A balanced STR/VIT/AGI Knight built around a two-handed sword or spear. High STR drives Bash and auto-attacks, VIT keeps you alive for melee and MvP work, and enough AGI to attack at a reasonable clip. A forgiving, all-round melee build that leans on weapon mastery for flat ATK.
Open this build in the calculator →Opens the calculator with the Knight — Hybrid build preloaded — then tune stats and gear.
A Knight's damage is mostly flat ATK — STR, weapon mastery and refine — pushed through a big two-hander. That profile is forgiving: it does not need a crit threshold or a cast-time breakpoint to function, and mastery ATK lands after the target's DEF, so it holds up against armoured monsters that punish weapon-ATK builds.
| STR | 90 |
| AGI | 60 |
| VIT | 60 |
| INT | 1 |
| DEX | 40 |
| LUK | 1 |
Open with Bash on a single target and auto-attack between casts; Magnum Break for packs, which also leaves a Fire buff on your attacks for ten seconds. VIT is what lets you stand still and keep swinging, and it is the reason a Knight can tank targets an Assassin has to dodge.
Start with any two-handed sword or spear you can wield and put every point of mastery in before you chase a better weapon — mastery ATK is worth more than the same ATK on the weapon because it lands after DEF. Then move to a slotted two-hander and add race or size cards for the targets you actually farm. Armour goes to VIT and Neutral resistance; a Raydric Card is the single biggest survivability upgrade for most melee.
Size is not what separates them: spears and two-handed swords share the same size profile, full damage against Large and three quarters against Small and Medium. Choose on the skills instead — spears for Pierce and Brandish Spear and for riding a Peco Peco, two-handed swords for Bash and the higher raw ATK.
Enough to stop missing what you fight, which depends entirely on the target's flee. Bash helps a great deal because each rank adds five percent of your hit rate, so a maxed Bash reaches targets your auto-attack cannot.
Yes. Provoke reduces the target's DEF, and since defence is applied partway through the damage chain, everything after it lands harder.
Every figure this build produces is broken down step by step in the calculator — base damage, skill ratio, the target's DEF, masteries, element and cards, each with its running total. The mechanics behind this build: How damage is calculated on Payon Stories · Hit, flee and accuracy on Payon Stories · Magnum Break's lingering fire damage · The weapon size penalty, and Weapon Perfection.
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