Dark Knight

Explorers · Warrior

A spear-and-polearm warrior who sacrifices HP for raw power — the deepest HP pool of any class, with Final Pact granting unmatched invincibility uptime.

Primary weapon

Spear · Polearm

Secondary

Iron Chain

Main stat

STR · DEX

Playstyle

HP sacrifice · tanky

Link skill

Invincible Belief

Auto-triggers at ≤15% HP — restores Max HP every 1s for 3s.

Lv6 35% · 210sLv9 44% · 90s

Stacks ×3, one per Explorer Warrior at master level.

Legion bonus

Max HP +2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6%

Spear and Polearm both apply a 1.49× multiplier. Polearm starts at a higher attack stage; Spear gains +1 attack speed and +5% damage from Weapon Mastery.

Inner ability

Bossing

LegendaryAttack Speed +1 (AS10) / Boss Damage +20% (AS8)

UniqueBuff Duration +38%

EpicBoss Damage +10% / +21 ATT

Mobbing

LegendaryAttack Speed +1 (AS10) / Boss Damage +20% (AS8)

UniqueBuff Duration +38%

EpicBoss Damage +10% / +21 ATT

Buff sequence

Cross Surge

Hyper Body

2 minMaple World Goddess's Blessing

Epic Adventure

Dark Thirst

Weapon Aura

Dark Resonance

Final Pact

Dead Space

Dark Halidom

Cast left to right to stack buffs into the Final Pact (Greater) burst window, then chain Dead Space → Dark Halidom for binds. Draft order — confirm with the Dark Knight Discord.

6th job leveling order

Coming soon

Binds

Dead Space10s · 360s cd

Dark HalidomAbsolute Bind

iFrames & defense

Final Pactup to 40s i-frame

Calamitous Cycloneup to 4s · 120s cd

Sustain & party

Hyper Body+HP/MP · 200s

Cross SurgeHP → damage · 200s

Base stats from skills

Totals count near-permanent sources. Values in (parens) include temporary buffs at full value.

Weapon multiplier

1.49×

Innate to the class — no skill sources

Attack speed

Stage 7

base Stage 5 Polearm · Stage 4 Spear

+2+1

Weapon mastery

91–94%

base +20%

+70%

STR

+50 (80) · +15% AP

+20+30+30+15% AP+400% APTEMP

Attack

+4% · +100 (150)

+4%+40+30+30+50TEMP

Crit rate

+75%

incl. +5% base

+10%+30%+10%

Crit damage

+38%

+8%+15%+15%

Damage

(+30–35%)

+5%+10%TEMP+20%TEMP

Boss damage

(+15%)

+15%TEMP

Final damage

+134% (178.19%)

+50% / +20%×+30%×+8%×+6%TEMP

Ignore DEF

+30% (47.08%)

+30% / ×+10%×+16%TEMP

Untagged — Untagged — permanent / near-permanentORB — per Combo OrbTEMP — cooldown buffDEBUFF — vs debuffed enemiesAXE — axe equipped

Community resources

Grandis Library MapleStory Wiki Class Discord

Data structure inspired by Grandis Library & community infographics. Class images and data sourced from Nexon.