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{{Player Guide Header|Author=Razer|Month=May|Year=2008}}
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<span style="font-size:12pt">'''Valour and Victory : A mini guide to levelling Knights with NPC or non mvp gear.'''</span><br>
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====Introduction====
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This is a short guide that explains how to level a knight to 99 in the quickest period with no MVP cards/Donation gears. It also teaches you how to raise money for the gears that you need to use for the next level. Since it is a mini guide - I will no get into details with builds and basics. I assume you know how knight skills work - Look up a website if you dont. This guide is simply a path of how you reach 99 in a quick period of time with low end gears. Also since it deals with the quickest levelling - the Knight variant will be a Str-Vit-Dex type Vit knight. These guys start out slow but become fast after 66 lvl. On the contrary Agi knights start out faster but become slower towards the end. 

====Levelling, Gears and the Journey====
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<u>Stage 1: The Beginning</u><br>
<div style="text-indent: 30pt;">Without much padding text and stuff lets get down to the levelling straightaway. Before you proceed reading this part its advisable that you go through my money guide (Link found at end of this guide) and use method 1 to raise money to buy the basic NPC gears or slotted gears.<br>Start out as a Novice as make sure you keep playing it as a novice till level 40- Thing with novices is that you get gear that costs only 6z and gives you great gear that boosts HP/SP both. As soon as you reach 40 - go to the job changer and change yourself into a swordsman. Now since the Novice gears are useless - toss them out carefully. I strongly suggest you to raise atleast 700k using Method 1 in my zeny guide for newbies. This usually takes 2-3 hours but will be useful to you right now. Buy a Helm[1] for 100k, Buy a NPC Greaves[0] from Yuno, Full plate[0] from izlude armour NPc, Shield[1] for 100k, a manteau[0] from the NPC. An iron cain for 5k (You cant use this till lvl 50 though). Make a SMile mask which is fairly easy to make . Buy 2 clips[1] for 35k each. Buy a Tsurugi[1] from the npc - Put in any card you like. Now wear these gears. Buy meats , Awake pots, Fly wings,GJs from the money you are left with.</div>
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<u>Stage 2: The Path to Knight</u><br>
<div style="text-indent: 30pt;">With these gears you are ready to take on poison spores or Biblian lvl 1/2 Monsters. Posion spores can be found in Geffen city dungeon - Located at its center. Biblian can be rached by using the warp girl. We also call it Bylan islands. Use your meats and toil these maps till you reach job 41 - Which is actually enough for being a vit knight. Your skills should look like these at job 42</div>
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HP Recover lvl 10<br>
Bash lvl 10<br>
1 handed mastery lvl 10<br>
2 handed mastery lvl 1<br>
Magnum break 5<br>
Provoke lvl 5<br>
Endure .<br>
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If you want more of endure - go past job 42. However when you turn into a Knight you can simply remove sword mastery and get more endure by re skilling. So its pointless to toil beyond job 42 as a Swordman - but thats upto you. Should you run out of supplies at any stage - make more zeny using method 1 of my Newbie Zeny guide. Make sure you have a merchant with vending - since if you play in Biblian you are bound to end up with rare items and cards which can get you more money.<br>
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As for stats the 3 stats you got to invest in are Str-vit-dex. Even if the starting set up doesnt allow you to put 9 in all of them at one time - you can change your stats to maximize Str,Vit,Dex. Make sure Luk,int and Agi are all 1 - You dont need these stats at this point of the journey.<br>
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One could argue that you can go agi and then change to vit later but thats not needed you will be spamming bash on strong monsters - Agi will give you ASPD but not flee so you ll get hurt a lot. Vit will reduce most of this damage.<br>
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Invest most points into str and make sure you aim multiples of 10.<br>
So at lvl 50 you should have a total of 60 str. 40 vit and rest into dex.<br>
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Str should be gives most priority followed by vit and dex. Dex is needed to connect damage hence you need to put points in to dex. Whenever you become a Knight you gain a lot of HP and some ASPD as well - Whenever you become a knight - you are ready to engage stronger monsters.<br>
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<u>Stage 3: The Quest for Power</u><br>
<div style="text-indent: 30pt;">All right you will need a stat reset now. Get high str, dex and agi with 20 vit max. Sure you lose a bit of HP but you will see why Agi is need at this period. Go to toy factory dungeon lvl 2 now. (Avoid Chepets on the way). You are now going to stay on this map till you raise 4 M zeny . This would take you till lvl 70~75. You now have the power to exploit all the tricks of my Zeny guide. But just use the cake method and Character spam for now. Your main focus is making money. Lvls will come automatically. Your agi will boost aspd and you will quickly kill most stuff making the grinding part fun. Collect and sell the drops you get here. It should not go beyond lvl 75 that you amass 5M zeny. Spam bash on myst cases and Cruisers. Myst cases hurt a lot so carry meats. Use fly wings if you run into Stormy Knight. As per skills go just try to unlock 2 handed quicken - Get yourself a regular claymore which is sold in prontera in the north west corner building. (Get peco skills) you dont need other skills at present. Keep the shield[1] in storage and use a 2 handed sword. Use the skill 2 hand quicken to boost ASPd while fighting here.</div><br>
At lvl 75 do a run through of the market and buy these items :<br>
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Thara frog card for maximum 800k - Put it in the shield[1] you bought in the past.<br>
You should be using the iron cain you bought at lvl 40 lol.<br>
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Buy a Fin helmet for 50k.<br>
Buy a Pasana Card for 700k. Buy a Full plate[1] for 100k = Slot the card in the armour.<br>
'''Or Buy a cheap Volcano armour[0] for 100k from a merchant'''<br>
If you have managed to amass more then 6M zeny - you can buy a matyr card for 1.5M max and a Greaves[1](200k) and put the card in it.<br>
Buy Eluniums(10k) and make all your gear +4.<br>
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Buy a suitable helmet card - Id recommend Leib Olamai for 300k - It gives 10% Resist to fire I believe.<br>
Buy an Ice Pike from a forger (preferably Ranked - /blacksmith command lists ranked smiths) , Make this weapon +7.<br>
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Alternate Better Weapon : Quad Orc Lady carded Pike.<br>
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Now its time for Stage 4: The path of Hard work<br>
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<u>Stage 4: Stage of Hard work</u><br>
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Re stat your stats and again return to Str/Vit/dex- you will no more need Agi 
Re Skill and after adjusting the swordmen skills get spear mastery and all other skills required to unlock Brandish spear. Try to get as high lvl of Bran Spear you can get - dont worry if the skills arent maxed yet. They will be maxed eventually. Dont take Sword skills like 2 hand quicken anymore. Invest points on only spear skills and make sure you have Cavalier mastery at 5.<br>
<div style="text-indent: 30pt;">You have to warp to Orc dungeon now and exit the building you spawn in . Walk to the west dot on the map and this brings you out on a map full of high orcs and orc archers. Make sure you dont run into Orc Lord- You cannot handle it just yet. Be careful on the high orc map as it too a Boss monster called Orc hero which you must avoid for the time being. Collect mobs of 3-5 High orcs and spam Brandish spear till they die. at this point dont use meats to heal - use Mastela fruits which are sold at NPC. As soon as you make your brandish at lvl 10 , Pierce at lvl 10 and Spear mastery at lvl 10 while playing High orcs you are ready for insane mobbing. Use Endure to avoid flinching caused by Orc archers etc and collect mobs upto 8~20 and spam Brandish. Make sure you spam Mastela fruit key when getting Hit so that you dont die. If you have the Platinum skill Berserk - you may use it for more damage.</div>
Some good things drop here. Steels which sell for 1-2k, Rough Oris which sell for 2-3k and the rare Earring[1] which sells for 6-9M.<br>
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At lvl 90 you should be able to raise an additional 15~20M via the drops here.<br>
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<u>Stage 5: The Finale to 99</u><br>
<div style="text-indent: 30pt;">Use your money and buy a Raydric card.  You could raise more money with more grinding work and buy a Deviling card if you like. Use your money and buy a +7 or +8 manteau[1] or whichever you can afford and put in the card that you bought into it.<br>
Now repeat the process as you had before but with a slight difference.</div>
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Take your time at this stage and raise money for better gears . - If you can raise another 25M you can buy a pair of Dark Lord Greaves. Though this is hard and requires you to kill orcs for steels and Oris constantly for a long time. This way you will reach 99 and then trans.<br>
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<u>Stage 6 : Realization</u><br>
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Along the path you learn that how profitable a Knight is at making money and mobbing. You also realise that you dont need to start out rich but eventually end up being rich. You can very well play w/o Donation gears and MVP cards . I guess that concludes this mini guide.<br>
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====Hunting Locations for zeny making with Knight (Advanced)====
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Before you dive into this read the gear requirements - this is for Mid tiers or people who have a semi set of MVP carded gears. 
I have assumed that you can now buy Kahos,DL sleips and MVP carded gears. This is not a part of the Training guide - It is for all kinds of LKs.<br>
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Hunting locations
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1] Seals at comodo beach : Hunt here from 80+ as Knight or 70+ as Lord Knight. Use a gungir and make sure you have water armours . Spam bran on seal mobs and pierce on Mobsters or bran Mobsters if more then 1 . Watch out for looting Galapagos.<br>
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2] Geffen 2/3 Dungeon. Geffen 3 is known as Geffenia if you type /where in it.: These dungeons require you to have an Elemental Weapon - Id recommend a VVS Ice Lance is lvl 2 and a VVS Fire Lance in Lvl 3 . Collect and bran stuff. You could MVP too but I wont explain the gears needed for that :p - Money is in form of Oridecons,Cards,Infiltrators, Old Blue boxes<br>
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3] Geffen 4 : Use a Brocca spear and if possible come with a priest support. Use a Khalitz shield and a bathory armour. Make mobs of 6-15 monsters at max nad spam Asperioed brocca Bran on em.<br>
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4] Anolians 3 east of Comodo city: Get a water armour , Raffelessia shield and a Gungir . Make mobs ranging from 2-20 and spam brandish . If you run into mutant dragonoid - either avoid it or spam Pierce. Money in form of Oridecons and Brooches[1]<br>
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5]  Lighthalzen 2: If you can afford to make a +10 HydraX2, Skel WorkerX2 Pike you can even play mobbing in Lighthalzen 2.<br>
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6] Raydrics in Glast Chivalry 2 :Use a Brocca , Fire Armour and a Toad/Thara shield to play here. Priest is recommended but not compulsory.<br>
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7] Abyss Lakes Dragons: use a 2 handed Lk with parry here with possible a Dragonkiller sword. Priest support is advised<br>
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8] Pyramids lvl5 : Use a VVS Ice Pike or ICe Lance, Fire armour and mob pasanas, Matyrs etc. Watch out for Pharoah<br>
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9] Bylan lvl 4/5 : Easy to play - get a water armour and a gungir with raffelessia shield and spam bran and earn loads of money.<br>
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====Update Log and Bibliography====
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17-August-2009: Added Volcano armour as a cheaper alternative for fire armour
25-April-2011 : Updated prices to current scene.

====Disclaimer====
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I am human and this guide is not absolutely perfect. It is based of my personal experiences. Some other Vet players have posted insightful information throughout the guide. You can use their information as well if it appeals to you.