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 First Job Skill Build
• Night Walker Second Job Skill Build
• Night Walker Third Job Skill Build
• Night Walker Fourth Job Skill Build
• Night Walker Hyper Skill Build
• Night Walker Fifth Job Skill Build
• Night Walker Sixth Job Skills
• Changelog

Night Walker Overview

All Cygnus Knights were revamped as part of the 2022 update V.237 Ignition! They increased their damage skills, improve mobility and added in some new storylines for you to follow.

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.

In the revamp, Night Walker's mobbing has gotten a whole lot better. First and second job mobbing skills now hit multiple enemies (before they only hit 1!) and put you on par with other classes grinding to 200. 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.

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

• 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 has been hugely improved in the revamp and can now hit up to 5 enemies at once! Combine it with Shadow Bat and you have great mobbing during 1st job.

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:

• Shadow Spark (+1), Throwing Mastery (+1), Agile Throwing (+1)
• Shadow Spark (MAX)
• Throwing Mastery (MAX)
• Agile Throwing (MAX)
• Bat Affinity (MAX)
• Critical Throw (MAX)
• Adaptive Darkness (MAX)
• Physical Training (MAX)
• Triple Throw (MAX)

Triple Throw is a single-target attack skill, so you really don't want to max this too early. Instead, you should go with Shadow Spark, which has better mobbing ability.

You get plenty of passive buffs in second job, making your Shadow Bats trigger more and deal more damage.

Increase your attack speed as early as possible with your Agile Throwing 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:

• Dark Servant (+1), Bat Affinity II (+1), Spirit Projection (+1)
• 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)

No new mobbing skill in this job, however, you do get Dark Servant. This basically doubles the amount of attacks you do (just less damage on those mirrored attacks), allowing you to decimate maps.

Spirit Projection allows you to never consume Throwing Stars again, so put a point into that early on too.

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:

• Bat Affinity III (MAX)
• Throwing Expert (MAX)
• Dark Omen (MAX)
• Adaptive Darkness III (MAX)
• Dark Blessing (MAX)
• Call Of Cygnus (MAX)
• Shadow Stitch (MAX)
• Shadow Slip (MAX)
• Ravenous Bat (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
• Vitality Siphon - Extra Point
• 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.

Check out the 5th Job V-Matrix Guide for more in-depth details about fifth job.

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

Skill Description & Overview

Night Walker Sixth Job Skills

Once you reach Level 260, you can then go on to do the 6th Job Advancement Quests! Once completed, you will unlock the HEXA Matrix system, allowing you to gain new skills, upgrade existing 5th job skills and start earning the new Sol Erda Fragment currency used to upgrade your skills.

Every sixth job class gets a brand new "Origin" skill, which deals a significant amount of burst damage allowing you to wipe out mid-tier bosses in seconds. Getting your character to Level 260 gives you a siginifant damage boost even with your skill level at level 1. It's well worth grinding to level 260, so check out the MapleStory Training Guide for the best spots ot train.

Night Walker obtains the following new sixth Job skills:

• [Origin Skill] Silence
• [HEXA Skills] HEXA Quintuple Star, HEXA Shadow Bat
• [HEXA Skills] HEXA Ravenous Bat
• [Common Skill] Sol Janus
• [Boost Skills] Shadow Spear, Greater Dark Servant, Shadow Bite, Rapid Throw

Changelog

11/12/2024 - 6th Job Update

26/03/2024 - Ignition Update

26/10/2021 - First update