The burst Monk built around Asura Strike, whose damage is ATK × (8 + SP/10) + 1000 — so both ATK (STR) and Max SP (INT) matter. Spirit spheres add flat, true-neutral damage that stacks per hit. A high-ceiling nuke for MvPs and beefy targets.
Open this build in the calculator →Opens the calculator with the Monk — Asura build preloaded — then tune stats and gear.
Asura Strike is the biggest single hit available to a pre-renewal character, and its formula makes SP a damage stat: ATK × (8 + SP/10) + 1000. A Monk therefore builds STR and INT together, which is unusual enough that ordinary stat advice does not apply.
| STR | 90 |
| AGI | 1 |
| VIT | 1 |
| INT | 80 |
| DEX | 60 |
| LUK | 1 |
Everything is setup for one button. Gather spheres, get your SP full, land the combo, and detonate. Because the flat bonus is 1000 at every rank and the cast eats a fifth of your Max SP per rank, managing SP is the skill of the class.
Knuckles, STR for ATK, INT for the SP pool, and any gear that raises Max SP — it is literally damage. DEX enough to land the combo hits that set Asura up.
As much as you can carry, because current SP is inside the multiplier: every ten SP adds another multiple of your ATK. The cast itself consumes twenty percent of your Max SP per rank.
Not on Payon Stories. The target's defence applies normally, unlike vanilla Ragnarok Online where the skill bypasses it.
Yes. Each active sphere adds three ATK for the Monk line, and because that lands on base ATK it is amplified by the skill's multiplier.
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: Asura Strike damage on Payon Stories · Triple Attack, and how Rogues can borrow it · How damage is calculated on Payon Stories.
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