Silver Hunter PVE Guide

[Introduction]

I heard that DN NA and DN INA is getting Silver Hunter soon, so here is a guide for SH beginners. I had a lot of fun playing this class. I will not talk about DPS ranking in this guide because that changes every month.

Silver Hunter act as a light element DPS class in a party.
Silver Hunter uses Crossbow as main weapon and is a INT and light element based class.

I guess the version of Silver Hunter will be the newest one when released in DN NA or DN INA, so I wrote this guide based on the newest version.
If you get the first version instead, there is not much changes except the aerial combo of Silver Hunter is slightly harder in the newer version.

Some extra information on Silver Hunter:
1. Silver Hunter has a special page for character creation like Dark Avenger
2. You CANNOT class change from other archer class to SH
3. You will be in Hunter class after creation, the awaken(job change) mission is on level 50
4. Your Hunter is on level 1 after creation.
5. For DNKR and DNTW event, you will get a set of +8 Felis gear, a set of costume, and a white(silver?) wolf mount after getting to lv90.
6. For DNKR and DNTW, a special costume for SH only is available on cash shop. The appearance is the same as a SH after transform without wings.
7. By the news shown in DNNA future content stream, this update patch will come with the skill balance of DNKR 11 Now, 9 Dec, 6 Jan Update. And the update on SH happens in DNKR 6 Jan update patch so you should be getting the newest version of SH.

Left: costume given in event
Right: costume in cash shop
(picture token from DNKR official website)

[Skills]

All skill name are translated from the Korean version.

1. Core Skill

Silver Hunter (Transformation)

Transform into Silver Hunter, Duration 60s
CD 120s, could be reduced to 90s with Silver Hunter EX(B)
Convert 12% INT into Matk (15% with tech +1, 18% with +2)

Enhance Spiral Bolt, Aerial Wild Shot, Arrow Storm, Deluge Bolt and Raging Wind.
Reduce the CD of these 5 skills for 50%, and able to be cast in air.

Able to use tumble in air. It cost you 7 “stamina” every time you use air tumble.
You will get 1 stamina every 1s after learning Silver Hunter.
And you could have 10 stamina at most

The most important skill of Silver Hunter. A SH without transformation is weak.
Unlike Dark Avenger’s Transformation, SH’s has a long CD, so buff clear in nests is deadly to SH. Make sure you get a CD skill plate for this skill if you plan to use SH in Red Dragon Nest.

Recommended to get a technique Necklace for this skill, and a cash shop technique plate if possible.

Could be used in air. The motion of this skill is the same as Sniper’s Cheating Point when cast on ground, and the same as Acrobat’s Eagle Dive when cast in air.

Class Mastery (lv65 passive)

When you hit any enemy with Spiral Bolt, Aerial Wild Shot, Arrow Storm, Deluge Bolt and Raging Wind, the remaining CD of Silver Hunter will be reduced for 3s

The remaining CD of Silver Hunter Transformation reduce 3s for every skill, and you should hit something with those skill to activate Class Mastery.
This skill is important because it allows you to remain in SH transformation.

2. Main DPS Skills

Spiral Bolt

Shoot an arrow straightly.
When cast on ground, press A/S/D would tumble to that direction before shooting
Become [Holy]Spiral Bolt after SH transformation and could be cast in air.

CD: 11s (5.5s with SH transform)
lv1: 698%
lv6: 927%
lv11: 1155%
lv16: 1384%
lv19: 1441%
Light element

Have only 1 hit that does 100% board damage. And this skill has a small hit box.

(Original skill name found in the client is “Spiral Volt”)

Aerial Wild Shot

Shoot an arrow shower to the area in front of you, left click to shoot a large holy arrow after that.
Become [Holy]Aerial Wild Shot after SH transformation and could be cast in air.

CD: 18s (9s with SH transform)
lv1: 31%, 366%
lv6: 43%, 521%
lv11: 56%, 675%
lv16: 69%, 829%
lv18: 70%, 846%
The first number is for arrow shower and the second is for the large holy arrow.
Light element

The arrow shower part could does 32 hits, each hits does 100% board damage.
The large holy arrow have only 1 hit that does 100% board damage.
So the maximum damage of this skill on lv 18 is 70%*32+846% = 3086%

There is currently a bug on this skill that if you left click before the arrow shower does all 32 hits, the holy arrow will do no damage.

Arrow Storm

Shoot an arrow straightly.
If it hits an enemy(or any object), it explodes and does 8 hits damage.
If it doesn’t hit anything, it turns into 5 tracking arrows.
Become [Holy]Arrow Storm after SH transformation and could be cast in air.

CD: 15s (7.5s with SH transform)
lv1: 167%
lv6: 215%
lv11: 251%
lv16: 284%
Light element

It does 100% board damage for each hits, so you get 8x board damage if you hit directly and 5x board damage if it turns into tracking arrows.

Deluge Bolt

Shoot 5 arrows straightly.It shoots horizontally when cast on ground.
Become [Holy]Deluge Bolt after SH transformation and could be cast in air.

CD: 12s (6s with SH transform)
lv1: 376%
lv6: 455%
lv11: 534%
lv15: 568%
Light element

The highest DPS skill of SH, so make sure you get a damage skill plate for it.

Have a total of 5 hits which does 100% board damage each, so it does a total of 5x board damage.

(Original skill name found in the client is “Deluge Volt”)

Raging Wind

Shoot a Spiral Vortex (Acrobat skill).
Become [Holy]Raging Wind after SH transformation and could be cast in air.
Gives a 20% armor break debuff when cast after SH transformation, duration 10s.

CD: 28s (14s with SH transform)
lv1: 1225%
lv6: 1594%
lv11: 1964%
lv13: 2024%
Light element

Does 7 hits. The first 6 hits does 15% board damage and the last hit does 10% board damage.
It is an important skill because of the armor break effect, but it has a long CD so it is recommended to get a CD plate for this skill.

Tornado Shot

Shoot an arrow which will become a tornado when it hits anything.
It shoots horizontally when cast on ground.
Could be cast in air no matter you have SH transformation or not.
It has i-frame when cast in air.

CD: 25s
lv1: 306%
lv6: 370%
lv11: 434%
Light element

Has a total of 10 hits, each hit has 1 coefficient so the total skill damage is 10x of the board damage.
It has a long charging time but it also has a action speed skill plate

Class Mastery II (Tornado Shot Instant):
After using Liberty Attack, Tornado Shot become Tornado Shot Instant, able to skip the charging action.
When Liberty Attack hits an enemy, Tornado Shot Instant recover 25s CD.
Tornado Shot and Tornado Shot Instant share CD.

CD and board damage is the same as Tornado Shot.

Destruction Area

lv40 Ultimate skill.
Enter an aiming stance after cast.
You could press W or S to change the distance, left click to shoot.

CD: 125s
lv1: 3356%
lv2: 6025%
Light element

Does a total of 9 hits. The first hit does 80% of board damage, and the other 8 hits does 2.5% board damage each.

I don’t usually use it because of the long casting animation, but it is a good skill for its high burst damage.

3. Falcon

Summon Falcon

Summon a falcon to fight by your side.
This falcon could last forever before you cancel it and it is invincible(Divine Avatar level).

CD: 60s

If you choose A in Function Enhancement, the falcon could do 3x of its original damage but it will leave after 60s.

Falcon Strike and Falcon Rise are passive skills that will automatically cast by your falcon.
This falcon could do a lot of damage for you, so it is recommended to get both of its skill to high level.

Falcon will also transform after you transform into Silver Hunter, and it gets about 10%(not yet confirmed) damage buff after transform. The base stat of falcon is based on the moment that you summon it, so make sure you use SH transformation first before summon falcon.

Falcon do not have elemental effect on its attack.

Normal Attack

Board Damage: 100%

Falcon Strike

CD: 5s
lv1: 452%
lv6: 585%
lv11: 725%
lv12: 736%
No element

Falcon Rise

CD: 5s
lv1: 539%
lv6: 736%
lv9: 783%
No element

4. Traps

Trap Master

Make 10 traps.
Press W to make explosive traps
Press A to make freezing traps
Press D to make stunning traps

CD: 40s

This menu will shows up after casting the skill
trapMenu

Trapper

Set the traps you make with Trap Master.
Set 1 trap each time you cast this skill.
The trap last for 30s and explode when any enemy step on it.

CD: 1s
lv1: 994%, 721%, 617%
lv5: 1120%, 793%, 677%
(Explosive, Freezing, Stunning)

Explosive traps gives fire element damage.
Freezing traps gives ice element damage and has 40% chance to freeze.
Stunning traps gives light element damage and blind your enemy(PVP).

This skill in PVE is only useful for the freezing function. Most players do not use this skill because a SH usually spend most of her time flying and would not spend time on placing traps. And Trap Master cost 10sp, Trapper cost at least 3sp, which is too much for SH.

5. Buff/Supportive Skills

Liberty Attack

Hit the enemy in a short range in front of you, shoot an arrow and jump backward if it hits something.

CD: 15s
lv1: 1086%
lv6: 1360%
lv9: 1428%
Light element

Does 3 hits in total. The first hit does 10% board damage, the second hit does 90%. The third hit activates only when the second hit hits something, and the third hit does 100% board damage. So it does a total of 2x board damage.

The skill used to activate your instant skill. Liberty Attack itself does a decent damage so you could choose to get it to high level.

Monkey Catch

Could be cast with either shift+spacebar or by using it directly on your skill bar.
You could only jump forward or backward with this skill.
Left click after the first jump will jump forward once more and due damage.
Right click after the first jump will jump backward.

CD: 7s on level 1, reduce 1s every 1 level.
(3s on max level, 2s with tech+1, 1s with +2)

The damage is negligible.
Invincible during the whole skill animation.
Someone like to get a technique asscessory for this skill, but I don’t think that is necessary.

Hunter Eye

A buff that give you 30% INT and 30% Matk
Duration 180s, CD30s

Crossbow Link

A buff that enhance your normal attack.
The enhanced normal attack explode when hit and have high chance to stun your enemy.
The enhanced normal attack has infinite range.

CD: 30s
Damage: 365% each shot (does not increase by leveling up this skill)
Duration: 30s on level 1, increase 10s every level
(PVP Duration: 6s on level 1, increase 1s every level)
No element

Useful skill when you are leveling up, not useful after that because of the low damage.

Flamingo

Activate by shift+right click.

could be used to start your air combo or rise your altitude in air.
No i-frame, damage is negligible

Air Raid

Activate by shift+left click or by left click after Flamingo.

Have i-frame, so you could use it to dodge skills.
The damage is negligible.

Moment Evade

Do a back flip. (same animation as Somersault Kick)
If you get hit during the animation, you will not take damage, than shoot an arrow and jump backward.
Press spacebar during the back flip to jump higher with i-frame. (same animation as Double Somersault Kick)

The counter action changes to Spiral Kick if you learn Dodge Enhancement B.

CD: 6s
Damage: 1780%(only have 1 level)

A counter skill like Sword Master’s parry or Lancea’s Hornet’s Touch.
Not useful at all because it cannot be used in air.

6. Enhancement Passive Skills

Dodge Enhancement

A: increase the damage of Moment Evade for 50%
B: change the counter action of Moment Evade to Spiral Kick(Acrobat skill), have i-frame

I personally chose A because I like the jump backward action more than Spiral Kick.
Choosing B will also decrease the skill damage(not sure if it is a bug or not), but the damage of Moment Evade is not that important.

Attack Enhancement

A: increase 10% Final Damage
B: increase 15% Light atk

Pick one depends on your gear.
The damage benefit brought by Light atk and FD is calculate by (1+Light)*(1+FD%)
benefit with A = (1+Light)*(1+FD+10%)
benefit with B = (1+Light+15%)*(1+FD)
So you should calculate by yourself to find out getting which one will give you higher damage.

For 0 FD players, the break point is on 50% Light.
If you have higher than 50% Light, choose A. If you have less than 50% Light, choose B.
For full FD(100%) players, the break point is 200% Light so definitely choose B.

Also be aware that your falcon do not have light element. If the result of both choices is close to each other, choose FD.

Function Enhancement

A: increase the damage of falcon for 300%, but the falcon will leave in 60s after summon
B: increase the debuff duration of Traps

Pick A for PVE.
Your falcon could get about 15~20% of your DPS with Function Enhancement A.

Silver Hunter EX

A: give a 5s i-frame when you use Silver Hunter
B: reduce the CD of Silver Hunter for 30s

Definitely choose B.
It is very hard to remain in SH transformation without that 30s CD reduction.

[Skill Build]

My skill build (for reference only, don’t just copy)

Most of the skills are explained above, so I would just briefly explain about the skill build.

The first thing is to get Silver Hunter to max level and the 7 main DPS skill to high level.

And I would suggest getting high level on both falcon skill. I have Falcon Strike on level 1, but I don’t really recommend that. You could move sp from Crossbow Link(4), Spiral Bolt(3) and Liberty Attack(3) to Falcon Strike.

If you want to get trap skills, you will have to move sp from falcon skills or Spiral Bolt.

For the other skills, get max level Monkey Catch and get Hunter Eye. Than consider about the other skills by yourself. The 4 enhancement passive skill in Silver Hunter page are all explained above.

Personally recommended skill build:
(again, for reference only, don’t just copy)

You may try out different skill build in DNSS-KR
https://dnss-kr.herokuapp.com/job/silverhunter

[Combat]

The combat of Silver Hunter is not that hard to understand, but it will take you a short period to get used to that.

Aerial Combo of Silver Hunter

Make sure you are in SH mode before doing this.

1. Get into air

There is 4 common ways to get in air: Jump, air Tumble/Monkey Catch, Moment Evade, Flamingo.

Jump… is simply jump, the easiest way to get in air.

Air Tumble/Monkey Catch: you will cast air tumble even when you are on ground after SH transformation if you have enough stamina.If you don’t have enough stamina, you will cast the normal tumble, and you could connect that with Monkey Catch to get in air. This is not recommended because the altitude will not be high enough for a air combo.

Moment Evade could be used by casting Moment Evade and press spacebar after that. There is an i-frame on it so it is safer than simply jumping.

Flamingo could also be used to start your air combo, but there is no i-frame on this skill.

2. Cast skills in the air

Just use the 6 skills that could be cast in air. Use another skill right after the previous one to stay in air. Or use air tumble/Monkey Catch if you need to dodge enemy’s skill.

Recommended to use Raging Wind first because of the armor break debuff.

You don’t need to try staying in air forever, so get back onto the ground when your skills are in CD and cast your instant skill or ultimate skill on ground.

[Item Build]

Gear

If the prize of leveling a Silver Hunter to 90 in your server is the same as those in DN KR or DN TW, you should get a set of +8 Felis. You could start gearing your SH from that.

Silver Hunter is a INT and Light attack based class. And INT matters a lot to Silver Hunter because of the Matk conversion on the Silver Hunter skill.

It is recommended to use lv80 weapon for that extra Dragon Jade slot. It is suggested to use RDN Unique weapon or RDN Legendary if possible. If you cannot even get RDN Unique, lv90 Epic/Unique weapon could be a better choice than lv80 Epic.

You could use lv90 gears for armors , or RDN Legendary gear if possible. It is not suggested to use RDN Unique for armor unless you have already have a set. It doesn’t worth spending money on getting that instead of lv90 gears.

Skill Plate

Must Get:

Raging Wind -CD
As mentioned above, Raging Wind is important for its debuff and its CD is long

Deluge Bolt +Dmg
It is the highest DPS skill of Silver Hunter, so a Damage plate is important.

Technique Asscessories / Plate

Necklace

Must Get: Silver Hunter
Getting a Silver Hunter tech increase the INT to Matk conversion rate, so it could actually increase your DPS on all skills.

Stat: main INT

Earring

No earring is must get or recommended. If you want to get that stat bonus of technique earring, get Raging Wind.

Stat: main INT

Ring

Must Get: Deluge Bolt
Your highest DPS skill, so why not.

Recommended: Arrow Storm
I would recommend this because you need that light element bonus from technique rings, so you need the second one. Arrow Storm could do decent damage.

Stat: Crit+4 element atk OR Matk+light&dark atk

Plate

If you could get a cash shop technique plate, get one for Silver Hunter

[Videos]

Silver Hunter solo ABN Normal

Skill Damage Record:
1. [Holy] Deluge Bolt, 138m, 20%
2. [Holy] Raging Wind, 79m, 11%
3. [Holy] Arrow Storm, 78m, 11%
4. [Holy] Aerial Wild Shot, 70m, 10%
5. Falcon Rise, 65m, 9%
6. Tornado Shot, 57m, 8%
7. Falcon Strike, 50m, 7%
8. [Holy] Spiral Bolt, 41m, 6%
9. Liberty Attack, 39m, 5%
(Skill name, Total skill damage, percentage on total damage)

Somehow Tornado Shot INS cannot hit the golem and I missed a lot in this run, so it didn’t shows in the top 9 damage skills.
Please refer to the skill build section for the build I used in this solo

Reference:

Skill Build is made by DNSS-KR
https://dnss-kr.herokuapp.com/job/silverhunter

Skill Icon and skill preview videos are found in DN client

Some pictures are found in DNKR official website (11 Nov 2015 patch note)
http://dn.pupugame.com/news/notice.html?mode=read&no=389&cate=update

The SH concept art is found in DNJP official twitter.
(and turn the background color to transparent by myself)
https://twitter.com/DragonNest_JP

Update log:

12 Apr:
– Add extra info in the introduction section
– Add detail in Attack Enhancement skill
– Add detail in Air Raid skill

13 Apr:
– correction on Monkey Catch skill
– add info from DNNA future content stream in the introduction section

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