MapleStory Luminous Skill Build Guide

Luminous is a MapleStory Hero class that wields the power of dark and light to create powerful mobbing attacks. Luminous is a mage class and wields the Shining Rod weapon to deal damage. Luminous is often described as one of the best mobbers in the game, with attacks that can hit lots of mobs in large maps. They also make for a decent bossing class, with lots of potential for dealing high DPS.

• Luminous Overview
• Luminous First Job Skill Build
• Luminous Second Job Skill Build
• Luminous Third Job Skill Build
• Luminous Fourth Job Skill Build
• Luminous Hyper Skill Build
• Luminous Fifth Job Skill Build
• Changelog

Luminous Overview

Luminous is part of the MapleStory Heroes group of characters. Luminous was released in Tempest patch (124) on December 2012. Luminous was part of the group of heroes that defeated the Black Mage; their unique playstyle is that Luminous has to balance between using both light and darkness skills in order to achieve maximum damage. When using the Equilibrium skill, they get access to powerful burst skills and damage.

Luminous is part of the MapleStory Heroes classes, which include: Aran, Evan, Mercedes, Phantom, Luminous and Shade.

Training Luminous is one of the best classes in MapleStory. All of their skills have great mobbing and when you hit 4th job, you get access to your Reflection skill, which chains attacks to mobs all around you, making it a very stress-free class to play. The only bit of mechanics you have to worry about is making sure to switch between dark and light skills to max out your damage; however, once you can one shot mobs, this doesn't matter too much.

As a bossing class, Luminous is a steady addition to any raid party. Their main burst damage comes from using Equilibrium, as it offers lots of damage on a cooldown. They get a free bind from their Hyper Skills in Armageddon and Ethereal Form offers them an i-frame to use against 1-hit KO attacks like in Lotus and Damien.

• Weapon: Shining Rod
• Job: Mage
• Class: Hero
• Shared Cash Shop Inventory: Heroes: Evan, Phantom, Aran, Shade, Mercedes
• Legion Block: +INT (10/20/40/80/100)
• Link Skill: Light Wash (+20% Ignore Defense)
• Primary Stat: INT
• Inner Ability: +1 Attack Speed

Luminous First Job Skill Build

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

• Flash Shower (+1), Light Speed (+2)
• Light Speed (6)
• Flash Shower (MAX)
• Light Affinity (MAX)
• Light Speed (MAX)
• Mana Well (MAX)
• Standard Magic Guard (MAX)

First job is pretty simple. You get a light attack called Flash Shower, which is your main mobbing skill. You want to get Light Speed (your teleport skill) up to a decent level first though as it will help with mobility. Standard Magic Guard is a passive that will make it so when you get hit, the damage comes out of your MP and not your HP.

Skill Description & Overview

Luminous Second Job Skill Build

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

• Sylvan Lance (+1), Pressure Void(+1), Magic Booster (2)
• Magic Booster (6)
• Sylvan Lance (10)
• Pressure Void (10)
• Sylan Lance (MAX)
• Pressure Void (MAX)
• Spell Mastery (MAX)
• High Wisdom (MAX)
• Black Blessing (MAX)
• Blinding Pillar (MAX) (secondary)

As you move into second job, you now get access to your first dark attack skill, Pressure Void. As a Luminous, you want to juggle between the two types of skills; Light and Dark. When your Equilibrium is full of light, you want to switch to dark attacks and vice versa. This will make sure your skills are outputting the maximum damage; you can just use one set but your damage will be reduced greatly.

Magic Booster is your attack speed skill, get this up to 6 as soon as possible for faster mobbing. Blinding Pair is a secondary attack skill, but you'll rarely use it.

Skill Description & Overview

Luminous Third Job Skill Build

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

• Spectral Light (1), Moonlight Spear (1), Death Scythe (1)
• Spectral Light (MAX)
• Moonlight Spear (MAX)
• Lunar Tide (MAX)
• Death Scythe (MAX)
• Photic Meditation (MAX)
• Dusk Guard (MAX)
• Ray Of Redemption (MAX)
• Shadow Shell (MAX)

As you move into third job, you get a new type of skill that has zero cooldown when you're in a state of Equilibrium called Death Scythe. You can use this skill out of Equilibrium state, but it has a 30 second cooldown. It is a great mobbing skill, so getting your Luminous into a state of Equilibrium is a must. Spectral Light is a great mobbing skill too- you will start to feel the power of Luminous's ability to hit multiple mobs.

Skill Description & Overview

Luminous Fourth Job Skill Build

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

• Reflection (1), Apocalypse (1), Ender (1)
• Reflection (10)
• Apocalypse (10)
• Reflection (MAX)
• Apocalypse (MAX)
• Magic Mastery (MAX)
• Darkness Mastery (MAX)
• Arcane Pitch (MAX)
• Dark Crescendo (MAX)
• Maple Warrior (MAX)
• Morning Star (MAX)
• Ender (MAX)
• Hero's Will (MAX)

In fourth job you get access to Luminous's main mobbing skill Reflection. This skill work's like Archmage Ice/Lightning's skill Chain Lightning. The skill will hit one mob, and then immediately bounce to another, creating a chain effect. It makes for easy mobbing on multiple platforms. Ender is your main bossing Equilibrium skill that does an amazing amount of damage when off cooldown. Dark Crescendo is a stackable buff that you'll want to max out as it gives 30% Damage buff.

Skill Description & Overview

Luminous 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.

• Reflection - Spread
• Reflection - Range Up
• Apocalypse - Recharge
• Ender - Reinforce
• Ender - Range Up
• Armageddon
• Heroic Memories
• Equalize

If you're low on damage, you can use Reinforce instead of Range Up for your main mobbing skills.

Luminous 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.

Luminous's Nodes should include:

• Gate of Light
• Aether Conduit
• Baptism Of Light and Darkness
• Liberation Orb
• Trinode: Reflection, Apocalypse, Ender

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

• Decent Holy Symbol
• Decent Sharp Eyes
• Decent Speed Infusion
• Erda Nova
• Rope Lift
• Ethereal Form
• Freud's Wisdom
• Mana Overload

Skill Description & Overview

Changelog

13/01/2021 - First update