Warrior Path

At a glance

First job	Level 10 from Dances with Balrog in Warriors' Sanctuary, Perion
Main stat	STR (35 at the first job)
Branches	Fighter, Page, Spearman
Later	Crusader, White Knight, Dragon Knight; Hero, Paladin, Dark Knight
HP and MP per level	26 and 5

Warriors fight in melee and have the most HP of the Explorers. This page lists the route and every skill book of the line.

Route

Tier	Level	Guide
Warrior	10	Talk to Dances with Balrog. You receive Beginner Warrior's sword.
Fighter, Page, Spearman	30	Second Job Advancement
Crusader, White Knight, Dragon Knight	70	Third Job Advancement; chief Tylus
Hero, Paladin, Dark Knight	120	Fourth Job Advancement; instructor Harmonia

Stats

The AUTO button targets DEX and STR. See Stat Builds.

Skills

Skill	Max level	Needs	What it does
Improved HP Recovery	16	—	Recover additional HP every 10 sec.
Improved MaxHP Increase	10	Improved HP Recovery Lv 5	This skill boosts up the amount of increase on MaxHP after each Level UP, or AP used on MaxHP. It also adds DEX equal to 0.5% of your total STR per level (5% at level 10).
Endure	8	Improved MaxHP Increase Lv 3	Even when hanging on the rope or on a ladder, you'll be able to recover some HP after a certain amount of time.
Iron Body	20	Endure Lv 3	Temporarily increases your weapon defense.
Power Strike	20	—	Use MP to deliver a killer blow to the monsters with a sword.
Slash Blast	20	Power Strike Lv 1	Use HP and MP to attack every enemy around you with a sword.

Skill	Max level	Needs	What it does
Sword Mastery	20	—	Increases the sword mastery and accuracy.
Axe Mastery	20	—	Increases the axe mastery and accuracy.
Final Attack : Sword	30	Sword Mastery Lv 3	Strikes an another, far deadlier blow following the initial attack with a given success rate.
Final Attack : Axe	30	Axe Mastery Lv 3	Strikes an another, far deadlier blow following the initial attack with a given success rate.
Sword Booster	20	Sword Mastery Lv 5	Uses HP and MP to temporarily boost up the attacking speed of the equipped sword.
Axe Booster	20	Axe Mastery Lv 5	Uses HP and MP to temporarily boost up the attacking speed of the equipped axe.
Rage	20	—	Temporarily boosts the weapon attack level of everyone in the party around the area, but also decreases the level of weapon attack defense.
Power Guard	30	Rage Lv 3	Returns a portion of the damage received from the enemy.
Rush	1	—	Mastery through discipline. A short charge that pushes monsters; see below.

Skill	Max level	Needs	What it does
Sword Mastery	20	—	Increases the sword mastery and accuracy.
BW Mastery	20	—	Increases the mastery of blunt weapons and accuracy.
Final Attack : Sword	30	Sword Mastery Lv 3	Strikes an another, far deadlier blow following the initial attack with a given success rate.
Final Attack : BW	30	BW Mastery Lv 3	Strikes an another, far deadlier blow following the initial attack with a given success rate.
Sword Booster	20	Sword Mastery Lv 5	Uses HP and MP to temporarily boost up the attacking speed of the equipped sword.
BW Booster	20	BW Mastery Lv 5	Uses HP and MP to temporarily boost up the attacking speed of the equipped blunt weapon.
Threaten	20	—	Use MP to temporarily threaten a monster.
Power Guard	30	Threaten Lv 3	Returns a portion of the damage received from the enemy.
Rush	1	—	Mastery through discipline. A short charge that pushes monsters; see below.

Skill	Max level	Needs	What it does
Spear Mastery	20	—	Increases the spear mastery and accuracy.
Pole Arm Mastery	20	—	Increases the mastery of pole arms and accuracy.
Final Attack : Spear	30	Spear Mastery Lv 3	Strikes an another, far deadlier blow following the initial attack with a given success rate.
Final Attack : Pole Arm	30	Pole Arm Mastery Lv 3	Strikes an another, far deadlier blow following the initial attack with a given success rate.
Spear Booster	20	Spear Mastery Lv 5	Uses HP and MP to temporarily boost up the attacking speed of the equipped spear.
Pole Arm Booster	20	Pole Arm Mastery Lv 5	Uses HP and MP to temporarily boost up the attacking speed of the equipped pole arm.
Iron Will	20	—	Temporarily increases the level of weapon and magic defense on every member of the party around the area.
Hyper Body	30	Iron Will Lv 3	Temporarily increases the Max HP and Max MP of all members of the party around the area.
Rush	1	—	Mastery through discipline. A short charge that pushes monsters; see below.

Skill	Max level	Needs	What it does
Improving MP Recovery	20	—	Recovers MP at a faster rate than the norm every 10 seconds by standing still.
Shield Mastery	20	—	Increases shield defense.
Combo Attack	30	—	Prepares for combo attack.
Panic : Sword	30	Combo Attack Lv 1	Attack a single monster using dark powers.
Panic : Axe	30	Combo Attack Lv 1	Attack a single monster using dark powers.
Coma: Sword	30	Combo Attack Lv 1	If struck cleanly, the monster becomes panicked.
Coma: Axe	30	Combo Attack Lv 1	If struck cleanly, the monster becomes panicked.
Armor Crash	20	Shout Lv 3	Nullifies the defense buff used by the monster with a given success rate.
Shout	30	—	Temporarily stuns up to 6 monsters nearby with damage.

Skill	Max level	Needs	What it does
Improving MP Recovery	20	—	Recovering even more MP every 10 sec.
Shield Mastery	20	—	Shield Defense increases.
Charged Blow	30	—	Make the enemy stun.
Fire Charge: Sword	30	—	Temporarily adds an element of fire into the sword.
Flame Charge: BW	30	—	Temporarily adds an element of fire into the blunt weapon.
Ice Charge: Sword	30	—	You can attack with ice power.
Blizzard Charge: BW	30	—	Temporarily adds an element of blizzard into the blunt weapon.
Thunder Charge: Sword	30	—	Temporarily adds an element of thunder into the sword.
Lightning Charge: BW	30	—	Temporarily adds an element of lightning into the blunt weapon.
Magic Crash	20	Charged Blow Lv 3	Nullifies the magic defense buff used by the monster with a given success rate.

Skill	Max level	Needs	What it does
Elemental Resistance	20	—	Gains resistance against all Magic attacks (Fire, Cold, Lightning & Poison.)
Spear Crusher	30	—	Attacks multiple monsters several times by thrusting the spear.
Pole Arm Crusher	30	—	Attacks multiple monsters several times by thrusting the pole arm.
Dragon Fury: Spear	30	—	Attacks up to 6 monsters nearby in relatively distant range by swinging the Spear.
Dragon Fury: Pole Arm	30	—	Attacks up to 6 monsters nearby in relatively distant range by swinging the pole arm.
Sacrifice	30	—	Attacks a single monster while disabling the monster's defending capacity.
Dragon Roar	30	Sacrifice Lv 3	Attacks up to 15 monsters at once by temporarily stunning them.
Power Crash	20	Dragon Blood Lv 3	Nullifies "power-up" skills of multiple monsters with a given success rate.
Dragon Blood	20	—	Increases the attacking capacity, but decreases HP steadily until 4 seconds before the remaining HP exhausts.

Skill	Max level	Needs	What it does
Advanced Combo Attack	30	Combo Attack Lv 30	By maximizing the potential of the combo attack, it enables one to charge up the combo counter up to 10, and with a given success rate, the combo…
Achilles	30	—	Permanently increases the weapon defense of one's armor
Guardian	30	—	Blocks the monster's attack by using the shield with a given success rate.
Maple Warrior	30	—	Increase all players' stats within a party by certain percentage
Monster Magnet	30	—	Hold to charge, then release: pulls every monster on your platform within reach to right in front of you (up to 12 at level 30).
Power Stance	30	Taught by the quest Protecting Tylus	Enables one to stay at the same spot after being struck, resisting knock-back effects.
Rush	30	—	Makes a mad dash forward, pushing off up to 10 monsters.
Brandish	30	—	Enables one to attack multiple monsters forward twice
Enrage	30	Advanced Combo Attack Lv 25; Taught by the quest Sayram's Skill	Temporarily increases the attacking ability by using up the 10 combo counters. Lasts up to 240 seconds.
Hero's Will	5	—	Enables one to shrug off abnormal conditions.

Skill	Max level	Needs	What it does
Achilles	30	—	Permanently increases the weapon defense of one's armor
Guardian	30	—	Blocks the monster's attack by using the shield with a given success rate.
Advanced Charge	10	Charged Blow Lv 30	Increases the damage incurred when using Charge Blow.
Maple Warrior	30	—	Increase all players' stats within a party by certain percentage
Monster Magnet	30	—	Hold to charge, then release: pulls every monster on your platform within reach to right in front of you (up to 12 at level 30).
Power Stance	30	Taught by the quest Protecting Tylus	Enables one to stay at the same spot after being struck, resisting knock-back effects.
Holy Charge : Sword	20	Taught by the quest The Holy Knight's Sword	Temporarily adds a holy element to the sword.
Divine Charge : BW	20	Taught by the quest The Holy Knight's Sword	Temporarily adds a divine element to the blunt weapon.
Rush	30	—	Makes a mad dash forward, pushing off up to 10 monsters.
Blast	30	—	Strikes a single, tremendous blow to a single monster.
Heaven's Hammer	30	Taught by the quest Sayram's Skill	Strikes the ground with a huge hammer to attack up to 15 monsters.
Hero's Will	5	—	Enables one to shrug off abnormal conditions.

Skill	Max level	Needs	What it does
Achilles	30	—	Permanently increases the weapon defense of one's armor
Berserk	30	Taught by the quest Sayram's Skill	Increases overall attack once the knight's HP drops below a certain level.
Aura of the Beholder	25	Beholder Lv 1; Taught by the quest Magic of the Spirit	The black spirit periodically restores the Dark Knight's HP.
Hex of the Beholder	25	Beholder Lv 1; Taught by the quest Contract of the Spirit	The black spirit periodically buffs the Dark Knight.
Maple Warrior	30	—	Increase all players' stats within a party by certain percentage
Monster Magnet	30	—	Hold to charge, then release: pulls every monster on your platform within reach to right in front of you (up to 12 at level 30).
Power Stance	30	Taught by the quest Protecting Tylus	Enables one to stay at the same spot after being struck, resisting knock-back effects.
Rush	30	—	Makes a mad dash forward, pushing off up to 10 monsters.
Beholder	10	—	Temporarily summons Beholder.
Hero's Will	5	—	Enables one to shrug off abnormal conditions.

Rush at 2nd job

Fighters, Pages and Spearmen get a 1-point Rush at 2nd job: a short charge forward that pushes the monsters in your path. It stays at level 1 and grows with your weapon Mastery and your character level.

You have	Monsters pushed
Mastery below 7	1
Mastery 7 to 19	2
Mastery 20	3
Character level 70 or more	at least 5
Character level 90 or more	at least 7
Character level 120 or more	at least 10

The Mastery that counts is Sword or Axe Mastery for a Fighter, Sword or BW Mastery for a Page, and Spear or Pole Arm Mastery for a Spearman. The 4th-job Rush of the Hero, Paladin and Dark Knight is a separate skill and works as before.

★

Different from the original game The 2nd-job Rush is a MapleVerse skill. The level steps (5, 7 and 10 monsters) are MapleVerse additions too.

Skill notes

Improved MaxHP Increase also turns part of your STR into DEX: 0.5% of your total STR per skill level, 5% at level 10.
Monster Magnet (Hero, Paladin and Dark Knight) is charged: hold the skill key and release it. A quick tap pulls from close by; holding for 2 seconds reaches as wide as Genesis. It pulls every monster on your own platform within that reach and drops them right in front of you: up to 4 monsters at level 10, 8 at level 20 and 12 at level 30.
Enrage (Hero) keeps its usual duration, from 10 seconds at level 1 up to 240 seconds at level 30, with its 6-minute cooldown.
Buff durations. Every buff whose top-level duration was between 200 and 599 seconds now lasts up to 600 seconds (10 minutes), and lower levels scale the same way, so each level still lasts longer than the one before. Cooldowns are unchanged, and buffs that already lasted longer keep their time. For example, Iron Body lasts 600 seconds at level 20 and Power Stance 600 seconds at level 30.
Maple Warrior lasts 600 seconds at level 1 and 10 seconds longer for each level after that: 690 seconds at level 10, 790 at level 20 and 900 at level 30.

★

Different from the original game In MapleVerse, Monster Magnet is a charged pull of every monster on your platform, Improved MaxHP Increase adds DEX, buffs that lasted 200 seconds or more last up to 10 minutes, and Maple Warrior lasts 600 seconds at level 1, rising by 10 seconds a level to 900 seconds at level 30.

Common problems

Dances with Balrog only talks about advancement. He lists his quests too; the advancement is the row Talk about my training.
The next training session is missing. Each Training Session is offered as soon as you hand in the one before it.
The Beginner Training Center quest shows done too early. Talk to the instructor inside the training center, not the warper at the entrance.
Rush only pushes a few monsters. The 2nd-job Rush pushes more as your Mastery grows and again from character level 70, 90 and 120; see Rush at 2nd job.