SpiritVale – Knights Guide to Paladin

Knight to Paladin Leveling Guide

This guide covers the recommended progression from Knight to Paladin, including stat priorities, core skills, equipment, and build paths. It is intended as a leveling guide rather than a min-max reference.

Stat Priorities

Your abilities scale from your equipped weapon, so the value of each stat depends on the weapon you’re using.

Primary Stats

• VIT – Main survivability stat.
• STR – Increases Attack Power and physical skill damage.
• AGI – Increases Attack Speed and reduces Skill Delay.

Equipment Priorities

Look for equipment with:

• VIT
• HP%
• HP Regeneration
• Defense
• Health on Hit
• Reflect Damage
• ATK%

Core Knight Skills

Recommended leveling rotation:

Standard Rotation

1. Taunt
2. Air Cutter
3. Flurry
4. Impale

Alternative Rotation

1. Taunt
2. Flurry
3. Air Cutter
4. Counter Stance

Skill Overview

Taunt

• Pulls large groups of enemies.
• Increases melee damage enemies receive.

Fortify

• Primary defensive buff.

Air Cutter

• Applies an additional damage amplification effect that stacks with Taunt.

Reflect Shield

• Reflects damage back to attackers.
• Increases Counter Stance damage.

Counter Stance

• Blocks an attack before delivering a critical stun attack.

Flurry

• Grants the Combo Ready buff for 4 seconds.
• Increases the damage of your following abilities.

Increased Health

• Increases base HP before percentage modifiers, making HP% equipment significantly stronger.

HP Regeneration

• Useful during early leveling but becomes less impactful later.

Recommended Early Equipment

Weapons

• Solar Spear
• Relic Trident
• Brimblade
• Stonepoint Spear (Grants Counter Stance Lv. 5)

Armor

• Stoneguard
• Iron Bulwark

Accessories

• Sunflower Clip
• Blood Clip
• Heart Loop Earring

Headgear

• Verdant Antlers
• Sun Lion Crest
• Crown of Spikes

Artifact Sets

• Steelheart
• Titanplate

Useful Armor Sets

• Gravemarrow
• Ashwalker
• Direwolf
• Skystrider

Recommended Early Cards

• Treant Forest Evergreen – Shield (HP Regeneration)
• Treant Minion Autumn – Shoes (MP and MP Regeneration)
• Treant Minion Evergreen – Legs (HP and HP Regeneration)
• Treant Tree Evergreen – Chest (HP)
• Bat – Accessory (Restore MP on Kill)
• Cacti – Shield (Reflect Damage)
• Mosquito Stinger – Accessory (Haste Lv. 5)

Knight Build Options

Tank Build

The standard leveling build.

Rotation

• Taunt
• Air Cutter
• Flurry
• Impale

or

• Taunt
• Counter Stance
• Standard Rotation

Prioritize:

• Defense
• HP
• HP Regeneration
• Defensive passives
• Long-duration buffs

Flurry Build

Uses the Relic Trident to repeatedly cast Flurry.

Strengths:

• High attack speed
• Reliable Health on Hit
• Fast clearing

Keep Flurry between Lv. 1–3 to reduce mana consumption.

Recommended priorities:

• VIT
• STR
• AGI
• Spear Mastery
• Spear Quicken
• Taunt
• Air Cutter

Recommended equipment:

• Steelheart Artifact Set
• Health on Hit gear
• Bat Card for mana sustain

Rotation:

1. Taunt
2. Air Cutter
3. Spam Flurry

Reflect Build

Designed to transition naturally into Shield Throw Paladin.

Max:

• Shield Mastery
• Fortify
• Counter Stance
• Reflect Shield
• Taunt
• Endure
• Air Cutter

Recommended equipment:

• Titanplate Artifacts
• Brimblade or Stonepoint Spear
• Skystrider Armor
• Crown of Spikes
• Cacti Card

Primary stats:

• VIT
• AGI

Counter Stance and Reflect Damage do not scale with STR.

Rotation:

1. Taunt
2. Air Cutter
3. Counter Stance

Becoming a Paladin

Once you reach Job Level 50, travel to the Sanctum of Light.

The Paladin Master is located inside the building near the Windy Desert waypoint. Speak with the NPC to complete your job advancement.

Recommended level is approximately 55–60.

Paladin Skills

Physical Skills

• Shield Bash
• Shield Throw

Holy Damage Skills

• Grand Cross
• Judgement Blade
• Divine Punishment

Support Skills

Holy Shield

• Increases Block.
• Increases Resistances.
• Prevents spell interruption.

Consecration

• Deals continuous Holy damage.
• Provides minor healing.
• Activates Combo Ready.

Auras

• Conviction – Damage
• Defiance – Tanking
• Vitality – HP Regeneration

Recommended Paladin Equipment

Useful general-purpose items include:

• Iron Ankh
• Bronze Crescent
• Warborn Aegis
• Sanctum Guard
• Paladin Crest
• Snowbun Earmuffs
• Ventilator Mask

Recommended armor sets:

• Skystrider
• Sanctified
• Night
• Plasma

Look for cards that provide:

• +1 All Stats
• HP%
• MP%

Paladin Build Guide

Holy Caster

Primary rotation:

1. Consecration
2. Grand Cross
3. Judgement Blade
4. Divine Punishment

Continue cycling Grand Cross, Judgement Blade, and Divine Punishment while refreshing Consecration.

These abilities scale from both ATK and MATK through weapon scaling. Focusing on one offensive stat generally produces better results than splitting investment.

Recommended weapons:

• Oathbreaker
• Master Hammer
• Bloom of Midnight
• Radiant Scepter

Recommended equipment:

• Iron Halo
• Mind Gauntlets
• Arcanum Artifacts
• Corporeal Artifacts
• Eternia Artifacts

Prioritize:

• STR
• INT
• MATK%
• Holy Damage
• HP%

Shield Bash / Shield Throw

Primary rotation:

1. Taunt
2. Shield Bash
3. Shield Throw

Alternative:

• Taunt
• Shield Bash
• Counter Stance
• Shield Throw
• Shield Bash

Recommended stats:

• VIT
• STR

Obtain enough AGI and Spear Quicken to reach approximately 178 Attack Speed for smoother Shield Throw spam.

Recommended weapons:

• Stonepoint Spear
• Trident of Tides
• Heaven’s Orbit
• Fortified Guardwall

Reflect Equipment

• Titanplate Artifacts
• Crown of Spikes
• Spikesteel Helm
• Golden Aegis
• Obsidian Band
• Insect Carapace

Useful cards:

• Blazewheel
• Cacti
• Goblin Warblade
• Imp Demon

High Defense Equipment

• Titanplate Artifacts
• Skystrider Armor
• Paladin Crest
• Ironshade Helm
• Endurance Gauntlets

Useful cards:

• Golem Fire
• Golem Earth
• Golem Ice

Additional useful items:

• Endurance Plate
• Endurance Shoes
• Endurance Greaves
• Blood Clip
• Sanctified Shoes
• Night Legs
• Bloodbound Legs
• Bat Card
• Eyeball Mage Blue Card

Endure, Fortify, and Shield Mastery all increase Defense.

At least one source of Leech is highly recommended.

Tank / Support

Primary responsibility is survivability and party support.

Prioritize:

• Taunt
• Endure
• Shield Mastery
• Fortify
• Reflect Shield
• Counter Stance
• Increased Regeneration
• Increased Health
• Holy Shield
• Aegis of Light
• High Guard
• All Auras
• Consecration
• Life Bond

Recommended equipment:

• Blade of Eclipse
• Eternia Artifacts
• Vitalis Artifacts
• Veilward

Focus on:

• HP
• HP Regeneration
• Defense
• Magic Defense
• Status Immunities

Damage is lower than offensive Paladin builds because VIT no longer scales abilities.

Sacrifice

Sacrifice can be incorporated into any physical Paladin build, including:

• Shield Bash
• Shield Throw
• Flurry
• Impale
• Auto Attack

It deals damage equal to 9% of your maximum HP to both yourself and nearby enemies.

Damage increases with:

• Sacrifice Lv. 5
• Holy Damage bonuses

To sustain the self-damage, use:

• Health on Hit
• Leech

Self-damage can be greatly reduced by stacking Holy Resistance.

Maximum reduction is achieved through:

• 75% Holy Resistance
• Holy-element armor from Sanctify, Sanctified Armor Set, or Angel Mage Card

This reduces Sacrifice self-damage by up to 87.5%.