MapleStory Corsair Skill Build Guide - Remastered Destiny Update

The Corsair job is a Pirate Explorer Class that wields guns and bullets to take down their enemies. Pirate was the first new class to be added to the game after the original release of MapleStory, add two new job paths for players to take including Corsair. Corsair's home town is Nautilus, a giant boat that players can explore and is often featured in other storylines.

• Corsair Overview
• Pirate First Job Skill Build
• Gunslinger Second Job Skill Build
• Outlaw Third Job Skill Build
• Corsair Fourth Job Skill Build
• Corsair Hyper Skill Build
• Corsair Fifth Job Skill Build
• Changelog

Corsair Overview

When the two pirate classes were released, they were split into two types: Corsair is the more ranged of the classes and the Buccaneer is a melee type class. This doesn't matter too much as the current meta of MapleStory does away with range for the most part. Corsair use their fire skills to deal single target damage, much like a Nightlord's throwing star ability. As a Corsair you also get access to quite a few summons that can aid you in map control and training. They have decent mobbing potential all the way through to 4th job, with their main attack being Eight-Legs Easton.

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

Bossing with Corsair relies on you up-keeping your summons called Broadside. They received a decent boost in the Awake update to help balance their skills to be less inconvenient to manage and keep consistent damage. They can easily contribute good damage to end-game bosses as long as management of the summons is good, since they can deal a third of your overall damage.

• Weapon: Gun
• Job: Pirate
• Class: Explorer
• Shared Cash Shop Inventory: Explorer Jobs
• Legion Block: +Summon Duration (4%/6%/8%/10%/12%)
• Link Skill: Pirate Blessing (max level: Str+70, Dex+70, Int+70, Luk+70, MaxHP +1225, MaxMP +1225, Damage Taken: -15%)
• Primary Stat: DEX
• Inner Ability: 20% Boss Damage

Pirate First Job Skill Build

You can max all of your skills in first job. Follow this build:

• Sommersault Kick (+1), Pirate Leap (+2)
• Pirate Leap (MAX)
• Sommersault Kick (MAX)
• Shadow Heart (MAX)
• Bullet Time (MAX)
• Dash (MAX)
• Double Shot (MAX)

You can choose between Sommersault Kick and Double shot as you main attacking skill but you'll find Sommersault Kick is the better for mobbing. Max out Pirate Leap early on for better mobility.

Shadow heart increases your damage and after that the other skills don't matter too much; Dash gives you a small speed boost when double tapping direction keys.

Skill Description & Overview

Gunslinger Second Job Skill Build

You can max all of your skills in second job. Follow this build:

• Rapid Blast (+1), Scurvy Summons (+1), Infinity Blast (+1)
• Gun Mastery (5)
• Agile Guns (MAX)
• Rapid Blast (MAX)
• Gun Mastery (MAX)
• Wings (MAX)
• Scurvy Summons (MAX)
• Physical Training (MAX)
• Infinity Blast (MAX)
• Swift fire (MAX)
• Recoil Shot (MAX)

Rapid Blast is your main attacking skill in second job, allowing you to hit up to 6 enemies at a time.

First you'll want to get Agile Guns to increase your attacking Speed, so level up Gun Mastery to 5 in order to unlock it.

Keep Scurvy Summons up at all times for extra attacks and Wings can help you jump upwards. You won't be using Swift Fire or Recoil Shot much.

Skill Description & Overview

Outlaw Third Job Skill Build

You can max all of your skills in third job. Follow this build:

• Blunderbuster (MAX)
• Fullmetal Jacket (MAX)
• Cross Cut Blast (MAX)
• Roll Of The Dice (MAX)
• All Aboard (MAX)
• Siege Bomber (MAX)
• Outlaw's Code (MAX)
• Blackboot Bill (MAX)

Blunderbuster is your new main mobbing skill for 3rd job; whilst it doesn't deal too many damage lines it does hit two more enemies than 2nd job.

You'll want to make use of your All Board and Siege Bomber Summons to help with map control; at this low level you won't be one-shotting unless you're really funded.

Roll of The Dice will give you a random buff but it does improve at later job advancements.

Skill Description & Overview

Corsair Fourth Job Skill Build

You can max all of your skills in fourth job. Follow this build:

• Eight-Legs Easton (+1), Ahoy Mateys (+1), Majestic Presence (+1)
• Eight-Legs Easton (MAX)
• Majestic Presence (MAX)
• Ahoy Mateys (MAX)
• Double Down (MAX)
• Aggressive Stance (MAX)
• Parrotargetting (MAX)
• Aggressive Stance (MAX)
• Jolly Rodger (MAX)
• Maple Warrior (MAX)
• Nautilus Strike (MAX)
• Quickdraw (MAX)
• Brain Scrambler (MAX)
• Hero's Will (MAX)
• Rapid Fire (MAX)

In fourth job, your main training skill is Eight-Legs Easton with Rapid Fire being your main bossing skill.

Maxing out Ahoy Mateys will in turn max out Broadside and Firing Orders, which is your next summon you can place down. You'll now have lots of map control with all your summons!

Majestic Presence is a great passive skill for boosting your damage and the Double Down will improve your Roll Of The Dice skill.

Skill Description & Overview

Corsair Hyper Skill 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.

• Rapid Fire - Reinforce
• Rapid Fire - Boss Rush
• Double Down - Saving Grace
• Brain Scrambler - Extra Strike
• Brain Scrambler - Boss Rush
• Ugly Bomb
• Epic Adventure
• Whaler's Potion

Corsair 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.

Corsair's Nodes should include:

• Bullet Barrage
• Target Lock
• Nautilus Assault
• Death Trigger
• Trinode: Rapid Fire, Broadside, Majestic Presence
• Trinode: Eight-Leg Easton, Nautilus Strike, Ugly Bomb
• Trinode: Siege Bomber, Brain Scrambler, Scurvy Summons

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

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

Skill Description & Overview

Changelog

01/03/2023 - Updated for Remastered Skills

03/12/2020 - First update