MapleStory Night Walker Skill Build Guide

Night Walker is a Cygnus Knight class that throws stars and summons bats to tear apart its enemies in MapleStory. Considered to be Night Lord's little brother, Night Walker is a great bossing class with high DPS and great mobility that'll make traveling around Maple World very satisfying.

Night Walker is very similar to Night Lord in that they both share the same type of throwing-star skills; they also have their own version of Shadow Partner each and their play styles are quite similar. The main difference is that for Night Walker you're going to be doing a lot of jumping as you get a passive skill that increases damage of your attacks when jumping. Also, in exchange for better bossing, you get worse mobbing.

Night Walker Overview

Night Walker was originally released in 2009 along with the four other Cygnus Knight classes with a level cap of 120. It has been revamped since so that it now no longer has a level cap, its own fifth job skills and can hold its own when compared with other MapleStory Classes. Night Walker's theme is darkness and bats, with a lot of visually appealing skills compared to Night Lord.

Night Walker is one of the worst mobbing classes in the game, making it quite difficult to train, especially in the early levels. In the first and second job advancements, you'll still only be hitting one mob at a time. By the time you hit fourth job, you'll still be mobbing with your third job skills. Fifth job helps boost the damage of your mobbing skills, making them more highly effective and allowing you to one-shot with their bat attacks but it can be a struggle for players at low funding.

Bossing on Night Walker is where it excels. If you can master the jump attacking method, you'll be wiping out the end-game bosses faster than most classes. They also have their own i-frame skill to help dodge one-hit KO attacks, decent burst damage skills and have their own bind skill. They have some great skills for preventing knockback such as Dark Omen, very useful in end-game bossing.

• Weapon: Claw
• Job: Thief
• Class: Cygnus Knight
• Shared Cash Shop Inventory: Blaze Wizard, Wind Archer, Thunder Breaker, Dawn Warrior, Night Walker, Mihile
• Legion Block: + LUK (10/20/40/80/100)
• Link Skill: Cygnus Blessing (Level 10: Attack Power: +25, Magic Attack Power: +25, Abnormal Status Resistance: +15, All Elemental Resistance: +15%)
• Primary Stat: LUK
• Inner Ability: 20% Boss Damage

Night Walker First Job Skill Build

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

• Lucky Seven (MAX)
• Shadow Bat (MAX)
• Shadow Jump (MAX)
• Dark Elemental (MAX)
• Haste (MAX)
• Shadow Dodge (MAX)
• Dark Sight (MAX)

Lucky Seven is your main attacking skill in first job. It hits one mob at a time. It is very slow, so you'll want to try combining it with your Shadow Bat skill which will summon a bat each time you hit an enemy 3 times. The bat will fly around attacking mobs around you.

You can also use your Beginner Skill Elemental Slash as that can hit up to 3 mobs at a time.

Dark Elemental will mark enemies you attack and add debuffs to them so you do more damage. You get some good mobility skills with Haste and Shadow Jump.

Skill Description & Overview

Night Walker Second Job Skill Build

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

• Triple Throw (+1), Throwing Mastery (+2)
• Throwing Master (5)
• Throwing Booster (MAX)
• Triple Throw (MAX)
• Bat Affinity (MAX)
• Throwing Mastery (MAX)
• Critical Throw (MAX)
• Adaptive Darkness (MAX)
• Physical Training (MAX)

Your main attack gets upgraded to Triple Throw, which still only hits one mob at a time. Increase your attack speed as early as possible with your Throwing Booster and then upgrade your Bat Affinity so that it triggers more often and hits more mobs around you.

Skill Description & Overview

Night Walker Third Job Skill Build

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

• Shadow Spark (+1), Dark Servant (+2)
• Dark Servant (MAX)
• Shadow Spark (MAX)
• Bat Affinity II (MAX)
• Adaptive Darkness II (MAX)
• Spirit Projection (MAX)
• Enveloping Darkness (MAX)
• Alchemic Adrenaline (MAX)
• Darkness Ascending (MAX)
• Quad Star (MAX)

Finally, you get a decent mobbing skill. Shadow Spark is your main mobbing skill and you'll want to max out the Dark Servant Skill to double the damage lines on the attack first.

Shadow Bats and Dark Elemental all get another round of upgrades. You also get a useful bossing skill called Darkness Ascending which gives you a free revival when you die.

Skill Description & Overview

Night Walker Fourth Job Skill Build

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

• Dark Omen (MAX)
• Bat Affinity III (MAX)
• Throwing Expert (MAX)
• Adaptive Darkness III (MAX)
• Dark Blessing (MAX)
• Call Of Cygnus (MAX)
• Shadow Stitch (MAX)
• Shadow Slip (MAX)
• Vitality Siphon (MAX)
• Quintuple Star (MAX)

No new mobbing skill, so you'll be stuck with Shadow Spark. But you do get upgrades to both Shadow Affinity and Dark Elemental which should make mobbing a little bit easier. You'll want to be using Dark Omen in your training rotation, it has a 20 second cooldown that is reduced each time you attack.

Quintuple Star is your main bossing skill going forward, with Shadow Stitch being your Bind skill. Call Of Cygnus comes from a quest called The Alliance Gathers.

Skill Description & Overview

Night Walker 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.

• Quintuple Star - Reinforce
• Quintuple Star - Boss Rush
• Dark Omen - Cooldown Cutter
• Dark Omen - Spread
• Vitality Siphon - Reinforce
• Dominion
• Glory Of The Guardians
• Shadow Illusion

Night Walker 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.

Night Walker's Nodes should include:

• Shadow Spear
• Greater Dark Servant
• Shadow Bite
• Rapid Throw
• Trio: Dark Omen, Shadow Spark, Shadow Bat
• Trio: Quintuple Star, Dominion, Shadow Stitch

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

• Decent Holy Symbol
• Decent Sharp Eyes
• Decent Speed Infusion
• Erda Nova
• Rope Lift
• True Arachnid Reflection
• Venom Burst
• Last Resort
• Empress Cygnus's Blessing
• Phalanx Charge

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26/10/2021 - First update