- Pre Renewal - Champion PVM

• Small Brief

Champion is probably the cheapest character to play at PVM as soon as you've good gears for it. With Asura Strike, they can put down anything. The way to use it is pretty easy - full SP->Dangerous Soul Collect->Critical Explosion->Dangerous Soul Collect->Asura Strike! - but do you know how to maximise their damage? This guide will focus on that.

• What you should aim

As a champion, you probably already know that Asura Strike already does damage based on ATK and SP so that's on what we will focus.

• Build Advice

 INT should be your top priority, after that focus on STR and DEX, by this order, but not too much, we don't want to die before cast so we need a good chunk of DEX.

• Stats
• As we already said, you should focus on INT, the formula of Asura. This main focus on INT is because each point put there increases your potential damage due to also increase SP. Considering that your Champion is a lv99 char, before applying modifiers and gears, each point put on INT is the same as increasing your damage by ~5%. Since we're focusing on three main stats and this is our main one, we should try to focus on 100 to 110 total, more is overkill since it will already ask you too many points for each INT added and we still need some more at other stats.
• STR should be similar to DEX but in this case we don't really want it balanced, we want it adapted to our play style. First find your ideal value of DEX, it should be around 60 to 85 base [as with every other thing, more is overkill and anything with a cast time of over 0.6 seconds - use a calculator for this - is too slow], after that, try to get around 100 to 120 STR. While more STR means more ATK that can be directly translated into damage because each 10 STR means an extra 10% damage, sometimes is nicer to be able to cast faster to be sure that you can deal the damage and win a MVP. Also, gears to boost SP are easier to get, so don't be pumped right away to boost it to max!
• If after all this you still have some leftover points, add them to LUK for the extra +1 ATK. You may think that +1 ATK does nothing but due to the way Asura Strike works, +1 ATK can mean something like 1000-2000 extra damage, the missing damage to one shot that nasty MVP!

• Skills
• Well, I don't really think that we need to cover this, right? Full buffed, full SP, Dangerous Soul Collect->Critical Explosion->Dangerous Soul Collect->Asura Strike BAM!
• If you want to increase the damage, grab a priest with Lex Aeterna to double the damage.
• If you still see that Lex Aeterna isn't enough, grab a Dancer/Gypsy with the maximum INT possible in multiples of 10s to increase your SP even more.
• If, after all this, you still think that the damage isn't enough, get a Paladin with Gospel and wait for the +SP, +ATK and +STATS buffs.

• Gear
• Well, after all this, I think that any can identify what we all want from our gears is SP and that's not possible, we want ATK so we should focus on stuff as Diabolus Rings, Diabolus Robe with Stat Enchant, High Refine Niddghour's Proxy Skin, Variant Shoes, etc.
• Don't forget that, while INT enchant would be cool and stuff on Diabolus Robe, you may want a STR one to give you more points to spent on INT!
• Porcellio Card is also better than a Roda Frog Card to use at an armour. Porcellio gives a bonus ATK similar to one from 130 STR which is like 30% extra damage compared to the SP given that is like 25% from 5 extra points added to INT.
• Ignore reduce cards at the Shield Slot, if you can [some MVPs can't be done this way, the slaves kill you easy before you drop an Asura], use the ones that give +% dmg like Tatacho, Aqua Elemental, etc.
• Don't be shy to use a Phen Card or even an Orlean's Uniform. While the Uniform drops your damage by quite a bit, the Phen just asks for a swap of an accessory. Cheap or expensive solution, what to do...
• Let's not also forget the weapon, a Luna Kaligo[3]. A cheap weapon also used to farm food that can be used at your character to make your build more efficient! The ideal would be using 2 Abysmal Knight Cards plus one Elemental Card, like Santa Poring Card or Drainliar Card, but if you can't go that route, try to grab 3. As a cheap solution, you can play with Santa Poring Cards and/or Minorous Cards since most of the MVPs that you want to see going down are either shadow or large. Note: Santa Poring Cards are cheap since they come from Gift Boxs.
• As a cheap solution for gears, you can also start with a Morpheu's Set [Hood, Shawl and both accessories] and a Barrage Fist[4] with the suggested cards above.

• Some useful advice

Don't be afraid to use a Phen Card or to put more DEX in your build, if it's your style to make thinks go down, just do it!
Having some Blue Potions, or any other SP item, always with you is cool. Since you loose some SP after using Dangerous Soul Collect, you may want to put your SP to full with one.
Don't use Teleport to search for a MVP, use a Priest/High Priest or Fly Wings. Using SP is a waste of time and you need all you can to kill the MVP.
If Speed Potions are easy to get, try to get some and use right away when you cast Asura. While it may look like it does nothing, your char still has to walk to the MVP to use the skill and sometimes you die because of the walking time instead of the casting time. Just remember to check the rules of where you play because some servers have rules against the use of them at PVM.

• Funny Facts

The way Asura Strike is coded doesn't let you use more than 6000 SP. Even if you've 9999 SP, the damage will only take into consideration the 6000.