MapleStory Hoyoung Skill Build Guide

Hoyoung is a Anima Thief class in MapleStory that yields the power of Talisman Energy to deal devastatig damage to mobs and bosses throughout Maple World. Hoyoung uses their Humanity skills to charge their Talisman Skills, giving the class a unique style of play. As a modern MapleStory class, Hoyoung benefits from great mobbing throughout the early levels and later laters.

• Hoyoung Overview
• Hoyoung First Job Skill Build
• Hoyoung Second Job Skill Build
• Hoyoung Third Job Skill Build
• Hoyoung Fourth Job Skill Build
• Hoyoung Hyper Skill Build
• Hoyoung Fifth Job Skill Build
• Changelog

Hoyoung Overview

Hoyoung was released in patch v.209 Glory: Strengthened Alliances, which is the patch after the Black Mage was defeated. Hoyoung is a thief class that utilizes the LUK stat and thief equipment in MapleStory. Hoyoung uses skills to generate special energy that allows them to use more powerful skills, including Talisman Energy and Scroll Energy. Whilst it sounds complicated, the class gently introduces the player to the different skill concepts throughout their Job Advancements.

Players who choose to play Hoyoung will notice the class is very easy to play in the early levels. Hoyoung has great mobbing skills that get better from 1st to 5th job. As Hoyoung gets to level 200 and above, their mobbing becomes excellent and seamless, allowing players to have great map coverage whilst training. Buff duration can help massively with Hoyoung, allowing the class to keep 100% up-time in their skills.

As a bossing class, Hoyoung does require a bit of management to make sure you keep DPS high. Hoyoung relies on generating energy for Scroll and Talisman skills, and during a boss this can be a bit harder than just regular training. They have really high damage when you master the class, without needing for lots of funding compared to older classes. They also have an i-frame skill, allowing them to dodge 1-hit KO attacks.

Check our our MapleStory Training Guide to help find the fastest maps to level up your characters.

• Weapon: Ritual Fan
• Job: Thief
• Class: Hoyoung
• Shared Cash Shop Inventory: Hoyoung
• Legion Block: +LUK (10/20/40/80/100)
• Link Skill: Bravado (+10% Enemy DEF Ignored, Damage +14% against enemies with 100% HP))
• Primary Stat: LUK
• Inner Ability: +20% Boss Damage

Hoyoung First Job Skill Build

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

• Humanity: As-You-Will Fan (1), Graceful Flight (2)
• Graceful Flight (MAX)
• Humanity: As-You-Will Fan (MAX)
• Talisman: Evil-Sealing Gourd (MAX)
• Shrouding Mist (MAX)
• Light Steps (MAX)

Your main mobbing skill is Humanity: As-You-Will Fan that can hit an amazing 5 enemies at once. Humanity: As-You-Will Fan will generate Talisman energy, allowing you to then use Talisman: Evil-Sealing Gourd, which will swallow up enemies and then launch them back out to deal lots of damage. It can only be used once you have max Talisman Energy. You also get a double-jump skill called Graceful Flight.

Skill Description & Overview

Hoyoung Second Job Skill Build

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

• Earth: Ground-Shattering Wave (1), Ritual Fan Mastery (2)
• Ritual Fan Master (5)
• Ritual Fan Acceleration (MAX)
• Earth: Ground-Shattering Wave (MAX)
• Ritual Fan Acceleration (MAX)
• Talisman: Clone (MAX)
• Third Eye (MAX)
• Fortune Fitness (MAX)
• Heavenly Body (MAX)
• Out Of Sight (MAX)

Your new main mobbing skill is Earth: Ground Shattering Wave, which hits 6 enemies for four lines of damage. You also get a new Talisman skill called Talisman: Clone, which generates a clone Hoyoung to attack enemies for you. You also get your attack speed booster skill (Ritual Fan Acceleration), so max this early to improve your attacking speed. Some passive buffs with Third Eye and Out Of Sight increasing damage and avoidability.

Skill Description & Overview

Hoyoung Third Job Skill Build

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

• Heaven: Iron Fan Gale (MAX)
• Asura (MAX)
• Earth: Stone Tremor (MAX)
• Talisman: Seeking Ghost Flame (MAX)
• Scroll: Degeneration (MAX)
• Attainment (MAX)
• Balanced Breath (MAX)
• Diamond Body (MAX)

Third job introduces Scroll Energy. Scroll Energy is generated by using your skills, with Talisman Skills give +200. In third job you get a new Talisman skill called Talisman: Seeking Ghost Flame, which is a summon skill. Your first scroll skill is called Scroll: Degeneration that hits up to 15 enemies. Attainment increases the damage of your other skills, so you can use them together to increase your Talisman Energy generation.

Skill Description & Overview

Hoyoung Fourth Job Skill Build

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

• Enlightenment (MAX)
• Advanced Ritual Fan Mastery (MAX)
• Heaven: Consuming Flames (MAX)
• Humanity: Gold-Banded Cudgel (MAX)
• Scroll: Butterfly Dream (MAX)
• Dragon's Eye (MAX)
• Talisman: Warp Gate (MAX)
• Anima Warrior (MAX)
• Scroll: Star Vortex (MAX)
• Thousand-Ton Stone (MAX)
• Anima Hero's Will (MAX)

Enlightenment will increase the damage of your main attacking skill: Heaven: Iron Fan Gale. The new skills you get in 4th job all have cooldowns or require energy so they aren't spammable. You do get two new Heaven and Humanity skills, which you can use inconjunction with your Earth skill from third job to really boost your Talisman Energy gain. The cooldowns of the skills work well and are easy to time and chain as you mob. A new Scroll skill called Butterfly Dream, which summons butterflys to attack for you, whilst also giving you a 10% Final Damage buff. Talisman Warp Gate is extremely useful for getting around maps with bad hidden portals, as it allows you to teleport to wherever you placed the warp gate.

Skill Description & Overview

Hoyoung 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.

• Empowered Harmony
• Guardbreaking Clones
• Boss Rush Harmony
• Hasty Ghost Flame
• Butterfly Rush
• Sage: Dream Of Shangri-La
• Sage: Tai Yu Clone
• Sage: Tai Yu's Miracle Tonic

Hoyoung 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.

Hoyoung's Nodes should include:

• Sage: Wrath Of Gods
• Sage: Clone Rampage
• Scroll: Tiger Of Songyu
• Sage: Three Paths Apparition
• Trio: Iron Fan Gale, Humanity: As-You-Will Fan, Ground-Shattering Wave
• Trio: Scroll: Star Vortex, Talisman: Clone and Sage, Scroll: Butterfly Dream

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

Skill Description & Overview

Changelog

20/04/2021 - First update