Dragon Knight

Dragon Knight
Job Base(s):	Rune Knight
Job Type:	4-1
Job Level:	50
Race:	Human
Changes At:	Geffen
Number of Skills:	12
Total Skill Points:	90
Total Quest Skills:	0
Job Bonuses
	Talent Bonuses

Overview

Dragon Knights are the final evolution of the Rune Knight class. Their name is often abbreviated and referred to as "DK". They have traded in their dragon mounts for mature dragon mounts and are ready to do some serious damage with an arsenal of new powerful attacks while also having the highest HP pool compared to other classes.

Job Change Guide

See Dragon Knight Job Change Guide for detailed information.

This is one of the hardest job change quests for players without OCP/Kachua gear. Be prepared to fail a few times. It takes about 10-15 minutes to finish the quest.

Class Data

Skills

See Knight Skills or Lord Knight Skills for 2nd class Skills. Rune Knight Skills for 3rd class Skills

Skill	Description	Levels	Type
Servant Skills
Servant Weapon	Summon living weapons around yourself that will help you in combat which when you auto attack, have a chance to attack your target and inflict 2 hits of melee physical damage to all enemies around them.	5	Active
Servant Weapon - Sign	Command one of your Servant Weapons to mark target enemy with Servant Weapon - Sign.	5	Active
Servant Weapon - Phantom	Instantly dash to target enemy and consume all of your Servant Weapons.	5	Offensive
Servant Weapon - Demolition	Consume all of your Servant Weapons to deal damage to all enemies in an area around you that have been marked with Servant Weapon - Sign.	5	Offensive
Two-handed Weapon Skills
Two-handed Defense	When equipped with Two-Handed Sword, Two-Handed Spear or Two-Handed Axe reduces physical damage taken from enemies depends on their size.	10	Passive
Charging Pierce	Build up momentum by using Pierce, Clashing Spiral, Hundred Spears or the Madness Crusher, enabling user to accumulate Charging Counter.	10	Offensive
Hack and Slash	Violently swing your weapon twice at target enemy, inflicting damage to them and all enemies around them.	10	Offensive
Storm Slash	Cut target enemy with a flurry of slashes, hitting them up to 5 times.	5	Offensive
Madness Crusher	Crush target enemy with your weapon up to 7 cells away, dealing damage to all enemies in the area around them.	5	Offensive
Vigor	Tap into your exceptional vigor to drastically increase your physical attack damage, while draining away HP with each attack.	10	Supportive
Dragonic Aura	Inflict devastating ranged damage to target enemy up to 7 cells away, gaining Dragonic Aura for 5 minutes.	10	Offensive
Breath Skills
Dragonic Breath	Note: This skill has not been implemented into IRO yet. Command your dragon to breath extremely hot fire onto target enemy, dealing 2 hits of damage to them and all enemies in the area around them.	10	Offensive

Skill Tree

Job & Talent Bonuses

Stat\Amount	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5	+6	+7	+8
STR	1	9	16	24	30	36
AGI	3	5	12	19	23	33	38	49
VIT	5	14	19	25	32	42	50
INT	8	11	18	26	31	37	43	47
DEX	2	4	10	17	23	27	35	44
LUK	7	14	21	28	31	40

POW	1	16	26	29	36	43	46	50
STA	8	22	37	40	45
WIS	32	44	47
SPL	2	7	20	24	39
CON	5	11	18	29	35	46
CRT	3	9	25	34	42	49

ASPD

Equip	Attack Speed	From 2nd Class
Bare Handed	156	0
Shield	-5	0
Dagger	-10	−1
Sword (One Handed)	-12	−7
Sword (Two Handed)	-15	−3
Axe (One Handed)	-18	−8
Axe (Two Handed)	-20	−5
Mace	-5	0
Spear (One Handed)	-8	+7
Spear (Two Handed)	-12	+13

Usable

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Builds

Wind Cutter Build (2024)

Wind Cutter damage depends on Base level and Base Damage. So equips that increase ATK, will be helpful in boosting it's damage. The Wind Cutter skill hits enemies twice when using a Two-Handed sword, while using a spear makes it ranged attack for enemies with reflect. The main equipment that is needed initially is the full Peuz's set that will boost the Wind Cutter damage by a lot. This can be farmed in game from the Mora Coins given in the Mora Village quests. Additional gears help to boost damage and spamming.

This is a very good F2P starter build which new or old players can use to level up to 200+ easily. This build can also be used to farm and hunt some of the lower HP MVPs.

Stat Points

Stat	Amount	Notes
STR	120 - 125	STR to increase more damage.
AGI	90 - 100	AGI needed for Flee and ASPD.
VIT	90 - 120	For high health and survivability.
INT	1 or 12 - 18	Additonal INT for SP pool.
DEX	100 - 110	High DEX for HIT.
LUK	30 - 60 or 100	LUK for extra ATK and CRIT auto attacks. 100 LUK for Curse Resistance

Suggested Equipment

Equip	Best in Slot?	Card Options	Comments
Headgear (Upper)
+9 Black Ribbon [1]	❌	Purple Ferus Card	TBA
+11 Helm of Faith(Rune Knight) [1]	❌	Purple Ferus Card	TBA
+11 Thanatos Warrior Helmet [1]	✅	Purple Ferus Card	TBA
Headgear (Middle)
Demon's Familiar [1]	✅	Any	TBA
Headgear (Lower)
Old Camouflage Scarf	✅	None	TBA
Armor
+7 / 9 Peuz's Plate	✅	None	TBA
Weapon
+11 Hypocrisy Edge [2]	❌	Greater Special Alnoldi Card	TBA
+11 Adulter Fides Two-handed Sword [2]	❌	Rekenber Guard Card	TBA
+11 Vivatus Fides Two-handed Sword [2]	❌	Rekenber Guard Card	TBA
+11 Thanatos Great Sword-AD [2]	✅	Rekenber Guard Card	TBA
Garment
+9 Peuz's Manteau	✅	None	TBA
Shoes
+9 Peuz's Greaves [1]	✅	Any	TBA
Accessories
Peuz's Seal [1]	✅	Gold Scaraba Card	TBA
Storm Stone [1]	✅	Gold Scaraba Card	TBA

Special Gears:

+10 Rune Knight Shadow Weapon (Must have for combo with Sonic Shadow Shield for Def Bypass)
+10 Sonic Shadow Shield (Must have for combo with Rune Knight Shadow Weapon for Def Bypass)
Costume 20th Anniversary Poring
Costume 20th Anniversary Fairy Wing
+10 Penetration Shadow Earring (Optional)
+10 Penetration Shadow Pendant (Optional)

Note: Rune Knight Shadow Weapon and Sonic Shadow Shield combo are crucial for WC build, it give you 60% hard defense bypass (Recommended at lvl 160+). Can also use +10 Ignition Shadow Weapon and +10 Rune Knight Shadow Shield for similar defense bypass effect (60%).

Pets:

Succubus Egg (for HP Leech)

Suggested Runes

Some of the runes from Rune Mastery are very helpful for Wind Cutter RKs. They are recommended to be used at Lvl 130+.

Turisus Runestone For extra STR and ATK.
Isia Runestone For better healing with Syrups
Lux Anima Runestone Overall one of the best RK Rune. For more HP/SP, ATK and Damage boost.
Asir Runestone For more ATK and ASPD.
Hagalas Runestone For extra DEF, increase physical and magical armor.

Suggested Skills

Skills: Dragon Training 5 / Rune Mastery 10 / Wind Cutter 5 / Spear Dynamo 5 (For Extra ATK and HIT) / Aura Blade 5 / Two Hand Quicken

Optional:Phantom Thrust 3 / Hundred Spears 10 / Ignition Break 5 / Enchant Blade 10
- Prereqs: Enchant Blade 5 / Cavalier Mastery 1 / Brandish Spear 2 + Clashing Spiral 5 (if getting Hundred Spears) / Counter Attack 1 (if getting Ignition Break)

Special Thanks to Sanggoro for Researching and Testing this Newbie friendly build!

Dragon Breath Build (2025)

Introduction

Dragon Breath and Dragon Water Breath is a long range ground targeted AOE skill. It is one of the best overall build to clear more than 90% of the game content with right gears. Its damage calculation is very different from standard skills, refer the skill page for details. You need 185+ ASPD, 101% After Cast Delay, and near 0 Cast time, to maximise spamming the skill. It has no cooldown. Some of the runes will help change the element of the breath. Unfortunately, with current mechanics and equips its damage ceiling is lower than other builds.