 90-100
• AGR: 80-99
• VIT: 10-30+
• INT: 1
• DEX: 40-60
• LUK: 1-10

Weapons: Element endowed Two Handed Swords and/orcarded Two Handed Sword

AGI Knights believe that the best defense is avoiding damage. They have high ASPD and flee, but VIT, and by extension HP, are low compared to other Knights. However, using Two Handed Swords pushes their attack power higher than most VIT Knights. Their bread and butter is the skill Twohand Quicken, which increases ASPD by 30%. When faced with multiple foes, they break out Bowling Bash. Finally, Counter Attack allows for a higher critical chance against evasive or fortified foes.

VIT

• STR: 80+
• AGR: 1-20+
• VIT: 90-100
• INT: 1-12
• DEX: 40
• LUK: 1

Weapon: Element endowed and/or carded spears or One Handed Swords

VIT Knights are great tanks! They have one of the highest HP pools and defense rates, and unlike AGI Knights, they usually use shields for added defense. These Knights level mostly by mobbing, utilizing their tanking ability with high STR capacity.

SVD

• STR: 100+
• AGR: 20-40
• VIT: 80+
• INT: 1-30
• DEX: 45-60
• LUK: 1

Weapon: Element endowed and/or carded One or Two Handed Spears

SVD Knights (STR/VIT/DEX) may seem similar to VIT Knights, but they have more uses than just being meatshields. Their damage output is higher while maintaining decent VIT, allowing them to excel at killing MVPs or PvP in comparison.

The typical SVD knight will level primarily on Large sized monsters utilizing Pierce or they will make use of Bowling Bash or Brandish Spear for mobbing.

STR should be a minimum of 100, most strive to get around 120, which allows knights to 1-hit-KO some monsters. At later levels, these knights will typically go to Thor's volcano and use Pierce against Kasas.

INT is a variable stat, and general consensus seems to be that at least 12 points are necessary because of the Knight's abysmal SP pool. However, 1-hit-KOs using an Earth Deleter Card may obviate the need for INT.

AGI helps by increasing the speed Pierce may be used.

Equipment

Most Knights have different sets of gear for special purposes, regardless of what their build is. Items from these sets are interchangeable, while some are very situational. For example, a Combat Knife may prove to be more useful than a Fortune Sword in a map rich with Demi Human monsters, but not against any other race of monsters. These are merely suggestions and examples; the reader should know what exactly best fits them. It also focuses on armor equipment, not just weapons. Note: this guide is outdated in some areas as a lot of ingame content has changed, it's a year old, don't quote Rav on it. The guide was also intended for Knights not yet transcended to Lord Knights, hence the lack of Valkyrie Armor and some other weapons. The role of a Knight in WoE used to be more supportive, few ever Provokes (or have in the history of Ragnarok Online) and it wouldn't make much of a difference now anyway (aside from everyone having Evil Druid carded armor). Armor switching is also becoming increasing useless. Ultimately, most Knights and Lord Knights brute force their way through PvP/WoE, and it is unlikely there will be a complete detailed guide about either class: so play however. Just don't be stupid and miss out on Spear Stab.

Tanking/Pure Defensive

All Knights once shared the same goal of obtaining over 80 DEF. While this is no longer as desirable for WoE/PvP with the addition of many defense-ignoring skills or items such as Ice Pick, it is still a successful setup for PvM. High defense armor reduces damage received and makes tanking MVPs or mobbing easier.

• Notes
  • In short, use armor with the highest base DEX and a high upgrade. +10 reduces the most damage, but +7 is sufficient. Also, equipment that provides considerable Perfect Dodge greatly assists mobbing.

Leveling/+Damage&EXP

Leveling equipment is the most diverse – nearly anything can be worn. All defensive gear can be replaced with low DEF stat-increasing gear to level faster at the cost of becoming exceptionally vulnerable to monster attacks. Conversely, a financially lacking player might not do so, to reduce Potion consumption. These are some ideas for gear that will contribute to damage output or increased EXP gain if used properly. They will not enable its user to level faster if they die more than it is worth, or are not able to "take on" as many monsters.

• Notes
  • Any gear that amplifies: SP, ATK, STR, AGI, CRIT or DEX will hopefully increase damage output.
  • Achieving strength bonuses always take priority over reaching higher ASPD.
  • When leveling with Brandish Spear or Bowling Bash, +AGI or CRIT gear is nearly useless.

• Top headgear:
  • Slotted Baseball Cap, Cap, Helm, etc with cards: Willow (SP +80) / Carat (SP +150 if over +8) / Deviruchi (STR +1) / Nightmare (AGI +1) / Cramp (STR +3 if worn with Tarou Card)
  • Anything that increases SP or adds stats that benefit DPM: Crown of Mistress (SP +100, INT +2), Ghost Bandana (AGI +2), Hot-blooded Headband (STR +2)

• Middle headgear:
  • Slotted Sunglasses/Glasses with cards suggested for the top headgear, save Carat card
  • Evil Wing Ears (STR +1)

• Body armor:
  • Elemental cards previously mentioned take priority if an elemental attack is too powerful. Otherwise, cards: Picky (ATK +10, STR +1), Thief Bug (AGI +1), Pupa (HP +700)

• Garment:
  • Bapho Jr card (AGI +3, CRIT +1)

• Shield:
  • If handling one, racial/size cards. Two handed weapons generally have more ATK, but shields are a nice way of compensating for lack of DEF.

• Footgear:
  • +10% EXP gained and +20% increased damage cards (i.e. Am Mut; 10% more EXP is gained for every Demi Human monster killed, but each Demi Human monster deals 20% more damage)
  • Cards: Male Thiefbug (AGI +2), Firelock Soldier (HP/SP +10%- if footgear is upgraded to +9 or higher, STR +2), Sohee (SP +15%, SP recovery +3%)

• Accessories:
  • If meleeing, Kobold cards (CRIT +4, STR +1) preferably in Brooches (1) or Rings (1) if level 90+
  • Mantis cards (STR +3), preferably in Rings (1) for an easy STR +8
  • The Sign (ATK +5%)

MvP (Killing)

Killing MvPs with intent to be the MvPer is different from tanking them, although a lot of the same gear can be carried over. Receiving damage from MvPs rewards tank damage points, so taking as much damage as possible may be ideal. If this is too risky, do not substitute any defense gear for damage gear, besides Safety Rings for Muscle Rings or 2644. Remember to always use Immortal/correct elemental armor when needed.

The weapons used should be very specific to what is being killed. Putting aside Abysmal Knight cards, the best carded weapons are achieved by combing race, element, and size cards. Race and element cards add +20% damage to a specific race, while size cards add +15% damage to a specific sized monster and +5 ATK. If MvPing with Pierce, use a +10 four slotted "2:1:1" Pike. The numbers in "2:1:1" indicate it either has:

• two race cards, one element card, one size card
• or two element cards, one race card, one size card

If a race card is unavailable, use 3 element cards and 1 size card or 2 element cards and 2 size cards (3:1 or 2:2). Likewise if an element card is unavailable. If both race and element do not exist, a quadruple size weapon can be considered. The same method can be used with Katanas, if MvPing with Bowling Bash, although they require high STR to out damage two slotted Two Handed Swords. Sabers only have three slots max, so a 2:1 or 1:1:1 must be made.

• 2:1 - 2x element & 1x race or 2x race & 1x element
• 1:1:1 - 1x element 1x race 1x size

Other weapons to consider: Ice Pick, Tridents, Brocca

PvP

PvP demands excessive armor switching to combat statuses and elements. Defensive gear is useful against most Enchant Deadly Poison Sonic Blows, and Double Strafing, but otherwise reduction gear prevails. A moderate amount of MDEF is good, but it is often overrated: 80 MDEF makes Knights susceptible to too much, and isn't needed when little damage is taken with half the MDEF and elemental armors.

• Notes
  • STR gear can be used. The extra damage taken from slapping on STR gear is as overrated as 80 MDEF is.
  • Don't forget to bring items like Green Potions to cure the silence status, or Holy Water to cure curse.
  • Endow Scrolls and Cursed Water are also accommodating.

• Top headgear:
  • Poo Poo Hat (-10% from Demi Humans, 0 DEF - no additional damage taken from Ice Picks)
  • Drooping Cat (15 MDEF, curse resistance +30% - should not be necessary)

• Middle headgear:
  • Cards: Willow (SP +80), {{item |id=4127 Nightmare (AGI +1 but also grants immunity to the Sleep status which can be devastating), Marduk (grants immunity to the Silence status – only to be switched on if Green Potion supply is being threatened)

• Body armor:
  • Elemental armors, if used properly, can reduce more damage than any other piece of equipment in PvP. It is suggested that they are kept in separate types of armor for quick equipping. Key elements: Poison (Argiope card), Undead (Evil Druid card - also stops Stone Curse and Frozen), Wind (Dokebi card), Shadow (Bathory card), Ghost (Ghostring card), Fire (Pasana card).
  • Unfrozen Silk Robe (1) (+5% resistance to Water attacks, can no longer be frozen & 10 MDEF)

• Garment:
  • Ragamuffin (10 MDEF)
  • Cards: -30% from element cards (i.e. Dustiness), Raydric, Frilldora

• Shield:
  • Cranial Mirror Shield (1) (-30% from Demi Humans & 4 DEF, 5 MDEF)
  • Cranial Valkyrie Shield

• Footgear:
  • Crystal Pumps (10 MDEF, LUK +5 – a lot of HP is lost using these instead of carded footgear)
  • Cards: Verit (+8% HP/SP), Matyr (+10% HP, AGI +1), Firelock Soldier (+10% HP/SP, STR +2)

• Accessories:
  • Unslotted Rosaries (5 MDEF each)
  • Cards: Alligator (5% less damage from ranged and targeted magic attacks each) preferably in Slotted Rosaries (3 MDEF) if level 90+, Horong (enables use of Sight), Smokie (enables use of level 1 Hide)

• Weapons
  • Hydra & Skeleton Worker carded weapons, Ice Pick, etc.
  • Status inflicting weapons (i.e. quadruple stun, quadruple curse)

WoE

Most of the PvP gear can be transferred to WoE. Skills and ranged attacks don’t do as much damage however, so not as much gear is mandatory. The most vital are:

• Unfrozen Armor
• Cranial Shield
• Status Weapons

As a normal Knight, do not focus primarily on killing people - STR gear is not needed. Spamming Provoke on enemy wizards or stat using people to aid guild members or allies is more beneficial.

Against the Emperium, Ice Picks are the best weapon available, coupled with Cursed Water. Evil Druid armor is helpful at the Emperium to negate Aspersio from enemy Priests, although another Cursed Water can simply be consumed or weapon switched to remove the Holy property.

Class Data

Skills

See Swordman Skills for first class skills.

Skill	Description	Levels	Type
Bowling Bash	Knock targets backward, causing up to 500% damage in a 3x3 cell area that hits twice.	10	Offensive
Brandish Spear	Attacks an area of ememies around the caster. Damage for each enemy increases the closer they are to the caster.	10	Offensive
Cavalier Mastery	At maximum level removes the 50% ASPD penalty when riding a PecoPeco.	5	Passive
Counter Attack	Block an enemy's attack and automatically perform one critical attack on them, ending the Counter Attack stance.	5	Active
Peco Peco Ride	Enables Knights or Crusaders to ride a Peco Peco.	1	Passive
Pierce	Strikes a single target for an amount of hits based on target's size. Requires a Spear class weapon.	10	Offensive
Spear Boomerang	Must be wielding a Spear weapon. Throws the equipped spear at a single target (the spear does not require retrieval).	5	Offensive
Spear Mastery	Adds +4 ATK per skill level to Spear weapons. If the player is riding a PecoPeco, an additional +1 ATK per skill level is added.	10	Passive
Spear Stab	Strikes a target enemy and all enemies in a line between the player and the target. Requires a Spear. All struck enemies are knocked back 6 cells.	10	Offensive
Twohand Quicken	Temporarily increase Attack Speed when a Two Handed Sword weapon is equipped for the skill's duration.	10	Supportive

Quest Skills

Skill	Description	Levels	Type	Job Level Requirement	Quest
Charge Attack	Ranged attack: Rush a target, dealing more damage depending on how far away you are from it.	1	Offensive	40	Charge Attack Quest

Soul Link

Knight Spirit enables use of

Skill	Description	Levels	Type
One-Hand Quicken	Temporarily increase ASPD by 30% when wielding One-Handed Swords.	1	Supportive

Job Bonuses

The Levels in which one receives a certain bonus

Stat\Amount	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5	+6	+7	+8	+9	+10
STR	4	10	15	21	27	33	46	47
AGI	13	38
VIT	1	3	8	12	17	18	23	29	36	43
INT
DEX	5	20	31	40	48	49
LUK	5	20	28	37