Lupin Tier 1 Skills

Part Water

Ingame Description : The foundational Lupin technique. It is said that a Lupin can part water with a single stroke.
Additional Skill Bonus : Your Attack Power stat is increased by 5% when using this skill.
Character Level Requirement : 15
Initiate Tier Requirement : 8 skill points spent on Initiate tier.
Quest Requirement : Tier 1 questline completed
Skill Type : Active, Attack Skill
Target : Single monster or player
Casting Time : 1 second
Cooldown : Instant

Skill Rank	Level Required	Spirit Cost	Bonus Damage
Rank 1	15	19 SP	45
Rank 2	17	19 SP	49
Rank 3	19	20 SP	54
Rank 4	21	21 SP	58
Rank 5	23	22 SP	62
Rank 6	25	24 SP	67
Rank 7	27	25 SP	71
Rank 8	29	27 SP	76
Rank 9	31	30 SP	88

Free Spirit

Ingame Description : To thine own self be true.
Additional Information : Permanently increases both your maximum Health and Spirit
Character Level Requirement : Level 16 or higher
Skill Requirement : Part Water Level 1 or higher
Skill Type : Passive, Stat Increase

Skill Rank	Level Required	Health Increase	Spirit Increase
Rank 1	16	95%	95%
Rank 2	24	190%	190%
Rank 3	32	285%	285%

Full of Love

Ingame Description : You are overcome with strong emotions, which temporarily raises your attack power.
Character Level Requirement : 25
Skill Requirement : Free Spirit Level 2 or higher
Skill Type : Active, Buff skill
Target : Yourself
Casting Time : 1 second
Cooldown : 3 minutes

Skill Rank	Level Required	Spirit Cost	Attack Increase	Duration
Rank 1	25	42 SP	5%	16 seconds
Rank 2	27	48 SP	6%	18 seconds
Rank 3	29	54 SP	7%	20 seconds
Rank 4	31	60 SP	8%	22 seconds
Rank 5	33	66 SP	9%	24 seconds
Rank 6	35	72 SP	10%	26 seconds
Rank 7	37	78 SP	11%	28 seconds
Rank 8	40	84 SP	12%	30 seconds

Cloudbreaker

Ingame Description : Chop a cloud into rain under a crescent moon. Attack a single nearby target, making them lose health and spirit over time.
Additional Information : The bleed effect doesn't work on all monsters. Jade Dynasty's version of Cloudbreaker is different from the other versions when it comes to the HP/SP loss and duration of the bleed effect.
Character Level Requirement : Level 40
Skill Requirement : Full of Love Rank 6 or higher.
Skill Type : Active, Attack Skill
Target : Single Monster or Player
Casting Time : 1 second
Cooldown : 4 seconds

Skill Rank	Level Required	Spirit Cost	Additional Damage	HP/SP Loss	Duration
Rank 1	40	30 SP	60	288 / 576	8 seconds
Rank 2	42	30 SP	66	N / A	10 seconds
Rank 3	44	31 SP	72	N / A	12 seconds
Rank 4	46	32 SP	78	N / A	14 seconds
Rank 5	48	34 SP	84	N / A	16 seconds
Rank 6	50	36 SP	90	N / A	18 seconds
Rank 7	52	38 SP	96	N / A	20 seconds
Rank 8	54	41 SP	102	N / A	22 seconds
Rank 9	56	44 SP	108	N / A	24 seconds

Haste

Ingame Description : You feel weightless and nimble.
Additional Information : This skill temporarily increases your movement speed.
Character Level Requirement : Level 20
Skill Requirement : Part Water Rank 3 or higher.
Skill Type : Active, Buff skill
Target : Yourself
Casting Time : 1 second
Cooldown : 4 minutes

Skill Rank	Level Required	Spirit Cost	Movement Speed Increase	Duration
Rank 1	20	100 SP	0.6 yards / sec	16 seconds
Rank 2	22	100 SP	1.1 yards / sec	18 seconds
Rank 3	24	100 SP	1.6 yards / sec	20 seconds
Rank 4	26	100 SP	2.1 yards / sec	22 seconds
Rank 5	28	100 SP	2.6 yards / sec	24 seconds
Rank 6	30	100 SP	3.1 yards / sec	26 seconds
Rank 7	32	100 SP	3.6 yards / sec	28 seconds
Rank 8	34	100 SP	4.1 yards / sec	30 seconds

Love's Snare

Ingame Description : "Love is the most pleasurable pain imaginable." This skill stings like a passionate embrace.
Additional Information : This skill has a chance to paralyze the target.
Character Level Requirement : Level 30
Skill Requirement : Haste Rank 5 or higher.
Skill Type : Active, Attack Skill
Target : Single Monster or Player
Casting Time : 1 second
Cooldown : 5 seconds

Skill Rank	Level Required	Spirit Cost	Additional Damage	Paralyze Strength	Duration	Range
Rank 1	30	30 SP	31	40	2 seconds	0.5 yards
Rank 2	32	30 SP	36	44	2.7 seconds	1 yards
Rank 3	34	31 SP	41	48	3.4 seconds	1.5 yards
Rank 4	36	32 SP	46	52	4.1 seconds	2 yards
Rank 5	38	34 SP	51	56	4.8 seconds	2.5 yards
Rank 6	40	36 SP	56	60	5.5 seconds	3 yards
Rank 7	42	38 SP	61	64	6.2 seconds	3.5 yards
Rank 8	44	41 SP	66	68	6.9 seconds	4 yards
Rank 9	46	44 SP	71	72	7.6 seconds	4.5 yards

Meditation

Ingame Description : Elementary Lupin Technique. Meditate to become aware of changes in your environment.
Additional Information : This ability permenantly raises the caster's attack power and accuracy while also decreasing their chance of being slowed.
Character Level Requirement : Level 16
Skill Requirement : Part Water Rank 1 or higher.
Skill Type : Passive, Stat Increase

Skill Rank	Level Required	Attack Increase	Accuracy Increase	Resistance to Slow
Rank 1	16	3	20	5%
Rank 2	18	6	40	10%
Rank 3	20	9	60	15%
Rank 4	22	12	80	20%
Rank 5	25	15	100	25%
Rank 6	29	18	120	30%
Rank 7	32	21	140	35%
Rank 8	36	8	160	40%

Mist

Ingame Description : This ability temporarily increases your defense, but lowers your attack power.
Character Level Requirement : Level 25
Skill Requirement : Meditation Rank 4 or higher.
Skill Type : Active, Buff skill
Target : Yourself
Casting Time : 1 second
Cooldown : 3 minutes

Skill Rank	Level Required	Spirit Cost	Defense Increase	Attack Decrease	Duration
Rank 1	25	43 SP	77	60%	16 seconds
Rank 2	29	46 SP	141	57%	18 seconds
Rank 3	33	50 SP	229	54%	20 seconds
Rank 4	37	55 SP	353	51%	22 seconds
Rank 5	41	62 SP	525	4%	24 seconds
Rank 6	45	70 SP	757	30%	26 seconds
Rank 7	50	78 SP	1061	35%	28 seconds
Rank 8	55	88 SP	1449	39%	30 seconds

Thicken Blood

Ingame Description : Harden your blood and you will know no limits.
Additional Information : Increases your maximum health and spirit.
Character Level Requirement : Level 35
Skill Requirement : Mist Rank 3 or higher.
Skill Type : Active, Buff skill
Target : Yourself
Casting Time : 1 second
Cooldown : 4 seconds
Buff Duration : 30 minutes

Skill Rank	Level Required	Spirit Cost	Max HP Increase	Max Spirit Increase
Rank 1	35	68 SP	20%	5%
Rank 2	39	78 SP	40%	10%
Rank 3	43	89 SP	60%	15%
Rank 4	47	101 SP	80%	20%
Rank 5	49	114 SP	100%	25%
Rank 6	51	129 SP	120%	30%
Rank 7	53	144 SP	140%	35%
Rank 8	56	161 SP	160%	40%

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Balo Ascension Skills

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Faction Skills

Ascension Skills
Balo

Lupin Tier Skills
Tier 1

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Dagos All Around Build (PvE/PvP Ascended)

Introduction
If you went Dagos, you should know our Dagos Faction Skills are mainly AoE based thus you need to put points towards those skills.  This build ignores Furious Roar II and Tiger Smash II skills because I find them useless.  If you do not find them useless, then you will have to rewrite this build.  This is because this build focuses also on PvP elemenets.

The way you distribute your points is up to you.  I don't provide any methods on what you should use your points on for what skill first.  I just post what the final build should look like.

Faction Affinity Skills?
Affinity skills?  Read the above line and apply it to affinity skills.  I suggest the first faction skill to max is Warsong II with Thunderbolt II and Song of Antipathy II next.  Do note that currently, the effects for TB II and SoA II do not work.

Picture Fixes
Ignore the "10" on Dark Injury.  I was using Safari at the time and the skill simulator seems to hate it.  The max on Dark Injury is 9!

On the Combat tome, Heaven Design should be 3/3.

Heoric Fire should be 1/3 and not 2/3.

Necessary Skills on Esper
Powerful Aid
Ancient Soul
Sky Rift
Twisting Dragon
Dark Injury
Song of Antipathy

*Never seen Combat Spirit or Dragon Speed and such on a esper, but if that can be put on the esper, no need for Dark Injury and such.
*Ancient Soul must be on your esper.  That is your #1 priority.

Necessary Charms
Noble Hunt
Heaven Design
Light Walk
Cloud Climb
Dragon Fury (Elder of Arcaness)
Self Doom (Elder of Arcaness)

*It will take you quite awhile to get the EoA charms unless you are made of $ (or honor) and arcane coins.

Gear
I don't go in depth on this because it totally depends on your own personal tastes.

For PvE, get the most attack you can.  This means your imbues should be focused on attack, essence focused on attack, and so on.

Balo really need a Skyseal necklace over any of the other necklaces.  Getting that 4% critstrike necklace is dumb when you can get a 16% critstrike bonus and 3% critstrike rate with SS.  Is 1% critstrike going to kill you?

You should focus on having honor deity body gear.  Skytouch and BG are only for PvP or other activities that don't involve you grinding for 058450840584 hours.  Balo is the only faction period that can easily get the 135 ascended mobs to do -1 damage to them if you get +8 on your 135 gear.  But then again, you need more than +8 armor.  Affinity skills and gear matter.

Damage Reduction rings are needed for PvE and they need to be 3 star.  Its the only way you will take -1 damage.

Charm?  If you are going to spam fiery wind, the Fiery Land charm is what you should have on when grinding.  When you have ancient soul at 140, you should put that charm on.  Otherwise, you can always have the Dragon Fury charm on or even noble hunt if you spam Powerful Aid.

PvP, obviously, you need health, resistance rings, and so on.  I don't go in details like I said. There are a lot of things you can do in general for both PvE and PvP and I expect you to already know this.


Other
For those that don't care about the defense loss from dragon speed, you can replace the two tome points and put it somewhere else.  Really, in this build, you will have 1 tome point left over (which I put into heoric fire) so if you get rid of DS you would have a total of 3 points and can put the 3 points into Fury lord or something else.

Tier 1

Tier 2

Tier 3

Tier 4

Tier 5

Tome

Heaven

Combat

Blood

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Which Affinity is for me?

Dagos
Dagos Faction Skills focuses on AoE and Support type skills.  Dagos in general is more of a defensive and support affinity focusing on defense, critstrike rate and bonus, and resistances.  They have some AoE skills too, but the defensive and support skills are mostly what Dagos is about.  They also have those Potions that give Attack and Defense (+ HP restoration) and Resistances (+ SP Restoration).  So you are looking at 20% attack and defense + 100% HP restoration at 10.

In my opinion, Dagos should be a Balo's primary choice for affinity.  The reason I say this is because when it comes end game time, what skill will you be spamming the most?  I imagine you went the Powerful Aid route and you would have the charm making its cooldown 2 seconds which means its a spammable skill.

The Affinity Skills from Felkin just don't seem any good as I can put the same status effects on the other player and spam it like no other.  If you want to play the "bleed" game with the felkin skills, you can but there are so many factors to consider when  it comes to health reduction.  If you are a cash shop player who has all the $ in the world, then I guess felkin may be the superior one, but even then, Dagos is better.

Fuwa's skills are actually really good when compared to Felkin, but in the end, I see myself saying I will just spam Powerful Aid all the time.  This may be different for you.  Penetrator II is a amazing skill along with the other one.  The passive SP skill makes it so you are better tank than the other 2 affinities.

Dagos faction skills are just good because not only are they aoe, but they have a 30 second cooldown and will remove the target's spirit and buffs (Thunberbolt II and Song of Antipathy II).  Warsong II will increase your critstrike rate and skill accuracy which you will need.  The other skills I don't find any good and will be the last thing I would max.

The AoE skills would be good for AoE leveling except that you would have to gather the monsters first.   The Dagos AoE affinity skills are for PvP mainly.

Lastly, the ascension skills for Balo already make me say I don't need to go Felkin or Fuwa despite their cooldown.

To sum it up, Dagos Balos will have higher resistances, critstrike rate and bonus, attack and defense than the other two affinities.

Felkin
I don't have much to say about Felkin because I do not like any of their skills.

The Felkin Faction skills suck in my opinion.  One of my main gripes with them are their cooldowns.  Sure, Ordeal II is 12 seconds and removes the target's movement buffs, but the rest have a minute or more cooldown.  The Fuwa skills are mainly 30 seconds which means as far as single targeting, Fuwa would be more effective in my opinion unless the "bleed" effects from the Faction Felkin skills are really that good.  Once again, it depends on the player.

Fuwa
I like fuwa and actually it was a tough choice when I ascended on choosing between Dagos and Fuwa.  All of Fuwa's faction skills are great!  You should max them all as they are all VERY USEFUL in PvE and PvP.

As far as Fuwa Affinity Skills go, I don't really like most of them besides the "bleed" skills.  Bodhi Works seems pretty nice along with Moshu Disaster.  The Pet skills are always nice.  You would think Fuwa would focus on permanent resistances for your character, but Dagos actually focuses on that.  True Conversion is the only skill that focuses on any type of permanent resistance.

Any Balo who is a Fuwa will have the most HP/SP a Balo can have.  The only other thing is that it will be hard for a Fuwa Balo to come up with a good build compared to the other two.  This is because you NEED Powerful Aid and not Durable Fighter if you plan on having any kind of DPS in general.  The other issue is you have to max out most of your faction affinity skills compared to dagos.

Conclusion
In the end, if you want to be truely effective, you will need to have powerful aid maxed and have the charm to make it a 2 second cooldown.  After that, it is up to you on how you use your affinity skills as all 3 affinities can be effective.

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Balo Other Skills Analysis

 What Expertise Skills should I focus on?

Well personally, I prefer my Balo to be a Critshield ******* so I focus on Noble Spirit.  With all the bonuses you get from your skills, you should have a really high critshield value if you focus on Noble Spirit.

The second skill I focus on is Warrior's Heart for more power.  I believe the evasion one is useless for us as we should be taking low damage regardless.  If you care about resistances and you are PvP heavy, I suggest you do the resistance type skills before Warrior's Heart.  Do Warrior's Heart second if you are mainly PvE.

Why do I not go for the pot skill?  Because I have more than enough from the treasure chests.  Then again, I never needed those things, but if you want them badly, go ahead and make that your first priority.

Other things

I suggest you get Tailor Mastery to 10 for more Critshield.  The point is to make you a unstoppable beast.  Balo are meant to be a great decoy in mass pvp wars.

The order you go in when following one of my builds is up to you.  There is no specific order. You can either save up all your skill points to a certain point and spend them on the ones that are needed the most.  Or you can do the complete opposite and have no skill points.

This will be updated later to have more stuff in it.

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Balo Support Build

 Support Build

If you just want to be useless in battle, use this build. *Sarcasm*   Once again, its the powerful aid route.  You can always do durable fighter or both.

Tier 1

Hard Blow 3

Finese 6

Muscle Repulse 3

Vigor 6

Flanker 3

Ordeal 3

Scoff 7

Potent 8

Furious Roar 9

48

Tier 2

Fiery Flame 3

Nothingness Walk 3

Dragon Speed 3

Dark Injury 3

Tiger Defense 3

Penetrator 4

Blood Drip 9

34

Tier 3

Mountain wind 1

Oubliette Break 3

Vilen 3

Twisting Dragon 9

Shatterer 4

Dragon Light 5

Ambition 5

30

Tier 4

Reinforce 3

Warsong 8

Combat Spirit 5

Sky Rift 9

Iron Guts 5

Blade Breaker 4

34

Tier 5

Blade Swinger 3

Powerful Aid 5

Durable Fighter 0

Ancient Soul 2

10

Tome

Heaven

Savage Beast 2

Dragon Fury 2

Endless Strike 3

Spicy Paw 2

Hellfire 2

Blood Blade 2

Ruthless Kill 3

Slaughter 3

Dragon Soar 2

Heoric Fire 3

Gold Dagger 3

27

Combat

Light Walk 2

2

Blood

Glaring Eye 2

Unbending Soul 3

Frenzied Escape 2

Self Doom 2

Full Protect 3

Iron Bone 2

Mass Evasion 2

Battle Spirit 3

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48 tome

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