MapleStory Cadena Skill Build Guide

Cadena is a MapleStory Nova class that uses chains to attack enemies, grapple to nearby platforms and perform devastating combos on enemies. Cadena has been reborn after an injury left her in a deep slumber, now ready to take on the world of MapleStory once again. Equipped with a new weapon type called Chain, Cadena is a thief type class that prioritizes LUK equipment and weapon attack.

Cadena Overview

Cadena was released in patch V190 Nova: Liberation Of Cadena on November 2017. Cadena is part of the Nova Class group, which includes Kasier and Angelic Buster. Cadena's hometown is Savage Terminal, where she was raised by Shadowdealers in a world full of mischief. Like most classes of MapleStory, Cadena's sub weapon is a Warp Forge that can be purchased from the Secondary Weapon Seller in Leafre.

Cadena is a class with great damage and really fun mobbing mechanics. If you like a class that is all about chaining attacks (no pun intended), using different skills and being very mobile, then Cadena is for you. Cadena also has a lot of avoidability stat, meaning she can dodge many attacks from mobs. By using different skills, you stack up damage buffs, making Cadena a formidable damage-dealing class.

As a bossing class, Cadena excels at damage dealing. She has an iframe for dodging 1-hit KO attacks too and has some useful flying skills to help dodge floor based attacks (Like Lotus's lightning attacks). As Cadena is primarily a combo class, part of the managing the skill of this class is based on executing your combos without fault; this can be slightly tricky as some skills are a bit clunky and hard to manage. The reward for mastering them though is high, with top-tier damage.

• Weapon: Chain
• Job: Thief
• Class: Nova
• Shared Cash Shop Inventory: Cadena, Kasier, Angelic Buster
• Legion Block: +LUK (10/20/40/80/100)
• Link Skill: Unfair Advantage (+6% damage against weaker opponents and abnormal status afflicted mobs.)
• Primary Stat: LUK
• Inner Ability: 20% chance to skill cooldowns

Cadena First Job Skill Build

You can max all of your skills in first job. Follow this build:

• Chain Arts: Thrash (+1), Shadowstep (+1), Chain Arts: Pursuit (+1)
• Shadowstep (MAX)
• Chain Arts: Thrash (MAX)
• Uncanny Luck (MAX)
• Summon Scimitar (MAX)
• Chain Arts: Pursuit (MAX)
• The Way Of Shadows (MAX)

In first job your main attack skill is using your chain to whip your enemies up. Chain Arts: Thrash requires you to just press your normal attack key. Chain Arts: Thrash can be used twice, but if you use another skill after the first hit, it will gain 10% Final Damage. Summon Scimitar is your first cooldown skill (4 seconds) and launches your character forward dealing damage to mobs (6), which is great for a first job character and combining it with your main attack skill the damage is really good. Chain Arts: Pursuit allows you to use your chain to grapple to nearby platforms or mobs.

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Cadena Second Job Skill Build

You can max all of your skills in second job. Follow this build:

• Chain Arts: Thrash II (+1), Weapon Mastery (+2)
• Weapon Mastery (5)
• Weapon Booster (6)
• Chain Arts: Thrash II (MAX)
• Weapon Master (MAX)
• Summon Shuriken (MAX)
• Summon Claw (MAX)
• Muscle Memory (MAX)
• Wisdom Of Shadows (MAX)
• Physical Training (MAX)
• Weapon Booster (MAX)

Your main attack skill gets upgraded to Thrash II in second job, hitting more mobs and higher damage dealt. You will want to get your Weapon Booster skill maxed early on for that additional attack speed. You get two new cooldown skills; Summon Claw can be used when your character is in the air and Summon Shuriken fires out a spinning star to hit mobs. Muscle Memory will allow you to gain stacks of extra damage buffs when you switch between your Summon skills (Summon Shuriken and Summon Claw). You'll want to use these skills in your attacking rotation to get the damage boost.

Skill Description & Overview

Cadena Third Job Skill Build

You can max all of your skills in third job. Follow this build:

• Chain Arts: Thrash III (+1), Summon Shotgun (+1), Summon Daggers (+1)
• Chain Arts: Thrash III (MAX)
• Muscle Memory II (MAX)
• Summon Shotgun (MAX)
• Keen Eye (MAX)
• Summon Daggers (MAX)
• Cheap Shot (MAX)
• Summon Decoy Bounce (MAX)
• Determination (MAX)

Another upgrade to your main attack skill Chain Arts: Thrash III. You also get 3 new Summon skills: Summon Shotgun, Summon Daggers and Summon Decoy Bounce. Summon Shotgun and Summon Decoy Bounce all blast you back, but you can cancel the animation using Chain Arts: Pursuit. All of your summon skills have cooldowns, so you want to get into a habit of rotating the skills to make use of them. Muscle Memory gets upgraded, and Cheap Shot will increase damage against Abnormal Status enemies.

Skill Description & Overview

Cadena Fourth Job Skill Build

You can max all of your skills in third job. Follow this build:

• Chain Arts: Thrash IV (+1), Weapons Expert (+1), Muscle Memory III (+1)
• Chain Arts: Thrash IV (10)
• Summon Brick (10)
• Summon Spiked Bat (10)
• Chain Arts: Reign Of Chains (10)
• Chain Arts: Thrash IV (MAX)
• Weapons Expert (MAX)
• Muscle Memory III (MAX)
• Summon Brick (MAX)
• Summon Spiked Bat (MAX)
• Cheap Shot II (MAX)
• Wisdom Of Shadows II (MAX)
• Nova Warrior (MAX)
• Chain Arts: Reign Of Chains (MAX)
• Nova Temperance (MAX)
• Chain Arts: Beatdown (MAX)

Your fourth job gives you your final Chain Arts upgrade! You get two new summon skills called Summon Brick and Summon Spiked Bat. Summon Spiked Bat is great for bossing as it's damage increases when there is only a single target. Chain Arts: Reign Of Chains will pull mobs towards you and deals great damage when you hold it down. It has a long cooldown, unfortunately.

Chain Arts: Beatdown is your bind skill that gives you invincibility when casting and then you get more upgrades to your passive buffs.

Skill Description & Overview

Cadena Hyper Skill Build

Hyper skills are available at level 140. You get Hyper Skill Points as you level towards 200, but not enough to max all the skills, so choose wisely. These skills mostly help increase the damage of your current skills.

• Chain-less Arts - Reinforce
• Chain-less Arts - Boss Rush
• Chain Arts: Thrash - Reinforce
• Chain Arts: Thrash - Linked Attack Reinforce
• Chain Arts: Beatdown - Cooldown Cutter
• Chain Arts: Crush
• Shadowdealer's Elixir
• Veteran Shadowdealer

Cadena Fifth Job Skill Build

Upon reaching level 200, you will now have access to the V Matrix, which acts as your new fifth job skills. Each class gets their own skills to use, along with boosting nodes to increase the damage of existing skills. To obtain new skills, you open up items called Nodestones, which drop from every mob in Arcane River. You have limited number of slots in your V Matrix, so you want to obtain perfect nodes for maximize your character's damage.

Cadena's Nodes should include:

• Apocalypse Cannon
• Chain Arts: Void Strike
• Chain Arts: Maelstrom
• Muscle Memory Finale
• Trio: Chain Arts: Thrash, Chain Arts: Crush, Chain Arts: Beatdown
• Trio: Summon Daggers, Summon Shotgun, Summon Scimitar
• Trio: Summon Brick, Summon Spiked Bat, [free]

All 5th Job classes should try to also obtain these:

• Decent Holy Symbol
• Decent Sharp Eyes
• Decent Speed Infusion
• Erda Nova
• Rope Lift
• Venom Burst
• Might of the Nova
• Last Resort
• Grandis Goddess's Blessing
• True Arachnid Reflection

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Changelog

18/03/2021 - First update