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Sniper
Job Base(s):	Hunter
Job Type:	2-1 Transcendent
Job Level:	70
Race:	Human
Changes At:	Juno
Number of Skills:	4
Total Skill Points:	112
Total Quest Skills:	1
Job Bonuses
STR AGI VIT INT DEX LUK +4 +11 +3 +5 +14 +8

One shot, one kill! There is no better way to describe the Sniper.

A Sniper specializes in precise and powerful ranged attacks like Focused Arrow Strike to eliminate mobs of monsters with critical accuracy. They also have adopted the power of the wind to become a Wind Walker, improving their speed on the battlefield. The Sniper is a master of the Bow and, in a their hands, it is a deadly instrument to be feared.

Snipers have also gained a new skill called Falcon Assault for their lifelong friend, the Falcon. As their friendship strengthens, so does their power and their vision has improved to be as sharp as their partner's with Falcon Eyes.

To become a Sniper, you must find a book called 'the Book of Ymir' in 'Sage Castle', Juno. The book will lead you to Valhalla so you can change your job through the Sniper Job NPC. Also you must reach Job Level 50 as a Transcendent 1st class character.

1. 'Sage Castle' is located at 11 o'clock direction (yuno 88/320)Paste Ingame in Juno.	2. 'Book of Ymir' is located inside a room behind an NPC called 'Metheus Sylphe' (yuno_in02 88/164)Paste Ingame.
3. 'Book of Ymir' (yuno_in02 94/206)Paste Ingame will teleport you to Valhalla.	4. Find and talk to the Job NPC suited to your 2nd class.

For more information about Hunter skills, click Here

Skill	Description	Levels	Type
Falcon Assault	Deal a single attack that ignores the target's DEF. Damage based on casters DEX and AGI.	5	Offensive
Falcon Eyes	Increases all Stats by 5 and increases damage, HIT, and CRIT for the skill's duration.	10	Supportive
Focused Arrow Strike	Deal Ranged Physical damage to the target and surrounding enemies. Has a chance to critical hit.	5	Offensive
Wind Walker	Increase the entire party's Movement Speed and FLEE for the skill's duration.	10	Supportive

Stat\Amount	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5	+6	+7	+8	+9	+10	+11	+12	+13	+14
STR	8	24	45	61
AGI	2	6	10	11	21	28	33	38	43	48	58
VIT	12	32	55
INT	5	20	42	54	65
DEX	1	3	4	16	17	22	26	30	35	40	46	51	60	69
LUK	14	25	32	36	50	57	62	70

ASPD values do not change after transcending. See Hunter (ASPD).

See Ranger Builds for build strategies to work towards. See Hunter Builds for previous leveling strategies during the Sniper leveling stages. Leveling a Sniper is similar to a regular pre-trans Job, but with a few new skill additions.

Base Level 99 base stat distribution suggestion:

• STR: 1
• AGI: 1
• VIT: 90
• INT: 1
• DEX: 90
• LUK: 60

Focused Arrow Strike is one of the strongest transcendent skills in the game, and continues to get buffed with affordable gear far into the 100s and beyond. Because of this, it is recommended to start building your character around this now as it is the most effective build for 3rd Class Ranger, and the stats align with 4th Class Windhawk skills as well. You can even continue to use this into the endgame with proper gear.

This is the first Critical Skill available to the Archer Jobs so upping CRIT will be important to maximize damage, but the skill innately adds a crit rate bonus when using it. There are some minor cast times that may be hard to remove as a new player, so planning around that until you can remove those easily at 100+ will be important for smooth gameplay. Otherwise, this is a big improvement in damage compared to any of the other skills.

DEX is still your main damage and HIT stat, while VIT keeps you alive when mobbing larger groups of monsters. LUK is then recommended for increased CRIT but INT can be added in place of VIT if you are struggling with reducing cast time for the skill later on or have any SP issues.

Base Level 99 base stat distribution suggestion:

• STR: 1
• AGI: 1
• VIT: 90
• INT: 60
• DEX: 90
• LUK: 1

Although Snipers gain access to a new Arrow and Falcon skill, the Archer skill Arrow Shower is still one of the most reliable AOE skills. With a proper set up and the right Elemental Arrows or Elemental Converters, this build can level very effectively and quickly to Base Level 99 by continuing the same strategy as before.

DEX is still your main damage and HIT stat, while VIT keeps you alive when mobbing larger groups of monsters and INT is recommended for SP regen and pool size.

Unless you are changing to Arrow Storm as a Ranger, it would be recommended to Stat Reset before changing to 3rd Job to the Focused Arrow Strike build above.

Base Level 99 base stat distribution suggestion:

• STR: 1
• AGI: 1
• VIT: 60
• INT: 90
• DEX: 90
• LUK: 1

This build focuses on the same Traps available to Hunters -- Claymore Trap, Blast Mine, Freezing Trap, and Land Mine -- to deal specific elemental damage to groups of monsters and not much has changed. If you consider a monster's elemental weakness, traps can usually deal enough to one-shot any monster weak to the element in the Hunter's level range. Hunters can simply lay down traps in a monster's path or lure monsters into pre-laid traps to one shot them using skillful movement or stopping them in their tracks with an Ankle Snare.

Damage for these traps are not calculated based on ATK (nor MATK) and simply use the Hunter's DEX and INT stats. Therefore, it is possible to use a dagger and shield with this to maximize damage reductions. Other Hunter builds that are Bow-oriented can also use traps as supplementary damage.

DEX and INT are your primary damage stats for this build, while VIT keeps you alive when mobbing larger groups of monsters.

Unless you are changing to Arrow Storm as a Ranger, it would be recommended to Stat Reset before changing to 3rd Job to the Focused Arrow Strike build above.

Base Level 99 base stat distribution suggestion:

• STR: 1
• AGI: 90
• VIT: 1
• INT: 1
• DEX: 90
• LUK: 60

A Blitz Beat build can still be recommended for newer players with less funds as it relies on using the Falcon to attack, whether via manual casting of the skill or auto-casting it when attacking with arrows. As a Sniper, you get a secondary Falcon Skill call Falcon Assault that is stronger but single target only, making it better for cleaning up left over monsters.

This means you can level a Hunter using no ammunition (if manual casting) and less healing items with your higher FLEE at the cost of slower leveling. The Passive Skill, Steel Crow, increases damage of the main skill of this build and the trap, Ankle Snare, can freeze enemies to pick off at a distance.

This build is specialized in two means of leveling:

• CTRL+R-Click (or /nc) killing monsters using a high ASPD to get the Falcon to proc an automatic Blitz Beat after running around and gathering mobs into a tight grouping. This method can offer higher DPS at the cost of using Arrows but requires higher LUK to increase the chance it goes off.
• Manually casting Blitz Beat & Falcon Assault after running around and gathering mobs into a tight grouping. This method suffers from some minor cast times but guarantees the skill and uses no ammunition to use.

DEX is still your main damage and HIT stat, while AGI is desired for higher ASPD and FLEE to dodge individual monsters as well as increasing the damage for Falcon Assault. LUK is then recommended for upping the chance for Blitz Beat to proc when auto-attacking and adding more damage by allowing arrows to crit.

• Hunter Bow
• Hunting Arrow

The Hunter Bow with Hunting Arrow combination is strongest for Hunters, especially if using Elemental Converters (or if Sage Endows are available) to maximize damage. When a Hunter Bow is combined with Hunting Arrows, players receive a +50% ranged damage bonus to all attacks. The unslotted Hunter Bow is a free gift from the Hunter guild to all hunters that job change at Job 50, but it can also be purchased in the Payon Weapon Shop for very cheap if you lose it.

This combo can be made even stronger if using a Hunter Bow [1] with a damage increasing card such as Archer Skeleton Card or Bow Guardian Card.

Hunting Arrow Quivers can be purchased from Quivering Merchant (moc_paraup 41/162)Paste Ingame on the 2nd Floor of Eden Group, the Mora Village Tool Dealer (mora 100/118)Paste Ingame in Mora (locked behind a Level 100 Questline), or off other players through Merchant vend shops.

Placing both your arrows and quivers on the hotkey bar will allow players to monitor how many arrows they have left, open new quivers with a single key-press, and equip arrows if you accidentally run out. This can be a life saver in emergency situations.

When mobbing or tanking groups of monsters, especially for AOE leveling, Healing Items WILL need to be consumed and often even spammed.

Two popular and cheap healing items are Nepeta Cataria and Fresh Fish due to their cheap cost and low weight:

• Nepeta Cataria can be purchased from Cat Paw Shrimp Merchant in Izlude (izlude 117/165)Paste Ingame or Prontera (prontera 137/223)Paste Ingame (or in Lasagna (lasagna 166/117)Paste Ingame if starting as a Doram) for only 15z each (11z with max Discount).
• Fresh Fish can be purchased from Cooking Merchant (payon 167/134)Paste Ingame in Payon or Chef's Assistant (alberta 167/134)Paste Ingame at the docks of Alberta, as well as other cities, for only 250z each (190z with max Discount).

For a list of Healing Items, a comparison, and a list of a couple popular Healing Items, please see the main article: Healing Items.

Main article: Eden Group Equipments Quests

Most transcendent characters will have already completed some Eden Equipment quests already and can reuse the equipment. If the character has not done the quest yet, they can do it as a transcendent character as well. The Bow is a good weapon and generally a good choice for a Hunter and their future classes' use.

Main article: Equipment

The Equipment article lists some general all purpose equipment that is useful through the PVM phase and also for endgame use as well.

Main article: Ranger Equipment

It is recommended to look at the Equipment recommendations for the Third Class job to see what equipment to strive for, rather than to spend a lot of money on a piece of equipment that will not be used in the future as a third class. However, some equipment may have a high level requirement, or are transcendent only.

After considering what requirement skills have (some skills can only be used with certain weapon types), the Weapon Search tool within the iRO Wiki DB site is very helpful. Generally, for physical classes (both melee and ranged), something with high ATK is best. For magic classes, something with high MATK is best.

Link to the iRO Wiki DB Weapon Search: http://db.irowiki.org/db/weapon-search/

Hunter Bow [1]

Falken Blitz [2]

Card Options:

Archer Skeleton Card

Soldier Skeleton Card

Rideword Hat [1]

Ulle's Cap [1]

Little Feather Hat [1]

Sniping Suit [1]

For ultimate FLEE boost:

Dragon Vest [1]

Dragon Manteau [1]

Carded with:

Whisper Card

Alicel Card

Poor man's FLEE boost:

Undershirt [1]

Pantie [1]

Dragon Manteau [1]

Wool Scarf [1]

Carded with:

Nine Tail Card

Whisper Card

Dragon Tail Card

Variant Shoes

Black Leather Boots [1]

Tidal Shoes [1]

Recommend for Blitzer:

Brooch [1]

Blitzer Alternative, not recommended over Brooch:

Rosary [1]

Recommended for Trapper:

Glove [1]

Recommended for long ranged physical ability based damage. Will not improve damage done by traps:

Bow Thimble [1]

CRIT boosters. Not recommended when compared to other options:

Zhu Po Long Card

Kobold Card

Recommended for Trapper and builds that focus on damage done with abilities:

Zerom Card

Generates knockback and poison effect. With knockback and high attack speed, it is possible to increase distance from a monster and in the best scenario, hit lock the enemy monster. Poison decreases DEF of a target, does damage over time, and stops SP regeneration. Damage done is poison attribute. Best combined when the target is inflected with curse.

Poisonous Toad Card

Generates knockback effect.

Bongun Card

GREATLY increases auto attack damage. Recommended for Blizters above all other cards.

Owl Baron Card

Extra Carding Option Specifically for Archer Class:

Dragon Tail Card

Merman Card

Anolian Card

Alligator Card

Cruiser Card

This combination, albeit excessive, offers a set of bonuses for the archer classes:

• Agi +5
• Dex +3
• Perfect Hit +20
• Increases damage with ranged attacks by 20%.
• Adds a 1% chance of inflicting [Coma] on [Brute] race targets when doing a physical attack.
• Increases the experience given from [Brute] race monsters by 5%.

Hunter • Sniper • Ranger • Windhawk
2nd Class Skills	Ankle Snare • Beast Bane • Beast Charge • Blast Mine • Blitz Beat • Claymore Trap • Detect • Falconry Mastery • Flasher • Freezing Trap • Land Mine • Phantasmic Arrow • Remove Trap • Sandman • Shockwave Trap • Skid Trap • Spring Trap • Steel Crow • Talkie Box
Transcendent Skills	Falcon Eyes • Falcon Assault • Focused Arrow Strike • Wind Walker
3rd Class Skills	Aimed Bolt • Arrow Storm • Bomb Cluster • Camouflage • Cobalt Trap • Detonator • Electric Shock • Fear Breeze • Fire Trap • Full Throttle • Ice Trap • Keen Nose • Magenta Trap • Main Ranger • Maze Trap • No Limits • Trap Research • Verdure Trap • Warg Bite • Warg Dash • Warg Mastery • Warg Ride • Warg Strike • Warg Teeth
4th Class Skills	Advanced Trap • Calamity Gale • Crescive Bolt • Deep Blind Trap • Flame Trap • Gale Storm • Hawk Boomerang • Hawk Mastery • Hawk Rush • Nature's Friend • Solid Trap • Swift Trap • Wind Sign
Quests	Hunter Job Change Guide • Hunter Skill Quest • Rebirth Walkthrough • Ranger Job Change Guide • Fourth Class Job Change Quest Skip • Wind Hawk Job Change Guide
Weapons	Bow (Arrows)

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