Odd Jobs

For a gentler introduction to some of the odd jobs on this list, see: Introduction To Odd Jobs. For a more in-depth look at what defines so-called “odd jobs” — & for a detailed argument as to why they’re beneficial to play — see: On odd jobs.

Note that this list is inherently incomplete, because new odd jobs could potentially be invented. Moreover, most of the jobs in this list can be combined with others (e.g. a permarcher woodsman). APless, statless, and/or SPless builds are generally considered to be odd, but not all such builds are represented here (although some are, e.g. HP warriors are statless). Only pre-“Big Bang” (pre-BB) versions of MapleStory are considered here.

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The camper experience varies significantly based on what version of the Training Camp they’re subjected to. Later versions introduced a more overt “Training Camp” æsthetic, with custom-textured & custom-built maps, the “green apple suit” that the camper is forced to wear, & different mobs than the Tutorial Jr. Sentinels of earlier versions.

Pre-BB versions of MapleStory that are recent enough to have Cygnus Knights will also have so-called roadies, named for the maps that they train on (“Empress’ Road”, the street name of the entirety of Ereve). This version of the camper is a noblesse, rather than a beginner, & is actually capable of obtaining some drops from the monsters that it trains on.

Pre-BB versions of MapleStory that are recent enough to have arans will also have so-called snowlanders. This version of the camper is only available to arans (or rather, proto-aran beginners), exclusively fights Tutorial Murus, & is otherwise similar to the original (explorer) type of camper.

Campers can only fight mobs that give 1⁢ EXP each, thus making them extraordinarily time-consuming to train.

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Notable equipment:

• Metal Wand

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Magelanders are defined by their use of the Metal Wand, a level 18 wand with no class requirements that drops from Red Snails. It requires 55⁢ INT & 20⁢ LUK to equip.

Magelanders are the magicians of Maple Island, & can often be found casting Three Snails at everything in sight.

In addition to the INT & LUK necessary for their weapon, the magelander typically spends AP on maxMP to increase the pool available for casting Three Snails.

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Because stats work a little differently on Maple Island, the term LUKlander is ambiguous: it may refer to the sinlander specifically, or it may be used more broadly for any islander whose primary stat is LUK.

For more info, see: claw-wielding nonthief.

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Clawpunchers are deeply challenged, due to the woefully unfavourable damage formula of clawpunching. DEX is the clawpuncher’s main stat, because both STR & DEX contribute equally to their damage, whilst LUK contributes some damage, but less so than STR or DEX.

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Notable equipment:

• Wooden Wand
• Hardwood Wand
• Metal Wand
• Streetlight
• Heart Staff
• Heart Wand

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Notable equipment:

• Magical Mitten
• Sweet Fork Cake

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This job lacks the Keen Eyes skill, thus making it less “ranged” (i.e. it has less reach) than its name might suggest.

This job is typically pure LUK. Nonetheless, both STR & DEX contribute, & equally so, to claw damage. This is doubly true for the claw-wielding nonthief, as they lack Claw Mastery in any form.

This job is extremely WAtk-starved.

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For some info on equipment, see: primaryless & warrioroids.

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The wandginner can be thought of as both an outland (more precisely: location-unrestricted) variant of the magelander, as well as a permabeginner variant of the wand warrior.

For more info, see: wandwhacker.

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The term clawginner is not used for this job, to avoid confusion with the pseudobeginner job known as the clawginner.

For more info, see: claw-wielding nonthief.

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Notable equipment:

• Frozen Tuna [level 20]
• Sake Bottle
• Maroon Mop

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The STRginner is sometimes considered as the canonical form of the outland permabeginner.

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DEXginners don’t have the accuracy issues that STRginners have, & have significantly higher AVOID. Furthermore, their damage may be lower overall, but it’s considerably more stable.

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Notable equipment:

• Fruit Knife
• Christmas Tree
• Field Dagger
• Coconut Knife
• Iron Dagger
• Cass
• Korean Fan
• Plastic Bottle
• Sai
• Liu Bei Dagger
• Serpent’s Coil
• Fan
• Golden River
• Kebob
• Angelic Betrayal
• Cursayer
• Gold Double Knife
• Dragon Kanzir
• Reverse Pescas
• Timeless Pescas

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The dagger warrior is one of the oldest odd jobs, & the warrior–thief dagger series continues all the way from level 15 (Field Dagger) through the Reverse & Timeless Pescas.

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Wand warriors may be thought of as considerably weaker versions of dagger warriors, in some sense. The endgame weapon for the wand warrior is the Heart Wand (or Heart Staff, which is a confusingly-named wand), which they’re already using by the time that they hit level 54.

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For more info, see: claw-wielding nonthief.

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Notable equipment:

• Black Paint Brush
• Maple Glory Sword
• Maple Soul Rohen
• Maple Steel Axe
• Maple Demon Axe
• Maple Belzet
• Daiwa Sword
• Black Umbrella
• Angry Stirge
• Toy of 101
• Sky Ski
• Purple Surfboard
• Duck tube [level 100]
• Lunch box (Lv 120)
• Maple Warrior Shield

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Notable equipment:

• Stonetooth Sword

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When compared to the LUK warrior, the DEX warrior gives away some AVOID in exchange for higher (& more stable) damage, as well as higher WAcc. This makes the DEX warrior an excellent compromise between the strengths of the LUK warrior & of the STR warrior.

For more equipment info, see: STRless warrior.

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LUK warriors are somewhat similar to LUK mages in that they essentially play like their nonodd counterparts, but with considerably less damage, & with the benefits of high LUK. LUK warriors are, again like LUK mages, somewhat limited in their equipment choices because of their unusual AP allocation, but can nonetheless use class-appropriate weapons that enable them to make use of all their skills — see: STRless warrior.

LUK warriors are superior to their nonodd counterparts in both their defenses (due to their high AVOID), & in their accuracy (each point of LUK contributes 0.5 WAcc).

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HP warriors deal damage primarily via Power Guard, & as such, typically want to lower their WDef as much as possible.

HP warriors are capable of defeating incredibly powerful bosses (e.g. Bigfoot) on their own at a low level, due to their obvious extreme tankiness, & their ability to deal guaranteed damage with Power Guard.

For a few equips usable by the HP warrior, see: STRless warrior.

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Permawarriors have the advantage of both single-target (Power Strike) & multi-target (Slash Blast) attacking skills. They’re also reasonably durable, unlike most other permafirsts, due to having the Improved maxHP Increase skill. Perhaps most characteristic of the permawarrior is the breathtaking array of weaponry & other equipment from which they choose. Nonetheless, permawarriors suffer from their complete lack of reach, mastery, accuracy (typically), & mobility.

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For more info, see: claw-wielding nonthief.

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Notable equipment:

• Mace
• Iron Mace
• Fusion Mace

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The STR mage tends to attack almost identically to a STRginner, in addition to their skillset of nonattacks. For a more magically-oriented mage that still engages in melee, see: gish.

STR clerics are notable for the great utility shared by all clerics. STR fire/poison mages eventually get access to Poison Mist at the 3^rd grade, which can poison monsters regardless of the caster’s MAcc. STR ice/lightning mages are by far the rarest of the three paths, due to having no distinguishing features.

Historically, terms like STR mage have been used to refer very loosely to any STRful mage, including gishes.

Although MP Eater only procs on magical attacks, it does so regardless of damage dealt — even on “MISS”es.

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Given that most gishes tend to have relatively low INT anyway, the gishlet has the advantage of simplifying the quest for melee dominance in one-on-one combat.

For more info, see: gish.

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Gishes attack both with melee (similarly to the closely-related STR mage) and with spells.

Gishes naturally have access to their entire skillset, but only when wielding certain weapons. Spell Booster only works with wands & staves. Other skills merely observe the handedness (one-handed vs. two-handed) of the mage’s weapon; for information on which skills do or don’t work with two-handed weapons, see: claw mage.

Gish (arch)mages tend to get very good melee DPM out of certain wands & staves, e.g. the Elemental Staves. This is because such weapons benefit from Spell Booster, in addition to always swinging & thus multiplying the mage’s STR by a favourable amount (viz. 4.4).

Gishes can make good use of LUK, as it contributes to both their WAcc & their MAcc (& AVOID, for that matter).

Gishes, when played “properly”, aim to make their melee superior for single-target DPM, & their magic superior for multitarget DPM. Gishes with summons (e.g. Elquines) can even meet or exceed the single-target DPM of an equivalent STR mage in melee combat!

Gishes are perhaps the single most difficult job to play “properly”, as they have WAcc issues, serious MAcc issues, are very expensive to equip, and allocating AP is an incredibly sensitive & situational balancing act.

The term gish originated in Dungeons & Dragons terminology in the early 1980s.

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DEX mages do not have the accuracy issues that STR mages have, & have significantly more AVOID. Furthermore, their damage may be lower overall, but it’s considerably more stable.

Although MP Eater only procs on magical attacks, it does so regardless of damage dealt — even on “MISS”es.

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Notable equipment:

• Poison Mushroom
• Streetlight
• Heart Staff
• Pyogo Mushroom
• Doomsday Staff
• Elemental Staff 1
• Elemental Staff 2
• Elemental Staff 3
• Elemental Staff 4
• Elemental Staff 5
• Elemental Staff 6
• Elemental Staff 7
• Elemental Staff 8

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The term LUK mage is sometimes used to refer to INT(!) mages that have some LUK in order to wear their equipment. For this reason, we here prefer the unambiguous term magelet.

Besides having much higher avoidability than other mage varieties, magelets also have different choices of weaponry: they do decent damage with claws (see: claw mage), and can equip weapons with high LUK requirements & low INT requirements, such as those listed above. For a few other equips usable by the magelet, see: gish.

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Permamagicians have no problems with mastery, attack reach, nor accuracy, & they’re the second most durable permafirst, after the permawarrior. They still, however, suffer from a lack of multitarget attacks & of mobility (no Teleport!).

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The blood cleric has a long, but thoroughly confused, history. Its purest form is presented here, as this form undoubtedly constitutes an odd job (& a classic one, even). However, several incarnations of the “blood cleric” are not odd in any meaningful sense. For more details, see: The blood cleric.

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Notable equipment:

• Wooden Sword
• Metal Axe
• Wooden Mallet
• Spear
• Pole Arm
• Fork on a Stick
• Monkey Wrench
• Janitor’s Mop

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Being essentially melee-only (with the slight possible exception of claws), the lumberjack is typically (albeit not necessarily) also a woodsman.

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The bowwhacker is thoroughly ammoless, being disallowed even from using Soul Arrow. They can only deal damage by whacking monsters with their (cross)bow. This makes Power Knock-Back the bread & butter of the bowwhacker’s arsenal.

Bowwhacking has a special damage formula that ignores all sources of mastery (e.g. Bow Mastery). Moreover, although it takes STR into account, its primary stat is DEX, meaning that the bowwhacker’s AP build & equipment don’t meaningfully differ from those of a nonodd archer.

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The bowginner is an approximate answer to the question of what a permabeginner might look like if it were capable of wielding (cross)bows.

The bowginner may be played more or less loosely, depending on the player’s interpretation of the SP restriction. Attack skills are certainly uncharacteristic of the bowginner; on the other hand, The Eye of Amazon makes sense insofar as it enables the bowginner to be truly ranged. Under looser definitions, the bowginner may not even be a permarcher.

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For more info, see: claw-wielding nonthief.

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Notable equipment:

• Wooden Sword
• Metal Axe
• Wooden Mallet
• Spear
• Pole Arm
• Fork on a Stick
• Monkey Wrench
• Janitor’s Mop
• War Bow
• Crossbow
• Maple Bow
• Maple Crow
• Maple Soul Searcher
• Maple Crossbow
• Maple Kandiva Bow
• Maple Nishada
• Bow of Magical Destruction

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The woodsman is a hybrid attacker, proficient in both melee & ranged combat.

Being DEXless, the woodsman’s choices of (cross)bow are limited, but certainly usable. When opting for melee, however, the woodsman loses access to many skills; for info about which skills these are, see: lumberjack.

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Permarchers can achieve high single-target DPM by combining Double Shot with Critical Shot, but suffer from their extreme fragility & their lack of multitarget attacks.

Cēterīs pāribus, the permarcher’s DPM is higher with crossbows than with bows — albeit only slightly.

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Allowed weaponry	Saw

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For info on skill usability, see: brigand, bonksassin.

Like all weapon-induced jobs, the carpenter is not merely a character built around any ol’ goofy weapon. Rather, the mere existence of the Saw, in & of itself, induces this job solely by the requirements that it imposes upon its wielder.

The Scythe is a level 10 one-handed sword that requires its wielder to be a thief.

Because this job is defined by its weapon, MapleStory implementations that lack said weapon (e.g. MapleLegends) make it impossible.

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Allowed weaponry	Scythe

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For info on skill usability, see: brigand, bonksassin.

Like all weapon-induced jobs, the grim reaper is not merely a character built around any ol’ goofy weapon. Rather, the mere existence of the Scythe, in & of itself, induces this job solely by the requirements that it imposes upon its wielder.

The Scythe is a level 15 one-handed axe that requires its wielder to be a thief and to have 35+ LUK & 30+ DEX.

Because this job is defined by its weapon, MapleStory implementations that lack said weapon (e.g. MapleLegends) make it impossible.

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The knifeginner is an approximate answer to the question of what a permabeginner might look like if it were capable of wielding any dagger in the game.

The knifeginner may be played more or less loosely, depending on the player’s interpretation of the SP restriction. Attack skills are certainly uncharacteristic of the knifeginner; on the other hand, purely passive skills like e.g. Nimble Body are not so clearly antithetical to the job’s spirit. Under looser definitions, the knifeginner may not even be a permarogue.

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The clawpuncher’s main restriction is ammolessness, which typically also means that they cannot use Shadow Meso: it attacks with the claw but without punching (i.e. it’s clearly “ranged”), & perhaps notionally uses “ammo” insofar as mesos are thrown out of the hermit’s inventory. Regardless, the clawpuncher’s damage-dealing capabilities are greatly augmented in the 3^rd grade by either Shadow Web or Meso Explosion.

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The clawginner mustn’t be confused with the besinner; whereas the besinner makes use of marginal event-only claws equippable by beginners, the clawginner is only a pseudobeginner, & can wield any claw in the game.

The clawginner is an approximate answer to the question of what a permabeginner might look like if it were capable of wielding any claw.

The clawginner may be played more or less loosely, depending on the player’s interpretation of the SP restriction. Attack skills are certainly uncharacteristic of the clawginner; on the other hand, Keen Eyes makes sense insofar as it enables the clawginner to be truly ranged. Under looser definitions, the clawginner may not even be a permarogue.

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Permarogues are, like permarchers, very fragile; & again like permarchers, they lack multitarget attacks. However, the damage formula for Lucky Seven is so favorable that permarogues can typically out-DPM other permafirsts in single-target contexts.

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For skill usability info, see: brigand.

The claw bandit (= sindit sēnsū strictō) is not to be confused with the more typical use of the term sindit (sēnsū lātō) to refer to bandits who temporarily & opportunistically use claws during early 2^nd grade; the clawdit is stuck using claws as their sole weaponry from level 10 ever onward.

The claw bandit hasn’t traditionally been treated as an odd job, simply because it encompasses little more than the standard way of playing bandits at the most relevant levels (viz. early 2^nd grade). However, this cutoff point for combat-style specialisation — that is, the transition into a determinate throughclass, which is the universal cutoff point in all pre-BB versions of MapleStory — exists at the game-mechanical level, thus making it a category error to conflate this level of abstraction with the level of empirically-observed gameplay at which the sindit sēnsū lātō exists. As a result, although this perspective is undoubtedly historically useful, for the purpose of a mechanical classical definition, the claw bandit is no less classically odd than the dagger assassin is. There’s no contradiction in the fact that the sindit style is opportunistically played by those with otherwise no interest in odd jobs; this occurs with many odd jobs, as such a great number of them are powerful in their own right.

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Notable equipment:

• Saw
• Wooden Sword
• Metal Axe
• Scythe
• Wooden Mallet
• Spear
• Pole Arm
• Fork on a Stick
• Monkey Wrench
• Janitor’s Mop
• Khanjar
• Dragon Khanjar

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The brigand’s core combat style is that of the STRginner. Later, brigands get access to a radically different attacking skill: Meso Explosion.

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The DEXdit is not, strictly speaking, pure DEX as its name implies. Because STR & DEX contribute equally to their damage range, & because DEX has passive effects (AVOID, WAcc) that STR does not, the DEXdit naturally attempts to maximise their DEX. Nonetheless, their equipment often requires some STR, and both venom & Ninja Ambush scale with STR+LUK rather than with DEX (although venom does scale very slightly with DEX).

DEXdits have perhaps the most stable damage in the game; with maxed Dagger Mastery & maxed Savage Blow, the total amount of damage dealt per Savage Blow is effectively constant (for a given WDef).

The DEXdit typically has more WAcc, but less AVOID, than their nonodd LUK counterpart.

DEXdits tend to use weaponry similar to that of dagger warriors, because both are LUKless dagger-users, and because there are so many LUKless daggers made specifically for both warriors & thieves.

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Generally, the STR brigand is to the brigand as the STRginner is to the permabeginner.

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Generally, the DEX brigand is to the brigand as the DEXginner is to the permabeginner.

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Notable equipment:

• Fruit Knife
• Christmas Tree
• Korean Fan
• Maple Dagger
• Plastic Bottle
• Maple Wagner
• Liu Bei Dagger
• Maple Dark Mate
• Maple Asura Dagger
• Kebob
• Maple Thief Shield

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The blood dit trades off the large majority of their melee power in exchange for extreme tankiness. Because all their AP is spent on maxHP, & because they gain access to Meso Guard at the 3^rd grade, the blood dit is virtually invincible. On the other hand, they’re essentially built around Meso Explosion, which thankfully does not scale with any of the CB’s stats, and also demands some tankiness so that the CB can get close enough to place & explode mesos.

In comparison to the HP warrior, the blood dit takes considerably longer to finally achieve their main attacking skill: Meso Explosion is a 3^rd-grade skill, unlike the 2^nd-grade skill that is Power Guard.

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For thief-specific melee equipment, see: brigand.

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Dagger assassins play as ordinary proto-bandits during their time as rogues, but diverge considerably from bandits beyond that point. Dagger assassins never get access to mastery nor booster, & Double Stab remains a cornerstone of their arsenal forever. Nonetheless, they benefit greatly from various skills furnished by their throughclass, such as Haste, Flash Jump, Shadow Web, Taunt, &c..

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For more info, see: punch thief.

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Notable equipment:

• Garnier
• Maple Claw
• Maple Kandayo
• Neva
• Shinobi Bracer
• Maple Skanda

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The LUKless assassin’s choices of claw are limited, but certainly usable. When opting for melee, however, the LUKless sin loses access to many skills; for info about which skills these are, see: bonksassin. For thief-specific melee weaponry, see: brigand.

In melee, the LUKless assassin plays like a more mobile permabeginner, with some neato utility skills. However, because they go the assassin route, LUKless sins are also quite strong with claws. In particular, Drain, Shadow Meso (which ignores the hermit’s stats), & Avenger are all fruitful skills. Lucky Seven & Triple Throw, on the other hand, are virtually worthless.

Note that Shadow Partner only functions when a claw is equipped & the hermit is throwing stars with it.

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The STR assassin is a hybrid attacker, proficient in both melee & ranged combat. The STRlord also has better venom & Ninja Ambush damage than its DEX counterpart.

For more info, see: LUKless assassin.

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The DEXassin sacrifices the melee prowess and venom & Ninja Ambush damage of the STR assassin in favour of considerably higher WAcc & AVOID. The DEXassin retains the same claw-wielding prowess, however, because STR & DEX contribute equally to damage with claws.

For more info, see: LUKless assassin.

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Notable equipment:

• Red Ski
• Fish Spear
• Bamboo Spear
• Pumpkin Spear
• Maplemas Tree
• Orange Ski
• Fishing Pole
• Green Ski
• Sky Ski

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For skill usability info, see the respective subjobs.

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In principle, weaponlessness is the sole restriction that should be necessary to define the pugilist; in pre-BB MapleStory, characters of the pirate archetype are the only ones capable of “attacking” (sēnsū strictō) unarmed. Nonetheless, some nonpirate classes do have skills that aren’t attacks, & that therefore may be used unarmed, & yet still apply debuffs that deal nonfatal(!) damage. Primarily for this reason, the archetype restriction is included in the foregoing definition of the pugilist.

Because attacking unarmed is technically considered “one-handed”, the pugilist may choose to use a shield.

The unbuffed attack-speed category of the pugilist is 3 (“faster”). Speed Infusion lowers this to 2 (confusingly also “faster”; 2 is the lowest — i.e. fastest — possible category).

For various mechanical reasons, the pugilist has some of the least stable damage in the game — even less stable than the STRginner’s!

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For more info, see: punchginner.

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The punchginner is an approximate answer to the question of what a permabeginner might look like if it were capable of wielding knuckles.

The punchginner may be played more or less loosely, depending on the player’s interpretation of the SP restriction. Attack skills are certainly uncharacteristic of the punchginner; on the other hand, purely passive skills like e.g. Bullet Time are not so clearly antithetical to the job’s spirit. Under looser definitions, the punchginner may not even be a permapirate.

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For skill usability info from the 2^nd grade onward, see: bulletless gunbrawler & bulletless gunslinger.

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The begunner is an approximate answer to the question of what a permabeginner might look like if it were capable of wielding guns.

The begunner may be played more or less loosely, depending on the player’s interpretation of the SP restriction. Attack skills are certainly uncharacteristic of the begunner; on the other hand, purely passive skills like e.g. Bullet Time are not so clearly antithetical to the job’s spirit. Under looser definitions, the begunner may not even be a permapirate.

The begunner has no equivalent of The Eye of Amazon nor Keen Eyes, & is thus less “ranged” (i.e. has less reach) than its weapon might suggest.

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Although pirates ordinarily may branch off in the direction of the brawler, a typically tanky class (see: Improved maxHP), they may instead branch off in the direction of the gunslinger — a typically defenceless class. As a result, permapirates are stuck with the lowest common denominator w.r.t. their defenses, & are thus quite fragile. They do, however, have a multitarget attack, & can deal no small quantity of single-target DPM with either Double Shot or Flash Fist.

Permapirates are unique amongst permafirsts in that their stats are inherently torn: STR is their primary stat in melee, but DEX is their primary stat at range.

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Apart from the core of the job (viz. summons), the summoner’s combat style can either be that of the DEXginner, or that of the begunner — but with the aid of Gun Mastery & Gun Booster.

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Note that summons (i.e. Octopus & Gaviota) are not attacks. Aerial Strike is an attack.

Grenade requires a gun to be equipped — although it doesn’t require bullets.

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The bladeslinger’s main attacks — Somersault Kick & Aerial Strike — calculate damage based on a notional “stabbing” animation. As a result, spears, swords, & daggers are ideal. For a list of pirate-friendly spears, see: haft pirate.

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The punchslinger is the mirror image of the bullet bucc.

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