Aeroblow's Way for Assassins The Way begins Assassins or Sins, are characters who use throwing stars. They are the fastest killing machines in Maplestory. A party of 3 Sins can cover the entire map. So your quest to be the deadliest Sin begins here. Stepping into the Way Before creating your character, you'll need to know the essential stats a Sin needs. Luk and Dex are the stats necessary for Sins. Luk increases the damage and avoidibility. Dex are necessary stats for armor and equipment. When creating your Sin, keep rolling the dice till u get 4 in Str and Int. This keep the maximum number of stats points in Luk and Dex. You don't have to worry how much points in Dex and Luk. Starting your Sin You will start off as a Beginner in Maple Island. Whenever you level up, put your stats points into Dex and Luk. Put your points into Dex till your Dex is 25, then follow the formula given below. Always maintain your Dex two times your level. For example, your level is 15, your Dex should be 30. The rest of your points goes to Luk. Train on green snails in Maple Island till level 10. Why green snails? They are the fastest experience monsters for Sins. You can kill them in 3-4 hits, whereas you need 10-12 hits to kill a blue snail. Each green snail gives you 4 exp, 1 blue snail 8 exp. Hence you gain faster experience by killing green snails. 1st Job - Rogue Once you reach level 10, travel to Victoria Island. Do not level up over level 11. Go buy a ticket to Kerning City, City of the Thieves. Go to the Jazz Bar to look for Dark Lord. Talk to him and you will become a rogue. You will also get 1 skill point. Here is the skills point allocation: Lv10: Lucky 7 (1) Lv11: Lucky 7 (4) Lv12: Lucky 7 (7) Lv13: Lucky 7 (10) Lv14: Nimble (3) Lv15: Keen Eyes (3) Lv16: Keen Eyes (6) Lv17: Keen Eyes (8), save Sp(+1) Lv18: save Sp(+4) Lv19: save Sp(+7) Lv20: Lucky 7 (20) Lv21: Nimble (6) Lv22: Nimble (9) Lv23: Nimble (12) Lv24: Nimble (15) Lv25: Nimble (18) Lv26: Nimble (20) Disorder (1) Lv27: Disorder (3) Dark Sight (1) Lv28: Dark Sight (4) Lv29: Dark Sight (7) Lv30: Dark Sight (10) Why Dark Sight? It may not be useful at low levels. But it is essential when you are lv50+. You will be able to bypass powerful monsters. Weapons Lv10: Garnier Lv25: Meba Lv30: Steel Guards or others Do not buy or build any other claws. Use garnier and upgrade to Meba will be sufficient to last you to lv30. You will also save the materials to make lv30 claw. Throwing Stars Basically get the best stars you can afford. Quantity is not that important yet as most of your hunting grounds are near towns which you can recharge your stars at Weapons Shops. Training Grounds Lv10-18: Slimes Lv19-21: Pigs Lv22-25: PQ or Green Mushrooms Lv26-30: PQ or Horned Mushrooms Slimes can be found abundant in Tree Dungeons in Northern Forest. Pigs in Pig Beach are fast experience or Rain-forest north of Henesys. Green Mushroom and Horned Mushroom can be found in most Tree Dungeons. As an Assassin When you reach lv30, you must go for your 2nd Job.Buy lots of potions, Mp and Hp potions. Go back to the Dark Lord and bring the letter to the construction site's job instructor 2 maps right of Kerning. Talk to him and begin your test. You will need to collect 30 dark marbles from Blue Mushrooms and Cold Eyes. Once you got 30 marbles, talk to the job instructor and receive a proof of hero. Bring it back to Dark Lord and you will become an Assassin. Skill Point allocation Lv30: Haste (1) Lv31: Haste (4) Lv32: Haste (7) Lv33: Haste (10) Lv34: Mastery (3) Lv35: +3 Lv36: +6 Lv37: Haste (19) Lv38: Haste (20) Critical (2) Lv39: Critical (5) Lv40: Critical (8) Lv41: Critical (11) Lv42: Critical (14) Lv43: Critical (17) Lv44: Critical (20) Lv45: Critical (23) Lv46: Critical (26) Lv47: Critical (29) Lv48: Critical (30) Mastery (5) Lv49: Mastery (8) Lv50: Booster (3) Lv51: Booster (6) Lv52: Booster (9) Lv53: Endure (3) Lv54: Drain (3) Lv55: Drain (6) Lv56: Drain (9) Lv57: Drain (12) Lv58: Drain (15) Lv59: +3 Lv60: +6 Lv61: +9 Lv62: +12 Lv63: Drain (30) Lv64: Mastery (11) Lv65: Mastery (14) Lv66: Mastery (17) Lv67: Mastery (20) Lv68: Booster (12) Lv69: Booster (15) Lv70: Booster (18) Why Haste then Critical? Many players question me why go the unorthodox way. I can say that it helps you to train more efficient in crowded hunting grounds. You can get to places faster, reach higher grounds with less jumps. Jump high to evade monsters. Weapons Lv30: Any lv30 claws (guards) Lv40: Any lv40 claws (Avarice) Lv50: Sapphire Slain Try to get the best claw. Compare the lv30 and lv40 claws and try to allocate the materials properly. Then you can make your claw. If you have the money, you can upgrade your claw with 7 100% Scrolls. This will improve your killing efficiency. I would suggest you upgrade only your lv40 claw, which is more efficient and in higher demand of the market. You can also buy an already upgraded claw from other players. For Sapphire Slain, I would strongly upgrade the claw since it is the final claw you can make. If you want a better Sapphire Slain, you can scroll it with 60%. These scrolls are expensive and may miss. Training Grounds Lv31-39: Horned mushroom, wild boars. Lv40-48: Wild boars Lv49-55: Stone Gollems Lv56-60: Dark Stone Gollems, Zombies Lv61-65: Zombies Lv66-70: Zombies, Tauromacis, Red Drakes Advanced Skills Lucky 7 Most Sins do not use normal attacks. They use L7, even killing a low lvl monster. This increases the chances of critical hit, and also make sure maximum damage is done. Keep using this skill would mean mp shortage. Hence using Mp potions is a must. Don't worry of spending 100k+ on potions, most likely you're going to make a net profit. Killing monsters in 1 L7 guarantee profit. Try to balance your stars and potions, so that when you're going to recharge, you can also repot (re-potion). Jump Shoot Sins are the only ranged character that can jump shoot. Professional Sins jump shoot most of the time. Jump shooting allows them to attack monsters on high platforms and also evade their attacks. Booster-Haste With these 2 speed enhancing skills, Sins can kill faster and move around faster. With the combination of all 4 skills, Sins become the deadliest characters in MapleStory. Armor It is always said getting the best armor is the way to be. Luk-boosting armor are more costly than Dex-boosting armor. But you can still get high Luk points by wearing Dex Armor. You will also save your mesos for better stars. When wearing Dex armor, try to keep to the formula I stated before. Put more points into Luk and less in Dex will equal getting a Luk armor. Caution when changing armor. Changing higher lvl armor will change the Dex points. So always check that you meet the requirements when no armor is worn. Or you will have trouble of insufficient Dex. So you have known the Way of Assassin. If you have any question, feel free to message me in game (Maplesea: Aeroblow). Alternatively, you can email me at kiddyduck@hotmail.com ... And .... May the Force be with You...