MapleStory Thunder Breaker Skill Build Guide

Thunder Breaker is a Cygnus Knight class that packs a shocking punch with it's lightning-type skills. Thunder Breaker is a Pirate Job that uses Knuckle weapons to damage monsters in MapleStory and take on the toughest bosses available.

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

Originally limited to level 120, Thunder Breaker is now a fully-fledged job that is now as capable as any other MapleStory Class. Each Cygnus Knight class has it's own unique style, with Thunder Breaker being all about lightning attacks. Oh, and SHARKS!

Thunder Breaker 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.

Thunder Breaker was released in 2009 along with the four other Cygnus Knight classes as part of a selection of brand new jobs to MapleStory. They have gone through many revamps, including removing their level restrictions and giving them 5th job skills.

Thunder Breaker is a combo class where you combine skills to do more powerful attacks than if you use them on their own, allowing you to move across maps seamlessly and stacking up damage buffs. A part of Thunder Breaker gameplay is to stack up Charges, which will increase damage of certain attacks when you max them out. The class also gets a Shadow Partner type skill in 4th job, giving them plenty of damage lines and allowing them to power through the early 1-200 levels.

They get a native Speed Infusion skill in 4th job, allowing them to save a slot in the V-Matrix. There is some clunkiness to their play-style in 4th job, due to skill animation delay that can interrupt the flow of the class when training.

Bossing wise, Thunder Breaker have medium-to-low DPS and not much burst damage either. They are an easy class to play without much micromanaging and with their ability to produce lots of lines they can be really strong if they are over-funded. Whilst the party-wide skill of Speed Infusion is nice, the addition of Decent Speed Infusion has made this skill pretty much irrelevant now.

• Weapon: Knuckle
• Job: Pirate
• Class: Cygnus Knight
• Shared Cash Shop Inventory: Blaze Wizard, Wind Archer, Thunder Breaker, Dawn Warrior, Night Walker, Mihile
• Legion Block: + STR (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: STR
• Inner Ability: 20% Boss Damage

Thunder Breaker First Job Skill Build

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

• Lightning Punch (+1), Flash (+1), Lightning Elemental (+1)
• Lightning Punch (MAX)
• Flash (MAX)
• Lightning Elemental (MAX)
• Electrified (MAX)

In first job, Thunder Breaker uses the combination between Lightning Punch and Flash to attack enemies. Flash will teleport you to the nearest enemy on the map, and then hitting Lightning Punch after will quickly attack the mob also. Lightning Elemental gives you a damage buff by allowing you ignore defense of enemies and stack Lightning Charges.

Skill Description & Overview

Thunder Breaker Second Job Skill Build

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

• Shark Sweep (+1), Tidal Crash (+1), Agile Knuckles (+1)
• Shark Sweep (MAX)
• Agile Knuckles (MAX)
• Tidal Crash (MAX)
• Knuckle Mastery (MAX)
• Sea Wave (MAX)
• Gains (MAX)
• Lightning Boost (MAX)

Shark Sweep and Tidal Crash are your new combo skills and when used together they will get you across horizontal maps a lot faster than using them separately.

Agile Knuckles is now a passive attack speed boost, so put one point into it early on to help increase attack speed and the rest of the skills should follow.

Sea Wave is a new skill added with the revamp that will activate as you attack; shooting out balls of eletrified water.

Skill Description & Overview

Thunder Breaker Third Job Skill Build

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

• Ascension (+1), Thunder (+1), Gale (+1)
• Ascension (MAX)
• Thunder (MAX)
• Gale (MAX)
• Link Mastery (MAX)
• Ironclad (MAX)
• Lightning Lord (MAX)
• Seawall (MAX)

In third job, Thunder Breaker now gets it's famous Shark attack called Ascension. Combining Ascension with Thunder will allow you to deal lots of damage to mobs and travel across maps fast- the skill combos work best on flat horizontal maps. Gale now makes use of your Lightning Charges as it will consume any you have and give you a damage buff.

Skill Description & Overview

Thunder Breaker Fourth Job Skill Build

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

• Thunderbolt (MAX)
• Arc Charger (MAX)
• Knuckle Expert (MAX)
• Typhoon (MAX)
• Thunder God (MAX)
• Speed Infusion (MAX)
• Call Of Cygnus (MAX)
• Annihilate (MAX)
• Electrify (MAX)
• Cygnus Knight's Will (MAX)

Thunderbolt is your main attacking skill in fourth job, and you can combine it with any of your other thunder breaker skills from previous jobs apart from Thunder. Annihilate is your bossing skill, so max that last since you won't be doing much bossing early on. Typhoon is the upgrade version of Gale and gives a better damage buff when consuming your Lightning Charges.

Arc Charger is your Shadow-Partner type skill, which doubles the amount of lines your attacks do. Speed Infusion increases attack speed for everyone in the party, but you can use Attack Potions from Monster Park early on instead.

Skill Description & Overview

Thunder Breaker 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.

• Thunderbolt - Reinforce
• Thunderbolt - Extra Strike
• Annihilate - Reinforce
• Annihilate - Guardbreak
• Annihilate - Boss Rush
• Deep Rising
• Glory Of The Guardians
• Primal Bolt

Thunder Breaker 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.

Thunder Breaker's Nodes should include:

• Lightning Cascade
• Shark Torpedo
• Lightning God Spear Strike
• Lightning Spear Multistrike
• Trio: Thunderbolt, Annihilate, Gale
• Trio: Ascension, Tidal Crash and Sea Wave, Thunder

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
• Loaded Dice
• Overdrive
• Empress Cygnus's Blessing
• Phalanx Charge

Skill Description & Overview

Changelog

27/03/2024 - Ignition Update!

20/10/2021 - First update