Illusionist

• 1 Memories as weapons
  • 1.1 Gameplay Identity
  • 1.2 Kimi: The Puppet
  • 1.3 Condensed Soul
• 2 Skills
  • 2.1 Grand Summoning
  • 2.2 Puppet Skills

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Note: The Illusionist is an Expert Job. It's not recommended for beginners. The core feature of the Illusionist is Playing two characters at once.

Illusionist Requires Base Level 15 and Job Level 10 to start the quest.

The Illusionist is a unique combat where it has control of the Puppet, Kimi. The puppet can fight directly against enemies while the Illusionist stays on the sidelines providing support.

It's skills are focused in management of the Puppet, support damage, control and misdirection.

Best: High potential, low gear requirements, unique gameplay.

Worst: Lowest base HP by far, very vulnerable when alone, few weapon choices.

Weapons: Illusion Gloves

Gameplay Identity

The Illusionist is played mostly as a support for the puppet, both with healing and control, along with direct damage, when playing:

Feels like controlling 2 characters at once, one with the focus on direct combat and another being supportive on the sides, require excelent micro-management.

The Illusionist can acquire a secondary weapon for free in Lutie. This weapon allows improved potential of support for Kimi and other players by improving healing power and pitching of items.

The Illusionist however will need to also fight and sometimes, deal most damage to generate Condensed Souls, essential for the growth of the Puppet and further on, for Grand Summoning.

Most of the Illusionist's offensive capabilities revolve around its core offensive skill, Real Magic Attack, a Good illusionist will mix both hardcasting the skill from a safe distance, or using the powers from the illusion glove along with a very high autospell chance to ensure it's applied constantly to enemies when safe.

A good Illusionist will know when to use its support skills, either by changing places with the Puppet or enemies using Master Swap and Illusion of Exchange, applying debuffs or covering an area with minor AoE skills to control any mobs that may show up.

The first priority should be to always keep the Kimi, the Puppet safe, as not having a Puppet in most cases and builds, may mean instant death. It's important to keep an eye on while reviving the puppet as even with no intimacy penalties, the SP cost can be a problem.

Kimi: The Puppet

The Puppet behaves mostly the same as the Homunculus, but with its own, hassle-free way.

There are 4 types of Puppets, each with their own balance. A player can reroll their kimi by deleting the previous one(on the stats window) and summoning it again, keep in mind this will reset the level of the Puppet back to 1:

Agile Kimi Aggressive by default, has low defenses and sp growth, but high flee and attack speed. Excelent for low-management builds and focus.

Raging Kimi Aggressive by default, has balanced status overall with a focus on offenses. Very good for physical skill use and barrage of offensive skills.

Occult Kimi Passive by default, has high SP and magic growth, being very good for healing and magic casting. Better choice for players confortable with it.

Ward Kimi Passive by default, has high defenses and HP, an ideal choice for beginners or Illusionists who focus on support a pure damage while kimi tanks hits.

Core Differences between the Puppet and the Homunculus

• Extremely reduced needs to be fed, won't abandon the player unless it's blatantly ignored.
• Intimacy loss is extremely reduced and slower.
• Does not have randomized status growth, the values are fixed according to the Puppet type.
• Doesn't require anything to be created.
• Is the main source of combat and power of the Illusionist.

Condensed Soul

Condensed Souls are the unique item drop of the Illusionist class. The drop rate of this consumable increases according to Illusion Glove refine level.

Uses for Condensed Souls

• Can be fed to Kimi to increase her intimacy.
• Required to use the skill Grand Summoning.
• Can be consumed to generate illusions that will auto attack enemies for a few seconds and can activate autospells from the Illusionist. Amount increases per job level.

Condensed Souls can be stored, sold and dropped, but harms any other job who attempts to use it.

Skills

The Illusionist has a complete skill tree, where all skills require 49 skill points total. So it'll eventually learn the whole kit.

Skill	Max Level	Description	Skill Type	Details	Scaling
Advanced Puppet Mastery	Lv 1	learns about summoning a puppet to fight	Passive	The Puppet levels up, grows and fights along the master	None
Summon Puppet	Lv 1	Summons a puppet to fight, it must not be dead to be summoned	Active	If the player has no puppet, it'll create a random one, this can be rerolled by deleting the puppet	None
Dismiss Puppet	Lv 1	Dismisses a summoned puppet	Active	Dismissing a puppet won't delete it, just remove it from the field temporarily	None
Resurrect Puppet	Lv 5	Revives a dead puppet by consuming a large amount of SP	Support	Amount of HP regenerated increases per level, along with SP cost	None
Real Magic Attack	Lv 10	Strikes an enemy with quick magic, amount of hits increases per level	Magic	Can be autocast with the Illusion Glove, element changes according to weapon	INT
Life Strings	Lv 5	Transfers a portion of the player's stats to the Puppet.	Active	All skills except hiding may be used for the duration, the Puppet's stats can be boosted past 99	None
Illusion of Vermillion	Lv 3	Deals light damage over a large area with a chance to cause blind status	Magic AoE	Damage is lower than average, can be increased with Illusion of Mist	INT
Illusion of Mist	Lv 3	Deals moderate damage over a small area, while applying crystallize to enemies	Magic AoE	Crystallize improves damage of other Illusionist skills	INT
Illusion of Healing	Lv 5	Reverses any healing effects on target for a short duration	Debuff	Also affects heal over time	None
Illusion of Exchange	Lv 5	Has a high chance to swap places with a targeted enemy, while causing confusion status	Debuff	Confused enemies may randomly become passive	None
Illusion of Silence	Lv 2	Has a high chance to cause silence status to an enemy	Debuff	Chance decreases according to target's INT	None
Illusion of Shadows	Lv 3	Jumps away from hiding to a safe distance	Self-Support	Movement is instant and can go over select barriers	None
Grand Summoning	Lv 5	Summons a powerful monster to fight for the Illusionist for a short duration	Self-Support	Cooldown is long but can be reduced with specific bonuses	None

Grand Summoning

The Summoned monsters cannot be attacked by enemies, which makes them pure offensive or supportive powers. Their attacks also activate Real Magic Attack and other autospells.

Grand Summoning is always the last skill learned and requires a high amount of job experience to learn each level, being a key skill for later stages.

Skill	Lv to Summon	Description	Recommended
Steel Metaling	Lv 1	Deals light damage to enemies, activates shields on the master.	When more physical protection is required
Sea Spirit	Lv 2	Heals when damage is taken, deals light damage	When under heavy stress and constant risk
Burning Fang	Lv 3	Attacks enemies dealing high damage at high speed	Good match for autospell activations
Autumn Blood	Lv 4	Casts powerful AoE magic and deals ranged attacks at intervals	Good for a focus on extra magic damage and AoE management
Chaos Dragon	Lv 5	Attacks enemies for high damage and becomes more aggressive when master's HP is lower	Good for overall offensive use, high damage potential with moderate speed

Puppet Skills

The Puppets all have the same skill tree. They receive 1 skill point every 3 levels.

Skill	Max Level	Description	Skill Type	Details	Scaling
Master Swap	Lv 5	Swaps places with the master	Ally-Support	Success chance improves with level	None
Blood Lust	Lv 5	Increases attack and allows leeching part of damage dealt	Self-Support	Consumes high amounts of SP	None
Warm Defense	Lv 5	Increases the defenses for both the Puppet and the player for a limited time.	Support	Allows the Puppet to hide for 3 seconds	None
Chaotic Heal	Lv 5	Heals randomly between puppet and master, increasing power per level	Support	Increased chance of affecting Puppet on higher levels	None
Illusion of Claws	Lv 5	Attacks an enemy with its claws, dealing quick damage	Physical	ASPD-based spam rate	None
Illusion of Breath	Lv 10	Inflicts magical damage, piercing part of the enemy's MDEF	Magic	Good Range, single target, reliable	None
Illusion Crusher	Lv 5	Dashes to an enemy and deals heavy damage with a chance to stun target	Ranged Physical	Requires Cordial Intimacy	None
Illusion of Light	Lv 10	Deals holy elemental magic damage to all enemies over a small area	Magic AoE	Requires Cordial Intimacy	None
Body Double	Lv 5	If the master is about to die while this effect is active, the Puppets dies instead	Support	Requires Loyal Intimacy	None