Bandit skill build

1. Lv. 10-17: max Double StabIt stabs twice per cast and is a dagger Thief's only attack until 2nd job. Every point goes here first.
2. Lv. 17-22: Nimble Body to 15Accuracy and avoid. Up close the avoid saves potions; after 30 the accuracy decides which monsters you can hunt.
3. Lv. 22-30: Disorder 3, max Dark Sight, then Disorder 6Your Thief SP locks at 2nd job, so spend all of it before you advance. Keen Eyes and Lucky Seven need throwing stars; leave them at 0.
4. Lv. 30-37: Dagger Mastery 5, Dagger Booster 1, then max Dagger MasteryOne point of Dagger Booster already gives its full attack speed, so take it at 32.
5. Lv. 37-65: the builds splitBudget: Nimble Recovery, Savage Blow, then Steal. Pro: Savage Blow, Steal, Haste, then Dagger Booster.
6. Lv. 65-70: the last pointsBudget finishes Haste and leaves Dagger Booster at 1. Pro finishes Dagger Booster and puts its last point in Nimble Recovery.

You get 1 SP per level as a Beginner, 1 SP at each job advancement, and 3 SP per level after that. Bandit SP can't be spent on Thief skills, and an SP Reset Scroll from the Cash Shop resets every skill except Beginner skills.

Skill points cost nothing, so both builds take the same Thief route and swap one skill at 2nd job. What sets them apart is where your mesos go: daggers, gear, scrolls and potions. Prices are what each item sells for on HubCW, so they move with the market.

Gear, slot by slot

Where two items share a step they are the same item for men and women, or two shields with the same stats: buy the cheaper. Any earrings do for Pro: they all have 5 slots, and the LUK scrolls are what count. Women can wear the Dark Avenger from level 35 instead of the robe: the same 10 slots and 5 more LUK.

Pro scrolls

One tier in each family gives the most per slot on average without any risk to the item. Pro fills every slot with it, or buys gear where every slot already passed.

Scroll	Success	Slots	If all pass	Price	Per success
Dagger Attack Scroll: Intermediate	60%	7	+14 W.ATT	217,777 mesos	362,962 mesos
Gloves Attack Scroll: Intermediate	60%	5	+10 W.ATT	688,888 mesos?	1,148,147 mesos
Overall Armor LUK Scroll: Intermediate	60%	10	+20 LUK	-	-
Cape LUK Scroll: Intermediate	60%	5	+10 LUK	253,333 mesos	422,222 mesos
Earring LUK Scroll: Intermediate	60%	5	+10 LUK	99,999 mesos	166,665 mesos
Shield DEF Scroll: Intermediate	60%	7	+28 W.DEF	-	-

The other tiers, on a dagger: Dagger Attack Scroll: Lesser is 100% for +1, Dagger Attack Scroll: Greater 10% for +4, and Dagger Attack Scroll: Chaos 10% for +5, but 50% of its failures destroy the dagger. Try them in the scroll simulator first.

What the money buys

Each build's average cast of Double Stab or Savage Blow, whichever hits harder, in its own gear and with its own skills at that level: pure LUK, with only the DEX that gear needs. Pro counts every scroll slot as passed and Warrior Potion running; both count Steal's Attack Power once they have it, and only the bigger of the two. Misses and monster defense are left out, so treat the numbers as a comparison.

Pick your level to see where each skill should be, what to add at that level and any breakpoint you just reached. Switch builds to compare the alternatives.

37Bandit

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Lv. 10Lv. 17Lv. 22Lv. 23Lv. 29Lv. 30Lv. 32Lv. 37Lv. 44Lv. 47Lv. 49Lv. 54Lv. 59Lv. 64Lv. 65Lv. 70

Bandit build Budget: Nimble Recovery first Pro: Savage Blow first

At level 37 Dagger Mastery 18 → 20 · Nimble Recovery 0 → 1
Dagger Mastery maxed: Mastery 10, +20% critical rate and a 20% chance to ignore knockback.
Nimble Recovery 1: dodging a hit has a 20% chance to restore 1% of your HP and MP, at most once every 30 seconds.

Beginner9 / 9 spent

Three Snails3/3

Recovery3/3

Nimble Feet3/3

Thief61 / 61 spent

Double Stab20/20

Nimble Body15/15

Disorder6/20

Dark Sight20/20

Bandit22 / 22 spent

Dagger Mastery +220/20

Dagger Booster1/20

Savage Blow0/30

Nimble Recovery +11/20

Haste0/20

Steal0/30

You advance in Kerning City at level 10. From then to 30 you get 61 SP for six skills that would take 110 to max, and whatever you leave here at 30 stays that way. A dagger Thief has one attack, Double Stab, and two skills that only work with throwing stars, so both builds take the same route here.

At 2nd job you get 1 SP, then 3 per level: 121 by level 70. Maxing all six Bandit skills would take 140, so 19 points stay out, and the builds disagree on where: Budget leaves them in Dagger Booster, Pro in Nimble Recovery. The current client has no 3rd job yet.

Level 1 and max values from the game data. Each name links to its full per-level table.

Double StabMax Lv. 20

Max by 17

MP cost

8 → 16

Damage %

80 → 160

Hits

2

Your attack until Savage Blow reaches 11: two stabs a cast, and the most damage per MP you will ever have.

Nimble BodyMax Lv. 15

Max by 22

Accuracy

1 → 15

Avoidability

1 → 15

Accuracy and avoid. Below 30 the avoid matters most; above 30 the accuracy decides which monsters you can hunt.

DisorderMax Lv. 20

Stop at 6

MP cost

5 → 10

Damage %

100

Duration (s)

10 → 30

Taken to 3 to unlock Dark Sight, plus the 3 Thief points nothing else needs.

Dark SightMax Lv. 20 · needs Disorder 3

Max by 29

MP cost

50 → 30

Hides you from monsters. Maxed it costs little and doesn't slow you, a free break between fights.

Keen EyesMax Lv. 15 · needs Nimble Body 3

Skip

Range

50 → 200

Range for throwing stars only. A dagger Bandit never throws, so it stays at 0.

Lucky SevenMax Lv. 20

Skip

MP cost

8 → 16

Damage %

60 → 140

Projectiles

2

A claw skill: it throws stars and needs a claw, so a dagger Bandit leaves it at 0.

Dagger MasteryMax Lv. 20

Max by 37

Chance %

1 → 20

Mastery Lv.

1 → 10

The first skill to max: higher minimum damage, critical rate, and fewer knockbacks.

Dagger BoosterMax Lv. 20 · needs Dagger Mastery 5

Max by 70 in Pro, 1 in Budget

MP cost

30 → 10

HP cost

30 → 10

Duration (s)

100 → 300

Level 1 gives the full speed boost. The rest only makes it last longer and cost less.

Savage BlowMax Lv. 30

Max by 54 (Budget) or 47 (Pro)

MP cost

14 → 28

Damage %

65 → 75

Hits

4 → 6

Your main attack from 2nd job on: more hits as it levels, and more damage per cast than Double Stab from 11 on.

Nimble RecoveryMax Lv. 20

Max by 44 in Budget, 1 in Pro

Chance %

20 → 100

Cooldown (s)

30

Free HP and MP when you dodge, once every 30 seconds. Budget's potion saver.

HasteMax Lv. 20

Max by 70 (Budget) or 64 (Pro)

MP cost

15 → 35

Speed

10 → 30

Jump

1 → 10

Duration (s)

100 → 300

Speed and jump for you and your party. Gets you to the next monster sooner.

StealMax Lv. 30 · needs Haste 5

Max by 65 (Budget) or 59 (Pro)

MP cost

10 → 24

Damage %

120 → 180

Max enemies

2

Chance %

30 → 90

Attack Power

5 → 35

Duration (s)

60

Hits two monsters, and a successful steal gives you Attack Power for a minute. Keep it up while you hunt.

A stab's damage is your weapon attack times a stat term: LUK × 2 plus STR and DEX for the high roll, with the LUK part cut by your mastery for the low roll, plus Attack Power from skills and potions. Each hit rolls between the two, so mastery raises the average by raising the minimum. The comparisons below use the community's dagger formula; treat them as relative.

Your attacks, maxed

Skill	Damage per cast	MP cost	Damage per MP
Double Stab 20	320% 2 × 160%	16	20.0% 1.00×
Savage Blow 30	450% 6 × 75%	28	16.1% 0.80×
Steal 30 one monster	180%	24	7.5% 0.38×
Steal 30 two monsters	360%	24	15.0% 0.75×

What Dagger Booster is worth

Other multipliers

• LUK against STR and DEX: in the average hit a point of LUK counts 1.07× a point of STR or DEX before Dagger Mastery and 1.77× with it maxed, which is why LUK only pulls ahead at 2nd job.
• Weapon DEF: damage × 100 ÷ (DEF + 100). Most training monsters have 0-50 DEF; Iron Hogs have 500, a sixth of your damage.
• Level gap: monsters above your level take less, ×0.89 at 5 levels above you and ×0.71 at 9.

Steal hits up to two monsters and tries to steal from each. A success stuns them for 1.5 seconds and gives you Attack Power for 60 seconds, and every monster can be stolen from only once, so cast it on fresh ones. On a busy map there is always a new pair, so the buff can stay up while you hunt.

• Against a Warrior Potion: it gives +10 Attack Power for 10 minutes; Steal gives as much from level 6 and 3.5× as much maxed, for nothing. Pro drinks the potion only until then.
• As an attack: 180% on each of two monsters is 360% a cast, 0.75× Double Stab's damage per MP. On a single monster it is only 180%, so use Savage Blow there and Steal for the buff.
• What you steal: the game client has no drop tables, so what Steal takes from a monster, and what it is worth, can't be worked out here.

TipThe buff lasts 60 seconds and a success stuns both monsters, so open each pull with Steal: the stun buys time for the first Savage Blow.

The monsters that give the most EXP per cast at every 5 levels. Each is up to 10 levels below you, has at least 10 on one map, and takes your attacks at least 95% of the time. Casts are how many attacks a kill takes on average after the monster's Weapon DEF, for each build in its own gear and skills, with whichever of its attacks below kills it fastest.

Double StabSavage Blow

Ranked by EXP per cast for the Budget build. Monsters below your level are a little easier to hit than shown, and chance-based extras like Final Attack aren't counted. Spawn speed, map layout and other players change what an hour really gives, so try the top two and keep the one that feels faster. The Training Finder ranks the monsters for any level by EXP per HP.

You get 5 AP per level. Keep DEX at what your next dagger needs (5 below its level, from level 15) and put everything else into LUK. Daggers come in two kinds: the ones below need DEX, the ones marked STR need STR instead and can be used by Warriors too.

Dagger	Level	W.ATT	Needs	Attack speed	Price
Triangular Zamadar	10	28	20 LUK	Fast (4)	999 mesos
Field Dagger	15	30	10 DEX · 20 LUK	Faster (3)	3,499 mesos
Triple-Tipped Zamadar STR	17	34	11 STR · 31 LUK	Faster (3)	3,200 mesos
Coconut Knife	20	38	15 DEX · 30 LUK	Fast (4)	5,500 mesos
Stinger STR	22	39	17 STR · 44 LUK	Faster (3)	8,888 mesos
Iron Dagger	25	40	20 DEX · 40 LUK	Fast (4)	6,999 mesos
Forked Dagger	27	45	22 DEX · 54 LUK	Fast (4)	9,999 mesos
Cass STR	30	47	25 STR · 60 LUK	Faster (3)	10,000 mesos
Reef Claw	30	48	25 DEX · 60 LUK	Fast (4)	17,777 mesos
Halfmoon Zamadar	35	53	30 DEX · 70 LUK	Fast (4)	32,221 mesos
Gephart	40	58	35 DEX · 80 LUK	Fast (4)	47,777 mesos
Bazlud STR	45	62	40 STR · 90 LUK	Faster (3)	49,999 mesos
Shinkita	50	68	45 DEX · 100 LUK	Fast (4)	-
Sai STR	50	67	45 STR · 100 LUK	Faster (3)	-
Deadly Fin	60	78	55 DEX · 120 LUK	Fast (4)	-
Serpent's Coil STR	60	77	55 STR · 120 LUK	Faster (3)	-
Kandine	70	88	65 DEX · 140 LUK	Fast (4)	-
Golden River STR	70	87	65 STR · 140 LUK	Faster (3)	-

DEX or STR dagger?

STR and DEX count the same in the damage formula, and the STR daggers swing one stage faster: about 9% more attacks. But DEX also gives accuracy, and a Bandit who keeps only 25 DEX misses far more. The lines are a pure-LUK Bandit's accuracy with a maxed Nimble Body on each kind of dagger; the dots are what each monster from 30 to 70 takes to hit every time at its own level.

Counting misses and attack speed together, STR daggers come out ahead on 8 of the 25 monsters, and on average DEX daggers do about 10% more damage in the same time. Both builds use DEX daggers.

TipThese still dodge some hits even with DEX daggers and a maxed Nimble Body. Hunt them a few levels later, or drink a Sniper Potion (+5 accuracy).

Shields

A dagger leaves your other hand free, and every shield gives a chance to block a physical hit entirely. The chance grows with the shield's W.DEF (community formula), so Shield DEF scrolls raise it too.

Shield	Level	W.DEF	Block	Scrolled	Price
Stolen Fence	5	40	7.4%	12.0%	3,000 mesos
Pan Lid	10	44	8.1%	12.6%	45,000 mesos
Seclusion Wristguard 34 DEX · 12 LUK	22	54	9.7%	14.1%	-
Nimble Wristguard 12 DEX · 34 LUK	22	54	9.7%	14.1%	-
Jurgen Wristguard 12 DEX · 34 LUK	22	54	9.7%	14.1%	-

Scrolled: every slot passed with Shield DEF Scroll: Intermediate.

• From the game data: skill numbers and prerequisites, monster levels and avoid, and item stats and requirements. They update when the game does.
• From players: SP per level, the 2nd-job SP lock, and the dagger damage, critical, accuracy, attack-speed and shield-block formulas come from community testing (meowdb, and its Bandit guide for the dagger formula). It gives every dagger skill the same 2 × LUK multiplier, which is why Savage Blow and Double Stab compare by their skill numbers alone.
• Assumed: whether Steal's Attack Power stacks with a Warrior Potion isn't confirmed; the numbers here count only the bigger one. They also assume the buff stays up while you hunt.
• Calculated: the Savage Blow comparison, the Dagger Mastery curve, the Dagger Booster speed-up, Steal's value, the shield block chances and the dagger accuracy chart use those formulas with example stats. Misses, crits and positioning all move real results.
• Budget and Pro builds: the gear picks are written by hand. Prices are the median HubCW sale of the last 30 days, or the median Free Market ask when nothing sold; a dash means neither. The damage figures assume 25 starting stat points, 5 AP a level, and DEX at 25 or what the dagger needs.