This guide aims to provide an overview and recommendations on both link skills and inner abilities.
It is recommended to follow a "flow chart" format in determining which IA's are used for your class.
Inner abilities in Aries are currently granted as 1 legendary IA + 2 Unique IA's.
Typically the order of operations goes:
Inner abilities in Aries are currently granted as 1 legendary IA + 2 Unique IA's.
Legendary: +1 attack speed, 20% Boss damage, 50% buff duration, 30% crit chance. +1 passive skills(Goes past master level)
Unique: 38% buff duration, 21 m/att, 20% crit chance, 10% boss, 10% cd skip. 8% damage to normal monsters (This is rumoured to count as %dmg making it very good, however this is a bug. Use at your own discretion)
Unique: 38% buff duration, 21 m/att, 20% crit chance, 10% boss, 10% cd skip. 8% damage to normal monsters (This is rumoured to count as %dmg making it very good, however this is a bug. Use at your own discretion)
- Are you a non hurricane user that doesn't go to 2 attack speed with DSI + booster? If yes, +1 attack speed. Otherwise boss damage legendary line.
- Are you a bowman or dont have 100% crit? If yes, +20% crit rate unique.
- Do you have boss damage as your legendary IA? If no, +10% boss damage.
- Do you have a buff that has a cooldown like final cut or enjoy a nice quality of life change? If yes +38% buff duration.
- Do you have a spare IA slot? If yes, +21 m/att.
Link skills are levelled at 1/2/3 at 70/120/210 respectively. Exceptions will be noted where applicable.
Legion character stat boots are all flat stat similar to arcane symbols and do not get increased by %
Legion stat is at level 200 (SS rank). Bolded ones are recommended.
Note this is not asbolute. As Hene pointed out below, the value of some link skills change based on your characters stats.
Legion character stat boots are all flat stat similar to arcane symbols and do not get increased by %
Legion stat is at level 200 (SS rank). Bolded ones are recommended.
Note this is not asbolute. As Hene pointed out below, the value of some link skills change based on your characters stats.
- Angelic Buster
- Grants a 30/45/60% damage boost for 10 seconds 90 second cooldown. (Affected by buff duration)
- Good link skill for classes with burst (Which is almost every post BLACK update). Highly recommended.
- Legion Effect: 80 Dex
- Aran
- Additional 400/650/900% exp from combo orbs.
- Good for levelling other link skills and general levelling under around 200. Combo orb exp falls off afterwards. Recommended for levelling other links/legion.
- Legion Effect: 70% chance to heal 8% hp on hit. 10-ish second cooldown
- Ark
- Stacks up to 5 times in combat. Grants 1% + 1/2/3% damage per stack.
- rants effectively 6/11/16% damage. Stacking can however be abit dodgey sometimes. Good for longer boss fights and levelling. Highly recommended.
- Legion Effect: 80 Str
- Beast Tamer
- 4/7/10% crit rate and boss damage. 3/4/5% max hp/mp.
- Good link for crit and boss damage. Useful if you aren't at 100% crit. Still useful at 100%+ crit as a bowman due to vicious shot. Recommended.
- Legion Effect: 5% IED
- Cadena (2 Levels)
- 3/6% damage against enemies lower level than you. Also 3/6% damage against enemies debuffed.
- Essentially 12% damage if you have a debuff. Alot of classes will have debuffs (Debuffs count DoTs or almost anything that places a marker on top of the enemy). Useless against enemies higher level than you. Highly Recommended if you have a debuff. Otherwise pass.
- Legion Effect: 80 Luk
- Cannoneer
- 15/25/35 All stat, 5/10/15% Max hp/mp
- Skip Unless you're a demon avenger for the %hp.
- Legion Effect: 80 Str
- Cygnus Knights (Stacking)
- Stacking link skills are broken, and the highest level obtainable in Aries is 3. Note that this seems to work for some players. Which is 7% element resist and 7% abnormal status resist.
- Elemental damage is irrelevant in maplestory currently, 7% status resist isn't worth a link slot. Skip
- Legion Effect: Except Dawn Warrior (Flat HP) All Cygnus give 80 Stat they use (NW = Luk/TB = Str etc)
- Demon Avenger
- Grants 5/10/15% damage.
- Self explanatory. More damage = Good. Must have link.
- Legion Effect: 4% Boss damage
- Demon Slayer
- Grants 10/15/20% Boss damage.
- Self explanatory. Should be used for bossing. Highly recommended.
- Legion Effect: 4% Status resistance
- Evan
- 30/50/70% increased rune duration.
- Useful for levelling. Nothing else really. Recommended for levelling.
- Legion Effect: 70% chance to restore 8% MP on hit. 10-ish second cooldown
- Hayato(2 levels)
- Grants 15/25 All stat and 10/15 m/att
- Good link skill. Outclassed by Jett, but still can be very good. Highly Recommended for legion regardless.
- Legion Effect: 5% Crit Dmg
- Ilium(2 levels)
- 1/2% damage per stack. Stacks are granted on movement, last 5 seconds and stacks up to 6 times.
- Effectively 12% damage (in most cases). You'll be moving around while mobbing and most of the time during bosses in order to dodge. Highly recommended.
- Legion Effect: 80 Int
- Jett
- Provides varying levels of stat/att based on jett's core. Maxes out at level 210 (35 all stat 35 att/matt)
- Jett's core works similar to potentials. Theres different tiers, and the "cube" equivalent to reroll the core is a universal drop called stardust in your use tab. Upon rerolling, you're granted varying levels of each stat, matt and att based on your jetts level and your core tier. Max tier is yellow and core stat caps out at level 210. The core also resets each day, however the link skill stat granted will not change unless re-linked. Must have if you're willing to commit. 35 stat/att is alot. Also has a good legion
- Legion Effect: 5% Crit Damage
- Kaiser
- 10/15/20% max hp
- Useless unless you're a demon slayer. Pass.
- Legion Effect: 80 Str
- Kanna(2 levels)
- Grants 5/10% damage.
- Self explanatory. More damage = good. Must have link.
- Legion Effect: 4% Boss Damage
- Kinesis (2 Levels)
- Grants 2/4% critical damage.
- Critical damage is always good. Good for everything basically. Must have link.
- Legion Effect: 80 Int
- Luminous
- Grants 10/15/20% ignore enemy defense.
- Solid link skill, I don't recommend using this if you have a lot of IED though (Roughly 95/96%+) unless your class has no other options. Recommended.
- Legion Effect: 80 Int
- Mercedes
- Grants 10/15/20% exp when killing monsters. (Also grants a TP to elluel every half hour but that's useless)
- Useful for leveling, basically useless for bossing unless you want exp. Must have for levelling also has a good legion.
- Legion Effect: 5% cool down reduction
- Mihile
- Provides 100% stance for 90/110/130 seconds. 180 second cooldown. (Affected by buff duration)
- Useful if you have buff duration, don't have stance and don't like getting knocked back, otherwise not really. Pass.
- Legion Effect: 2000 Flat Hp
- Phantom
- 10/15/20% Crit rate.
- Use it if you don't have 100% critical rate as a non bowman or past 100% as a bowman for vicious shot. Recommended.
- Legion Effect: 4% Meso
- Resistance(Stacking)
- Stacking broken like Cygnus. Max level is currently 3. Note that this seems to work for some players Grants 1 second of immunity per level on reviving.
(Affected by buff duration) - Can be useful on bosses, but as its bugged to be maxed at 3 rather than 8. Pass.
- Legion Effects:
- Wild Hunter: 20% chance to deal 16% more damage
- Mechanic: 20% buff duration
- Blaster: 5% IED
- Battle Mage: 80 Int
- Stacking broken like Cygnus. Max level is currently 3. Note that this seems to work for some players Grants 1 second of immunity per level on reviving.
- Shade (2 Levels)
- 5/10% chance to survive fatal attack.
- Basically stops you dying to an attack 10% of the time. On average this technically gives you 10% more lives, i.e 11 lives in lucid. Passable link skill, not great. Recommended for the legion
- Legion Effect: 5% Crit Damage
- Xenon(2 Levels)
- 5/10% all stat.
- Its free stat. Starts falling off once you get higher amounts of %stat. Recommended.
- Legion Effect: 40 Str, Dex and Luk
- Zero (5 levels)
- Grants 3/6/9/12/15% damage reduction (Does not affect %HP damage) and 2/4/6/8/10% ignore enemy defense.
- Useful if you find yourself dying to normal mobs alot, damage reduction does not work on almost all relevant bosses. Luminous link provides more ignore enemy defense than this. Highly recommended to level for legion
- Legion Effect: 10% exp
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