Crusader

Crusader
Job Base(s):	Swordman
Job Type:	2-2
Race:	Human
Changes At:	Prontera Castle
Number of Skills:	18
Total Skill Points:	132
Total Quest Skills:	1
Job Bonuses
STR AGI VIT INT DEX LUK +7 +2 +7 +6 +3 +5

Overview

Crusaders are a fine blend of physical strength and faith-driven magic prowess, making them a versatile class. They are capable of melee combat with a spear or a sword and shield, of playing a supportive role in parties with beneficial magic skills, and of sacrificing their health to wield powerful holy magic. Knowing this, they can be built more like a mage than a warrior, or a classic favorite is to play the crusader like a tank. What makes this class so popular is the versatility, it's natural aim towards fighting the undead, and its centralization around having high VIT and defense.

Tactics

Recovering HP or Healing Items

When mobbing or tanking groups of monsters, especially for AoE leveling, Healing Items WILL need to be consumed and often even spammed. One popular healing item is Fresh Fish due to its cheap cost and low weight. It can be purchased from NPCs off the Chef's Assistant at the docks of Alberta (167, 134) as well as other locations for only 250z each (190z with max Discount).

Fresh Fish

For a list of Healing Items, a comparison, and a list of a couple popular Healing Items, please see the main article: Healing Items.

Equipment

Eden Group Equipments Quests

Main article: Eden Group Equipments Quests

Eden Group Equipment is free and a great place to start for gear to use. The Spear is a good weapon and generally a good choice for a Crusader and their future classes' use.

General Equipment Recommendations

Main article: Equipment

The Equipment article lists some general all purpose equipment that is useful through the PVM phase and also for endgame use as well.

Third Class Compatible Equipment

Main article: Royal Guard Equipment

It is recommended to look at the Equipment recommendations for the Third Class job to see what equipment to strive for, rather than to spend a lot of money on a piece of equipment that will not be used in the future as a third class. However, some equipment may have a high level requirement, or are transcendent only.

Weapons

After considering what requirement skills have (some skills can only be used with certain weapon types), the Weapon Search tool within the iRO Wiki DB site is very helpful. Generally, for physical classes (both melee and ranged), something with high ATK is best. For magic classes, something with high MATK is best.

Link to the iRO Wiki DB Weapon Search: http://db.irowiki.org/db/weapon-search/

Class Data

Skills

See Swordsman Skills for first class skills.

Skill	Description	Levels	Type
Cavalier Mastery	Reduces the 50% ASPD penalty when riding a PecoPeco.	5	Passive
Cure	Cures the target from Silence, Chaos and Blind status effects.	1	Supportive
Defending Aura	Reduce incoming ranged damage; protects party members via Sacrifice.	5	Supportive
Demon Bane	Increases attack against against Demons and Undead monsters by up to 30.	10	Passive
Divine Protection	Increases VIT defense against Demons and Undead monsters by up to 30.	10	Passive
Faith	Increases Max HP and resistance to Holy-property attacks.	10	Passive
Grand Cross	Summons a Grand Cross around the caster, damaging the caster and enemies with Holy property waves.	10	Offensive
Guard	Blocks physical attacks with a Shield by chance for 300 seconds.	10	Supportive
Heal	Restore a target's HP, or damage Undead targets.	10	Supportive
Holy Cross	Summon a holy cross that inflicts Holy damage on a target, blinding it by chance.	10	Offensive
Peco Peco Ride	Enables Knights or Crusaders to ride a Peco Peco.	1	Passive
Resistant Souls	Temporarily increase resistance against Demon race and Holy property attacks.	5	Supportive
Sacrifice	Protects a party member by taking all of the damage inflicted on said party member.	5	Supportive
Shield Boomerang	Throw your shield at an enemy, dealing damage based on ATK and the shield's properties.	5	Offensive
Shield Reflect	Reflect a fraction of the damage received back at an enemy.	10	Supportive
Smite	Hurl your shield at an enemy, dealing damage based on ATK and knocking them back.	5	Offensive
Spear Mastery	Adds +4 ATK (+5 while on a PecoPeco) per skill level to Spear weapons.	10	Passive
Spear Quicken	Temporarily increase Attack Speed, CRIT, and FLEE when using a Spear.	10	Supportive

Quest Skills

Skill	Description	Levels	Type	Job Level Requirement	Quest
Shrink	Adds a chance to knock back opponents when you successfully block an attack with Guard.	1	Active	None	Shrink Quest

Soul Link

See Crusader Spirit.

Job Bonuses

Stat Bonus	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5	+6	+7	+8	+9	+10	+11	+12
STR	7	11	17	23	25	32	48	-	-	-	-	-
AGI	30	36	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
VIT	12	15	22	40	41	46	50	-	-	-	-	-
INT	9	20	21	35	38	44	-	-	-	-	-	-
DEX	14	28	34	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
LUK	1	2	3	4	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

ASPD

Equip Attack Speed From Swordman Bare Handed 156 0 Shield -5 0 Dagger -8 −1 Sword (One Handed) -3 +4 Sword (Two Handed) -15 −1 Axe (One Handed) -10 +5 Axe (Two Handed) -15 +5 Mace -5 +5 Spear (One Handed) -13 +4 Spear (Two Handed) -12 +13

ASPD Potions Usable Concentration ✔ Awakening ✔ Berserk ✔

External Links

• GC Damage Calculator - compares base Grand Cross damage amongst different weapons