Maple Story - All Warrior Guide - The Gamers Temple

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Fighter 2. Skills 
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Taken out from Bao Ly’s guide, comments by me. 

[Sword Mastery]
Max level: 20
Requirements: none 
 
Increases your minimum damage in sword.

Level 1: Sword Mastery 15%, accuracy +1
Level 10: Sword Mastery 35%, accuracy +10
Level 20: Sword Mastery 60%, accuracy +20 
 
If you pick sword, get this to 19 quickly. The reason you don’t want to 
get it to 20 is because you need to max out other skills as quickly as 
possible. One point won’t kill you. Max it out near the end. Sword 
Mastery improves only minimum damage, so having a sword makes you have 
even greater accuracy. 
 
[Axe Mastery]
Max level: 20
Requirements: none

Increases your minimum damage in axe.

Level 1: Axe Mastery 15%, accuracy +1
Level 10: Axe Mastery 35%, accuracy +10
Level 20: Axe Mastery 60%, accuracy +20

This is the same as sword mastery except it is axe mastery instead. Axe 
mastery increases axe minimum damage. Since axes have bad damage with 
stab, it is a great boost to have more accuracy. Get this to 19 as soon 
as possible. 
 
[Final Attack: Sword]
Max level: 30
Requirements: 3 in Sword Mastery 
 
For every power strike and slash blast, there is a chance of a second 
hit that is twice as fast, costs zero mp, and damages more.

Level 1:  2% success rate, final attack with sword damage 105%
Level 15: 30% success rate, final attack with sword damage 175%
Level 30: 60% success rate, final attack with sword damage 250% 
 
When using a sword power strike or slash blast, there is a chance to 
attack again with twice the speed and 250% more power. Although this 
may seem great there’s a catch... or catches. First, this attack does 
not always knock back and you will step forward. This means you 
probably will get hit. Though, the enemy probably dies before you hit 
it though. However, this will suck with bosses since it will really 
hurt. 

Another catch is that it only works with power strike and slash blast. 
It does not work with many of the 3rd job skills. Then there’s another 
catch. If this attack activates while using slash blast, the damage is 
increased with the first monster you hit, then for every monster it 
passes through it does lesser damage. There is a bonus though, it costs 
no mp for final attack. 
 
[Final Attack: Axe]
Max level: 30
Requirements: 3 in Axe Mastery
Level 1:  2% success rate, final attack with axe damage 105%
Level 15: 30% success rate, final attack with axe damage 175%
Level 30: 60% success rate, final attack with axe damage 250%

For every power strike and slash blast, there is a chance of a second 
hit that is twice as fast, costs zero mp, and damages more. 
 
The same as sword final attack, except for the fact that you probably 
will do lesser damage with stab attacks. Some people choose not to get 
final attack because of its catches. However, if you are playing 
fighter, final attack is useful for some of the third jobs. 

[Sword Booster]
Max level: 20
Requirements: 5 in Sword Mastery 
 
Temporarily boost your speed in sword.

Level 1: HP -29, MP -29; Increase in sword speed for 10 seconds
Level 10: HP -20, MP -20; Increase in sword speed for 100 seconds
Level 20: HP -10, MP -10; Increase in sword speed for 200 seconds 
 
Increases your speed of your weapon. I think when it is maxed out it 
gives you one level of speed higher. So for instance it would go from 
normal to fast or slow to normal.
 
[Axe Booster]
Max level: 20
Requirements: 5 in Axe Mastery 
 
Temporarily boost your speed in axe.

Level 1: HP -29, MP -29; Increase in axe speed for 10 seconds
Level 10: HP -20, MP -20; Increase in axe speed for 100 seconds
Level 20: HP -10, MP -10; Increase in axe speed for 200 seconds 
 
Probably more important than sword mastery because you will have to 
rely on that 65% of slash damage to do higher damage. In Bao Ly’s guide 
it states that slashes are 65% of the time and stabs are 35% of the 
times. Other guides state it is 3:2 with slash being 3. With faster 
speed you will be able to do more damage and also faster too, so this 
is definitely a plus. 

[Rage]
Max level: 20
Requirements: none 
 
Increases weapon attack, but also decreases weapon defense.

Level 1: MP -12; Weapon attack +1, weapon defense -1 for 8   seconds
Level 10: MP -12; Weapon attack +5, weapon defense -5 for 80 seconds
Level 20: MP -24; Weapon attack +10, weapon defense -10 for 160 seconds 
 
This is what makes a fighter different from a page. Fighters have rage. 
Rage increases your attack and decreases your weapon defense. However, 
you will receive little damage compared to the vast damage you can do. 
This is a party friendly skill and that is why fighter levels the 
fastest. It is because they have rage. Parties aim for rage for more 
damage. 
 
[Power Guard] 
Max level: 30 
Requirements: 3 in Rage 
 
When power guard is turned on, some enemy damage is reflected back and 
is received as damage. 
 
No info for the level and effects 
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At maxed it helps reduce 40% damage and reflects it back. This means 
you will be taking only 60% damage and the monster will hurt itself. A 
guide once proposed the use of abusing this skill by just jumping into 
the monster and letting your healer spam heal. Eventually the monster 
will die because power guard is unblockable.