Dagger Rogue Skill Guide
~Introduction~Welcome to LinkKiller's skill guide to the Dagger Rogue. The goal of this guide is to give a clear job by job rundown of what skills would be most useful to a dagger rogue and plan out their future without any SP issues. Although this guide attempts to provide the "best" future for your Rogue, I encourage you to try things out for yourself and decide what works best for you.
~Section 1: Main Human Path~
Lv 1 - 19 ~ Rogue:
Lv 5 Dusk Slashing
Lv 1 Zephyr
Lv 1 Blindside
Lv 1 Death Sign
Lv 2 Light Evasion
Lv 5 Dagger Training
Lv 1 Burning Rage
SPs Remaining at Lv 20: 18
Rundown:
Dusk Slashing is your primary damaging technique, the bleeding will help a lot for PvP and Ghunting. Zephyr is your trademark buff. Blindside and Death Sign add to your crit chance/damage and considering this is a very crit focused build, its always nice to have those kind of things. Dagger training will help increase your damage output some, and Light Evasion is taken over Light Armor Mastery since evading altogether is better than damage reduction. Burning Rage is a toggle-able buff that grants additional attack power while draining your HP, good for PvP but not advised for PvM.
Lv 20 - 39 ~ Ruffian:
Lv 10 Dusk Slashing
Lv 5 Rage Step
Lv 5 Wind Breaking
Lv 2 Zephyr
Lv 2 Blindside
Lv 1 Quick Move
Lv 2 Detect Hole
Lv 4 Light Evasion
Lv 10 Dagger Training
Lv 2 Shadow Instinct
Lv 2 Diabolic Instinct
Lv 2 Burning Rage
SPs Remaining at Lv 40: 22
Rundown:
Rage Step is a good PvP/Ghunting skill taken as apposed to Perforate, Wind Breaking is your AoE and has DoT damage so its usefull even when 1v1ing. Quick Move helps cancel out the speed penalty when stealthed and helps you run away should you decide to try out PK mode. Detect hole and Diabolic Instinct are more crit related skills so you'll want to max both. Shadow Instinct is another evasion raising passive, also max.
Lv 40 - 74 ~ Thief:
Lv 5 Rapid Slashing
Lv 15 Rage Step
Lv 10 Wind Breaking
Lv 10 Sudden Raid
Lv 4 Zephyr
Lv 4 Blindside
Lv 3 Quick Move
Lv 3 Stealth
Lv 4 Detect Hole
Lv 7 Light Evasion
Lv 15 Dagger Training
Lv 4 Shadow Instinct
Lv 4 Diabolic Instinct
Lv 1 Lace
SPs Remaining at Lv 75: 72
Rundown:
Rapid Slashing is the evolved form of Dusk Slashing, so of coarse you want to get that. Sudden Raid is a stun skill used from stealth, your opening move in any PvP fight. Stealth is your upper hand in PvP, and pretty fun just to mess around with. Not very usefull for PvM though as you cant go into stealth while engaged in combat. Lace is a HP regenerating skill, not all that usefull but worth it for the low SP cost.
Lv 75 - 104 ~ Assassin:
Lv 20 Rage Step
Lv 15 Wind Breaking
Lv 20 Sudden Raid
Lv 5 Shadow Spin
Lv 6 Zephyr
Lv 7 Blindside
Lv 2 Rapid Attack
Lv 2 Rapid Movement
Lv 5 Quick Move
Lv 7 Stealth
Lv 6 Detect Hole
Lv 9 Light Evasion
Lv 20 Dagger Training
Lv 7 Shadow Instinct
Lv 7 Diabolic Instinct
Lv 2 Predator
Lv 2 Lace
SPs Remaining at Lv 105: 12
Rundown:
Rapid Attack and Rapid Movement further add to your speed-demonness, not essential but nice to have. Predator increases your crit damage in exchange for defense, by this point you'll have a very high crit rate so its well worth it.
~RESKILL~
Lv 105 - 140 ~ Blade Taker:
Lv 10 Dusk Slashing
Lv 15 Rapid Slashing
Lv 1 Wind Breaking
Lv 1 Sudden Raid
Lv 1 Sky Shadow
Lv 5 Deadly Strike
Lv 5 Ghost Break
Lv 5 Back Break
Lv 4 Sky Shadow
Lv 8 Zephyr
Lv 9 Blindside
Lv 1 Death Sign
Lv 4 Rapid Attack
Lv 4 Rapid Movement
Lv 7 Quick Move
Lv 8 Detect Hole
Lv 10 Light Evasion
Lv 25 Dagger Training
Lv 9 Shadow Instinct
Lv 9 Diabolic Instinct
Lv 4 Predator
Lv 5 Dual Wield Training
Lv 5 Dual Wield Mastery
Lv 6 Dual Wield Expertise
Lv 3 Burning Rage
Lv 3 Lace
SPs Remaining at Lv 120: 4 SUmber Gpotato