MapleStory Bishop Skill Build Guide - Remastered Destiny Update

Bishop is a 4th job Mage explorer class in MapleStory that acts as one of the most useful support classes in the game. Part of the original 4 jobs released, Bishop wield staffs and wands to deal magic damage to enemies, whilst also offering party-wide buffs and skills that help players get through the toughest bosses in MapleStory. Every new Mage starts in Maple Island and training to be a Bishop is just one of the ways players can utilise the Mage job branch.

Bishop Overview

• Magician - First Job Skill Build
• Cleric - Second Job Skill Build
• Priest - Third Job Skill Build
• Bishop - Fourth Job Skill Build
• Bishop - Hyper Skills
• Bishop - Fifth Job Skill Build
• Changelog

The Bishop class has gone through many different metas in MapleStory, starting from when just 3rd job was available and Bishops were known as Priests. They would follow players around healing them, whilst casting the much sort after skill Holy Symbol (which gave 1.5x EXP). Today, MapleStory has evolved into a more solo-progression based game, however, Bishop's still offer some of the best party buffs in the game. A Bishop in end-game bossing is very much welcomed, not so much for their damage, but for their useful skills that allow players to survive for longer periods of time.

All Explorers got a major revamp in the Destiny V.233 Patch update, including Bishop!

There was a point where Bishop's were the best class in the game for training. Using their Full Map Attack skill Genesis, they could stay in one spot and spam Genesis for the best EXP. However, Bishop's have been revamped, along with every other explorer, and now those Full Map Attack skills have a 30 second cooldown period.

Bishops training are relatively slow compared to newest classes in MapleStory. The class is old and hasn't been properly updated since the MapleStory Red update. Training mechanics can feel very frustrating and slow. That being said, it is a rather simple class to play. Most of the time the class will teleport around maps and spam Big Bang skill, whilst occaisionally buffing and using full-map attacks.

Explorer Magicians can job advance into either Bishop, Ice/Lightning Arch Mage or Fire/Poison Arch Mage.

• Weapon: Staff & Wand
• Job: Mage
• Class: Explorer
• Shared Cash Shop Inventory: Explorer Jobs
• Legion Block: +Int (10/20/40/80/100)
• Link Skill: Empirical Knowledge (+1-3% Damage, 1-2% Ignore Def, stacks up to 3 times, 10 sec duration)
• Primary Stat: Int
• Inner Ability: +1 Attack Speed

Magician First Job Skill Build

You can max all your skills in 1st job. All magicians should follow this skill build.

• Energy Bolt (+1), Teleport (+1), Mana Wave (MAX)
• MP Booster (+1)
• Energy Bolt (MAX)
• Teleport (MAX)
• MP Boost (MAX)
• Magic Guard (MAX)
• Magic Armor (MAX)

Your main attacking skill as a Magician is Energy Bolt. The energy bolt is a lot better than the pre-big bang version and can hit up to 4 enemies at once! You will want to max Teleport quite quickly as it allows for better mobility. Magic Guard is your most useful skill that you will be using even when you get to 5th job; it basically turns your MP into HP, allowing you to absorb massive amounts of damage. You can toggle this skill on/off.

MP Boost will increase your Attack Speed, so worth putting a point in it early on.

Skill Description & Overview

Cleric Second Job Skill Build

You can max all your skills in 2nd job. As a Cleric, this build should work well:

• Holy Arrow (+1), Agile Magic (+2)
• Agile Magic (MAX)
• Holy Arrow (MAX)
• Bless (MAX)
• Spell Mastery (MAX)
• High Wisdom (MAX)
• MP Eater (MAX)
• Blessed Ensemble (MAX)
• Invincible (MAX)
• Heal (MAX)

Heal is last??!?!? Heal is no longer the most useful mobbing skill for Clerics. It now has a 4 second cooldown and your Holy Arrow is a better mobber and deals more damage. Heal is really more of an end-game skill for bossing parties, and since you won't be attending to any of those in your Second job, you should max it last. Agile Magic will help to boost your attack speed and Bless is a great party buff for boosting damage.

Skill Description & Overview

Priest Third Job Skill Build

You can max all your skills in 3rd job. Priests are best to follow this skill build:

• Shining Ray (MAX)
• Holy Symbol (MAX)
• Holy Focus (MAX)
• Arcane Overdrive (MAX)
• Teleport Boost (MAX)
• Teleport Mastery (MAX)
• Holy Magic Shield (MAX)
• Holy Fountain (MAX)
• Mystic Door (MAX)
• Dispel (MAX)
• Divine Protection (MAX)

Shining Ray is still Priest's main attacking and mobbing skill. Leveling during 3rd job is pretty fast, so we don't max Holy Symbol until we've maxed our main attacking skill. Holy Symbol gives a massive +50% EXP to everyone in the party; however, it has been nerfed so that if players in the party move out of range of the character, they will get reduced rates.

The rest of the skills are great for party bossing; Holy Magic Shell is your 15 second damage reduction skill and can act as an iframe in certain situations (20 second with Hyper Skills); Dispel for getting rid of Abnormal Status of party members, Holy Fountain for massive healing and more. Mystic Door also remains, but it's less useful now due to the ability of Hyper Teleport Rocks being so accessible.

Skill Description & Overview

Bishop Fourth Job Skill Build

You can max all your 4th job skills. You will need Mastery 20 and Mastery 30 books to increase the skill level beyond 10. These can be purchased from the Leafre general merchant shop.

• Big Bang (+1), Genesis (+1), Buff Mastery (+1)
• Arcane Aim (+1), Bahamut (+1)
• Big Bang (MAX)
• Arcane Aim (MAX)
• Buff Mastery (MAX)
• Advanced Blessing (MAX)
• Maple Warrior (MAX)
• Genesis (MAX)
• Infinity (MAX)
• Angel Ray (MAX)
• Holy Water (MAX)
• Blessed Harmony (MAX)
• Bahamut (MAX)
• Resurection (MAX)
• Hero's Will (MAX)

Bishop's main training skill is Big Bang. In order to be able to spam the skill, you need to cast Genesis every 30 seconds. Bishop then teleports around maps spamming Big Bang + Genesis. It's a very simple 4th job class. You can summon Bahamut, but it follows you around so it won't cover parts of the map you are not at. Resurection is great for end-game bossing, and Infinity + Angel Ray makes for consistent damage during bossing.

Skill Description & Overview

Bishop Hyper Skills Build

Hyper skills are available at level 140. You get Hyper Skill Points as you level towards 200, but not enough to max all the skills, so choose wisely. These skills mostly help increase the damage of your current skills.

• Holy Symbol - Experience
• Holy Symbol - Item Drop
• Holy Magic Shell - Enhance
• Advanced Blessing - Ferocity
• Advanced Blessing - Boss Rush
• Heaven's Door
• Righteously Indignant
• Epic Adventure

Heaven's door gives you an extra life in bosses (essentially an iframe). Enhance your Holy Symbol for that extra EXP and item drop boost.

Bishop Fifth Job Skill Build

Upon reaching level 200, you will now have access to the V Matrix, which acts as your new fifth job skills. Each class gets their own skills to use, along with boosting nodes to increase the damage of existing skills. To obtain new skills, you open up items called Nodestones, which drop from every mob in Arcane River. You have limited number of slots in your V Matrix, so you want to obtain perfect nodes for maximize your character's damage.

Bishop's Nodes should include:

• Benediction
• Angel Of Balance
• Peacemaker
• Divine Punishment
• Trinode: Big Bang, Angel Ray, Genesis
• Trinode: Bahamut, Heaven's Door, [optional]

All 5th Job classes should try to also obtain these:

• Decent Holy Symbol
• Decent Sharp Eyes
• Decent Speed Infusion
• Erda Nova
• Rope Lift

Skill Description & Overview

Changelog

20/09/2022 - Updated for Destiny V.233 Update

26/03/2021 - Added new 5th Job Skill from the Awake update.

09/10/2020 - First update