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MapleStory Spearman Guide

So you've decided to become a Spearman, eh? There are some things that you
should know.

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Advantages:

* Uses spears and polearms

* Polearms have a stronger slash

* Spears have a stronger stab

* Weapons have long reach

* Fancy 3rd job skills

* Strongest raw attack

* Many multi-hit moves in 3rd job

* Hyper Body allows them to have much more HP and MP

* Since advancing to Spearman gives you more MP, they have the most MP out
of all the warriors

Disadvantages:

* Spears and Polearms are slow

* Spears do less damage when slashing

* Polearms do less damage when stabbing

* Hardest class to use

* Very big range between minimum and maximum damage

* Lower defense than Page and Fighter because they have no Power Guard

 

Spears: Pros- Slightly faster attack when you stab, and more dmg when you stab

----Cons- Spears at level 50+ = expensive

Slash dmg= weak

Polearms: Pros: Strong slash dmg, prices of polearms slightly less expensive

----Cons- weak at stab, no level 40 polearm out in game yet

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Now that that's done, let's talk about the basics

~~~~~~~~Skills of the Warrior~~~~~~~

Order of what you should get**

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1. HP Recovery: 5

2. Improving Max HP Increase: 10

3. Slash Blast or Power Strike: 10

4. Save 10 points*

5. Slash Blast or Power Strike: 20 (MAX)

6. Slash Blast or Power Strike: 10

7. Save 10 points*

8. Slash Blast or Power Strike: 20 (MAX)

9. Endure: 3

10. Iron Body: 3

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Now that that's done, let's talk about Spearmans.

Spearmans are overall strong and flexible, with skills that is really helpful in
parties, and they are really cool :D~

Your Stats Distribution should go somewhere along these lines; if your a 4/4
build

Remeber: Dex= Important

QUOTE(Xephon)

Stat Build (In increments of every 5 levels, starting from level 10)[%3]

Level 10: 40 Str, 22 Dex

Level 15: 55 Str, 32 Dex

Level 20: 70 Str, 42 Dex

Level 25: 85 Str, 52 Dex

Level 30: 100 Str, 62 Dex

Level 35: 120 Str, 67 Dex

Level 40: 140 Str, 72 Dex

Level 45: 160 Str, 77 Dex

Level 50: 180 Str, 82 Dex

Level 55: 200 Str, 87 Dex

Level 60: 220 Str, 92 Dex

Level 65: 240 Str, 97 Dex

Level 70: 260 Str, 102 Dex

From levels 10-30, your DEX should be 2X your level and REST in Str

From levels 30-70, your points should go into 4 str, 1 dex per level

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Skill Points Distribution

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QUOTE(Xephon)

Spending your SP correctly will make your life as a Spearman much more
enjoyable, and hopefully a fair bit easier too, so heres my advice as to how
to spend it.

Level 10 Job Transition > 1 SP > Improving HP Recovery

Level 11 Level Up > 3 SP > +3 Improving HP Recovery

Level 12 Level Up > 3 SP > +1 Improving HP Recovery, +2 Increasing Max HP
Increase

Level 13 Level Up > 3 SP > +3 Increasing Max HP Increase

Level 14 Level Up > 3 SP > +3 Increasing Max HP Increase

Level 15 Level Up > 3 SP > +2 Increasing Max HP Increase, +1 Power Strike

Level 16 Level Up > 3 SP > +3 Slash Blast

Level 17 Level Up > 3 SP > +3 Slash Blast

Level 18 Level Up > 3 SP > +3 Slash Blast

Level 19 Level Up > 3 SP > +1 Slash Blast

Level 20 Level Up > 5 SP > Save SP

Level 21 Level Up > 8 SP > Save SP

Level 22 Level Up > 11 SP > +10 Slash Blast, +1 Power Strike

Level 23 Level Up > 3 SP > +3 Power Strike

Level 24 Level Up > 3 SP > +3 Power Strike

Level 25 Level Up > 3 SP > +2 Power Strike

Level 26 Level Up > 4 SP > Save SP

Level 27 Level Up > 7 SP > Save SP

Level 28 Level Up > 10 SP > +10 Power Strike

Level 29 Level Up > 3 SP > +3 Endure

Level 30 Level Up > 3 SP > +3 Iron Body

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****2nd Class (Spearman)

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Level 30 > SP 1 > +1 Spear/Polearm Mastery

Level 31 > SP 3 > +3 Spear/Polearm Mastery

Level 32 > SP 3 > +3 Spear/Polearm Mastery

Level 33 > SP 3 > +3 Spear/Polearm Mastery

Level 34 > SP 3 > +3 Spear/Polearm Mastery

Level 35 > SP 3 > +3 Spear/Polearm Mastery

Level 36 > SP 3 > +3 Spear/Polearm Mastery

Level 37 > SP 3 > +1 Spear/ Polearm Mastery (Maxed), +2 Spear/Polearm Booster

Level 38 > SP 3 > +2 Final Attack Spear/Polearm, +1 Spear/Polearm Booster

Level 39 > SP 3 > +2 Final Attack Spear/Polearm, +1 Spear/Polearm Booster

Level 40 > SP 3 > +2 Final Attack Spear/Polearm, +1 Spear/Polearm Booster

Level 41 > SP 3 > +2 Final Attack Spear/Polearm, +1 Spear/Polearm Booster

Level 42 > SP 3 > +2 Final Attack Spear/Polearm, +1 Iron Will

Level 43 > SP 3 > +2 Final Attack Spear/Polearm, +1 Iron Will

Level 44 > SP 3 > +2 Final Attack Spear/Polearm, +1 Iron Will

Level 45 > SP 3 > +2 Final Attack Spear/Polearm, +1 Hyper Body

Level 46 > SP 3 > +2 Final Attack Spear/Polearm, +1 Hyper Body

Level 47 > SP 3 > +2 Final Attack Spear/Polearm, +1 Hyper Body

Level 48 > SP 3 > +3 Final Attack Spear/Polearm

Level 49 > SP 3 > +3 Final Attack Spear/Polearm

Level 50 > SP 3 > +3 Final Attack Spear/Polearm

Level 51 > SP 3 > +1 Final Attack Spear/Polearm (Maxed),+2 Hyper Body

Level 52 > SP 3 > +3 Hyper Body

Level 53 > SP 3 > +3 Hyper Body

Level 54 > SP 3 > +3 Hyper Body

Level 55 > SP 3 > +3 Hyper Body

Level 56 > SP 3 > +3 Hyper Body

Level 57 > SP 3 > +3 Hyper Body

Level 58 > SP 3 > +3 Hyper Body

Level 59 > SP 3 > +3 Hyper Body

Level 60 > SP 3 > +1 Hyper Body (maxed), +2 Spear/Polearm Booster

Level 61 > SP 3 > +3 Spear/Polearm Booster

Level 62 > SP 3 > +3 Spear/Polearm Booster

Level 63 > SP 3 > +3 Spear/Polearm Booster

Level 64 > SP 3 > +3 Spear/Polearm Booster(Maxed)

Level 65 > SP 3 > +3 Iron BODY

Level 66 > SP 3 > +3 Iron BODY

Level 67 > SP 3 > +3 Iron BODY

Level 68 > SP 3 > +3 Iron BODY

Level 69 > SP 3 > +3 Iron BODY

Level 70 > SP 3 > +2 Iron Body, 1 Point left for whatever

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*****Ending Stats:

Spear/Polearm Mastery: 20

Spear/Polearm Final Attack: 30

Spear/Polearm Booster: 18

Iron Will: 3

Hyper Body: 30

*****1st Class Skills:

Increasing Max HP Recovery: 5

Increasing Max HP Increase: 10

Endure: 3

Iron Body: 20

Power Strike: 20

Slash Blast: 20

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Training Spots:

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Level 1-10 Maple Island (Basically Snails)

Level 5-10 Heneyes Hunting Ground I (Yet more Snails)

Level 10-13 Mushroom Garden (Snails, Mushrooms)

Level 13-18 Slime Tree (ALOT OF SLIMES!)

Level 18-25 Green Mushrooms (Mmm.. Green mushrooms! Also you can get a chance to
find a panlid o.o;)

Level 21-30 PQ

or

Level 21-25 Axe Stumps

Level 25-30 Pig Beach

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Level 27-32 Horned Mushrooms

Level 32-40 Wild Boars

Level 35-50 Evil Eyes

or

Level 35-50 Cursed Eyes

Level 40-45 Dangerous Valley

Level 45-50 Sleepywood Dungeon III,IV, or V with a party

Level 45-52 Drakes Hunting Ground, or Entrance of Stone Golem Temple

Level 48-50 Hot Sand (Lorangs Clangs and Umtis)

Level 52-60 Wild Cargos Area, Dangerous Crokos II, or Drakes Meal Table, or if
you have a party Tauromacis

Level 60-70 Tauromacis, Taurospears, Cargos, Drakes Meal Table, Wild Cargos
Area, and anywhere else you want to kill

* I've put different areas of where you can train because, sometimes you might
get bored. From alot of experience (and pissing off Shoy) I put alot of places
you can train so you won't get bored all the time

Credits:
for alot of the warrior information

Xephon's Spearman
Faq for alot of useful information

Other useful Links:
Luffy's guide to hidden streets you might not know is

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Questions and Answers

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1. I heard that you should only get 19 Mastery, but your guide says 20.

A: Well, Lvl 20 mastery does NOT add damage, but it adds 1 more Accuarcy, which
is useful and for 1 acc, you need 1-2 more dex for just 1 more acc

2. Why Iron Body? Why not Iron Wall/Will

A: Iron body is like.. your wearing another armor if maxed. The 40 more defence
boost can help you alot, reducing around 20 dmg which can save alot of potions.
I Iron Will though adds 20 Def and 20 Mdef. Both are good but, alot of monsters
have physical dmg, and you'll probably fighting alot of them. If you want more
mdef, just use Ancient Saps,etc

**Note** It's your choice on what you decided to use, both are good, but I
perfer Iron Body. If you Do want Iron Will, then that's
your choice, just replace the last points to
iron will instead of body and your set

3. At level 30-70 I hear people saying putting 5 str each level until 35 to wear
your gloves, and then some weird way to distribute your other stat points

A: At level 35, if you do the 4 Str, 1 Dex method, then you will have 120 Str, 5
short of the Dark Briggons, but, you can get +Str, from armors such as White
Cross Chainmails to boost your str to wear the gloves

4. Can you redo the stat distribution? Because by level 40, you only have 140
str, but you need 150 to wear Adamantine Knuckles

A: I know the lvl 40 gloves needs 150 str, when I was level 40, I only had 140,
but my your level 40 equip should boost your str enough to wear your gloves.

Even if you don't get enough str by your things, your next levels will allow you
to

5. I wanna go full spear, but theres no spear for lvl 20-30, is polearm the same
or does it make difference?

A: Auctually, there is a level 20 spear called "Fish Spear" and Bubblings drop
them.For the most part, it doesn't matter if you use a spear or polearm at
levels 20-30, anything that you can kill with is fine