Last Updated on 29 November, 2023
Maplestory Link Skills Guide – updated Best Link Skills for bossing & training, and all the link skills (permanent & temporal) explained
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Maplestory Link Skills Guide – Best Link Skills
Best Link Skills for Bossing 2020
- Zero: Ignore Enemy Defense and Reduce Damage Taken
- Luminous: Ignore Defense
- Kanna: Damage
- Demon Avenger: Damage
- Demon Slayer: Boss Damage
- Angelic Buster: Damage Boost for short period of time.
- Hayato: Weapon/Magic Attack
- Kinesis: Critical Damage
- Xenon: All Stats %
- Phantom: Critical Rate
- Illium: Stackable damage when moving during battle.
- Cadena: More damage against lower level enemies and enemies affected by debuff.
- Beast Tamer: Boss Damage, Critical Rate (For GMS Players)
- Ark: Damage
Best Link Skills for Training 2020
- Mercedes: Exp Rate Boost for Training 1ºLevel-250
- Evan: Increases Rune duration.
- Aran: Permanently increases Combo Kill or EXP gain.
- Illium: Stackable damage when moving during battle.
- Kanna: Damage
- Demon Avenger: Damage
- Demon Slayer: Boss Damage
- Hayato: Weapon/Magic Attack
- Kinesis: Critical Damage
- Xenon: All Stats
- Phantom: Critical Rate
- Cadena: More damage against lower level enemies and enemies affected by debuff.
- Beast Tamer: Boss Damage, Critical Rate (For GMS Players)
- Ark: Damage
Maplestory Link Skills Guide – List by Jobs
Permanent Link Skills
Aran
Combos blessed by Maha (permanent)
- 1ºLevel: Combo KillMarble EXP: +400%
- 2ºLevel: Combo KillMarble EXP: +650%
- 3ºLevel: Combo KillMarble EXP: +900%
Beast Tamer
- 1ºLevel: Boss damage +4%, CritRate +4% also MaxHP&MP +3%
- 2ºLevel: Boss damage +7%, CritRate +7% also MaxHP&MP +4%
- 3ºLevel: Boss damage +10%, CritRate +10% also MaxHP&MP +5%
Cannoneer
+ All stats (STR, DEX, INT, LUK), + Max HP and also MP (permanent)
- 1ºLevel: +15 All Stats, also +5% Max HP&MP
- 2ºLevel: +25 All Stats, also +10% Max HP&MP
- 3ºLevel: +35 All Stats, also +15% Max HP&MP
Cadena
+ Damage against weaker enemies (< level than you)
- 1ºLevel: +3%, +6% damage if status effects.
- 2ºLevel:+6%, +12% damage if status effects.
Cygnus Knights
+ Resistance to statuses, also elements
- 1ºLevel: +2%
- 2ºLevel: +5%
Demon Avenger
+ Damage (permanent)
- 1ºLevel: +5%
- 2ºLevel: +10%
- 3ºLevel: +15%
Demon Slayer
+ Damage to bosses
- 1ºLevel: +10%
- 2ºLevel: +15%
- 3ºLevel: +20%
Eunwol / Shade
+ Chance to survive fatal attacks
- 1ºLevel: 5%
- 2ºLevel: 10%
Hayato
- 1ºLevel: +15 All Stats, +10 Attack and also Magic attack
- 2ºLevel: +25 All Stats, +15 Attack and also Magic attack
Kaiser
+ MaxHP (permanent)
- 1ºLevel: +10%
- 2ºLevel: +15%
- 3ºLevel: +20%
Kanna
+ Damage (permanent)
- 1ºLevel: +5%
- 2ºLevel: +10%
Kinesis
+ Crit damage
- 1ºLevel: +2%.
- 2ºLevel: +4%.
Luminous
Ignores enemy defense
- 1ºLevel: 10%
- 2ºLevel: 15%
- 3ºLevel: 20%
Mercedes
+Exp Rate
- 1ºLevel: +10%
- 2ºLevel: +15%
- 3ºLevel: +20%
Phantom
+Crit Rate (Permanent)
- 1ºLevel: +10%
- 2ºLevel: +15%
- 3ºLevel: +20%
Xenon
+ All stats (Permanent)
- 1ºLevel: +5%
- 2ºLevel: +10%
Zero
Reduces enemy damage and also ignores their defense
- 1ºLevel: -3% damage, +2% ignored ( Lv.118)
- 2ºLevel: -6% damage, +4% ignored ( Lv.128)
- 3ºLevel: -9% damage, +6% ignored ( Lv.138)
- 5ºLevel: -15% damage, +10% ignored ( Lv.178)
Temporal Link Skills
Angelic Buster
+ skill damage (10seconds)
- 1ºLevel: +30%
- 2ºLevel: +45%
- 3ºLevel: +60%
Ark
+ Damage (5 seconds)
- 1ºLevel: +1% damage, also + 1% per stack.
- 2ºLevel: +1% damage, also + 2% per stack.
Evan
+ Duration Liberated Runes
- 1ºLevel: +30%
- 2ºLevel: +50%
- 3ºLevel: +70%
Illium
Stacks up to 6 times (5 seconds)
- 1ºLevel: +1% Damage per stack.
- 2ºLevel: +2% Damage per stack.
Jet / Zen
Boost STR, DEX, INT, LUK, Weapon & also Magic ATT
- 1ºLevel: Small Boost
- 2ºLevel: Medium Boost
- 3ºLevel: Large Boost
Mihile
+100% Knockback resistance
- 1ºLevel: 90sec
- 2ºLevel: 110sec
- 3ºLevel: 130sec
Resistance
Prevents damage after revived, can be stacked up to 4 times for each character who grants the link skill.
- Owner Stat
- 1ºLevel: 3 seconds
2ºLevel: 6 seconds
- 1ºLevel: 3 seconds
- Linked Stat
- 1ºLevel: 1 seconds
- 8ºLevel: 8 seconds
Maplestory Link Skills Guide – Unlock Levels
To unlock a new Link Skill level you need to level up your character:
1st Level Link Skill – Character Level 1
2nd Level Link Skill – Character Level 120
3rd Level Link Skill – Character Level 210
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