Knight of Cygnus: Soul Master

Well as for what build I did, I couldn’t really recommend it since I made it up as I went along. I got 1 soul runner at 31 just to test it out but since it was terrible at that level I decided to max it. I did something like

30 1 soul blade
31 1 soul blade 1 mastery 1 soul runner

then I maxed soul runner and pretty much followed the pattern of 2 mastery 1 soul blade until I got a fair amount of mastery then pumped my points into soul blade. I also got booster quite late.


What I would do on flat maps is use soul blade then soul runner and repeat that till I had rounded all the monsters into the corner then I finished them off with slash blast, until I got soul blade to a fair level. Then slash blast became totally obsolete.

Also, I'm curious as to which maps did you use that are "ineffective" with regular 2nd job warriors?

Well a great map for me to level on was Retz. Pretty much just do it the same way an I/L would. You can stand on the screws and attack the Retz without getting hit and having to move much, only when you have to drop down below to keep the spawn going. Levelling there was a breeze and really fast.

I’ll take some Screen shots to show what I mean and edit them in later.

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As you can see you can stand on the bottom screw and hit the Retz on the bottom as well as on the first platform. Avoiding any damage. Very similar to what an I/L would do but you have a much greater range.

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It's true that the summon doesn't do all that great damage. But it's a first job skill so what can you expect? I do find it can be really useful at luring in monsters for mobbing with Soul Blade. You can see it attacked the Retz behind me which then lures it over into soul blades range.

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Then you can clear the other 2 platforms by jumping up a couple of screws. You can also see in the first SS that soul blade hits monsters directly below you too.

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It can also change the way you would normally train on some maps too. There are two sniping platforms in the Iron Mutae’s map. They are pretty much useless for a normal warrior but you can take advantage of them as a soul master. Like I said soul blade hits monsters right below you. So you can simply snipe them from the 2 safe spots. You can use soul runner to jump the gap between the two spots so again it’s possible to take no damage. The picture in the middle also shows just how good a range soul blade has.

I wasn’t trying to be overly critical when you suggested the mastery slash blast route. It would be sufficient since that’s what every other warrior does. But I think soul masters have much more potential and possibilities than normal warriors. Having soul blade opens up much greater training possibilities.