Best stats and equipment for Jinwoo

It’s also important to properly allocate your stat points, as stats were not made equal.

Players should focus mostly on Strength and Perception stats, as they are universally useful regardless of the weapon. How much Perception you need depends on the dupes of your weapons - since dupes will give you additional Precision, a stat that influences the minimum amount of damage when attacking. A maxed out SSR weapon provides 4000 points of Precision (2000 for the first dupe, 500 afterward) while a maxed SR weapon provides 2000.

You can start out with a 4:1 STR/Perception build and reset your stats as you get more dupes in your favorite weapons to get more points of STR.

DPS Sung Jinwoo

When it comes to building Sung Jinwoo as a DP, it is currently preferred to go for a 4 piece Curse set for the armor slots, which lets you equip the Expert set in the Jewelry slots. That Build will outshine every other option for Scoring contents:

• For PoD, the build is uncontested as long as you manual but if you are not interested in the ranking and can reach 1 billion damage with Auto, then the Support Build can work fine too;
• In Guild Raid, this set vastly outperforms the Support Build but only if your Weapons and Skills are highly invested in. If you’re using weapons like Demon King’s Daggers (Dkd) or playing with the Sonic Stream - Magnifying Slash - at a high enough rarity then this is the build to go for;
• In high difficulty challenges like WoBL, the build is great but you need enough TP to Crit consistently.

Another viable option when those conditions are not met is the 8 piece Curse set, as its Damage increase relies on time spent in the fight rather than Crits.

For the Skills, you’ll be using the Wind Armor Break + the best Damage Skill of the appropriate element, or you can simply opt to run Sonic Stream - Magnifying Slash - for just about any fight that is not resistant to Dark Damage. Exceptions would be Wind if you’re focusing on a maxed out Dkd, and Light where you can use the Light version of Sonic Stream - Double Down -. Dagger Rush is also an amazing skill to use, especially the wind/dark version.

On the side of Blessing Stones, you can now pick 4 Offensive Stones and still have room for Defensive options, so pick your Highest rarity Stones among the ones increasing your Damage/Attack, not forgetting to include Blood Lust in the mix as its effect is just that powerful.

Support Sung Jinwoo

With the release of guild boss, we started to see the rise of a new build, the support build. This build revolves around supporting the hunters in your team with the use of support blessings and skills, massively increasing the overall team dps. When running support SJW, you will be using the Burning Blessing Set. As SJW doesn't have directly any support for the team, this is currently his best option for this kind of build. When running this set you will also run the Fire version of Crushing Blow, since it will massively help fill your power gauge. The second skill is going to be the usual Wind Armor Break, for the invaluable damage increase debuff. If you don't have Armor Break at heroic or above, you can also use Commander's Touch - Black Hole - as it can inflict a powerful def down debuff on the target. It's less useful compared to Armor Break, but can act as a replacement for the time being.

As you will be using skills non-stop to refresh your power gauge, when running support SJW you will be running a full INT build to reduce your skill CD and increase your available mana. Lastly, it's important to pick blessing stones that can benefit your entire team:

• Bloodlust is pretty much the best guild boss blessing stone, allowing you to decrease the defense of the boss just by attacking it
• We are as one is a powerful option to buff up your team 1 hunters, usually Cha and Go Gunhee.
• Reawakening is just as important as Bloodlust, further reducing your cooldown for maximum uptime on your skills;
• The last one is generally 'Swiftness' since it will give you one additional dash usage on top of a % to get your dash back when using it, allowing you to reposition yourself to trigger as many shadow steps as possible.

Jinwoo can equip a variety of sets. While you can arguably find usage for most of them (please don't use the noble sacrifice set) there are some sets that will work best in the majority of setups. You’ll mostly use those sets at the start, or while you’re still piecing together your ‘Meta Builds’ mentioned previously.

One-hit kill

One-hit kill

(2)

Increases Ultimate Skill damage by 25%.

(4)

Decreases the Ultimate Skill cooldown by 40%.

One-hit kill (Almighty Kargalan) is popular for ultimate focused builds, since it not only increases the damage of the ultimate skill but also decreases the cooldown of it by a whoppin 40%. If you are using this set you can use a combination of Attack substats ( additional and %) and defense penetration. You can also obviously use crit and crit damage substats for a better damage outside of your ultimate window.

Armed

Armed

(2)

Increase the user's Attack by 5%.

(4)

When attacking, ignores 15% of the target's Defense and attacks.

Armed (Black Lion's Armor) is an amazing generalist set that gives you attack and defense ignore. It's in general a very strong set to use since it can easily be switched to your hunters when you get better pieces and the bonuses are universal. You can focus on a combination of attack substats (additional and %) and critical rate. Defense penetration also works, but you should probably run critical rate boots provided your crit is high enough.

Toughness

Toughness

(2)

Your Critical Hit Rate increases by 8%.

(4)

Your Critical Hit Damage increases by 32%.

If you are running a crit focused build, Toughness (Hard Leathered) is the best set in the game, no questions asked. Being able to get critical AND critical damage at the same time as a set bonus is just invaluable. For players that are progressing and still building their Jinwoo, you can mix this set with Armed for a lot of free stats and then focus on the full set when you get better substats on the full set pieces.

Considering the crit focus on this set you should aim for critical hit rate (as you want to hit the cap of 50% from stats), then attack%/additional attack and lastly defense penetration. Crit damage for the boots

Honorable mentions

If you get good pieces of High-Ranking Demon Armor (Destroyer set), it doesn't hurt to build them. You can slap them on a support so that with their 4/4 bonus they can improve your power generation significantly. Amazing if you are running 'One-Hit Kill' as a set! Solid Analysis could also be used against bosses that needs to be broken over and over, but it's such a niche set you would probably focus on different substats to run it on dedicated breakers like light Baek.

Expert

Expert

(2)

When landing a Critical Hit, has a 25% chance to increase Attack by 0.8% (stacking up to 100 times) (Cooldown: 1 second(s)).

(4)

Increases Activation Rate to 50% and Attack Increase effect to 1.6%.

Expert set is the be(a)st set for critical focused builds, as it gives a 50% chance to increase ATK by 1.6% for every crit. Obviously focus on critical hit rate and crit damage substats with this set, with attack%, additional damage, defense penetration and damage increase as consolation prizes.

Executioner / Berserker

Executioner

(2)

When attacking enemies with 40% or less HP, increases damage dealt by 8%.

(4)

HP condition has been changed to 70% and Damage Increase effect increases to 20%.

Berserker

(2)

When the user has 50% HP or less, their damage dealt increases by 15%.

(4)

HP condition has been changed to 70% and Damage Dealt Increase effect increases to 30%.

Executioner and Berserker are pretty much two faces of the same coin where the best set to use depends on the unit and scenario.

• Executioner increases the damage when the enemy is below 70% hp by 20% and is pretty much a guaranteed power spike with no downside attached once you hit the threshold. The only time you might run into issues are if the bosses has a regeneration ability or if they are able to shield themselves, meaning it could take longer to take them below the threshold to benefit from the set.
• Berserker on the contrary gives you a 30% damage bonus when you go below 70% HP. Provided you are good at dodging and you don't risk getting one-shot by the enemy, this set offers a much bigger damage bonus for players that are confident in their dodging skills.
• If you are running A1 Schyte on Jinwoo, it's inevitable to see the synergy with the weapon, given you will pretty much get the critical hit bonus on top of the damage increase. Match made in heaven - or hell given the dark theme!

For these two sets you can obviously go for a combination of damage increase, attack, critical hit/damage and defense penetration.

Honorable mention

While we are mostly discussing gear for Jinwoo, these three sets are pretty much a great fit for a lot of hunters as well. For example, if you are running a dark build on Jinwoo - as you probably are - you will overlap a lot of gear with SM Baek, given they both focus on critical stats and attack stats and Baek will get below 70% HP really quickly.

While you obviously want to only upgrade past +10 gear with 2 or more usable stats don't be afraid to bring up to +10 gear with one usable substat as long as you already have a hunter in mind that could benefit from this, as it will help you progress much faster given you can repurpose the sets.