~Little Guide about how to pick a Build~ Guide, Build, Stats, Help

Kiyani

Hey guys,

your new here and hear about Aptitude and the "No Class" system
and now you dont have any idea how to create the type of Character
you want to play?

Dont worry i'll try to help you pick the right Aptitude and
how you could add the 4 Status Points you get each Lvl.
Or at least i try to give you some ideas. ;-)

I'm gonna give you an example now,what you need to think about when you pick a build.

1) Which Zodiac Character should i choose?

First of all, it doesnt matter which Zodiac Character you pick,
they all start out with the same Status Points.
So pick which ever you like.

Lets go for a female bunny in our example.

And now it gets interessting.

2) Do i wanna be more a supporter or more an attacker?

Lets pick the attacker. ^_^

3) Melee attack or do i like magic more?

We go for melee.

4) What is important for you when you are an attacker?

It gets interessting here.You decide whats most important
for your personal attacker.For example:

Do you want high HP?
Do you wanna attack fast/first in each round?
Do you wanna hit hard?

Lets say...we wanna attack hard.
Now we check all available Aptitudes in Nightflier's awesome guide http://zodiac.enjoymmo.com/forum/thread-507-1-1.html here that
give you a bonus on attack.

To make it easier for you now, i've copied some matching Aptitudes out of it.

Here we have

AP & A
Bonuses: 3% atk and 4% ap
Penalties: 5% m.def

As you can see you get a 3% attack bonus and 4% AP (which is your attacking speed)
but you loose some magic defense.

Also we have:

A & H

Bonuses: 5% atk and 3% hit
Penalties: 5% mp and 4% m.def

Which means that you have a 5% attack bonus, you hit 3% better but
you loose some MP and Magic Defense.

Now its time for you to decide....
What do you want more and what are you willing to loose?

I decide to go for AP & A which gives you more attack and attacking speed
but i dont mind the 5% magic defense so much.


Now lets see what we have decided so far.

We wanted to be a female Bunny Char, who is an attacker and we picked the
AP&A aptitude since we liked it the most.

Now we only need to decide what we do with the 4 Status points we get each lvl.

Since we are an attacker and we decided that we liked to have some strong attack
i would recommend that we skill on STR to make our attack even stronger BUT
i would NOT make a full STR build.

Why?

You get your skills according to the attributes you skill on.
If you only skill on STR you only get 4 STR skills.
If you only skill on INT you only get 4 INT skills and so on.

So i would always skill on 2 attributes so that you get a few more skills.
BUT if you already know that you only need the STR skills since you know
the game good enough, feel free to also only go full STR.

Lets go for STR and DEX in our example since our Aptitude is A (for attack) and & AP (for attacking speed)
and DEX also raises your attacking speed abit.

You can go now 3 STR/1 DEX or if you wanna be abit faster but dont mind the loss of abit attacking power you go 2Str/2DEX

Lets pick the 3 STR/1DEX build since we wanna be abit stronger instead of faster.

NOW...we are finally done.

Lets sum up again.

We picked the Bunny Zodiac as an attacker and decided to pick the A & AP Aptitude
since it gives us a nice attack bonus which was what we wanted to go for.
Also we decide to pick 3STR/1DEX each lvl since we wanna go most for attack
here aswell.
And...we are done...time to play. ;-)

I hope you could follow me abit, most important steps are that you make sure
what you wanna play and how you wanna play the Char.

Those are the Mainquestions you need to ask yourself.

1) Which Zodiac looks best to me or is my own Zodiac Sign since it
   doesnt matter, they all have the same stats
2) Do i wanna attack or support?
3) What are the most important bonuses i want on my and
   what am i willing to loose for them?
4) When i decide on which 2 Attributes i put my 4 points on,
   which would fit to my build and do i wanna be more hybrid (2/2)
   or stronger in one? (3/1)

I have also collected some usefull Aptitudes and Status Points for each class:

Warrior:

AP & A

Bonuses: 3% atk and 4% ap
Penalties: 5% m.def

D & H

Bonuses: 5% hp and 5% def
Penalties: 6% hit, 5% dodge and 6% m.atk

A & H

Bonuses: 5% atk and 3% hit
Penalties: 5% mp and 4% m.def

A & D

Bonuses: 4% atk and 3% def
Penalties: 4% hp, 5% ap, 5% hit, 4% dodge and 4% m.atk

H & AP

Bonuses: 3% hp, 3% ap and 4% def
Penalties: 5% m.atk


STR/DEX Strong and faster/avoid hits
STR/VIT  Strong and more HP

Magic Caster:

MDEF

Bonuses: 3% m.atk and 5% m.def
Penalties: 5% def

M & M

Bonuses: 4% mp, 4% dodge, 5% m.atk and 3% m.def
Penalties: 5% hp and 6% def

INT/VIT  strong and survive longer
INT/DEX  Strong and avoid some hits/attack faster


Fast Character for example Assasin like Characters:

AP & A

Bonuses: 3% atk and 4% ap
Penalties: 5% m.def

H & AP

Bonuses: 3% hp, 3% ap and 4% def
Penalties: 5% m.atk

D & AP

Bonuses: 4% ap and 5% dodge
Penalties: 4% mp and 6% m.def

Possible Status Points:

DEX/VIT Fast/avoid hits and more HP
DEX/STR Fast/avoid hits and stronger


Please keep in mind that there are some more Aptitudes which you can
all find in Nightfliers guide with more detailed infos which you will understand
after you have played and tested a while. ^_^


Also the smart ones will have already figured out that
each Aptitude also gives you a Bonus on certain Skills.

But im sure some of you who play this game for the first time might
find all those things you need to think about when creating
your first Character abit confusing.

So just get started with a Character, make your own experience
and then you can come back to the forum and figure out
more about skills according to Aptitudes and how high your
bonus will be. ;-)

So what are you waiting for?

Think about Bonuses that are matching for the Character you wanna play,
check the Aptitudes that have that bonus, just add some matching
Attribute Points and start your own adventure!

If you have more questions about Builds, feel free to write me a PM,
ill try to help you as good as i can.

Best wishes,
~Kiyani

Temariah

Wooo you beat me to it. I was totally going to make a guide about this. Nice job, hopefully people will stop and take a moment to read this before asking someone else to make their build for them.

(I find it very un-creative and lazy when people ask others to build their character without even having any ideas or doing any research first...)

Kiyani

I couldnt agree more with you Temariah. ^__^
Sorry for catching that idea first. :-p
Im sure you come up with another usefull idea.

Temariah

xD Yep that's why I made sure to do my homework before asking for advice lol. I don't want to seem like a hypocrit.

Kiyani

4# Temariah


*pats Temariah* Good girl.

stevenlcs

But what if I'm choosing a build based on the skills on each build?
I think I have tried to find everywhere as to the skills' descriptions but there are only a few, bit and pieces in different threads.

For an example, in nightflier's guide, all the C1-C4 skills are listed but for a new player, we won't know what the skills really do. Sure, it can be argued that the skill name gives the general idea but if the special effects or a brief description could be given, that'd be great!

I hope you understand what I'm trying to say. If I have chosen a build I like, but I don't like the skills, that'd just be pointless.

Cheers.

Temariah

I agree, I've been looking for better skill descriptions.

But also, ANY aptitude/Zodiac can learn ANY skill. The only thing the aptitude determines is if you may get those skills to level 12.

Even if you don't like the skills, you could still learn any other skill, but you would only be able to learn it to level 10, instead of 12.

Temariah

Or at least from my research I think that's how it works. I'm about 94% sure it works like that.

thomas107

wait something goes wrong here. A&H oviously have high attack then AP&A it just lack of AP. by any way it's just my opinion <-------kakaka(evil laugh) he's not sure it wrong or not kak..a..ka...

Saturn

This is so much easier to understand then the advanced guide..
Thanks alot

RootVain

You are rite Tameriah, aptitude gives some skills u can upgrade to lvl 12 but if u dont like them u can learn other skills, but they can be upgraded only till lvl 10...
Same for passive skills - aptitude given passive skills can be upgraded till lvl 5 and others only till lvl 4....
That is what i have found out...

Temariah

This is so much easier to understand then the advanced guide..
Thanks alot
Saturn Post at 12-12-2009 15:36

That's because the advanced guide was meant for those who have an understanding of how things work already, where this is for beginners. =)

@RootVain Lol okay, glad I said that right, didn't want to go telling people the wrong thing.

RootVain

No worry if you fail to help atleast you have tried not like others who think they know everything but not share

HellDemons

Kiyani nice guide for noobies like me The help was apriated.

Katya

Ok, thank you! That was really helpful... Now if I only could remember what my build was in the alpha test... :/ Ahh well, I´ll at least go over this before making a new character!