Introduction

Author

Hey there! I'm better known as Myndi 😊

I have designed this guide in two portions:

  • Endgame showcase - A pure Wind Cutter Wind Cutter build. Listing the best in slot items, damage calculations, skill priorities, farming gear and much more.
  • New/returning player walkthrough - Explaining from the beginning to the end, with full detail, how to start until you get to endgame. Kindly check it if you didn't have the chance 😉 New Player Guide as we can consider the transition to other builds like Ignition Break Ignition Break or Sonic wave Sonic wave in case you won't stick with it.

My experience with Sonic Wave Wind Cutter is vastly, around 2+ years playing it in-and-out. Have done a lot of content with it, even content people wouldn't expect to be.

With nothing else to add, I hope this build makes your game more enjoyable as it did to me! ✨

Although everything here is tailored to work in sync, please take everything with a grain of salt.

About this build

My personal vision of this build relies on Dungeon Farming mainly, such as Einbech 3, Juperos, Thanatos & many others. In this guide we will focus building around that concept, but before jumping in take a look at the pros and cons of it.

Pros
  • Newbie friendly
  • Fast access to weeklies
  • Cheap build
  • 100% DEF PEN
Cons
  • Agi-up mobs
  • Short range
  • Average damage

Data

ACD required 34%

ASPD required 185

Max. WC/s 3

Has 0.5s Cast Delay, 0.3s CD.

It requires 34% ACD & 185 ASPD.

Unable to cast more than 3/s.

Observations

Equipment shows the best in slot gear by default. In some cases there's budget alternatives to select from.

Grading Thanatos Great Sword-ADThanatos Great Sword-AD is generally not worth it, unless you have zeny to burn.

Battle Stats doesn't include RNG enchants, Pet Attack (7%), Base Weapon Attack (240), Refine Attack (+12; 96), Refine P.ATK (+12; 24), Grading Bonuses or Shadow Gear Refine Attack (+9; 9).

Calculations uses the default Equipment also includes Status & Battle Stats values additionally to the following items:
Lux Anima RunestoneLux Anima Runestone
Turisus RunestoneTurisus Runestone
Asir RunestoneAsir Runestone
Imperfect AlmightyImperfect Almighty
Red Herb ActivatorRed Herb Activator
Orc Hero EggOrc Hero Egg
Sacred DraughtSacred Draught
Brilliant Light Ruby RingBrilliant Light Ruby Ring
Brilliant Light Ruby NecklaceBrilliant Light Ruby Necklace
Perfect Size Shadow GauntletPerfect Size Shadow Gauntlet
Thanatos Great Sword-ADThanatos Great Sword-AD
Status Atk

Equipment

+8Black RibbonBlack Ribbon
Blood SuckerBlood Sucker
+12Thanatos Great Sword-ADThanatos Great Sword-AD
+12Temporal Str ManteauTemporal Str Manteau
Brilliant Light Ruby RingBrilliant Light Ruby Ring
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Victory Wing EarsVictory Wing Ears
Gray Wolf SuitGray Wolf Suit+11
Thanatos Great Sword-ADThanatos Great Sword-AD+12
Illusion Sprint ShoesIllusion Sprint Shoes+11
Brilliant Light Ruby NecklaceBrilliant Light Ruby Necklace
Melee Amber [U]
Melee Amber [L]
+9Perfect Size Shadow Gauntlet
HP Absorb Onyx [G]
+10Almighty Shadow Focus
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Melee Amber [M]
Reload Shadow Armor+9
Reload Shadow Shield+9
Reload Shadow Boots+9
Almighty Shadow Brooch+10
Purple Ferus
Empty
Contaminated Wanderer
Happiness Giver
Revolver Buffalo Bandit
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Mistress of Shelter
Chaotic Acolyte
Empty
Empty
No Weapon Penalty
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[x2] 3% After Cast Delay
Cutter Break, Warrior 3, Warrior 2
[x2] Powerful Nive Lv 2
Orc Hero Orc Hero

Orc Hero Damage

Phreeoni Phreooni

Phreooni Egg Utility

Incubus Incubus

Imcubus Farming

Source of Equipment

Damage calculations

Minimum damage against

Dummy

Small

3,611,143

Medium

3,892,322

Large

4,351,267

Einbech 3 Fire Elemental Converter

Porcellio (Earth 4)

6,558,123

Abyssman (Neutral 4)

4,351,267

Mineral (Neutral 4)

4,351,267

Juperos 2

Apocalypse (Holy 2)

4,351,267

Archdam (Ghost 2)

3,369,452

Robot (Dark 2)

4,351,267

Excavator (Poison 2)

4,006,667

Juperos 3 Fire Elemental Converter

Hallucigenia (Poison 2)

5,030,573

Assassin Fly (Poison 2)

5,470,283

Gazeti & Striker (Earth 2)

6,302,406

Evolved & Mutated Pupa (Earth 2)

5,780,054

Nifheim Dungeon Holy Elemental Converter

Ghost (Undead 1)

4,307,608

Lude (Undead 2)

5,030,573

Brutal (Neutral 2)

4,351,267

Gan (Neutral 1)

3,892,322

Thanatos F12 Water Elemental Converter

Anger (Fire 4)

6,711,969

Horror (Poison 4)

4,307,608

Resentment (Ghost 4)

3,892,322

Regret (Ghost 4)

4,351,267

ATK Calculator

Stats

Status

The core of any build. These are tailored to squeeze the maximum amount of damage from Wind Cutter Wind Cutter. For a more hybrid approach using Ignition Break Ignition Break, Sonic Wave Sonic Wave or Storm Slash Storm Slash focus on Luk & Crt instead of Dex & Con.

Although they can be minmaxed, it's not a requirement.

Primary

Str 120
Agi 100
Vit 80
Int 90
Dex 120
Luk 75
  • Str Important maximizes your damage and weight.
  • Agi Important provides extra damage thanks to Black Ribbon Black Ribbon.
  • Vit attones your survival & potion effifency.
  • Int if you lack or run out of SP.
  • Dex Important increases your hit rate.
  • Luk increases your hit rate and damage slightly, additionally to critical.
Stats & Sub Stats

Traits

Pow 100
Sta 0
Wis 0
Spl 0
Con 97
Crt 0
  • Pow Important skyrockets your damage.
  • Sta provides percentual physical resistance.
  • Wis provides percentual magical resistance.
  • Spl useless as this boosts magical damage.
  • Con Important increases both your damage and hit rate.
  • Crt boosts your critical damage.
Traits

Battle Stats

The better the balance between them, the higher the efficiency and damage output.

Attack

Atk 547

Atk 71%

Class 0%

Size

Small 57%

Medium 87%

Large 87%

Race

All 14%

Demon 29%

Angel 29%

Others

Melee 148%

WC 170%

Mastery 40

Damage Formula

Skills

Distribution priority

These are the minimum required skills points to perform the build accordingly. Any extra points can be allocated freely at your will.

Click/tap on the skills to learn more about them.

Swordman icon

Swordman

42 points
1 Sword MasterySword Mastery 10 Increase HP RecoveryIncrease HP Recovery 5 BashBash 5 ProvokeProvoke 10 Two-Handed Sword MasteryTwo-Handed Sword Mastery 10 Magnum BreakMagnum Break 1 EndureEndure
Knight icon

Lord Knight

48 points
10 Two-Hand QuickenTwo-Hand Quicken 1 RidingRiding 5 Spear MasterySpear Mastery 10 ParryingParrying 1 Cavalier MasteryCavalier Mastery 5 PiercePierce 5 Aura BladeAura Blade 5 ConcentrationConcentration 5 Spear StabSpear Stab 1 Spiral PierceSpiral Pierce
Rune Knight icon

Rune Knight

30 points
10 Rune MasteryRune Mastery 5 Dragon TrainingDragon Training 10 Enchant BladeEnchant Blade 5 Wind CutterWind Cutter
Dragon Knight icon

Dragon Knight

48 points
5Servant WeaponServant Weapon 10Two Hand DefendingTwo Hand Defending 5Servant Weapon - SignServant Weapon - Sign 5Hack And SlasherHack And Slasher 5Servant Weapon - PhantomServant Weapon - Phantom 5Storm SlashStorm Slash 3Servant Weapon - DemolitionServant Weapon - Demolition 10VigorVigor

Consumables

The amounts shown in here are simply my personal use, feel free to swap them around to fit your need.

RecommendedSurvivalUtility

This consumables should be at the top of your refill category as they serve you greatly.

500 Concentrated Golden Syrup Potion Concentrated Golden Syrup Potion
100 Concentrated Blue Syrup Potion Concentrated Blue Syrup Potion
100 Guarana Candy Guarana Candy
10 Yggdrasil Leaf Yggdrasil Leaf
10 Yggdrasil Berry Yggdrasil Berry

RecommendedOffenseDefenseUtility

This are your general instance/farming consumables. Only use them when you're in dire need of them.

20 Great Shining Gin Potion Great Shining Gin Potion
20 Great Maniacal Potion Great Maniacal Potion
20 Great Sacred Draught Great Sacred Draught
20 Imperfect Almighty Imperfect Almighty
10 Great Elixir of Energy Great Elixir of Energy

OptionalSurvivalOffenseUtility

Not core consumables, but very helpful to have around. Often used to exploit your damage potential or farming efficiency.

10 Berserk Potion Berserk Potion
10 Enrich Celermine Juice Enrich Celermine Juice
30 Red Herb Activator Red Herb Activator
5 Golden X Golden X
10 Water Elemental Converter Water Elemental Converter
50 Fire Elemental Converter Fire Elemental Converter
10 Earth Elemental Converter Earth Elemental Converter
10 Wind Elemental Converter Wind Elemental Converter
10 Holy Elemental Converter Holy Elemental Converter
15 Cursed Water Cursed Water
5 Rejuvenation Potion Rejuvenation Potion
5 Great Rejuvenation Tonic Great Rejuvenation Tonic
5 Great Tonic of Energy Great Tonic of Energy
10 Great Guyak Pudding Great Guyak Pudding

RecommendedSurvivalOffenseDefenseUtility

Essentially what makes you a Rune Knight. This is my personal must to have list, but feel free to ignore the Utility ones.

Offensive

30 Lux Anima Rune Lux Anima Rune
30 Turisus Runestone Turisus Runestone
30 Asir Runestone Asir Runestone

Defensive

30 Hagalas Runestone Hagalas Runestone

Survival

30 Verkana Runestone Verkana Runestone

Utility

30 Isia Runestone Isia Runestone
30 Urj Runestone Urj Runestone

Creation Database

Farming

Autoloot

The following list is from my personal use. If you don't see an specific list, chances are I simply use the general autoloot.

General @autoloot 0.9

Einbech 3 Farm
Redium Rindium Odium Purdium Whidium Dynite Unidentified Ore

@alootid +25809|+25810|+25811|+25812|+25813|+25814|+9517

Juperos Farm
Old Gear Ancient Core Juperium Energy

@alootid +34716|+34717|+34712

Illusion Luanda + Twins Quest/Farm
Token of Wootan Token of Megalith Twilight Illusion Stone Dusk Dissonance Stone Dawn Dissonance Stone

@alootid +25633|+25638|+35055|+100003|+100004

Elunium & Oridecon Farm
Elunium Oridecon

@alootid +985|+984

Old Glast Heim Daily
Elunium Rough Elunium Rough Oridecon Crystal Mirror Great Nature Sticky Mucus Opal

@alootid -985|-757|-756|-747|-997|-938|-727

Horror Toy Factory Daily
Gold Platinum Bullion Bloody Coin

@alootid +969|+7230|+7642

All Illusion Dungeons Quest/Farm
Dried Yggdrasil Leaf Suspicious Pentacle Shining Spore Cluster of Nightmares Rotten Meat Token of Wootan Token of Megalith Abyssal Essence Twilight Illusion Stone Dusk Dissonance Stone Dawn Dissonance Stone

@alootid +25266|+25267|+25265|+25264|+7564|+25633|+25638|+25899|+35055|+100003|+100004

Gear

Farming is all about optimizing your efficiency, speed and damage. While some items here are required for a better experience, they're not a must.

Mouse over/tap on the images/names to see the applicable bonus.

General

  • HP Absorb Onyx [G] HP Absorb Onyx [G]
  • SP Absorb Onyx [G] SP Absorb Onyx [G]
  • Card icon Hunter Fly
  • Card icon Brain Sucker
  • Automatic Booster R Automatic Booster R

Thanatos

  • Brilliant Light Ruby Ring Brilliant Light Ruby Ring
  • Brilliant Light Ruby Necklace Brilliant Light Ruby Necklace
  • Earth Elemental Converter Earth Elemental ConverterThanatos F11
  • Holy Elemental Converter Holy Elemental ConverterThanatos F12
  • Sinful Ruby Ring Sinful Ruby RingThanatos F12
  • Sinful Ruby Necklace Sinful Ruby NecklaceThanatos F12
  • Card icon DolorianThanatos F12

Abyss Lake 4

  • Sinful Ruby Ring Sinful Ruby Ring
  • Sinful Ruby Necklace Sinful Ruby Necklace
  • Card icon Bone Ferus + Bone Acidus Combo
  • Holy Elemental Converter Holy Elemental Converter

Others

  • Card icon Playing Ferre Einbech 3
  • Card icon Giant CaputEinbech 3
  • Brilliant Light Ruby Ring Brilliant Light Ruby Ring Odin 4
  • Brilliant Light Ruby Necklace Brilliant Light Ruby Necklace Odin 4
  • Cursed Water Cursed Water Odin 4

New Player

Introduction

First and foremost, this section is made both for new and returning players with a more in depth explanations on what you have seen above, to answer common questions, teach you new things and much more. If you like learning, this is your place.

Skip If you don't care about the basics jump directly to Earlygame

Introduction

Tutorial

Don't skip

The tutorial is your introduction to Nova Ragnarok. It starts with Mom entering your room and it unfolds a small series of events where she teaches you the basics of the game, gives you some gear walks you through the starter classes and finishes it off by sending you to the Eden Group.

Article: Tutorial / Mom

Useful for

  • New players
  • Understanding the basics
  • Introducing you to Eden Group

Rewards

  • Potions Novice Potion Novice Potion
  • Equipment chest Ragnarok Online item Physical Gear

    Paradise Sword

    Paradise Knight Two-Handed Sword

    Paradise Hat

    Paradise Suit

    Paradise Boots

    Paradise Manteau

    Paradise Ring

  • Teleport item Eden Group Mark Eden Group Mark

Eden Academy

Don't skip

Eden Academy effectively counts as the next step of the tutorial. We will dive into this later, as this goes all the way up to level 150.

Article: Eden Academy

Useful for

  • New and returning players
  • Acquiring mid to late-game gear
  • In-depth learning

Rewards

  • Equipment chest Ragnarok Online item Physical Gear

    Paradise Rune Knight Two-Handed Sword

    Advanced Paradise Hat

    Advanced Paradise Suit

    Advanced Paradise Boots

    Advanced Paradise Manteau

    Advanced Paradise Ring

  • Class sets Ragnarok Online item Imperial, Noblesse & Grace

    Imperial Knight Armor

    Imperial Attack Manteau

    Imperial Attack Boots

    Imperial Attack Ring

    Noblesse Knight Armor

    Noblesse Attack Manteau

    Noblesse Attack Boots

    Noblesse Attack Ring

    Grace Knight Armor

    Grace Attack Manteau

    Grace Attack Boots

    Grace Attack Ring

  • Shadow Gear Ragnarok Online item Academy Set

    Academy Shadow Armor

    Academy Shadow Weapon

    Academy Shadow Shield

    Academy Shadow Shoes

    Academy Shadow Earring

    Academy Shadow Pendant

Methodologies

Leveling

Leveling becomes quite hectic as you progress. This section focuses entirely on farming methods & locations.

Consider Battle Manual Battle Manual - Not a must, but to keep in mind for your journey.

Decorative icon Scaraba Scrolls Level 1-99

An ancient technique using a Scaraba to kill for you. Commonly used at Rock Ridge. You're able to rebirth and get back to 99 with it. Refer to the Market to buy one.

Scaraba Summon

Decorative icon Eden Group Level 10-100

The Eden Group article covers most of it. The only problem might be that some of them might be slightly outdated.

Eden Group NPCs

Decorative icon Gramps Level 85-200

One of the best and most commonlu used sources is located at Eden Group. The difficulty mostly relies on finding a party and surviving groups of mobs.

Gramps NPC

Decorative icon Eden Billboards Level 1-175

Generally a good alternative for solo players. Located on the first & second floor of Eden Group.

Eden Billboard

Decorative icon Quests Level 100-180

Could be considered a dark territory. As curating a list might not be worthy it, the best I could recommend is checking the Wikipedia Quests category.

Ragnarok Quests zoomed

Decorative icon Dungeons Level 1-250

Mainly through the Warper NPC. You can either select Dungeons or Illusion Dungeons. If you're looking for recommendations scroll down.

Ragnarok Warper NPC

Decorative icon Leech Services Level 1-250

Any leeching service is often more efficient at higher levels, but they range from all levels. A good place to look out for them is at Eden Market or Discord.

Eden Market

Decorative icon Old Fashion Way Level 1-250

As simple as clicking on the map and checking the levels of each area scouting your way through. You could also go by your pre-renewal old experiences.

Ragnarok Map zoomed

Farming

Farming is essentially what this game is mostly about. This section focuses in farming methods directly tied or correlated to zeny acquisition and / or gear progression.

Consider Guyak Pudding Guyak Pudding - Only at higher level and to optimize your runs.

Consider Bubble Gum Bubble Gum - Pretty niche, but it usually outweights the cost.

Decorative icon Cards

Purely based on luck. You could either spend few minutes, or few hours farming one of these. An example of this would be farming Decorative icon Purple Ferus Card.

Income method

Time spent

Difficulty

Decorative icon Trash Loot

Practice commonly known for selling your loot to an NPC to profit some zeny. An example of this would be farming at Thanatos Tower F12.

Income method

Time spent

Difficulty

Decorative icon Crafting Components

Specific items oriented. Using an Autoloot list is often recommended to avoid trash loot. An example of this would be farming Old Gear Old Gear.

Income method

Time spent

Difficulty

Decorative icon Equipment

Mostly reliant on time or zeny. Acquiring them is the easiest part, refining tends to be the issue. An example of this would be farming Illusion Sprint Shoes Illusion Sprint Shoes.

Income method

Time spent

Difficulty

Decorative icon Weeklies

There is an old, outdated article, I made back then that it could help you understand a bit better how they work. Kindly look at the Weeklies Spreadsheet.

Income method

Time spent

Difficulty

Decorative icon Seasonal Events

Arguably the best and worst, due to how sporadic it is. Refer to the full list Summer Festival, Trickster King's Invasion, Helping Santa & Valentine's Day. An honorable mention to Scheduled Events.

Income method

Time spent

Difficulty

Useful

Category Command Description Usage
Navigation @go Gives you the ability to teleport to any town. If you don't type any city, you will get a full list of the available locations. @go prontera
@navi Pinpoints the location of a coordinate.
@navi prontera 100,100
/navi prontera 100/100
@return Teleports you back to your save point. Specially useful to leave instances. @return
Information
@bs
@battlestats
 Gives you detailed information about your all your stats. Pretty helpful to understand formulas and behaviors. @bs
@ii
@iteminfo
 Resourceful command to check every single item in the game. You can even preview outfit this way, to avoid misunderstandings.
@ii enriched elunium
@ii 12345
@wn
@whatnpc
 My go-to option to verify if an NPC is selling an specific item that I'm looking for. Always good to use this command before @ws.
@wn enriched oridecon
@wn 54321
@ws
@whosells
 Directly aimed towards players selling specific items. The UI is compelling enough for you to understand it form the get go.
@ws new wave sunglasses
@ws 55555
@wi
@whereis
 A mob finder. Quite useful when doing weeklies.
@wi poring
@wi 123
@mi
@mobinfo
 To validate stats from a specific mob. Could be used to verify the LUK required to crit, or the DEX needed to hit, even the PEN or MPEN.
@mi valkyrie
@mi 9999
Farming
@autoloot
 The shorten version works, but sometimes the values don't work properly, so stick to the longhand name. @autoloot 85.5
@alootid
 This is quite essential when farming for specific loots. You can either whitelist or blacklist up to 20 of them in any combination. It's quite finnicky to reset, so the best way is simply going to character selection and coming back.
@alootid +123
@alootid -123|-143|+1465
@nopickup
 You would be surprised how handy could this be specially when you're clicking a lot. The name references to what it does, really.
@nopickup
Party
@autoloot
 The shorten version works, but sometimes the values don't work properly, so stick to the longhand name. @autoloot 85.5
@alootid
 This is quite essential when farming for specific loots. You can either whitelist or blacklist up to 20 of them in any combination. It's quite finnicky to reset, so the best way is simply going to character selection and coming back.
@alootid +123
@alootid -123|-143|+1465
@nopickup
 You would be surprised how handy could this be specially when you're clicking a lot. The name references to what it does, really.
@nopickup
Commands
NPC Description Image

Buffs

This is use order.

Magnum BreakConcentrationAura BladeParryingTwo-Hand QuickenEnchant Blade

Refresh time

10 seconds

Magnum Break

1 minute

ConcentrationAura BladeParrying

5 minutes

Two-Hand QuickenEnchant Blade

Offensive skills

idk what to do with this 3 sections, maybe i will remove it, but for now, just a WIP