Royal Guard

Royal Guard
Job Base(s):	Paladin
Job Type:	3-2
Job Level:	65
Race:	Human
Changes At:	Prontera
Number of Skills:	19
Total Skill Points:	112
Total Quest Skills:	0
Job Bonuses
STR AGI VIT INT DEX LUK +8 +3 +8 +10 +8 +3

Overview

Royal Guards are an elite order of Paladins that originally served under King Schmidtz of Glast Heim. King Schmidtz knew that to defend his kingdom from the terrors and chaos of the world he would need a special defense unit that answered only to him. That is how the Griffon-riding Royal Guards came to be. Their name is often abbreviated and then referred to as just "RG".

At a glance, this class has relatively good HP pool and an excellent SP pool, when compared to their class counterpart. Unlike Rune Knights, which are typically forced into Dragon Breath types of builds, the Royal Guard has the option of playing with builds that involve Banding two or more Royal Guards together; a Royal Guard can play Defense or Offense very effectively, given proper foresight of his/her skill tree. In addition to gaining new and powerful offensive skills, the Royal Guard can easily draw upon its older skills, such as Guard, Spear Quicken, Sacrifice, and Rapid Smiting. This makes for one very powerful, vastly dynamic, and exciting class.

Job Change Guide

See Royal Guard Job Change Guide for detailed information.

Builds

Cannon Spear Build (2024)

Introduction

Cannon Spear triggers critical damage. It needs 100+ Crit and does half of Critical Damage. The skill formula relies heavily on STR and hence needs high STR values. Since, it is a ranged skill, Long Range damage modifiers are also very helpful. It also has 2 Second cooldown which can be reduced by some of the equipment, shadow gear, or costume stone enchant.

Stat Points

Stat	Amount	Notes
STR	120 - 130	STR to increase damage and direct part of Skill formula. Most important Stat in this build
AGI	80 - 100	AGI needed for Flee and ASPD. This skill can be spammed at max rate
VIT	80 - 100	For high health and survivability
INT	1 ~ 90	Additonal INT for SP pool, or Equipment set
DEX	1 or 125	This skill Crits and does not need Hit/P.Hit. DEX only for Set bonuses
LUK	125 or 126 ~ 130	LUK for extra ATK, CRIT, and Critical Damage

Damage Modifiers

• Class
• Long Range
• Critical Damage
• Flat Attack
• STR
• Race
• Size
• Monster Element

Equipment

Cannon Spear Cooldown Reduction:

• Royal Guard Stone (Garment) with Paladin Stone (Middle): 0.5 seconds
• Arbitrator's Set: 1.5 seconds
• Fallen Protect Set: 0.5 seconds
• Vanishing Cannon Shadow Shoes: 0.5 seconds

Other gear options:

• Little Garden: Best Critical damage boosting middle headgear
• Awakened Aquatic Spear: Best damage bosoting spear
• God Eater Dragon Spear: Best spear for survival
• Unknown Swordsman Shoes: Best STR boosting shoes with Boss Enignem and Cenia cards
• Nameless Swordsman Shoes: Second best STR boosting Shoes
• Booster Shoes: 125 STR, DEX, and LUK gives a lot of damage modifiers
• Imperial Boots: For Def Bypass, and other utilities
• Megingjard: Best Accessory slot
• Ring of Silver Claw: Best for Critical dmg and CRIT percent
• Ring of Jupiter: Extra ATK and damage
• Perverse Demon Mask: For Def Bypass and more STR from INT set bonus

Skills

Mandatory:

• Cannon Spear
• Pinpoint Attack: For Equipment set
• Inspiration: For Equipment set, nice buff skill
• Shield Spell: For HP/SP recovery, or Extra ATK/MATK
• Spear Quicken: For ASPD and CRIT bonus
• Cavalry Mastery: For walking faster. (Some skills or equipment might be affected by using or not using a mount)

Optional:

• Sacrifice: For protecting weaker teammates
• King's Grace: Temporary HP Recovery and Invulnerability
• Faith/Guard/Shield Refect/Reflect Damage/Defending Aura/Prestige: For extra tankiness
• Vanguard Force: For after cast delay reduction with Shield of Phoenix

Genesis Ray / Ray of Genesis Build (2024)

Introduction

Genesis Ray is a magical skill build. It depends on MATK and magical damage boosting skills. The skill formula depends on INT so that helps boosting damage further. Since, it is a magical skill, all modifiers that boost magical damage will help this build. Inspiration can be used to change the element of the skill to Neutral. Currently, the skill has 0 cooldown so it can be spammed as long as the VCT, FCT and ACD is reduced to 0 as well. This is one the best F2P or newbie friendly build due to low investment and high returns.

Stat Points

Stat	Amount	Notes
STR	1+	STR to increase carry capacity
AGI	80 - 100	AGI needed for Flee and ASPD. This skill can be spammed at max rate
VIT	80 - 100	For high health and survivability
INT	120 ~ 130	Main stat for damage and set bonuses
DEX	90 or 125	VCT reduction, or for Set bonuses
LUK	1 or 80 ~ 100	LUK for extra MATK, or Equipment Set

Damage Modifiers

• Class
• Flat MATK
• MATK%
• INT
• Race
• Size
• Holy/Neutral Magical damage
• Monster's Element

Equipment

Genesis Ray FCT & VCT Reduction:

• Royal Guard Stone II(Garment) with Paladin Stone II (Upper): 0.5 seconds
• Fixed Cast Stone (Garment) or Other Similar Effect Stones: 0.5 seconds
• Themis Balance: Reduces VCT by 50%

Other gear options:

• Divine Guard Cap: Best overall utility equip. Gives Tuna Belly healing and autocasts GR when using Holy Cross
• Themis Helm: For boosting skill damage
• Mob Scarf Set: For cheap magical damage boost
• Ancient Morocc Noble Jewelery Set: For boosting magical damage
• Floating ball: For boosting magical damage
• Old Camoflouge Scarf or Tyrant of Earth: For boosting magical damage
• Fortunetelling Sealed: For boosting magical damage
• Illusion/Automatic Armor Type B with Enchants: For boosting magical damage
• Violent Dragon Shadow Armor: For boosting magical damage
• Armor for White Thread: For MDEF bypass
• Dragon Slayer's Longsword: For boosting magical damage
• Save the King: For boosting magical damage
• Poenitentia Gladius: For boosting magical damage
• Light Blade/ Awakened Light Blade: For boosting magical and skill damage
• Feather Shield: For ASPD boost and ACD reduction
• Excelion Shield: For boosting magical damage
• Automatic Shield: For MDEF bypass
• Shield of Phoenix: For After cast delay reduction
• Fairy of Eden: For boosting magical damage and ASPD
• Divine Phoenix: For boosting magical damage
• Curse of Valkyrie Blight: For boosting magical damage
• Mystery Wings: For boosting magical damage
• Booster Shoes: For boosting magical damage
• Moaning of Evil Spirits SHhes: For boosting magical damage
• Mystical Moonlight Paws with Moonlight Card: Best magical damage boosting shoes

Skills

Mandatory:

• Genesis Ray or Ray of Genesis
• Holy Cross: For Equipment set
• Inspiration: For Equipment set, nice buff skill, Element Converter
• Shield Spell: For HP/SP recovery, or Extra ATK/MATK
• Sacrifice: For protecting weaker teammates and Equipment set
• Hesperus Lit: For Equipment set
• Cavalry Mastery: For walking faster. (Some skills or equipment might be affected by using or not using a mount)

Optional:

• King's Grace: Temporary HP Recovery and Invulnerability
• Faith/Guard/Shield Refect/Reflect Damage/Defending Aura/Prestige: For extra tankiness
• Vanguard Force: For after cast delay reduction with Shield of Phoenix

Overbrand (2024)

Note: Coming soon. Please use Guide:How to Build a Class guide till then.

Earth Drive Build

Note: Coming soon. Please use Guide:How to Build a Class guide till then.

Equipment

Weapons

• Hunting Spear [1] Pierces DEF of Brute targets. Good spear for Overbrand and Exceed Break. Malangdo Enchantable.
• Crimson Spear [2] Crimson Spears usually require a moderate to high refine for best results, moreso than other spears. Since they can be a variety of elements, notably Holy and Shadow, having a group of them can be a good idea to cover options.
• Imperial Spear [1] Good overall spear with High ATK and Weapon Level 3, having bonuses for Vanishing Point and Cannon Spear. Malangdo Enchantable.
• Gelerdria [3] Great for killing specific types of MVPs. Note: MUST be paired with Storm Stone for such results.

Headgear

Upper:

• +9 Evil Marching Hat [1]
• +9 Vanargand Helm [1]
• White Drooping Eddga Hat (Best when over-upgraded)
• Witch's Pumpkin Hat Set bonus grants pumpkins additional recovery rate.
• +9 Happy Flapping Angel Wings [1] A must have when hunting Nightmare Clock Tower monsters.
• +9 Faceworm Egg Shell [1] + Engkanto Card
• +7 Octopus Hat [1] Amplifies the heal of Fresh fish, raw fish and sushi.
• Old Casket of Protection [1] The end game headgear.

Middle:

• Crow Tengu Mask
• Imperial Feather
• Robo Eye

Lower:

• Tengu Scroll
• Mob Scarf
• Gangster Scarf
• Royal Guard Necklace

Armors

• Valkyrian Armor [1] Unbreakable.
• Kirin Armor [1] Holy Property armor with 55 Def. + PecoPeco Card
• Chiu Armor [1] Shadow Property armor with 55 Def.+ PecoPeco Card
• Azure Dragon Armor [1] Water Property armor with 55 Def.+ PecoPeco Card
• Brynhild Can be turned into a Holy Property armor using Piety. More luxury than anything.
• Abusive Robe [1] Great with Rune of Strength. Can be obtained by exchanging Honor Tokens obtained from various quests.
• +9 Fire Dragon Armor [1] Grants additional +20% Damage and +30 Hit against MVPs.
• +10 Evil Dragon Armor [1] The best armor for those who do not want to spend much Zeny for supplies during instance/leveling runs.

Shields

• Sacred Mission [1] cheap, unbreakable.
• Imperial Guard [1] An Offensive substitute shield with upgrade bonuses for Shield Press. Pairs with Imperial Spear for additional bonuses.
• Mad Bunny Special
• Mad Bunny Special [1] Offense-oriented Shield. The non-slotted version gives ASPD which is good for Vanishing Point.
• Valkyrja's Shield [1] A defense-oriented Shield with many resistances.
• Immune Shield [1] A defense-oriented shield that focuses on Neutral resistance when upgraded.
• Anemos Shield [1] Gives great stat boosts, and highly recommended when hunting WIND property monsters.
• Gaia Shield [1] Gives great stat boosts, and highly recommended when hunting EARTH property monsters.
• Happy Shield [1]

Garments

Tip: It's good to prioritize range modifiers because it will grant your gear/s more flexibility for the other classes.

• +9 Fallen Angel Wing [1] Expert Archer10 + Menblatt Card / Fighting Spirit16 + Wakwak Card
• +9 Heroic Backpack [1]
• Giant Faceworm Snake Skin [0] Cheap, easy to obtain, with enchants and bonus effects when worn with Time Boots.
• Wak Wak Manteau [1] Great substitute for Fallen Angel Wings.
• Skin of Gwiber [1] Very useful in instances that contain SHADOW/UNDEAD type of monsters.
• Fallen Warrior Manteau Offers various stat boosts. Can be obtained from the Nightmare Biolab.

Shoes

• Temporal Str Boots - (Expert Archer 4, Bear Power/Lucky Day) or (Fighting Spirit 7, Bear Power/Lucky Day)
• +9 Temporal Str Boots [1] + Firelock Soldier Card
• +9 Temporal Dex Boots [1] + Firelock Soldier Card, A great substitute when vs High Flee targets.
• Enforcer Shoes
• Variant Shoes

Accessories

NOTE: Any Accessories that has any form Attack boost can be used for MVP Killer Oriented Royal Guards.

• Bakonawa Agimat Tattoo The bonus ASPD % and damage greatly improves your Vanishing Point DPS (Damage Per Second).

• The Sign Awarded to the players who have completed the Sign Quest.

• Pendant of Harmony A good utility substitute accessory when out of combat. (2 Harmonies Can Stack, and grants you 50% HP/SP Regen per Pendant)

• Pendant of Chaos Good alternatives for Non-Bako Tattoo Royal Guard users. Give's also +5% Resistance to Shadow Property as bonus (For OGH)

• Vesper Gear 02 [1] Gives +5% Attack, and slotted.
• Sheriff's Left Badge [1] An easy to attain Quest reward item.
• Keraunos [1] A budget Bakonawa Agimat Tattoo, Gives +5% HP, +5% Attack, +5% Apsd.

• Giant's Protection [1] Gives a high attack damage boost that compliments the 120 Str needed for the Tengu Set/Temporal STR Boots.

• Imperial Ring [1] Note: That 2 Imperial Rings DOES NOT stack.
• Imperial Glove [1]
• Fairy Leaf Powder [1] Works well with Imperial Spear with low Expert Archer enchants.
• Blacksmith Glove's [1] -10% Cast Delay. +5% Bonus Physical Damage to boss. Bypass 50% of hard defense of normal/boss monsters. (Physical Attack)
• Storm Stone [1]
• Perverse Demon Mask [1]

Class Data

Skills

Skill	Description	Levels	Type
Moon Slasher	Damages surrounding enemies and forces them to sit.	5	Offensive
Exceed Break	Gather all of your strength into the tip of your weapon and strike once for great damage.	5	Offensive
Cannon Spear	Attack all enemies in a 3 cell radius of an 11 cell line from the caster.	5	Offensive
Vanishing Point	Attack an enemy within seven cells of the caster.	10	Offensive
Pinpoint Attack	Rush against and strike a target's vital spot for a chance to break their armor or inflict a negative effect.	5	Offensive
Overbrand	Brand all enemies six cells in front of the caster with a bloody cross and smash them into obstacles for large damage.	5	Offensive
Vanguard Force	Increases the caster's defense, Max HP, and number of wrath counters when receiving damage.	5	Supportive
Burst Attack	Release all wrath counters onto a single enemy to deal damage.	1	Offensive
Banding	Increases attack and defense and shares HP with any partied Royal Guards in range with the skill activated.	5	Supportive
Trample	Tramples the ground to attempt to destroy any traps surrounding the user.	3	Active
Prestige	Increases defense rate and gives a chance to avoid magic attacks for a short while.	5	Supportive
Hesperus Lit	Royal Guards under the effect of Banding or Inspiration strike an enemy for large damage.	5	Offensive
Piety	Blesses surrounding party members' armor with the Holy element.	5	Supportive
Genesis Ray	Royal Guards under the effect of Banding or Inspiration cast a powerful Holy element ray which may blind Demon or Undead monsters.	10	Offensive
Reflect Damage	Reflects physical damage received to surrounding enemies.	5	Supportive
Earth Drive	Slams the ground with your shield to deal Earth property damage to surrounding enemies.	5	Offensive
Shield Spell	Casts random magic based on the shield of the caster.	3	Supportive
Inspiration	Increases accuracy, stats, ATK, Max HP, and remove and protect against negative status effects for the duration of the skill.	5	Supportive
Shield Press	Slams the shield to deal physical damage to a single enemy.	10	Offensive
King's Grace	Bestow royal blessings to the caster and allies around the caster to recover HP and protect against status effects and damage.	5	Supportive
Full Throttle	Fully restores HP when cast and increases movement speed increases for the skill's duration. All stats +20%.	5	Active

Job Bonuses

The job levels in which a Royal Guard receives a certain bonus:

Stat\Amount	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5	+6	+7	+8	+9	+10
STR	4	13	30	40	45	48	58
AGI	23	34	51
VIT	2	9	27	41	42	53	59
INT	3	5	11	19	24	26	37	38	46	60
DEX	6	14	20	31	44	49	56
LUK	16	33	54

ASPD

Equip Attack Speed From 2nd Class Bare Handed 156 0 Shield -5 0 Dagger -7 +1 Sword (One Handed) -5 −2 Sword (Two Handed) -9 +6 Axe (One Handed) -8 +2 Axe (Two Handed) -12 +3 Mace -4 +1 Spear (One Handed) -10 +3 Spear (Two Handed) -10 +2

ASPD Potions Usable Concentration ✔ Awakening ✔ Berserk ✔