darklord [Guide] Dark Lord

[Positive 194]

 

Hello, Stranger. Today I will tell you some more about the character Dark Lord!

His story begins way back in season 2. The Dark Lords of MU have surfaced to help face Kundun. They are born leaders as they used to command great armies and creatures of power in the golden ages. As the threat of Kundun grows ever nearer some have decided to return and help the citizens survive these troubling times. Others, on the other hand, have returned to seize the opportunity to gain power from the battles that are about to begin.
Riding into battle on his steed, he is a terrifying force that summons his Dark Raven and Dark Horse to do his bidding. He is the only character with the Command stat.

 

A Dark Lord does high physical and magical damage and can control pets. Dark Lords also receive 7 stat points per level and have the ability to swim faster/run without the need of +5 boots and gloves. He also gets a huge damage absorption bonus from the Dark Horse, so at level 70 it gives 50% absorption. Impressive, huh?

Sets:

• Excellent: Leather (5 grade), Bronze (8 grade), Scale (10 grade), Light Plate (20 grade), Adamantine (35 grade), Dark Steel (50 grade), Glorious (70 grade), Dark Master (90 grade), Sunlight (120 grade).
• Socket: Royal (74 grade), Ambition (116 grade).
• Mastery: Blood Angel Lord, Dark Angel Lord, Holy Angel Lord, Awakening Soul Lord, Blue Eye Lord, Silver Heart Lord, Manticore Lord, Brilliant Lord, Apocalypse Lord

Scepters:

• Excellent: Battle Scepter, Master Scepter, Great Scepter, Lord Scepter, Shining Scepter, Great Lord Scepter, Soleil Scepter.
• Socket: Absolute Scepter, Thunderbolt Scepter.
• Divine: Archangel Scepter, Blessed Archangel Scepter. 
• Mastery: Blood Angel Scepter, Dark Angel Scepter, Holy Angel Scepter, Soul Scepter, Blue Eye Scepter, Silver Heart Scepter, Manticore Scepter.
• MUX custom weapon: Royal Scepter, Brilliant Royal Scepter.

Shields:

• Excellent: Small Shield, Horn Shield, Kite Shield, Buckler, Skull Shield, Plate Shield, Large Round Shield, Dragon Slayer Shield, Spiked Shield, Tower Shield, Serpent Shield, Cross Shield.
• Socket: Ambition Shield.
• MUX custom shields: Royal Protector.

More about all items, skills you can find here

More about socket system here.

More about mastery items here.

 

Pets:

• Dark Raven, Dark Horse.

 

Wings:

• Cape of Lord       
• Cape of Emperor
• Cloak of Dominator

 

 

 

PVE guide:

• Stats:
  • Strength: This is main and most important stat for any of our server rates. So it should be maxed out first.
  • Agility: Depending on rates you can choose the way you play with this stat. For lower rates add agility as much as you need to get maximum attack speed. Defense you will get from Dark Horse and higher grade excellent items.
  • Stamina: Pretty simple here. The more HP you have - longer you live.
  • Energy: So here is couple ways to use it, also depending on rates. For example in Prime x5000 server DL can have all 4 stats max (32767) it means that there is no worries about HP, defense and power. On low rated server quite differently. This stat affects your Skill damage in %. So the more you have it more powerful you are. I would recommend to split points between Stamina and Energy with ratio 2:1.
  • Command: This is the only character with 5th additional stat. It gives ability to learn skills of Dark Lord, equip own pets and level up them to get more damage from Dark Raven and more absorption from Dark Horse. 
• Skills:
  • Force Wave: The basic skill of a Dark Lord which unleashes a concentrated force of energy straight at the enemy.
  • Fire Burst: Most popular skill of a Dark Lord. It deals good damage at beginning and it's multi-target skill. This skill you can buy in Lorencia shop.
  • Fire Scream: Powerful high range skill. Very quickly spends your entire AG on lower resets. Deals more damage than Fire Burst. Can be found in Icarus.
  • Chaotic Diseier: Good skill for PvE. Has high damage and good range. Not often used by players but it's necessary to have it for next skill. Can be found in Karutan. 
  • Wind Soul: Best PvE/PvP skill for Dark Lord. Huge damage dealing skill with high attack speed. You can get it only in Ruud shop(Elbeland). 
  • Increase Critical Damage: Enhances Critical Damage of the Dark Lord and his Partymates. Can buy in Lorencia shop.
  • Earthquake: A destructive war stomp which causes tremendous damage and knocks opponents back. This skill you have when you mounted Dark Horse.
• Items:
  • Since this character class is more about defense first of all you must collect excellent set with Damage decrease options. Zen option also will be needed because resets costing increases every next one ^^. Don't be lazy to upgrade item level at least to +13 to receive bonus Decrease damage +5% from each part of set.  At mid/end game you can start collect Mastery set and upgrade it as much as you can till Brilliant. With this set Dark Lord changing his ability from tank to damager. Perfect solution for boss raids. In best case Dark Lord should have top grade mastery and excellent set to swap them depending on situation.
• Professions:
  • Dark Lord: Basic profession but honestly you can play most of the game without changing it. You still can use basic skills and high grade items.
  • Lord Emperor: After getting this profession you will be able to unlock master skill tree and increase your character power. Also if you have Cape of Emperor you will need this profession as well as for some items (mastery, mux weapons or sunlight set), all of them need 3rd class quest. 3rd class quest should be passed as soon as you can. Basically in Prime server it's 10-15 res in solo and on lower rates servers 20-30 in solo.
  • Empire Lord: This is 4th class. After passing quest you will have access to Majestic skill tree and Cloak of Dominator. 4th skill tree increases character stats and main skill power. This is more end-game thing but it's important. To complete 4th class quest you must be able to kill Deep Dungeon monsters. 50+ res to complete in Prime and 40-50 on low rates.

Skill trees:

• Master Level tree: Well this is most asked in every guild chat, forum etc thing. There is no exact way to spend points but still some skills are most important so let me show you my example.

Here you can see how I used points in my DL build. This my own skill tree and it's not the best and correct one.

 

These two skills are important as in PvE as in PvP. I would recommend use them both in 20/20 values:

          

 

This skill you need if you're wearing Cape of Emperor to get additional defense. Especially on low rate servers:

Note: If you have Cloak of Dominator you don't need it.

 

And this skill you need to unlock requirement of Wind Soul skill (only 10 pts):

 

 

 

• Majestic skill tree: Here for any class you gonna play have to max out first line. Then use 5 pts to unlock passive options. As you can see in my build i've spent most of points in defense. If you don't have 4th cape you can use 40 pts from Cloak defense to Maximum life or Increase DMG.

 

 

Small PVP guide:

• Depending on your enemy you can play with skills. Even on this class there is few tactics to PvP (not only 1 skill). Of course first what you need is Crit buff. Then attack enemy with skill Wind Soul. If you are more in end-game most of players will have good pentagrams with Radiance (Paralyze, Blinding, Binding etc) and the best way to survive if your enemy have Paralyze and it applied to you (6 sec on +10 level) immediately switch to Defense skill from your shield and wait till Paralyze ends (don't forget to drink HP, SD potions^^), after that you can continue to attack enemy. In case if he is close range class such as BK, GL, RF you can also use Dark Horse skill to push away him and on that time while he returning in attack range you have a bit advantage against him. Also you must keep in mind that Dark Lord is not the best PvP class but still he can fight.

 

It is up to player which pet will he/she use later when gets stronger. There are attack base and defense base pets. Check the links for crafting and options of pets:

                            

 

Pros of choosing to play Dark Lord:

1. Rapid character growth due to high defense and high range skills. 
2. Get's 7 stat points per level.
3. Dark Raven deals additional dmg in the beginning, helps with level-up.
4. With Dark Horse you don't need wings to enter Icarus map.
5. Don't have 2nd quest. Only 3rd and 4th.
6. Most important class in game for Castle Siege. Holding switch, pushes enemies with Earthquake skill from Dark Horse.

Cons:

1. Significantly less damage compared to other classes.
2. Can't use Guardian pets.
3. Have less damage absorb on all capes because of Dark Horse advantage.

 

Note: This topic is open for changes and for improvements. Feel free to write down posts if you have ideas, questions or suggestions.

 

[Gucci 36]

Hi Positive

Thanks for sharing this guide! Hard to find good ones out there.


I wanted to ask what the best Harmony Options for Dark Lord would be for Set, Shield and Weapon?

[Positive 194]

Obviously for all classes it’s SD Ratio 4% as primary for all set parts and shield + additionally Defense increase +250 and/or Damage reduction + 125. On low rate server you can also think about Maximum life increase +750 . 

for scepter the best options I’ve got are:

[Gucci 36]

Okay, that's great. Then its time loose 100s of JOH 😄

Thank you Positive!

[Haymanata 0]

Hello,

I don't know is it possible, but i will like to ask.

@Arturs can you make when Dark Lord is mounted on dark horse and attacking he doesn't drop off and continue attacking from his back of the Horse?

Thank you and best day!

[Positive 194]

1 hour ago, Haymanata said:

Hello,

I don't know is it possible, but i will like to ask.

@Arturs can you make when Dark Lord is mounted on dark horse and attacking he doesn't drop off and continue attacking from his back of the Horse?

Thank you and best day!

It's all new seasons update and it can't be changed 

[Haymanata 0]

6 hours ago, Positive said:

It's all new seasons update and it can't be changed 

I hate that animation.

[Positive 194]

1 minute ago, Haymanata said:

I hate that animation.

me too, but we have to live with this now ^^