| Hunter
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| Job Base(s): |
Archer
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| Job Type: |
2-1
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| Race: |
Human
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| Changes At: |
Payon
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| Number of Skills: |
18
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| Total Skill Points: |
82
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| Total Quest Skills: |
1
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| Job Bonuses
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| STR |
AGI |
VIT |
INT |
DEX |
LUK
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| +4 |
+6 |
+2 |
+4 |
+10 |
+4
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Overview
Hunters are skillful at indirect combat. Their increased ASPD with bows helps makes them superior to Archers in ranged combat. They are also able to lay mines and traps on the ground to hinder or catch mobs. These traps will cause various status effects (Sandman inflicts the status sleep, for example) or cause elemental damage (i.e. Blast Mine, Land Mine) to a target.
Additionally, they have a powerful subcharacter, the Falcon. Falcons are highly effective at dealing consistent damage, as their damage ignores DEF. Falcons give Hunters the ability to deal damage to multiple monster at once, by gathering enemies together and employing the Falcon with the skill Blitz Beat. If Blitz Beat is not cast manually, however, the damage of Blitz Beat done to each target is divided by the number of targets it hits at that instance, thus making "auto-Blitz" an inefficient method of mobbing. Falcons also have the ability to reveal concealed enemies and destroy enemy traps.
Hunters were once considered overpowered since they were capable of MVPing and seemingly only needed two stats: AGI and DEX to be successful at MVP, PvP, and PvM aspects of the game. However, Hunters have their own weaknesses, namely the lack of VIT and STR, except in certain specialized builds.
Job Change Guide
See Hunter Job Change Guide for detailed information.
Changing into a Hunter from an Archer requires the player to complete a number of tasks:
- Item Collection
- Written Test
- Battle Test
After completing these tests, the player will be transformed into a Hunter.
Tactics
Arrows, Quivers, and Hotkeys
Placing your arrows and quivers on the hotkey bar will allow players to monitor how many arrows they have left, open new quivers, and equip arrows when out. This can be a life saver in emergencies.
Recovering HP or Healing Items
When mobbing or tanking groups of monsters, especially for AoE leveling, Healing Items WILL need to be consumed and often even spammed. One popular healing item is Fresh Fish due to its cheap cost and low weight. It can be purchased from NPCs off the Chef's Assistant at the docks of Alberta (167, 134) as well as other locations for only 250z each (190z with max Discount).
Fresh Fish
For a list of Healing Items, a comparison, and a list of a couple popular Healing Items, please see the main article: Healing Items.
Equipment
General Equipment Recommendations
- Main article: Equipment
The Equipment article lists some general all purpose equipment that is useful through the PVM phase and also for endgame use as well.
Weapons
After considering what requirement skills have (some skills can only be used with certain weapon types), the Weapon Search tool within the Control Panel Database is very helpful. Generally, for physical classes (both melee and ranged), something with high ATK is best. For magic classes, something with high MATK is best.
Headgear
Garment
- Raydric Card - Best all around garment card
- Whisper Card - Good for early leveling. Hunters / Snipers can reach a high amount of FLEE with all of their AGI/FLEE increasing skills (Wind Walker, Falcon Eyes, Improve Concentration).
Card Sets
The Hunter Set is decent, and in general to use the set you need to use one card slot in the weapon reducing you total damage, but in this case one of the set bonus is increase the damage by 20% that is equivalent to the increase obtained by Race or Element Cards.
Class Data
Skills
See Archer Skills for first class skills.
Quest Skills
Job Bonuses
| Stat\Amount |
+1 |
+2 |
+3 |
+4 |
+5 |
+6 |
+7 |
+8 |
+9 |
+10
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| STR |
5 |
10 |
11 |
44 |
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| AGI |
12 |
19 |
20 |
31 |
39 |
47 |
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| VIT |
17 |
22 |
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| INT |
2 |
34 |
41 |
46 |
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| DEX |
1 |
4 |
8 |
14 |
21 |
27 |
33 |
38 |
43 |
49
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| LUK |
7 |
15 |
29 |
42 |
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ASPD
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