Battle Mage/Skills

Resistance Skills

Icon	Name	Type	Description
	Crystal Throw	Active	You attack a ranged enemy by throwing a Rue collected from a mine.
	Infiltrate	Active	Allows you to hide and move quickly for a short time. Cooldown: 1 min
	Potion Mastery	Passive	You learn how to use potions more efficiently in order to resolve supply shortage issues.
	Spirit of Freedom (Magician)	Passive	The power of the spirit of Resistance; the power of freedom!
	Secret Assembly	Active	Moves you to the secret assembly area for the Resistance's summons.

Battle Mage Guide

Icon	Name	Type	Description
	Triple Blow	Active	Quickly attacks multiple enemies 3 times. Required Level to Learn 2nd Skill 'Quad Blow': Lv. 10
	Combat Teleport	Active	An improved teleport for use in close-range combat. Allows you to teleport to other locations on the same map using the arrow keys. Can be used while jumping. Level 5 required to learn Dark Shock.
	Hasty Aura	Active	Creates a bright yellow aura that increases the Speed and Attack Speed of your party members. Cancel the aura by pressing the skill key again. Will be canceled if you use another type of aura. Also, permanently increases your Speed, Max Speed, Jump, Attack Speed, and Avoidability.
	Condemnation	Active	Make a pact with a dark spirit using a black magic book. The dark spirit follows you around and when you collect a certain amount of souls, they will reveal themselves to deal a wide-range attack. Its attack will ignore attack reflection and has Attack Power proportional to its level. Can be toggled On/Off.
	Staff Artist	Passive	Years of study with a Staff have made you an exceedingly dangerous opponent.

Battle Mage Guide (II)

Icon	Name	Type	Description
	Quad Blow	Active	Quickly attacks multiple enemies 4 times in a row. Required Skill: Triple Blow Lv. 10+ Required Level to Learn 3rd Skill 'Quintuple Blow': Lv. 10
	Dark Chain	Active	A dark chain emerges from a pentacle to pull multiple enemies toward you. Pulled enemies take damage and have a chance to be knocked down. Can be linked with Blow-type skills. Can be resisted by some monsters.
	Draining Aura	Active	Releases a red aura from your body to return damage dealt to enemies by your party members back as HP. You cannot recover more than 15% of each character's Max HP at once. Use it once more or another aura to deactivate. Also allows you to use enemy souls to recover some of your Max HP.
	Staff Boost	Active	Increases the attack speed of your weapon for a short time. Must have a staff equipped. Required Skill: Staff Mastery Lv. 5
	Staff Mastery	Passive	Increases Mastery, Magic ATT, and Critical Rate on Staff weapons. Required Level to Learn 4th Skill 'Staff Expert': Lv. 10
	High Wisdom	Passive	Permanently increase INT through mental discipline.
	Ordinary Conversion	Passive	Rapidly increases Max HP.
	Grim Contract	Passive	Enhances your pact with the dark spirit.

Advanced Black Magic

Icon	Name	Type	Description
	Quintuple Blow	Active	Quickly attacks multiple enemies 5 times in a row. Required Skill: Quad Blow Lv. 10+ Required Level to Learn 4th Skill 'Finishing Blow': Lv. 10
	Battle Burst	Active	Charges through enemies with Dark Chain. Can be linked with Blow-type skills. Permanently increases Dark Chain's damage.
	Blue Aura	Active	Releases a blue aura from your body to increase nearby party member Resistance to Abnormal Statuses and damage absorption. Use it once more or another kind of aura to remove your current aura. Also permanently increases your Abnormal Status Resistance, Elemental Resistance, Defense, and Damage Absorption.
	Dark Shock	Active	Use Teleport to attack with black lightning between your start and end location, marking hit enemies with a Darkness Emblem. Learn Dark Shock to get Darkness Emblem on Dark Chain and Battle Burst too, and the emblems on those skills will not be used up. Required Skill: Combat Teleport Can be toggled On/Off.
	Battle Mastery	Passive	Hones your skills in battle to permanently increase your Damage and Critical Damage.
	Power Stance	Passive	Concentrates to hold your ground when struck, resisting knock-back effects.
	Dark Conditioning	Passive	Use Resistance skills and dark magic to strengthen your reaction speed.
	Grim Contract II	Passive	Further enhances your pact with the dark spirit.

Super Advanced Black Magic

Icon	Name	Type	Description
	Finishing Blow	Active	Quickly deals 6 attacks on multiple enemies with a chance to stun. Required Skill: Quintuple Blow Lv. 10 and above
	Dark Genesis	Active	Uses deadly lightning to hit and temporarily stun a maximum of 15 enemies. Dark Genesis ignores attack reflection. Learning Dark Genesis skill will permanently increase damage on Dark Chain, Battle Burst, and Dark Shock, and attacking an enemy during cooldown will deal damage with a lightning attack to a single enemy.
	Dark Aura	Active	Produces a mysterious aura that increases the damage done by your party members. Cancel the aura by pressing the skill key again or using another aura. Permanently increases your Magic Attack Power.
	Weakening Aura	Active	Releases an ominous aura from your body to weaken your enemies. Use it once more or another aura to remove your current aura. Weakening Aura has some delay before actually applying, but will continue to work even after the aura deactivates.
	Battle Rage	Active	Focus on a single enemy for a short time, significantly increasing damage against that enemy. Also permanently increases your Max HP and MP. Enemy attacks will not cancel the buff.
	Party Shield	Active	Creates a magical protective shield around you to protect party members. The shield protects you from enemy attacks and decreases the damage when hit with an attack that deals fixed damage.
	Maple Warrior	Active	Temporarily increases the stats of all party members. Does not stack with Maple Warrior, Call of Cygnus, Nova Warrior, Hero of the Flora, President's Orders, or Rhinne's Protection.
	Hero's Will	Active	Hones your resolve to ignore certain abnormal status effects. Immune to Abnormal Status for 3 sec after use.
	Staff Expert	Passive	Increases Staff Mastery, Magic ATT, and Critical Damage. Required Skill: Staff Mastery Lv. 10
	Spell Boost	Passive	Uses a special tool to boost your magic skills.
	Grim Contract III	Passive	Further enhances your pact with the dark spirit.

Hyper Skills

Icon	Name	Type	Description
	Dark Genesis - Cooldown Cutter	Passive	Reduces Dark Genesis cooldown.
	Dark Genesis - Reinforce	Passive	Increases Dark Genesis's damage.
	Dark Genesis - Additional Reinforce	Passive	Increases damage on the lightning strike attacking one enemy during Dark Genesis cooldown.
	Dark Aura - Boss Rush	Passive	Increases damage when attacking Boss Monsters with Dark Aura.
	Weakening Aura - Elemental Decrease	Passive	Adds decreasing Elemental Resistance on the Weakening Aura, and increases the final damage that the enemy receives. Does not stack with the Elemental Resistance reductions from Dawn Warrior's <True Sight - Enhance> and Blaze Wizard's <Fires of Creation>'s effect on party members.
	Blue Aura - Dispel Magic	Passive	Adds Clear Status to blue Aura, which removes Abnormal Status of party members once in a while.
	Party Shield - Cooldown Cutter	Passive	Reduces the cooldown of Party Shield.
	Party Shield - Persist	Passive	Increases Party Shield's duration.
	Party Shield - Enhance	Passive	Increases Party Shield's damage reduction rate by a ratio of max HP.
	Sweeping Staff	Active	Summons a magic staff to sweep out the bad guys.
	For Liberty	Active	Materializes the will of the Resistance to increase attack power.
	Master of Death	Active	Your mastery over death allows you to take full advantage of its abilities.

V Skills

Icon	Name	Type	Description
	Rope Lift	Active	Fires a grappling hook to a platform above you to ascend quickly.
	Decent Mystic Door	Active	Creates a portal that leads to the nearest town. You (and only you) can use it multiple times until it disappears. Press Up to use it.
	Decent Sharp Eyes	Active	Allows you to locate an enemy's weak spot to inflict lethal damage against them. Does not stack with Sharp Eyes.
	Decent Hyper Body	Active	Increases Max HP and Max MP. Does not stack with Hyper Body.
	Decent Combat Orders	Active	Temporarily increases all of your skill levels. Only 4th Job Skills can be increased beyond master level while other skills can only be increased to master level. Exceptions: Beginner skills, Combat Orders, Decent Combat Orders, Hyper Skills, and 5th Job Skills cannot be increased. Does not stack with Combat Orders.
	Decent Advanced Blessing	Active	Greatly increases your ATT, Magic ATT, DEF, Max HP, and Max MP. Can be stacked with other buff skills, except Bless and Advanced Blessing.
	Decent Speed Infusion	Active	Consumes HP to increase your attack speed by 1 level for a fixed period of time. Can be stacked with buffs other than Speed Infusion.
	Blink	Active	Teleports you to a random location on the map.
	Erda Nova	Active	Collect Erda from within yourself and from the surrounding area and use it to shoot down enemies. The enemy with the highest Max HP within range will get attacked first. The Erda of the enemy that has been attacked will become disrupted, which will bind the enemy's movements. Can deal damage to enemies even when they are under Attack Ignore and attack reflection.
	Will of Erda	Active	Hones your resolve to ignore certain abnormal status effects. Immune to Abnormal Status for 3 sec after use.
	Decent Holy Symbol	Active	Temporarily gain extra EXP and items when hunting monsters. Does not stack with Holy Symbol.
	Erda Shower	Active	Fires a blast of compressed Erdas at nearby enemies.
	True Arachnid Reflection	Active	The collapsing space between the Mirror World and reality become linked with Will's Erda, causing the spider within the mirror to temporarily materialize in reality.
	Triple Blow Boost	Passive	Boosts Triple Blow. Lv. 20 - Max Targets: +1 Lv. 40 - Monster DEF Ignored: +20% Final Damage: +7% per level, Max Level: 50 (60 with Matrix Points)
	Condemnation Boost	Passive	Boosts Condemnation. Lv. 20 - Critical Rate: +5% Lv. 40 - Monster DEF Ignored: +20% Final Damage: +2% per level, Max Level: 50 (60 with Matrix Points)
	Quad Blow Boost	Passive	Boosts Quad Blow. Lv. 20 - Max Targets: +1 Lv. 40 - Monster DEF Ignored: +20% Final Damage: +5% per level, Max Level: 50 (60 with Matrix Points)
	Dark Chain Boost	Passive	Boosts Dark Chain. Lv. 20 - Max Targets: +1 Lv. 40 - Monster DEF Ignored: +20% Final Damage: +2% per level, Max Level: 50 (60 with Matrix Points)
	Quintuple Blow Boost	Passive	Boosts Dark Chain. Lv. 20 - Max Targets: +1 Lv. 40 - Monster DEF Ignored: +20% Final Damage: +3% per level, Max Level: 50 (60 with Matrix Points)
	Battle Burst Boost	Passive	Boosts Battle Burst. Lv. 20 - Max Targets: +1 Lv. 40 - Monster DEF Ignored: +20% Final Damage: +2% per level, Max Level: 50 (60 with Matrix Points)
	Dark Shock Boost	Passive	Boosts Dark Shock. Lv. 20 - Max Targets: +1 Lv. 40 - Monster DEF Ignored: +20% Final Damage: +2% per level, Max Level: 50 (60 with Matrix Points)
	Finishing Blow Boost	Passive	Boosts Finishing Blow's and Aura Scythe's Ambassador Scythe enhancement. Lv. 20 - Max Targets: +1 Lv. 40 - Monster DEF Ignored: +20% Final Damage: +2% per level, Max Level: 50 (60 with Matrix Points)
	Dark Genesis Boost	Passive	Boosts Dark Genesis. Lv. 20 - Critical Rate: +5% Lv. 40 - Monster DEF Ignored: +20% Final Damage: +2% per level, Max Level: 50 (60 with Matrix Points)
	Sweeping Staff Boost	Passive	Boosts Sweeping Staff. Lv. 20 - Max Targets: +1 Lv. 40 - Monster DEF Ignored: +20% Final Damage: +2% per level, Max Level: 50 (60 with Matrix Points)
	Resistance Infantry	Active	Summons a squad of Resistance infantry to blast the enemy with long-ranged attacks. Unaffected by attack reflection.
	Maple World Goddess's Blessing	Active	The Maple World Goddess's Blessing increases all stats and damage. Can only be used when you have 1 of the following skills applied: Maple Warrior, Call of Cygnus, Nova Warrior, Hero of the Flora, President's Orders, Anima Warrior, Sengoku Warrior, Maple Guardian, or Rhinne's Protection
	Mana Overload	Active	Increases your attack skills by overloading the mana flowing through you.
	Ethereal Form	Active	Moves you to a different dimension to reduce the damage you take. Use the skill again to return. While in Ethereal Form, you cannot use other skills.
	Aura Scythe	Active	Combine all of your auras and become a grim specter of death.
	Altar of Annihilation	Active	Summons an altar of destructive magic. Once two or more have been placed, the 1st altar fires an orb of deadly void energy that travels between the altars, decimating all in its path. Each orb can only strike a given enemy once until recharged by the next altar. The orb travels faster when additional altars are placed. Additional altars must be placed within range of the previous altar. Enemies hit are marked with a Dark Brand. Unaffected by attack reflection.
	Grim Harvest	Active	Master the art of black magic and summon death itself to deal with your enemies. The summon duration gets longer as there are more souls to be sacrificed. The god of death's attack deals damage to enemies even when they are under attack reflection.