MapleStory Ren Skill Build Guide

MapleStory Ren is a brand new class that has been added to MapleStory GMS in the V264 Winter Update! This Warrior Class uses a combination of the Plum Blossom Sword, Imugi Spirit Sword and Dragon Skills to wipe out monsters and bosses!

• Ren Overview
• Ren First Job Skill Build
• Ren Second Job Skill Build
• Ren Third Job Skill Build
• Ren Fourth Job Skill Build
• Ren Hyper Skill Build
• Ren Fifth Job Skill Build
• Ren Sixth Job Skills
• Changelog

Ren is available from November 12th 2025 in GMS for all to play and was showcased during MapleCon as part of MapleStory GMS's Winter Update.

Ren Overview

Ren starts their adventure in the town of Vallora, where a dragon-like creature called an Imugi befriends Ren. The creature's name is called Saya but becomes ill and it's up to Ren to find a magical elixir to save Saya.

Ren also has the option to skip to Level 30, missing out all the beginner storyline for Ren. You can choose to view a Summary of the story when you create Ren too.

Ren was made to be simple to play so that both new MapleStory Players and veterans can enjoy the class without having to worry too much about mechanics. On your way to 5th job, you'll mostly use just one attacking skill called the Plum Blossom Sword which gets upgraded with each job advancement. You'll gain lots of passive skills that increase the amount of attacks you deal, allowing you to zip through maps without having to think too much about skill management.

In 5th job, Ren gets four new skills that all help with damage dealing. Final Plum Blossom Fury summons a giant tree that attacks enemies around you for 30 seconds; Soul Immeasurable deals divine strikes as you attack and Dancing Annihilation allows you to attack and reduce incoming damage by 50%.

Overall Ren is a very easy class to play, with lots of mobility and skills that can clear maps easy.

Check out the New MapleStory Class Preparation Guide for getting ready to play your new Ren.

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

• Weapon: Sword
• Secondary: Imugi Gem
• Job: Warrior
• Class: Anima
• Shared Cash Shop Inventory: Hoyoung, Lara, Lynn
• Legion Block: + Speed and Max Speed (+2/4/6/8/10)
• Link Skill: Grounded Body (Damage Taken: -6%, including attacks that inflict damage at a certain percentage of your Max HP)
• Primary Stat: STR
• Inner Ability: Boss Damage

Ren First Job Skill Build

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

• Plum Blossom Sword: Slice (+1)
• Serene Breeze (MAX)
• Plum Blossom Sword: Slice (MAX)
• Serene Verse (MAX)
• Free Spirit (MAX)
• Lilting Petal (MAX)

Your main attacking skill is called Plum Blossom Sword: Slice. It's a simple slash attack skill that can hit up to 5 enemies twice.

You'll want to max Serene Breeze early on for the double-jump skill, which will help with mobility.

You can then max your passive buff skill Serene Verse and Plum Blossom Sword: Slice for increasing your damage.

Finally, Free Spirit and Lilting Petal will help with mobility.

Skill Description & Overview

Ren Second Job Skill Build

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

• Plum Blossom Sword: Strike (+1), Imugi Spirit Sword: Spirit Strike (+1), Sword Mastery (+1)
• Sword Mastery (5)
• Blossoming Blade (6)
• Serene Verse II (MAX)
• Plum Blossom Sword: Strike (MAX)
• Blossoming Blade (MAX)
• Sword Mastery (MAX)
• Imugi Spirit Sword (MAX)
• Physical Training (MAX)
• First Plum Blossom Sword: Petal Flash (MAX)

In second job, Ren's new attacking skill is Plum Blossom Sword: Strike. It has a bigger area of attack than the first job skill and also now hits enemies three times each.

You'll want to add an early SP into Imugi Spirit Sword. This passive skill will add a chance to perform an additional attack when using your Plum Blossom Sword attack.

Blossoming Blade is your attack-speed skill buff, which unfortunately is not passive for some reason. You'll need to add 5 points into Sword Mastery to unlock it.

After that you'll want to max out all your damage-increasing skills: Serene Verse II gives Final Damage and Critical Rate, Physicial Training gvies +60 STR and Sword Mastery gives +30 Attack Power and 50% mastery.

Petal Flash is a teleporting skill that will zip you backwards and forwards with each press. You can also assign the Sheath and Unsheath versions of the skill to manually toggle backwards and forwards.

Skill Description & Overview

Ren Third Job Skill Build

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

• Plum Blossom Sword: Slash (+1), Second Plum Blossom Sword: Raining Blossoms (+1), Serene Verse III (+1)
• Imugi Spirit Sword: Spirit Strike II (+1)
• Serene Verse III (MAX)
• Plum Blossom Sword: Slash (MAX)
• Second Plum Blossom Sword: Raining Blossoms (MAX)
• Imugi Spirit Sword: Spirit Strike II (MAX)
• Final Imugi Spirit Sword: Burrowing Earth (MAX)
• First Imugi Spirit Sword: Serpent's Blessing (MAX)
• Ironbark Body (MAX)

Ren's new main attacking skill is Plum Blossom Sword: Slash, which again improves the area of attack and damage.

You also get some new passive attacking skills that will help make map clearing easier: Raining Blossoms has a chance to shoot out petals when you attack, dealing damage to nearby monsters. Spirit Strike II will activate at a 35% chance dealing damage to 8 enemies near you too.

You also get the Final Imugi Spirit Strike: Burrowing Earth. This can be activated by using Wish Unending skill. The Wish Unending Skill will use skills in a specific order, for now you just have Burrowing Earth.

Finally, you get damage increase with Serene Verse III and lots of status resistance skills with Ironbark Body and Serpent's Blessing.

Skill Description & Overview

Ren Fourth Job Skill Build

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

• Plum Blossom Sword: Storm (+1), Third Plum Blossom Sword: Riotous Heart (+1), Imugi Spirit Sword: Spirit Strike III (+1)
• Second Imugi Spirit Sword: Serpent's Fang (+1)
• Serene Verse IV (+1), Exquisite Sword Mastery (+1), Eyes Unclouded (+1)
• Plum Blossom Sword: Storm (MAX)
• Serene Verse IV (MAX)
• Exquisite Sword Mastery (MAX)
• Eyes Unclouded (MAX)
• Imugi Spirit Sword: Spirit Strike III (MAX)
• Second Imugi Spirit Sword: Serpent's Fang (MAX)
• Anima Warrior (MAX)
• Final Imugi Spirit Sword: Ravenous Spirit (MAX)
• Anima Hero's Will (MAX)
• Fourth Plum Blossom Sword: Unbowed Blade (MAX)

Ren starts to shine in 4th job with the new attacking skill Plum Blossom Sword: Storm. It can hit up to 8 enemies 5 times and you can just hold the skill down for it to continually attack!

Combine this with Third Plum Blossom Sword: Riotous Heart, which allows you to summon a giant ball across the map that moves backwards and forwards, dealing damage to all mobs it touches.

You get more passive attack skills with Spirit Strike III and Serpent's Fang which activate automatically as you attack.

You get a new Final Imugi Spirit Attack called Ravenous Spirit, which can be used by pressing the Wish Unending skill from Third Job.

You get a useful bossing skill that gives you a 3-second iframe called Fourth Plum Blossom Sword: Unbowed Blade.

Finally, you get plenty of passive damage skills with Serene Verse IV, Exquisite Sword Mastery, Eyes Unclouded and Anima Warrior.

Skill Description & Overview

Ren 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.

• Spirit Strike - Reinforce
• Storm - Reinforce
• Storm - Boss Rush
• Wish Unending - Reinforce
• Wish Unending - Guardbreak
• Sublimation
• Fifth Plum Blossom Sword: Plum Branch Snare
• Final Imugi Spirit Sword: Years Uncounted

Ren 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.

Ren's Nodes should include:

• Final Plum Blossom Sword: Thousand Blossom Flurry
• Soul Immeasurable
• Final Plum Blossom Sword: Dancing Annihilation
• Final Imugi Spirit Sword: Blade of the Unbound Heart

Ren Tri-Nodes

Tri-Nodes refers to having three skills combined together via Nodestones. For this class, we recommend having the following trinodes:

• Trio: Spirit Strike, Raining Blossoms, Storm
• Trio: Burrowing Earth/Ravenous Spirit/Years Uncounted, Serpent's Fang, Riotous Heart

You'll want to have two versions of each Tri-node so you reach the max skill level for each skill (Level 50).

Skill Description & Overview

Ren 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.

[Origin Skill] 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 significant 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.

[HEXA Skills] Each class also gets new Hexa skills (also known as Mastery skills), which upgraded existing 5th job skills with either more attack power, extra hits or other attributes.

[Boost Skills] Boost Skills are used to boost previous 4th job skills.

[Common Skill] Common skills are new 6th job skills that all classes get.

Ren obtains the following new sixth Job skills:

• [Origin Skill] Rising Azure Dragon: Divided Heavens
• [HEXA Skills] HEXA Plum Blossom Sword: Storm
• [HEXA Skills] HEXA Imugi Spirit Sword: Spirit Strike/HEXA Second Imugi Spirit Sword: Serpent's Fang
• [HEXA Skills] HEXA Wish Unending/HEXA Final Imugi Spirit Sword: Burrowing Earth/HEXA Final Imugi Spirit Sword: Ravenous Spirit/HEXA Final Imugi Spirit Sword: Years Uncounted
• [HEXA Skills] HEXA Second Plum Blossom Sword: Raining Blossoms/HEXA Third Plum Blossom Sword: Riotous Heart
• [Common Skill] Sol Janus
• [Boost Skills] Final Plum Blossom Sword: Thousand Blossom Flurry, Soul Immeasurable, Final Plum Blossom Sword: Dancing Annihilation, Final Imugi Spirit Sword: Blade of the Unbound Heart

Changelog

13/11/2025 - First update