Samurai

Overview Variations

Samurai
Japanese	武士 サムライ
Class Descripton
Type	Warrior
Role	Vanguard
HP Level	High
MP Level	Average
Available Equipment
Armor	Plate, Chain, Leather, Cloth
Melee Weapons	Nearly all melee weapons
Ranged Weapons	Bows

Samurai is one of the twelve classes in Elder Tale, and one of the three Warrior classes.

It is the Yamato server's localized version of the Pirate class. Other localized versions are: Youxia (Zhongyuan server), Hwarang (Korean server), Ghazi (Middle Eastern server), Paladin (Western European server), Viking (Scandinavian server), and Cossak (Russian server).

Overview

The Samurai primarily uses Japanese equipment like daiyoroi, katana and tachi. The Samurai's defense is said to rival that of the Guardian, but because of the class's inability to equip shields, its overall defense is considered inferior. Despite this, the samurai's role can also be that of the Tank, drawing the attention of the enemy and taking the most damage of the group. Samurai, like Soujiro for example, can also duel-wield, which can increase their damage output.

The Samurai class has many so-called "Ace Moves" that can chain large amount of combos in a short time with high offensive and defensive abilities, but with long cooldowns. However, once an Ace Move is executed, the Samurai is unable to respond quickly to attacks and may even be unable to move.

Also, most of the Samurai's skills have a long cool down period (generally 5–10 minutes); as a result, each can only be used once or twice per battle, making this class more suitable for short fights, rather than long ones.  This is opposite of the Monk class, which can chain techniques for long periods of time.

Despite this shortcoming, each skill is very strong and accurate and can be quite effective against players who are 20 levels or higher than the Samurai. Naturally, this class requires incredible insight of the battlefield, thus making it difficult to use. However, it is still extremely popular on the Japanese server.

Sample Builds

There are two main builds for the Samurai.

Sword Samurai

It can be said that this build and style is a popular class in Elder Tale as a faithful aggressive front-line guard, with its two-handed katana and Samurai-themed armor.

Touya and Isami use this build.

Vengeance

A build that focuses on the positioning and static movement of the Samurai. Although you hold the katana with two hands, the power comes from using abilities specializing in counterattacks.

Soujiro Seta uses this build, but aren't many players who use this because the difficulty is high and they lack the proper equipment.

Known Skills

Note: This section will be heavily revised in the future.

For a general overview on how skills work in Elder Tale, see Skills.

• Whirlwind Slash
• Samurai Challenge
• Lanius Capture
• Vacuum Slash
• Whirlwind Vacuum Slash
• Head Splitter
• Izunagiri

Average HP and MP Chart

The calculations for this table are based on level and the average gear for that level. However, this table does not account for racial and sometimes subclass abilities.

For a more accurate representation of a character's values based on the quality of their equipment, the following multipliers are a good rule of thumb:

• Solo player without good equipment: 96% of their level average
• Average adventurer in an ordinary guild: 100%
• Adventurer in a wealthy and decently-skilled guild: 106%
• Adventurer in a raiding guild: 116%
• Adventurer in a top guild: 125%

Approximate values for High HP, Low MP
Level	HP	MP	Level	HP	MP	Level	HP	MP
1	200	100	40	4628	2314	80	10,212	5106
5	608	304	45	5268	2634	85	10,984	5492
10	1133	566	50	5925	2962	90	11,773	5886
15	1674	837	55	6598	3299	95	12,578	6289
20	2232	1116	60	7288	3644	100	13,400	6700
25	2244	1964	65	7994	3997	105	14,238	7119
30	3397	1698	70	8717	4358	110	15,093	7546
35	4004	2002	75	9456	4728	115	15,964	7982

Known Samurai

60% Cloudy

Caille

Genjirou

Gorouhachirou

Hibari

Isami

Junzou

Katsuomaru

Kinou no Wanko

Ragoumaru

Shigeru

Shinobu Michi-nya

Soujiro Seta

Tatara

Touya

Wolf

Yoshinaka

Yuta

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