Class Guide: Vulpine

**Introduction**

Goodmorning everyone ! My name is Erhea and my comming directly from UE014 - Mermaid where i stand as 1st Vulpine of the serv. I also play on US002 - Blade and PWI. I come today giving to all of you my Vulpine Tutorial because lot of you ask me some good question about the class on discord. Enjoy your reading.

Venomancers (sorry I hate the term Vulpine ahahah) have made debuffs and control their speciality.

Their main rolls are: Supporting the team by debuff and put some curses on enemies (in PvE and PvP) to magnify the power of the team and deals a quit suitable amount of damages with their powerfull DoTs.

Venos have 2 special features compared to others classes: They can have a pet and can turn into foxes.

They have a fair amount of control skills and a wide variety of debuff skills that include: lowering a target's physical or magical defense, stealing a target's chi, amplifying the damage a target receives,, decreasing a target's accuracy, purging the target's positive buffs and many more and reducing the heal the target receives.

Venomancer is not a difficult class to play but it’s quit technical to be mastered.

* Deals both magical and physical damage
* Many debuff skills
* Increased physical defense and accuracy in Fox Form
* Versatile squad role in both PvE and PvP
* Expensive class to play if Legendary Pets are pursued
* Weaker magic attack skills compared to other magic classes

## **Part One : Equipment - How to gear up your Veno**

### A] Gearing :

haha Here no surprise compared to the PC version we have no choice. So equip the best stuff for your level (drop in dungeon...) then farm the temples of decline and frost to make your legendary stuff.
You can also raise your reputation to increase your Rank Promotion to get some equipment.

### B] Improvement :

#### a) Perfection & Engraving :

As for the other classes you will not have the choice in these 2 categories. Complete your daily quests to obtain materials for upgrading and engraving. It won't cost you much to set your stuff at +9 and your engravings at +15 to ensure a minimum BR.

#### b) Soul’s Stone :

This is where you'll have "the most creative possibilities". With the build that I have been dragging myself for several years, I like to have a veno which has a good number of PV (currently I am at 57k HP unbuffed), a correct defense in order to be able to hold the blow in PvP in order to be able to go to cast my debuff quietly. Then I put the rest in Magic Attack, Magic Critic & Magic Penetration.
For more details, here is what I have to equip:

* Weapon : 2 ATTM +1 Viciousness
* Glove : 2 ATTM +1 Viciousness
* Ring 1 : 2 ATTM +1 Viciousness
* Ring 2 : 2 ATTM +1 Viciousness
* Neclace : 1 ATTM + 2 CritM
* Cape : 1 ATTM + 2 CritM
* Head : HP + Tenacity + Benevolence
* Armor : HP + Tenacity + Benevolence
* Belt : 1HP + 2 CritM
* Leg : HP + Tenacity + Benevolence
* Shoes : HP + Tenacity + Benevolence
* Love Mirror : ATTM + CritM + Viciousness
* Owner Sigil : HP + CritM + Benevolence

#### c) Sacred Books (part still in work)

Because Vulpine has a long casting time for the spells, this book reduced your casting time and gives you nice other states and a nice Skill.

#### e) Guild Training

Concerning guild treaning, you have to focus on magical skill, PvP one, Stun and anti-controls

## Part Two : Cultivations and Skills

### Cultivations :

"Erhea ? I don't know how to specialise, can you help me?" That's one of the most common questions. My answer will seem ready-made, but it's the truth... It depends on your style of play.

* The sage improves your human skills the most. Most of the venos use sage culti in PVE.
* The demon enhances your Foxes skills more. Most of the venos use demon culti in PVP.
* You can change your specialization at any time by paying 30k EA.

### Which skill to lvl up?

It depends of your cultivation.

* If you fully play as a sage you just have to max the human form skills.
* If you play as demon you just have to max the demon form skills.

For my own part i'm switching between sage and demon depending of the situation So I lvled up all my skills.

Just get in mind that : when reborn will be there you'll have to lvl up ALL your skills to lvl 50

I'll prepare a comparison between all skills for you, which will be here once this one is finished.

## Part Three: SPD Cycle & Prioritization

As I've discussed with some of you, the Véno is not a hard class to play but this one is quite technical.
With the build I've built, you won't be a big, hard kiki at the Kikilmeter. You will not be an archer, a wizard or even less an assassin that we will be able to discover during the year but thanks to the various debuff that the Véno brings and to its correct dps your teammate will make more damage and will thank you for it.

### A] Cycle

The cycle of the Veno consists of an alternation between human form and fox in order to debuff then DPS.

So you follow schematically: Form fox form for debuff > Human form for beginner > Human form for DPS > Fox form for DPS and we start again.
Normally at the end of the cycle, your first fox-shaped debuff should be recharged and you will be able to start your cycle again.

I am preparing a graphic and video representation of the cycle of the Veno that I think I will finish today or tomorrow.

**For Max dmg Output and fastest Chi Recovery.**

Frost, AutoAttack,Posion Burst,AutoAttack, Noxious, AutoAttack, Myriad,AutoAttack, Frost, Fox Form, Pounce, AutoAttack, Wallop,AutoAttack, Malefic Crush, AutoAttack, Pounce,Wallop, Human Form.
Repeat all the time to make Dmg while your human Skills on cooldown.
In Fox Form you Recover fast your Chi, to use Parasitic Nova.
Use Parasitic Nova on groups From Monsters, or if the Boss Spawns Monsters and make sure you Hit With your aoe spells all Monsters.

### B] Prioritization

As indicated above your priority will be to put a maximum of your debuffs to improve the DPS of your team mate and decrease the power of the boss or the enemy and DPS the time to reload your debuffs.

## Part Four: Eidolons

As a venomancer you have the choice between different Eidolon.

* I like to use an ATTM type idole like the Flame Rider while waiting to get Aeriola.
* I'm thinking of making myself an assist eidolon to see if they're worth it in survivability

### Aeriola (Erhea's choice) - maybe not the best

I made the choice to take Aeriola as my Eidolon.Here the choice i made as skills :

* Enhanced magic (to increase my own magic) + Magic (to increase Aeriola magic).
* Stun Removal (give you a antistun every 60sec at lvl 1)
* Enforcing : Your eidolon deals 25% more damage to enemies with less than 80% HP (at lvl 5)
* Poisonous Strikes : deals magical poison damages to the target
* Stunning Combo : Deals damages and stun a target after 6 attacks
* Speedy Combo : Deals damages to 1 target and a big one after 6 attacks
* Exploding Combo : Deals damages and make an AoE attack after 6 attacks

I've choose to go on a full dex build for maxing chi recovery

## Part Five : PvP

Having been mainly a PvE player for all these years, I could only give you some general advice on the PvP class. You can go back to tutorials that detail PvP events.

In PvP, the Veno is there to piss off its world. Your main role will be, while being escorted by the big DDs of the guild, to go debuff the carriers of cata / point keeper and to, as in PvE, doing a maximum of curses.
You'll then have more than just helping them dps your targets.

Generally, the cata carriers will be barbs, seekers or war. It will be essential to inflict them as quickly as possible increased damage in order to remove their PV buff.

Some of your farts such as the phoenix or the baby bear cub will also be useful to you for their stuns or slowdowns.

## Part Six: Vulpine's Pets

### All pets :

**Venos can capture a wide variety of pets...**

There are 4 level of rarity :

1. Normals one
2. Half rares one
3. Rares one
4. Legendary one

There are 3 categories of pets :

* Magical damages
* Physical damages
* Tanky pets

*You can see all of them sort by required catch level on theimage's carousel*

### Vulpine's pet damage test:

Here you can see the conclusion of the Vulpine's Pet Damage Test made by someone on youtube.

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You can see the full video at this link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptj\_dV-oGF8

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