• Leveling guide
• Recommended gear path
• Other stuff people might ask me to add

Hello! My name is Mae Mae and ninja is my main job on GemstoneRO. I've been playing on GemstoneRO on and off for about half a year. I've decided to write a smol guide for fun and to explain a few things about the job.

Ninja is a versatile job that has three build paths. In this guide I'll be covering just the physical ranged build.

People that know me will know that I advocate for ninja being the fastest/best farmer in the game. There's a few reasons as to why I think ninja is the best farmer:

• Access to all elements through kunai
• All abilities are character centered or ground aoe's. Some of them even linger on the ground and can kill mobs that walk into it.
• Nearly all abilities are multi-hit, meaning they trigger leech effects such as HP and SP absorbs very frequently. Stacking these effects in your gear is advised.
• Flashy and fun to farm with

Ninja is kinda easy to level and has a pretty smooth gear progression, making it ideal for a first char. It can be an efficient farmer with minimal investment.

Being an expanded job, it obviously suffers in certain departments. You will notice that at high gear levels many classes surpass you in damage output, especially in the true endgame.

Although we are technically ranged, we need to get into melee to maximize our damage, leaving us very vulnerable at times.

Ninja is very squishy due to bad defensive's and low base HP.

Ninja also has no real party buffs or utility to speak of, so in parties you will only bring your own personal mediocre damage.

Once you reach level 200 you'll notice you gain a lot of skills and most of them are actives. Knowing how these skills work and interact with each other is vital because nearly all of them are useful in their own way.

So let's do a rundown of what skills we'll be using!

Buffs:

16th Night

Removes your fixed cast time and halves the variable cast time. Makes you cast super fast.

Distorted Crescent

The wording on this skill can be a little confusing. The gist of it is that when you cast this on yourself when your CURRENT HP is an even number (Ends with 2, 4, 6, 8, 0) you gain an ATK bonus,

If your HP is uneven this will reduce your ATK.

Earth Charm

Summon 10 of these to increase all physical damage you deal by a large amount.

Ninja Aura

Smol STR/INT buff. Cast this AFTER Distorted Crescent because it costs a bit of your hp.

Active skills:

Huuma Shuriken - Grasp

Ground targeted aoe. Leaves a spinning shuriken on the ground that does damage over time. You can have 2 of these up at a time. Enemies hit will be afflicted by the nightmare status. This is your highest damaging skill.

Huuma Shuriken - Construct

Ground targeted aoe. Consumes your Huuma Shuriken - Grasp to inflict bonus damage. While technically a dps increase if used towards the end of Grasp, one cast of this consumes both grasp, netting you a dps loss.

Kunai - Nightmare

Self-centered aoe. This is our AP spender. Deals big damage in a 13×13 area and deals 1.5x damage to targets afflicted by nightmare status.

Kunai - Rotation

Self-centered aoe. Deals massive damage around you. Leaves a distortion zone directly under you. This is you second highest damaging skill. Also gives you big zoomies for a few seconds. Weee.

Kunai - Refraction

Distortion Zone-centered aoe. This aoe is triggered in a 5×5 area around your distortion zones.

Kunai - Distortion

Ground targeted aoe. Applies nightmare to all enemies hit and leaves a distortion zone. As you can see our active skills interact with each other and have some added effects. The maximum damage rotation (hehe) is however, very simple:

Rotation:

As you can see our active skills interact with each other and have some added effects. The maximum damage rotation (hehe) is however, very simple:

Grasp > Rotation > Refraction > Repeat

Note that Refraction is only 5×5 so you wanna get in nice and close to make sure you hit this.

Kunai -Nightmare is useful for aoe when farming. Construct and Distortion should be avoided unless you can not be in melee range of your target.

Utility stuff:

Cicada Skin Shed

Dodges attacks from mobs, does not work on magic. Avoid using this if you can face tank stuff because it bounces you all over the place.

Mirror Image

Dodges ranged attacks (Not magic). Useful stuff like the Edda Biolabs MvP which uses spiral pierce.

Stats are pretty straight forward. Note that you wanna tinker you vitality stat a bit to where you end up on an even number of max HP. This will help a lot when rebuffing Distorted Crescent. This is explained down below.

When it comes to gearing you want to get a good grasp on what modifiers make your character stronger. Some modifiers (such as skill damage) are stronger than others, but in a general sense: A good mix of everything will net you the highest damage.

As a rule of thumb you can look for the following stats on gear for the best results:

• Flat ATK
• POW
• Ranged%
• Skill%
• Leech effects (heavily advised)

Due to our skills being animation/cooldown based we do not need after cast delay, just some attack speed. Rejoice!

We can split the formula for physical damage into two parts, Attack Formula, and Damage Formula. The Attack Formula calculates your ATK value, so Attack Modifiers will increase this value. (Except they do not increase “StatusATK” which comes from stats/traits). Atk% does not scale with any of the other Atk modifiers, it gives you bonus attack equal to a percent of your WeaponATK and EquipmentATK. (500 WeaponATK, with 10% Atk we would gain +50 Atk) After the attack formula, your skills base formula is multiplied by your ATK Value. (1000% ATK on a skill is equal to multiplying ATK Value by 10)

The Damage formula calculates your damage after the base skill formula turns your ATK into damage. Damage modifiers will increase your damage (including StatusATK and Atk% parts)

Attack Modifiers

Race%

Size%

Enemy Element% (Damage against fire enemy, etc)

Class% (Damage against normal or boss)

P. ATK (Also applies to Atk% and StatusAtk)

Elemental Table (at the end)

Damage Modifiers

Skill Damage%

Melee%

Ranged%

Critical Damage%

Final Damage Modifiers (Dark Claw)

(Credit to Yvonne)

Gear

	Early game	Midgame	Late game	Best in Slot	Card
Upper	Illusion Apple of Archer [1] (19210)	Crown of Beelzebub [1] (400110)	Crown of Beelzebub [1] (400110)	Crown of Beelzebub [1] (400110)	Limacina Card (300363)
Mid	Battle Processor [1] (410017)	Battle Processor [1] (410017)	Battle Processor [1] (410017)	Battle Processor [1] (410017) Ranged% Enchant	Limacina Card (300363)
Lower	Blood Sucker (18754)	Blood Sucker (18754)	Blood Sucker (18754)	Blood Sucker (18754)
Body	Grace Kunai Suit [1] (450117)	Automatic Armor Type A [1] (450127) Grey Wolf Suit [1] (450177)	Snow Flower Armor [1] (450206)	Nebula Suit of Concentration [1] (450171)	Observation Card (4392)
Weapon	Illusion Huuma Fluttering Snow [2] (13337)	Glacier Huuma (650025)	Dim Glacier Huuma Shuriken [1] (650028)	Dim Glacier Huuma Shuriken [1] (650028)	Polluted Wander Man Card (27361) Hunter Fly Card (4115)
Garment	Grace Attack Manteau [1] (480018)	Convertible Physical Wing [1] (480124)	Varmundt Ice Rune Manteau [1] (480148)	Ice Rune Manteau [1] (480232)	Empathize Card (300270)
Boots	Grace Attack Boots [1] (470020)	Hero Boots-LT [1] (470094)	Varmundt Ice Rune Boots [1] (470111)	Ice Rune Boots [1] (470175)	Midnight Blut Hase Card (300184) Blut Hase Card (27256)
Accessories	Grace Attack Ring [1] (490019) Advanced Paradise Ring (490126)	Automatic Booster L [1] (490025) Automatic Booster R [1] (490024)	Varmundt Soul Rune Ring [1] (490299)	Soul Magic Ring [1] (490305) Soul Rune Ring [1] (490302)	Timbers Card (300449) Aferde Card (300447)
Pet	Incubus Egg (9052) Succubus Egg (9055)	Incubus Egg (9052) Succubus Egg (9055)	Incubus Egg (9052) Succubus Egg (9055)	Incubus Egg (9052) Succubus Egg (9055)

Notes:

• Glacier weapons are often sold by other players and are pretty cheap (15-20m). Go for ATK, SIZE, RACE, ELEMENT.
• Dim glacier's best enchants are double Huuma.
• All Varmundt gear's best enchants are POW/Power enchants.
• Incubus' SP leech is the strongest SP leech in the game outside of Dracula Card, so only use succubus if you never run out of SP.
• Hunter Fly is better than Wander Man Card if you don't need more damage for whatever it is you're farming.
  

Shadow Gear

Body	Early	Mid/late game	Best in slot
Weapon	Kagerou&Oboro Advanced Paradise Shadow Weapon (24710)	Durable Shadow Weapon (24734) Absorb Shadow Weapon (24686)	Master Shadow Weapon (24792)
Shield	Advanced Paradise Shadow Shield (24693)	Durable Shadow Shield (24735) Absorb Shadow Shield (24685)	Master Shadow Shield (24793)
Body	Advanced Paradise Shadow Armor (24694)	Maximum Mammoth Shadow Armor (24679)	Master Shadow Armor (24800)
Boots	Advanced Paradise Shadow Shoes (24695)	Maximum Mammoth Shadow Shoes (24680)	Master Shadow Shoes (24801)
Acc1	Advanced Paradise Shadow Earring (24696)	Full Penetration Shadow Earring (24661)	Master Shadow Earring (24802)
Acc2	Advanced Paradise Shadow Pendant (24697)	Full Penetration Shadow Pendant (24662)	Master Shadow Pendant (24803)

Notes:

• Absorb shadow gear is cheaper to make and insanely good on ninja, durable is the pure damage option.
• Best enchants is POW +5 on everything with whatever secondary stat you happen to roll, if you get lucky you can get ranged% on your 2nd.
• Shadow gear is considered a massive zeny sink, consider this after being comfy in your mid game gear.