MapleStory Marksman Skill Build Guide - Remastered Destiny Update

Marksman is a 4th job Explorer Archer class that has a focus on range and single-shot attacks to deal heavy-hitting damage to enemies. Marksman is part of the original MapleStory classes, and has gone through a few updates to make it the class it is today. As an Explorer Archer, it shares many skills with it's Bowmaster counterpart, including party buffs such as Sharp Eyes.

• Marksman Overview
• Archer First Job Skill Build
• Crossbowman Second Job Skill Build
• Sniper Third Job Skill Build
• Marksman Fourth Job Skill Build
• Marksman Hyper Skill Build
• Marksman Fifth Job Skill Build
• Changelog

Marksman Overview

Explorer Classes were given a huge makeover in the MapleStory Red update and many classes were changed from what they looked like during the pre-bigbang era. Marksman was one of these classes and now plays quite differently to how it used to. That being said, the differences between Marksman and Bowmaster are subtle.

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

The main difference between Marksman and Bowmaster is their 4th job attacking skills. Marksman use Snipe to fire single arrows at targets that deal heavy damage. Snipe will hit the mob with the highest HP, so when bossing the skill will bypass low-level mobs. With the new explorer update, Marksman skills all get refined and now are a very good mobbing class, especially when you get to 5th job you unlock Split Shot skill, which makes Marksman a top-tier mobber. The only issue with this 5th job skill is that is has a 50% uptime.

Marksman have some great bossing skills also, allowing them to solo end-game bosses with ease. Arrow Illusion allows you to create a dummy for bosses to attack, making many bosses in MapleStory super easy as you don't have to dodge their physical attacks. Blink Bolt allows you to dodge fatal attacks and it comes with an Iframe skill, allowing you to tank 100% 1-hit KO attacks.

• Weapon: Crossbow
• Job: Archer
• Class: Explorer
• Shared Cash Shop Inventory: Explorer Jobs
• Legion Block: +Critical Rate (1%/2%/3%/4%/5%)
• Link Skill: Adventurer's Curiosity (+10% Critical Rate, +35% Chance to add monsters to your Monster Collection)
• Primary Stat: DEX
• Inner Ability: +1 Attack Speed

Archer First Job Skill Build

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

• Arrow Bow (1), Double Jump (2)
• Double Jump (MAX)
• Arrow Bow (MAX)
• Archery Mastery (MAX)
• Critical Shot (MAX)

As an Archer you'll get lots of critical damage and critical rate. Your main mobbing skill in first job is Arrow Bow, which is pretty decent for a first job skill. Max double jump as soon as possible to help with mobility and training faster.

Skill Description & Overview

Crossbowman Second Job Skill Build

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

• Piercing Arrow (+1), Crossbow Mastery (+2)
• Crossbow Mastery (5)
• Agile Crossbows (MAX)
• Piercing Arrow (MAX)
• Crossbow Mastery (MAX)
• Soul Arrow: Crossbow (MAX)
• Final Attack: Crossbow (MAX)
• Physical Training (MAX)
• Covering Fire (MAX)

Piercing Arrow is your main attacking skill in 2nd Job. Firing it will hit through several enemies in a horizontal line and combining it with double jump will allwo you to mob pretty efficiently.

You'll want to get your Agile Crossbows buff early as it improves attack speed; the rest of your skills are passive apart from Covering Fire, which you won't need to use until you go bossing.

Skill Description & Overview

Sniper Third Job Skill Build

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

• Empowered Arrow (MAX)
• Reckless Hunt: Crossbow (MAX)
• Marksmanship (MAX)
• Bolt Burst (MAX)
• Frostprey (MAX)
• Blink Bolt (MAX)
• Mortal Blow (MAX)
• Evasion Boost (MAX)
• Aggressive Resistance (MAX)
• Pain Killer (MAX)

In 3rd Job, you'll get Empowered Arrow. This will increase the ability of your second job skill Piercing Arrow, generating an Empowered Arrow that will wipe out mobs. Bolt Burst is a cooldown attack skill that fires arrows all over the map.

The rest are just passive damage increasers apart from your summon Frostprey! Very easy to manage!

Skill Description & Overview

Marksman Fourth Job Skill Build

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

• Piercing Arrow II (MAX)
• Greater Empowered Arrows (MAX)
• Crossbow Expert (MAX)
• Bolt Surplus (MAX)
• Last Man Standing (MAX)
• Sharp Eyes (MAX)
• Arrow Illusion (MAX)
• Maple Warrior (MAX)
• Hero's Will (MAX)
• Illusion Step (MAX)
• Snipe (MAX)

Finally, you reached 4th job Marksman! Piercing Arrow II is your main mobbing skill; using Greater Empowered Arrows alongside it really boosts the damage of this skill. You'll also want to put a point into Bolt Surplus to increase your mob hit count.

Arrow Illusion is a summon you can place down that will periodically damage enemies and increase your ignore defense stat.

Snipe is your main bossing skill, so you'll max that last as you won't be doing much bossing early on.

Skill Description & Overview

Marksman 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.

• Piercing Arrow - Reinforce
• Piercing Arrow - Extra Strike
• Snipe - Cooldown Cutter
• Snipe - Reinforce
• Snipe - Boss Rush
• High Speed Shot
• Epic Adventure
• Bullseye Shot

Marksman 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.

Marksman's Nodes should include:

• Split Shot
• Surge Bolt
• Perfect Shot
• Repeating Crossbow Cartridge
• Trinode: Snipe, High Speed Shot, Piercing Arrow
• Trinode: Final Attack, Covering Fire, Bolt Burst

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

• Decent Holy Symbol
• Decent Sharp Eyes
• Decent Speed Infusion
• Erda Nova
• Rope Lift
• Vicious Shot
• Guided Arrow
• Fury Of The Wild

Skill Description & Overview

Changelog

27/02/2023 - Updated for Remastered Skills

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

12/11/2020 - First update