Defender

Defenders have a large amount of damage mitigation and threat skills, essentially a tank class. Despite being a tank class, they do have decently damaging skills as well and stuns. One drawback is the requirement to invest at least five points into a passive before being able to accessing a majority of their skills, which is a bit annoying when you first change to the class.

As a second class, the max Defender job is level 45.

Bonus Stats at Job 45: +X VIT, +X STR, +X AGI, +X INT, +X DEX, +X LUK

### **Skills Overview (Mobile Friendly)**

Enhanced Shield

* Requires Shield

* Reduces all damage taken by 10% (1% base, +1% per skill level) and increases threat level by 50% (5% base, +5% per skill level).

Shield Bash

* 34 SP Cost, Instant Cast, 6 Second Cooldown

* Requires Shield, Enhanced Shield Lv5, Defender Lv5

* Wide Line Attack Range

* Deals 396% (153% base, +27% per skill level) of ATK and has a 50% (5% base, +5% per skill level) chance to stun enemies within the range for 1.5 seconds. Uses your weapon's element.

Reinforced Shield

* Requires Shield Bash Lv5, Defender Lv15

* Use of Shield Bash increases PDEF by 15% (3% base, +3% per skill level) and STR by 20 (4 base, +4 per skill level) for 6 seconds.

Toughness

* Requires Defender Lv30

* Increases your ATK and PDEF by 10% (1% base, +1% per skill level).

Devotion

* 100 SP Cost, Instant Cast, 80 Second Cooldown

* Requires Defender Lv40

* User

* Increases physical damage by 15% (3% base, +3% per skill level) and reduces all damage taken by 20% (4% base, +4% per skill level) for 20 seconds.

Thorny Buckler

* 66 SP Cost, Instant Cast, 55 Second Cooldown

* Requires Shield, Enhanced Shield Lv5, Defender Lv10

* User

* Inflicts defense ignoring NEUTRAL damage equal to 1200 (390 base, +90 per skill level) to any attacking target, reduces your physical damage taken by 20% (2% base, +2% per skill level), and increases your damage of skills using a shield by 20% (2% base, +2% per skill level) for 10 seconds.

Shield Charge

* 20 SP Cost, Instant Cast, 15 Second Cooldown

* Requires Shield, Shield Bash Lv5, Defender Lv30

* Line Attack Range

* Moves 6 meters forward, inflicting NEUTRAL damage equal to 495% (179% base, +79% per skill level) of ATK as damage to enemies within the range, and has a 90% (30% base, +15% per skill level) chance to stun for 2.5 seconds.

Leader

* Requires Shield Charge Lv5, Defender Lv35

* Use of Shield Charge deals additional NEUTRAL damage equal to 124% (40% base, +21% per skill level) of ATK to enemies within it's range and pulls them toward you. Maximizes your threat level.

Threaten

* 12 SP Cost, Instant Cast, 12 Second Cooldown

* Circle Around User Attack Range

* Inflicts damage equal to 551% (200% base, +39% per skill level) of ATK to enemies within the range and maximizes your threat level.

Warrior's Heart

* Requires Threaten Lv5, Defender Lv5

* User

* Use of Threaten reduces all damage taken by 15% (3% base, +3% per skill level) for 5 seconds.

Armor Slice

* 42 SP Cost, Instant Cast, 7 Second Cooldown

* Requires Defender Lv20

* Unknown Attack Range

* Inflicts NEUTRAL damage equal to 357% (141% base, +24% per skill level) of ATK to enemies within the range and reduces their PDEF by -10% (-2% base, -2% per skill level) for 5 seconds.

Cross Cut

* Requires Armor Slice Lv5, Defender Lv25

* Use of Armor Slice inflicts additional NEUTRAL damage equal to 90% (26% base, +16% per skill level) of ATK to enemies within it's range and reduces their movement speed by 25% (5% base, +5% per skill level) for 3 seconds.

### **Builds**

***WrekD's Defender Build***

This build is decently tanky and has large damage potential with deadly skill crits

**Base Stats**: VIT 50, STR 80

**Swordsman Skills**: Power Strike Lv10, Power Strike Mastery Lv10, Strong Impact Lv5, Sweep Lv10, Weapon Proficiency Lv10

**Defender Skills**: Enhance Shield Lv10, Shield Bash Lv9, Shield Charge Lv5, Reinforced Shield Lv1, Toughness Lv10, Threaten Lv10

**Equipment and Preferred Stats**:

* One Hand Axe with Skill Crit
* Shield with PDMG/MDMG Reduction
* Helmet Skill Crit
* Chest PDMG/MDMG Reduction
* Gloves with Skill Crit
* Pants with PDEF/MDEF
* Shoes with Accuracy
* Necklace with Skill Crit
* Earrings with Cooldown Reduction/MDMG Reduction
* Belt with Accuracy
* Ring with Skill Crit
* Bracelet with ATK/PDMG Reduction

**Cards**:

* Weapon with Race/Size DMG%
* Helmet with Cutey Cute/Deathless Miner/Status Resist
* Chest with Desert Peco
* Gloves with Flora Golem/Furious Metaling
* Pants with Desert Peco
* Shoes with Flora Golem/Furious Metaling
* Necklace with Bapho Jr/Barbatus Slasher
* Earrings with Bapho Jr/Barbatus Slasher
* Belt with Golden Thief Bug/Thara
* Ring with Zadorak/Element Enhance
* Bracelet with Zadorak/Element Enhance

**Desirable Enchants**:

* Weapon with Skill Crit/Elemental Enhance/ATK%
* Helmet with Skill Crit/Accuracy
* Chest with HP%/Status Resist
* Gloves with Skill Crit/Element Enhance/Accuracy
* Pants with Large DMG%
* Shoes with Accuracy/Boss Resist/Ignore PDEF
* Necklace with Skill Crit
* Earrings with ATK%
* Belt with Status Resist/Accuracy/Ignore PDEF
* Ring Skill Crit/ATK%/Element Enhance/Accuracy
* Bracelet with ATK%/Element Enhance