MapleStory Shade Skill Build Guide - Remaster 2024 Update

Shade is a MapleStory class that is part of the Heroes group of characters. Shade wields the spirits to help deal damage to monsters and bosses. If you like a class with some cool animations for it's attacks, Shade might be the perfect MapleStory class for you. They have some great bossing utilities to help with survivability and they are arguably one of the easiest classes to play in MapleStory.

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

Shade Overview

Shade was released as part of the MapleStory Update Rising Heroes: Echoes Of Darkness. As well as being a popular class to level up, Shade has a very interesting and sad story to follow. Players starting out will have to get to second job (level 30) before they can leave their hometown area of Fox Point Village. Luckily, Shade has some decent mobbing skills in the early levels to help with grinding and getting through the beginner stages of MapleStory. Once you hit level 30, you can then venture into the rest of Maple World.

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

REMASTER UPDATE: The Shade class was revamped in the V.255 update, known as Shade Redux! The class's skills were given a revamp and damage boosts!

Training a Shade is very fun and one of the easiest classes to control. There are very few mechanics you need to be aware of and they have very few buffs you need to micro-manage. Levels 1-200 will breeze by and getting to fifth job will further enhance your overall map control. Shade has some very cool animations for its skills, making it one of the flashier classes to play. All the mobbing skills of Shade are very good, so you won't struggle training this character through any of the different job advancements.

As a bossing class, Shade has some useful utility skills that can help survivability. They have an early level bind skill called Spirit Trap that will stun an enemy for 10 seconds. Summon Other Spirits gives up to 3 seconds of invincibility to help dodge those fatal attacks and you also have an 8 second i-frame with 120 second cooldown called Spirit Incarnation as your Hyper Skill. Their damage sits in the middle of the pact as a bossing DPS class- which is really where you want to be.

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

• Weapon: Knuckle
• Job: Pirate
• Class: Hero
• Shared Cash Shop Inventory: Heroes: Luminous, Phantom, Aran, Shade, Mercedes
• Legion Block: Critical Damage (1%/2%/3%/4%/5%)
• Link Skill: Close Call (10% chance to survive fatal attack)
• Primary Stat: STR
• Inner Ability: +1 Attack Speed

Shade First Job Skill Build

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

• Flash Fist (+1), Vulpes Leap (+1) Fox God's Favor (+1)
• Vulpes Leap (MAX)
• Flash Fist (MAX)
• Fox God's Favor (MAX)
• Cosmic Balance (MAX)

Flash Fist is your main attacking skill. At some point during your 1st Job Advancement, this skill gets a rename.

Vulpes Leap is your double jump skill, so max it early for mobility and getting around maps.

Fox God's Favor gives you an Attack Speed boost and damage boost. It's a buff skill so you will need to keep it up.

Skill Description & Overview

Shade Second Job Skill Build

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

• Ground Pound (+1), Fox Spirits (+1), Spirit Bond 2 (+1)
• Knuckle Mastery (MAX)
• Ground Pound (MAX)
• Fox Spirits (MAX)
• Spirit Bond 2 (MAX)
• Foxy Courage (MAX)
• Strength Training (MAX)
• Blade Imp - Spin Slash (MAX)
• Backstep (MAX)

Ground Pound is your new main attacking skill and it has great range on it. Add some SP into Spirit Bond 2 for attack speed boost and you'll have a great 2nd job class on your hands.

Knuckle Mastery, Fox Courage and Strength Training all increase your damage passively.

You get Fox Spirits, which is a toggle skill that will trigger randomly when attacking.

Blade Imp isn't very useful in 2nd job.

Skill Description & Overview

Shade Third Job Skill Build

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

• Shockwave Punch (+1), Spirit Frenzy (+1), Spirit Trap (+1)
• Spirit Bond 3 (+1), Weaken (+1), Total Harmony (+1)
• Spirit Bond 3 (MAX)
• Shockwave Punch (MAX)
• Spirit Frenzy (MAX)
• Total Harmony (MAX)
• Weaken (MAX)
• Spirit Trap (MAX)
• Harmonious Defense (MAX)
• Summon Other Spirit (MAX)

Shockwave Punch is your new main attacking skill and you also get Spirit Frenzy, which can be placed down on the map and attack mobs for you. Great for map control!

You also get Spirit Trap, which can be placed down but doesn't last very long.

Spirit Bond 3, Weaken and Total Harmony all boost your damage passively.

Summon Other Spirits will auto-revive you if you get hit with a 1-hit KO move- great for bossing.

Skill Description & Overview

Shade Fourth Job Skill Build

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

• Bomb Punch (+1), Advanced Knuckle Mastery (+1), Critical Insight (+1)
• Bomb Punch (MAX)
• Advanced Knuckle Mastery (MAX)
• Critical Insight (MAX)
• Heartfelt Communion (MAX)
• Maple Warrior (MAX)
• Spirit Bond 4 (MAX)
• Soul Splitter (MAX)
• Spirit Ward (MAX)
• Spirit Claw (MAX)
• Death Mark (MAX)
• Hero's Will (MAX)

If 4th job, your main mobbing skill is Bomb Punch and your Bossing attack skill is Spirit Claw.

You get several damage boosting passive skills with Advanced Knuckle Mastery, Critical Insight and Heartfelt Communion.

You get several skills useful for bossing, with Soul Splitter giving you and your party members a damage buff, Spirit Ward for nullifying debuff attacks and Spirit Bond 4 giving you +30% Boss Damage.

Skill Description & Overview

Shade 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 Claw - Reinforce
• Spirit Claw - Boss Rush
• Spirit Claw - Extra Strike
• Fire Fox Spirits - Repeated Attack Bonus
• Fire Fox Spirits - Summon Chance
• Spirit Incarnation
• Heroic Memories
• Fox Marble Fusion

Shade 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.

Shade's Nodes should include:

• Fox God Flash
• Spiritgate
• True Spirit Claw
• Smashing Multipunch
• Trinode: Spirit Claw, Bomb Punch, Fox Spirits
• Trinode: Spirit Incarnation, Spirit Frenzy, Death Mark

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

Shade 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.

Shade obtains the following new sixth Job skills:

• [Origin Skill] Advent of the Fox
• [HEXA Skills] HEXA Spirit Claw
• [HEXA Skills] HEXA Fox Spirits
• [Common Skill] SolJanus
• [Boost Skills] Fox God Flash Boost

 

Changelog

04/12/2024 - Added 6th job skills

28/11/2024 - Remaster update!

26/02/2021 - First update