Painter Guide

Introduction

First of all, painter is a mid-range physical class which wears cloth gear and a spray (2h) as a weapon. It has many CC possibilities such as various stuns, para, slow, increase damage on target and does also have some aoe skills. Almost all skills have a 15m range.

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Thanks to Erufuun for his contribution to this guide.

Skills, Stigma, Daevaskills

Note: The given damage is from max version of the skill.

Chains skills

Further information

- Like any class running forward will increase your skill damage, even for the ropes if you have runned in the seconds before.

- I do not note the MP consumtion for the skills, since one of the basic skills does absorb mana all the time. It is impossible to get out of mana.

- For using a strap skill the painter stands still since there is a cast, after that you can keep running, but your movement speed is slowed down.

- I did not mention the skill shock remove. It is the same like for every other class

- A target cannot be attacked with a strap skill if its already attacked by the same type of strap skil. In other words only one type of strap skill at the time.

- A strap skill is a debuff on a mob. A target has a maximum amount of debuff that it can have. If your strap debuff will be replaced by others, the strap skill cancels automatically. This means e.g. in world boss fights, that these strap skills are almost useless.

- In some areas (like divine siege or in dumaha) it is possible to flight. The passive skill for painter gives 8% more physical attack. In times of fixed values this is a huge push of attack!

- Strap skills are not castspeed depended, but the teleport is.

- The critmultiplier is 1.7

- Strap skills have a very low critrate.

Known Bugs

- Sour Dye interupts anothers Painter Life Binding

- Addional Dmg of Work Destruction is not displayed in chat log.

Stigma setups

PvE

Single Target / Grp PvE

For small scale PvE I think there is no way around 30% damage increase and i recommend the following setup:

can be exchanged with , but i prefer glaze . I do not recommend use since i does deal only low damage since it is magical damage. and is must have in my opinion.

AoE (Inspired by Erufuun)

This build can be used if you prefer to play on AoE build. It can be usefull e.g. in Stella where you might collect many mobs together with a glad or an AT and kill them at once. is an addional aoe to your common skills. And the vision stigma will pull the targets together. Meanwhile, I believe that his build is the best for ToC. I also like this build in group PvP if you have e.g. a Glad and/or AT in your group, which of course needs good coordination, but its fun to play.

World Bosses

For world bosses we lose advantage of the damage increase debuffs and the strap skills which is explained in the pve rotation section. Therefore in this case in makes sense to use the vision.

PvP

For PvP its a bit more variable and depends on personal play style. There are different combinations possible. Here are two examples.

Para Build

In this build you have the major stigma which is good for interupting the target or gaining time to get your skills ready again. In example if your opponent used shock remove, you can use it to wait till the buff times out. After that you can stun lock and kill your opponent. You can use to paralize the target, deals some damage or put debuffs on it, maybe even cover silence, and finish with which deals addional damage to targets which are paralized and stuns it. In this build you can also replace with .

Airbind Build

With you have an addional nice stun skill. You can use or in the major stigma slot. This build also gains advantage over the target if the shock remove buff is gone. Use and to finish the target.

For the normal stigmas it depends on the situation or instance. If there is possiblity to life leech take and if not its better to take . For the beginning it is recommended to use and . If you have stigmas +9 you might add or can be useful in group pvp to encounter the cleric.

For PvP it is highly recommended to enchant stigmas. The class does benefit alot from the 2 addional normal slots since there are very good normal stigmas.

Stigma calculator

Link: Painter Stigma Calculator

Please note that these are only suggestions bases on my experience.

Skillrotation

PvE

In PvE it depends on the situation which rotation to use. If you are doing common pve like instances or open world farming/questing you can basically do what you want. You shouldn't run out of skills. Always debuff your target with or first. You main chain also debuffs the target with -200 p.def. Your main damage skills are , and . As soon these skills are ready, use them. The damage strap is 10sec cd, the front aoe 12sec. In between you can use your other skills like you like.

At world, siege and other large scale bosses its another story. You lose your advantage of the strap skills. You can also forget to debuff the boss, since they disapper almost instantly or anyone else will use them anyways. So you just focus on a good rotation. This looks like following. You start to place and with the big CD skills like and in between every skill or chain you doing you have to use as a weave skill. By doing this you should still deal proper damage and not going out of skill.

PvP

Most important in PvP is to tickle the shock remove skill out of the opponent. As soon as this is gone, you win. So how to do this? With a high burst and combination of stuns. Here one example of a skill rotation:

In this rotation you have (depending on front aoe daeva skill) 3-4 stuns and a huge dmg.

Of course you have to watch evade buffs, shields, etc. As soon as the target uses shock remove, stop the chain and apply .

After that use and to finish the target or other skills.

This is just one example. In PvP you have a high dynamic fight and its good to train against different classes. I hope with this you get an idea and develop differnt rotation.

Some note at the end: even its very lame in my opinion, there is no way around . This skill is a guaranteed kill in combination with . For some reason (might also be a bug) you can still deal massive damage on the target. In 1on1 Arena e.g. the skill is a must have to be able to make it to the top ranks.

Upcoming Skill Changes

Here is a list of upcoming skill changes. I also note down which update it originally was.

I do not claim 100% correctness of the translation.

Class Patch Nr. 14 (KR 7.2 - 31.7.19)

Change for all classes in this patch:

- Shock remove buff gives now 2000 shock resistance instead of 1000.

- Kromede Minions stun effect consideres now shock resistance buff.

- Sleep skills do not longer increase mdef of the target.

- Feared targets are buffed with 1000 pdef/mdef.

- The interval for all strap skills is now 1s (mostly was 0.5s or 0.3s Bof) DOWNGRADE!

Class Patch Nr. 15 (KR 7.2 - 25.9.19)

Can someone help me with formating the table? I want to have the description column being bigger.

Quote from failboat

Instead of using the private server names, here are the official gameforge names and descriptions. Update your table with these.

Did you even read mate?

1. skillnames are not from a private server

2. i wrote that i will update the skillnames if 7.0 live

failboat  15TAN

didn't wanted to be mean. What i was trying to tell with "did you even read" is that i mentioned this in my guide already and it looked like you didn't even read my post:

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I've played the Painter already on another official server

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Note: The given damage is from max version of the skill. Furthermore, some skillnames might be wrong, will correct them after the update.

In detail, i played on official russian server. So whatever private server you mean probably took translations from the russian 7.0 version. So far everything is the same like in our version of 7.0 besides some text and special events.

Even if you offer me a list, from my point of view since i dont know you, this list is even less official than russian. You probably did an extraction from the update or i dont know where you got the list from? I simply cannot rely on that.

However, i will update the skill names after the update is live anyways. Just wanted to publish the guide so people can already read about the class during the maintenance.

p.s.: name / names - i meant names of course

Quote from failboat

Quote from Yio

You probably did an extraction from the update

This. You can see on the preview stream the same skill names. I did not translate the game I just used the ingame skills we have now.

Can i realy rely on you? Because i don't want to change it a 3rd time XD

Updated and Finished Version 1.0 of the Guide.

KebabVaderYami good point for large scale fight. i forgot to add it!

Quote from Erufuun

Color Bomb should be heavily priorized for Single Target as well, if you ask me. It's a single cast and three ticks do more damage than Color Bomb.

Color Grenade chain yields a pretty relevant PDef reduce, which should be noted.

I see no reason to run Silence Paint in PvE. Do you find yourself ever using it?

I was also thinking of giving the Gravity Vision a shot. What do you think?

Edit: The more I think about it, the more sense it makes. Flash Portrait is fine, but Portait of Gravity Vision seems so much better than Flash Band on paper, I'm inclined to go for Viscous Color (which is another AoE) as my second blue Stigma.

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- the 2 first sentences i dont understand what you bean. you refer to same skill in both.

- yes this is mentioned in the skill list

- silence does deal dmg as well with 30sec cd. what other skill you would add for pve dmg? especially in large boss fights where you struggle with the skills

- i use gravity vision for large scale pvp such as sieges. i like the skill a lot bc it is 25m range and instant. so you place it somewhere where the other faction runs throw and they get dmg and get pulled

- the blue stigma aoe can be nice for pve with many mobs, like stella. personally i haven't used it yet. but i can think of an pve aoe build. i will add it to the guide. ty for the inspiration

Pdef debuff: I agree, if you want to go perfect you do the chain first. Like common grinding i dont try to have perfect rotations You will use it at some point anyways.

Silence: Correct. Less dmg. But only a bit lesser. The big difference is, the "weave" skill you cannot use in running, which sometimes can be a disadvantage or even annoying ^^. Silence you can use in running and increase its dmg output. However, I added it bc there is no other good green dmg stigma.