Thief branch · 2nd Job
Assassin
Pick this if: You are a Rogue with a claw and you like big irregular numbers.
Assassin, in short
recorded for this site, not from the exportthe exact formulas ›You move more than anyone else and you dodge instead of soaking.
What it brings4
Critical Throw is +15% critical rate and +35% critical damage.
Claw Mastery tops the mastery scale out at 10, adds +20 attack power, and gets a quarter of your thrown stars back off the floor.- Haste gives +30 speed and +10 jump to your whole party for five minutes.
- Drain does 240% to one monster and gives some of it back as HP, which is a thief’s substitute for having no defence.
Watch out for3
- Throwing stars are a consumable.
- Drain needs Critical Recovery at 3 first.
- Critical Recovery pays back HP and MP on a critical hit, and for this class most hits are critical.
Where the points go
- LUKmainLUK is your damage and your evasion, and on a claw or a dagger a point of it is worth two to three points of anything else.
- DEXsecondYour accuracy, which the formula reads at twice the weight of LUK, and the requirement on nearly every claw above level 10.
- never comes back, and what catches people is the requirement on the weapon rather than the damage: the Gear tab prices every rung.
Every Assassin skill
iHow to read a skill card
The line under each name is what the skill does at its last rank, read off the row. max N beside the name holds that against what a single point buys, which is the argument for spending the rest of them.
Anywhere on a card opens it, for every rank, its reach and what it rolls. Words like rank, mastery or booster are underlined wherever they are used and carry their own explanation.
121points earned, level 30–70140ranks the 6 skills hold19ranks you cannot afford
You cannot max everything, and nothing in the game says so. For an order to spend them in, take one somebody has played.
Assassin builds ›iHow the bill is worked out
One point at the advancement and three a level, until level 70 stops this pool filling. The ranks are every rank the 6 skills hold between them, which is why the two numbers are not the same one counted twice.
Choosing what to leave out is the whole of building this class. The builds page is where somebody else's choice is written down, with the levels they made it at.
Damage1iWhat "Damage" groups together
The tooltip states a damage or healing number. Mostly these are what you press to kill things; one or two are buffs that add damage rather than deal it, which is why the heading says damage and not attacks.
iWhat "Damage" groups together
The tooltip states a damage or healing number. Mostly these are what you press to kill things; one or two are buffs that add damage rather than deal it, which is why the heading says damage and not attacks.
Support & utility2iWhat "Support & utility" groups together
Everything whose tooltip states no damage: buffs, debuffs, movement, summons and doors.
iWhat "Support & utility" groups together
Everything whose tooltip states no damage: buffs, debuffs, movement, summons and doors.
Always on3iWhat "Always on" groups together
Marked passive in the data. You buy the ranks and never press a key.
iWhat "Always on" groups together
Marked passive in the data. You buy the ranks and never press a key.
Claw Mastery
Claw Mastery level 10, Attack Power +20, 25% chance to retrieve used throwing stars
Critical Throw
Critical Rate +15%, Critical Damage +35%
Critical Recovery
Recover 10% HP and 10% MP with a 100% chance when landing a critical hit
30 sec cooldown
Plus 6 skills you keep from your earlier jobs ›Hide the skills you already had ‹
These belong to the jobs an Assassin advanced through. They are still yours, they still cost out of those jobs’ own pools, and each has its own guide page.
Your path, and where you are on it
What the next rungs open
one 3rd job, in Closed Online Test 2's files onlyLevel 70 · 3rd JobCoT2: From Closed Online Test 2 (Beta 2). Not in the Public Release; kept here as a record.
The Public Release has no 3rd job. These are Closed Online Test 2’s, kept so their pages and the builds saved for them still work.
Becoming an Assassin at level 30
- 1
Be a level 30 Rogue.
Every quest below is gated at level 30, and the chain only appears for the Thief branch. There is nothing to do before then except arrive.
- 2
The Thief's Next Journey
Having reached level 30 and mastered the way of the Rogue, I feel the urge to learn more.
Talk to Dark Lord - 3
Finding the Instructor
It seems like Dark Lord in Kerning City wants to test whether I'm worthy of receiving his teachings.
Talk to Dark LordBring with you
The Dark Lord's LetterHanded to you when you accept the quest
- 4
Test of Qualification
The Thief Job Instructor at Construction Site North of Kerning City seems ready to give me a test to prove whether I deserve to become stronger.
Talk to Thief Job InstructorBring with you
The instructor also stands in Thief's Construction Site, which is the hidden area the test happens inside. The export carries no drop table for the quest items, so which monster in there drops them is not something this snapshot can tell you.
- 5
Proof of Qualification
Now that I've passed the Thief Job Instructor's test, my strength should be proven!
Talk to Thief Job InstructorBring with you
The Proof of a HeroHanded to you when you accept the quest
The chain ends where it started. The snapshot names who gives a quest and never who it is handed back to, so returning to the advisor is the game's convention rather than a row.
- 6
Choose Assassin or Bandit.
Passing the test is what opens the choice; the choice itself is not a quest. Assassin is one of them - the others are one click away and each has this same page.
In Closed Online Test 2 the second job you took also decided your third: each one led to exactly one 3rd job. The Public Release has no 3rd job.
- 9,560 EXP for the chain
CoT2: From Closed Online Test 2 (Beta 2). Not in the Public Release; kept here as a record.After this: 3rd job, in Closed Online Test 2’s files only
The Public Release has no 3rd job. In Closed Online Test 2, an Assassin went on to Chief Bandit or Hermit at level 70, and each one’s skills are kept on its page with the test’s numbers.
Even the test’s files never carried the advancement itself: no quest chain, no instructor and no level. Level 70 is the series’ own number rather than a row in any export.
Where to train, 30 to 70
the full levelling guide ›Level 21–30
Party quest levels, and the run to the second advancement.
Ant Tunnel IIIZombie Mushroom · lv 242,049,048 EXP/hr
The Swamp of Despair IILigator · lv 311,700,476 EXP/hrDeep Ant Tunnel IZombie Mushroom · lv 241,433,810 EXP/hrWorth taking on the way: Maya's First Collection, Maya's Second Collection, The Thief's Next Journey · 35,480 EXP between them
Level 31–40
Second job. A new SP pool, and a mastery to fill first.
Line 2 <Area 1>Jr. Wraith · lv 342,608,571 EXP/hrLine 1 <Area 2>Jr. Wraith · lv 342,168,571 EXP/hr
Lorang LorangLorang · lv 381,478,571 EXP/hrWorth taking on the way: Special Taste of Florina Beach I, Special Taste of Florina Beach II, Special Taste of Florina Beach III · 58,480 EXP between them
Level 41–50
Line 2 <Area 3>Wraith · lv 483,950,476 EXP/hrLine 1 <Area 4>Wraith · lv 483,427,619 EXP/hrLine 2 <Area 2>Wraith · lv 483,311,429 EXP/hrWorth taking on the way: Old Gladius, Reawakening the Gladius, Hero's Gladius · 98,400 EXP between them
Level 51–60
Lorang and ClangClang · lv 491,753,810 EXP/hr
Sleepy Dungeon VDark Stone Golem · lv 581,737,143 EXP/hr
The Tunnel That Lost Light IIDrake · lv 501,720,000 EXP/hrWorth taking on the way: A Box Hidden Long Ago, A Craftsman's Touch, A Memory Restored · 137,060 EXP between them
Ranked by what each map’s own spawn table can produce - spawn points times EXP over the respawn timer, counting only monsters inside the band. It is a ceiling nobody reaches and the right way to compare one map with another. The full levelling guide has every band, every column and the working.
What to wear
the full item browser ›The weapon ladderiHow the ladder was built
Every weapon the class can hold, with everything that is not an upgrade removed: a rung is a weapon that beats anything you could already be carrying at its level, so “gain” is what it adds over the rung above it. Sidegrades and later weaker weapons are left out and the item browser still has them. The ladder starts from level 1 on purpose - the rungs below your level are the ones you arrived holding.
iHow the ladder was built
Every weapon the class can hold, with everything that is not an upgrade removed: a rung is a weapon that beats anything you could already be carrying at its level, so “gain” is what it adds over the rung above it. Sidegrades and later weaker weapons are left out and the item browser still has them. The ladder starts from level 1 on purpose - the rungs below your level are the ones you arrived holding.
Claw10 upgrades
| Lv | Weapon | Attack | Gain | Speed | Needs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 |  Beginner's Garnier | 10 | +10 | Fast | LUK 25 | - |
| 15 |  Gold Titans | 14 | +4 | Fast | DEX 15 · LUK 35 | - |
| 20 |  Adamantium Igor | 17 | +3 | Fast | DEX 20 · LUK 45 | - |
| 25 |  Meba | 19 | +2 | Faster | DEX 25 · LUK 55 | 16,500 |
| 30 |  Adamantium Guards | 23 | +4 | Fast | DEX 30 · LUK 65 | 27,600 |
| 35 |  Dark Guardian | 26 | +3 | Fast | DEX 35 · LUK 75 | - |
| 40 |  Adamantium Avarice | 29 | +3 | Fast | DEX 40 · LUK 85 | - |
| 50 |  Blood Slain | 34 | +5 | Fast | DEX 50 · LUK 105 | - |
| 60 |  Blood Gigantic | 41 | +7 | Fast | DEX 60 · LUK 125 | - |
| 70 |  Black Scarab | 47 | +6 | Fast | DEX 70 · LUK 145 | - |
Best armour for LUK, by slotiHow these were picked
The highest LUK in each slot a Thief can wear, then attack, then defence.
Nothing is left out for being low level, because armour does not stop being wearable: the best piece in several of these slots wants half the level of the worst, and the level on each row is when you can put it on.
Where the game ships one piece as a male and a female version, both are named and the numbers are the same either way.
Where the best piece a male character can wear and the best a female character can wear are two different items, each is listed with its own level and stat.
9 slotsiHow these were picked
The highest LUK in each slot a Thief can wear, then attack, then defence.
Nothing is left out for being low level, because armour does not stop being wearable: the best piece in several of these slots wants half the level of the worst, and the level on each row is when you can put it on.
Where the game ships one piece as a male and a female version, both are named and the numbers are the same either way.
Where the best piece a male character can wear and the best a female character can wear are two different items, each is listed with its own level and stat.
BottomLUK +7
Lv 70 ·
CapeLUK +4
Lv 65 ·
EarringMDEF +19
Lv 15 ·
GlovesLUK +7
Lv 70 ·
HatLUK +7
Lv 70 ·
two different items, one for each character
DEF +54
Lv 22 ·
ShoesLUK +1
Lv 28 ·
TopLUK +7
Lv 70 ·
