Link Skills

Link Skills are unique to each class and can be given to your other characters on the same World. Link Skills mostly come as passives but there are a few Active Link Skills too

Once a character reaches Level 70, they can share their Link Skill with another character. When you Share your Link Skill, both characters will gain the effect of the Link Skill. Sometimes Link Skills may have different effects for the character with the linked version. Link Skills grow stronger at Level 120 (Skill Level 2) and most grow stronger again at Level 210 (Skill Level 3). Some Link Skills can stack increasing the strength of the Link Skill by linking the same Link Skill multiple times from different characters of the same class group

A character can have up to 3 Presets which they can assign 12 Link Skills (13 if considering themselves) at one time and each Link Skill can only be linked to one character at a time. Each Link Skill can be linked to a different character up to 10 times per day. The first 4 times are free however and will cost Mesos afterwards

For Link Skills that stack, linking them will automatically stack them together. Although, the class must be unique for the Link Skills to stack (ex. cannot be two Dark Knights, must be a Dark Knight and a Paladin or Hero)

Some advice in choosing Link Skills, choose ones that provide stats you need. For example, I am trying to reach 100% Crit Chance, I try to get as many %Crit Chance Link Skills to help me reach that goal. There are also other essential stats that are useful for all classes such as %Damage, %Boss Damage or %Ignore DEF. Other important Link Skills include ones that increase the amount of EXP gained

To manage your Link Skills, open up your Skills Tab UI, and click into your Beginner skills. There you will find a skill called Link Manager

Note: If you do not see your Link Skill in the Link Manager, you may have to accept a quest in the Lightbulb tab on the left-hand side of the screen. If you still do not see it, try relogging

Quick Jumps

• Explorers
• Cygnus Knights
• Heroes
• Resistance
• Nova
• Sengoku
• Flora
• Anima
• Other
• Notable Link Skills
• Examples of Link Skill Builds

---

Explorers

---

[Hero, Paladin and Dark Knight]

---

[Bishop, Arch Mage (Ice, Lightning) and Arch Mage (Fire, Poision)]

---

[Bow Master, Marksman and Pathfinder]

---

[Shadower, Night Lord, and Dual Blade]

---

[Corsair, Buccaneer, and Cannoneer]

---

Cygnus Knights

---

[Dawn Warrior, Wind Archer, Thunder Breaker, Night Walker, and Blaze Wizard]

---

[Mihile]

---

Heroes

---

[Mercedes]

---

[Aran]

---

[Phantom]

---

[Luminous]

---

[Evan]

---

[Shade]

---

Resistance

---

[Wild Hunter, Battle Mage, Mechanic, and Blaster]

---

[Demon Avenger]

---

[Demon Slayer]

---

[Xenon]

---

Nova

---

[Angelic Buster]

---

[Cadena]

---

[Kaiser]

[Kain]

---

Sengoku

---

[Hayato]

---

[Kanna]

---

Flora

---

[Ark]

---

[Illium]

---

[Adele]

---

[Khali]

---

Anima

---

[Hoyoung]

---

[Lara]

---

Other

---

[Lynn]

---

[Kinesis]

---

[Zero]

---

Notable Link Skills:

Some Link Skills may fit multiple roles, for example, Lynn's Link Skill provides %Boss Damage, %Crit Rate and %Max HP/MP

For Damage:

• [Ark] - %Damage
• [Demon Avenger] - %Damage
• [Explorer Thieves] - %Damage (for classes with debuffs)
• [Explorer Pirates] - All Stats (affected by %Stat)
• [Illium] - %Damage
• [Kanna] - %Damage
• [Kinesis] - %Crit Damage
• [Xenon] - %All Stat

For Bossing + Ignore DEF:

• [Angelic Buster] - For Burst skills
• [Adele] - %Boss Damage
• [Lynn] - %Boss Damage, %Crit Rate and %Max HP/MP
• [Cygnus Knights] - Useful for Abnormal Status Resistance and slight damage boost
• [Demon Slayer] - %Boss Damage
• [Explorer Mages] - %Ignore DEF
• [Luminous] - %Ignore DEF
• [Mihile] - Useful for Abnormal Status Resistance
• [Resistance] - iFrames after reviving
• [Shade] - Survivability, chance to not die from fatal attacks
• [Zero] - %Ignore DEF

For Training:

• [Aran] - Useful for pre-200
• [Cadena] - Increased %Damage to lower level enemies + enemies with Abnormal Statuses
• [Evan] - Useful all levels especially pre-200
• [Hoyoung] - Useful if you need a small boost to one-shot enemies
• [Kaiser] - For pre-200 if you die a lot
• [Mercedes] - Best results for training Lv. 200+

For Low Crit Rate:

• [Explorer Archers] - Up to 10%
• [Lynn] - Up to 10%
• [Phantom] - Up to 20%

Examples of Link Skill Builds:

Training:

(Aran, Ark, Cadena, Demon Avenger, Evan, Explorer Archer, Explorer Thief, Explorer Pirate, Hoyoung, Zero, Kanna, Mercedes)

Rationale: Increased EXP Gain, Damage, and Damage Reduction if required. If you feel that you do not need extra survivability, you can swap out some Link Skills for more damage or other stats like %Crit Rate

Other options: (Crit Rate, Max HP/MP), (Damage), (Damage), (Damage), (Max HP), (Crit Rate), (Damage) (Lynn, Cygnus Knights, Hayato, Illium, Kaiser, Phantom, and Xenon)

Bossing:

(Angelic Buster, Cygnus Knights, Lynn, Shade, Demon Slayer, Explorer Pirate, Explorer Mage, Explorer Thief, Resistance, Kinesis, Luminous, Phantom)

Rationale: Increased damage, %Crit Rate (to get 100% if needed), and %Ignore DEF. Other Link Skills are used for survivability

Other options: (Crit Rate), (Damage), (Damage), (Damage), (Damage), (Abnormal Status Resistance), (Damage), (%Ignore DEF) (Explorer Archer, Ark, Demon Avenger, Explorer Warrior, Illium, Mihile, Xenon, and Zero)

---

For more info on Link Skills check out:

https://maplestorywiki.net/w/Link_Skill

For help optimizing your Link Skills check out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT1jX_tnQjM

Credits:

Skill Icons + Info: MapleWiki