MapleStory Mercedes Skill Build Guide

Mercedes is a MapleStory Hero class that wields dual-bowguns, firing arrows at her enemies and chaining cooldown attacks to move around maps in a blitz. Mercedes also offers one of the best link-skills in the game, and so many players play this class to unlock the extra 15% EXP at Level 2. Mercedes can be one of the toughest classes to level due to the many different skills the class has- but mastering them can offer great rewards.

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

Mercedes Overview

Mercedes was released in patch 104 in GMS and was the second class to be released as part of the Heroes set. One of the main reasons players will often level Mercedes is for the invaluable EXP link skill, which when given to a character gives 10% EXP extra at level 1(70), 15% at level 2(120) and 20% at level 3 (210).

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

If you're looking to main Mercedes, the class is full of cooldown skills. Being able to properly chain them will make playing the class a breeze. She does have great mobility, with a double-jump skill that makes traversing large horizontal maps easy. At early levels, Mercedes does have low HP, but this doesn't become a problem once you hit level 200 and into 5th job.

As a bossing class, Mercedes sits in the middle of the pack. Their damage is not super-strong, but not super-low either. They have a hurricane skill that will pummel enemies, and managing your buff stacks is to key to up-keeping your damage. They can use the 5th job skill Freud's Blessing as an Iframe and they have some really cool 5th job skills that make it fun to play.

Check our our MapleStory Training Guide to help find the fastest maps to level up your characters.

• Weapon: Dual-Bowguns
• Job: Bowman
• Class: Hero
• Shared Cash Shop Inventory: Heroes: Luminous, Phantom, Aran, Shade, Mercedes
• Legion Block: Decreases Skill Cooldown (2%/3%/4%/5%/6%)
• Link Skill: Elven Blessing (Bonus EXP: +20%)
• Primary Stat: DEX
• Inner Ability: +1 Attack Speed

Mercedes First Job Skill Build

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

• Swift Dual Shot (+1), Glide Blast (+1), Potential Power(+1)
• Glide Blast(6)
• Swift Dual Shot (MAX)
• Glide Blast (MAX)
• Sharp Aim (MAX)
• Potential Power (MAX)

Swift Dual Shot is your main attacking skill in first job. You'll want to get your Glide Blast up to a high-level for that double-jump mobility. Potential Power also increases your movement too, so if you have a lot of damage from Links and Legion bonuses, it may be worth maxing this first.

Skill Description & Overview

Mercedes Second Job Skill Build

You can max all of your skills in second job. However, I've noticed some builds are missing 1SP. If this happens to you, leave parting shot unmaxed. Follow this build:

• Piercing Storm (+1), Dual Bowguns Mastery(+2)
• Dual Bowguns Mastery (5)
• Dual Bowguns Booster (6)
• Piercing Storm (MAX)
• Spirit Surge (MAX)
• Dual Bowguns Mastery (MAX)
• Physical Training (MAX)
• Final Attack: Dual Bowguns (MAX)
• Dual Bowguns Booster (MAX)
• Rising Rush (MAX)
• Parting Shot (MAX)

In second job, you get introduced to Linked Skills (not to be confused with Link Skills). Your Linked Skills are skills that you can chain together to get bonuses, such as extra attacks. In second job, you'll mostly use Piercing Storm, but Rising Rush and Parting Shot can be linked together to form attacks. Make sure to get Dual Bowguns Booster for that extra increase in attack speed, which will allow you to level up faster.

Skill Description & Overview

Mercedes Third Job Skill Build

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

• Stunning Strikes (+1), Leap Tornado (+2)
• Leap Tornado (MAX)
• Ignis Roar (MAX)
• Stunning Strikes (MAX)
• Unicorn Spike (MAX)
• Aerial Barrage (MAX)
• Gust Dive (MAX)
• Water Shield (MAX)
• Elemental Knights (MAX)

Ignis Roar is your stacking buff. It can be stacked up to 10 Times. You can use Rising Rush to activate it since it has an auto-linked skill. However, you can also use linked skills such as Stunning Strikes + Unicorn Spike. You'll want to use a combination of Leap Tornado, Stunning Strikes and Unicorn Spike to maximise your damage with Ignis Roar buff.

Skill Description & Overview

Mercedes Fourth Job Skill Build

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

• Staggering Strikes (+1), Defense Break (+1), Dual Bowguns Expert (+1)
• Staggering Strike (10)
• Defense Break (10)
• Dual Bowguns Expert (10)
• Spikes Royale (10)
• Lightning Edge (10)
• Advanced Final Attack (10)
• Ancient Warding (10)
• Staggering Strike (MAX)
• Defense Break (MAX)
• Dual Bowguns Expert (MAX)
• Spikes Royale (MAX)
• Lightning Edge (MAX)
• Advanced Final Attack (MAX)
• Ancient Warding (MAX)
• Maple Warrior (MAX)
• Rolling Moonsault (MAX)
• Ishtar's Ring (MAX)

In fourth job, you get a plethora of new skills. Many of these skills are Mercedes Linked Skills, which require you to chain them to make the most of them. Chaining skills can also decrease the cooldown, so getting a proper rotation nailed down can really help with training. Ishtar's Ring is your main bossing skills, but you won't really need that until level 200, so best to max it last. Ancient Warding and Maple Warrior are your two new buff skills and you get plenty of passive buffs throughout fourth job.

Skill Description & Overview

Mercedes 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.

• Ishtar's Ring - Reinforce
• Ishtar's Ring - Guardbreak
• Ishtar's Ring - Boss Rush
• Spikes Royale - Reinforce
• Spikes Royale - Temper Link
• Elvish Blessing
• Heroic Memories
• Wrath of Enlil

Mercedes 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.

Mercedes's Nodes should include:

• Spirit Of Elluel
• Sylvdia's Flight
• Irkalla's Wrath
• Royal Knights
• Trinode: Ishtar's Ring, Stunning Strikes, Leap Tornado
• Trinode: Elemental Knights, Spikes Royale, Wrath Of Enlil
• Trinode: Unicorn Spikes, Lightning Edge, Rising Rush

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

• Decent Holy Symbol
• Decent Sharp Eyes
• Decent Speed Infusion
• Erda Nova
• Rope Lift
• Weapon Aura
• Freud's Wisdom
• Impenetrable Skin
• Maple World Goddess Blessing

Skill Description & Overview

Changelog

04/022021 - First update