Shadowseer

Watcher of Light and Darkness

The Shadowseer is a spellblade job, which uses multiple enchantments to deal magic damage and cast spells along with auto attacks. The amount of continuous magic damage is unmatched by any other job, especially when properly played. Best: Constant magic damage, multiple approaches to building, damage goes brrrrrrr. Worst: Complex to play and master, extreme status spread needs, harder than usual to properly build. Weapons: Daggers, Swords, Offhand Daggers

Gameplay Identity

The Shadowseer is a job that brings out the strongest forms of autospell available, making them capable of causing a flurry of magic damage with supportive physical damage, raining down spells with extremely fast power while keeping balance of its buffs. While Shadowseers in fighting are very simple jobs, their true difficulty comes in the maintenance of its enchantments, since most of them have harsh SP % costs and very long cast times. The correct use of Equinox is essential, as it removes most of the cast time of its spells, with the downside of requiring an enemy target to cast, forcing it to be used under a combat scenario. The Shadowseer can opt to slowcast its buffs and enchantments outside combat, at the cost of harsh cast times. The Shadowseer also has a unique tool in Astral Mastery which converts its MATK into raw ATK, only during auto-attacks, allowing its magic damage to effectively become critical hits on some builds. The Offhand Dagger is a unique secondary tool that provides them with higher levels of Double Attack regardless of main weapon, at the cost of not providing auto-attacks. This weapon has multiple interactions with the Masteries of the job, especially Spectral Mastery.

Core Gameplay Loop

The Shadowseer has a very different gameplay loop from most jobs. While they will usually rotate skills actively during combat, the Shadowseer will rotate its cast times for enchants and buffs in preparation and only after that, it can begin fighting enemies to the best of its abilities. The use of Convention while very risky due to heavy costs, is also a strong tool to fight, as under specific circumstances, allows thief magic to be always autocast at Lv10, breaking the usual restriction of randomly using Lv1~5. Umbral Cut is the definitive finisher of the job. Dealing massive damage, it requires long setups and procs of spirit spheres from Astral Weapon. The spheres have a short duration, forcing the Shadowseer to always be on the offensive in order to finally summon enough spheres for the cast of a strong, large AoE Umbral Cut. By finding a correct balance between speed, power, magic, physical damage and magical damage, the Shadowseer can attack an enemy with excellent reliability, proving to be one of the hardest, and most rewarding, jobs in Return to Morroc.

Skills

Skill	Max Level	Description	Skill Type	Details	Scaling
Equinox	Lv 10	Deals damage and enables "Cast Ready" status to reduce other spells' cast times	Offensive Magic	Cast Ready reduces variable cast time by 95% for duration	No
Spectral Mastery	Lv 5	Provides different bonuses according to the currently equipped Offhand Dagger	Passive	Also increases skills and auto-attack range.	No
Spectral Servants	Lv 10	Summons two servants that will randomly attack enemies along with the Shadowseer	Physical and Magical	Each hit randomly deals ATK-Physical or MATK-Magical based damage	No
Astral Mastery	Lv 5	Energizes the auto-attacks of the user with MATK, increasing damage for duration	Self-Support	The Damage applied is final, making the usual magic defense formula apply	No
Astral Weapon	Lv 10	Increases ASPD, Critical Rate and generates spirit spheres on attack for duration	Self-Support	Spirit spheres are required for the cast of Umbral Cut	No
Umbral Cut	Lv 10	Consumes Spirit Spheres to deal heavy damage to an area of enemies on a long cooldown	Offensive Magic AoE	Requires Equinox to be cast right before it, area and spheres consumed varies by level	INT
Soul Guard	Lv 5	Greatly reduces all damage taken over a short duration with a long cooldown	Self-Support	The damage reduction is on final damage, and is a fixed percentage	No
Soul Charge	Lv 5	Exchanges the entire SP of caster with the entire SP of target, ally or enemy	Support/Debuff	Efficiency of exchange is 50%, regardless of value, can't be over max SP	No
Convention	Lv 5	Restricts the movement of the caster while boosting its spell capabilities	Self-Support	Makes thief spells on Autospell always cast at Lv5. Level can be boosted with Umbral Mastery	No
Magic Pierce	Lv 5	Ignores 5% MDEF of enemy per level for duration.	Offensive Self-Support	Also Ignores 1% DEF of enemy per level.	No