MapleStory Illium Skill Build Guide

Illium is a Flora mage that uses ancient magic in MapleStory to deal damage to enemies and boss monsters. If you like a class that can fly, have great mobbing capabilities and is one of the more modern classes in MapleStory, Illium might just be the class for you. Flora classes are the newest race introduced into MapleStory, which are an elf-like species.

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

Illium Overview

Illium was released in patch V191 Nova: Brilliance Of Illium in December 2017. The class style is built around crystals and tech, and has a skill that it allows it to fly all around maps for a short period of time. Illium has great mobility, especially for a mage class that is usually very reliant on teleport skill. Illium has many skills that allow them to travel across maps much faster, allowing for better map clears and some of the best mobbing in MapleStory.

As a class to train, you'll find Illium one of the easiest. Their mechanics rely on using Radiant Orb and Radiant Javelin in situ, proccing Lucid Brands that increase your damage. You will then have Reaction skills that become active automatically when using the Radiant Orb and Radiant Javelin. Finally, you also get Crystal Skills, which can be used once you charge up Illium's Battery Meter. Crystal placement is one of the areas of training Illium that is very important, as it will allow you to hit more mobs with better placement.

As a bossing class, Illium has been always in the lower end of the scale in terms of damage output. Illium did get some buffs in recent patches that add more boss damage to their skills, but they still tend to need quite a decent amount of funding to hit late end-game (as is the case with most classes). They have a few iframes for dodging one-hit attacks, but for the most part bossing with illium requires keeping your summon up and using the same Radiant Orb and Javelin combo.

• Weapon: Guantlet
• Job: Mage
• Class: Flora
• Shared Cash Shop Inventory: Illium, Adele, Ark
• Legion Block: Mesos Obtained (1%/2%/3%/4%/5%)
• Link Skill: Tide Of Battle (+12% Damage when moving a certain distance, 5sec)
• Primary Stat: Int
• Inner Ability: 1+ Attack Speed

Illium First Job Skill Build

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

• Radiant Javelin (+1), Radiant Orb (+1), Ex (+1)
• Crystalline Wings (MAX)
• Radiant Javelin (MAX)
• Radiant Orb (MAX)
• Lucent Gauntlet Mastery (MAX)
• Lucent Brand (MAX)
• Ex (MAX)

As you begin your journey as an Illium you will have to complete a series of story quests before you can leave for Maple World. You main attacking skills are Radiant Orb and Radiant Javelin. You can use a macro for these two skills so that you only have to press one key to activate them. You get the first version of your summon called Ex, that will slowly attack nearby enemies. Lucent Brand is activated when you use both the Radiant skills and that stacks up to 3 times in first job giving some extra damage. Crystalline Wings is your teleport skill and can allow you to fly if you hold it down.

Skill Description & Overview

Illium Second Job Skill Build

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

• Reaction - Destruction (+1), Reaction - Domination (+1), Umbral Brand (+1)
• Guantlet Frenzy (MAX)
• Reaction - Destruction (MAX)
• Reaction - Domination (MAX)
• Umbral Brand (MAX)
• Crystal Skill - Vortex Of Light (MAX)
• Machina (MAX)

In second job you get introduced to Reaction and Crystal skills. The Reaction skills will activate on their own (you don't need to manually press their skill key) whilst Crystal skills can be activated once per Battery Charge. You get a new skill called Deploy Crystal, which will allow you to activate your Reaction skills. You use the Radiant Orb and Radiant Javelin skills to hit your Deploy Crystal- this sets off a chain reaction that hits mobs all around you. When you use either of the Radiant skills, they then activate the Reaction skills (which have a 6 second cooldown). You will have to get the hang of pushing around your Deploy Crystal to make sure you get the best map coverage for mobbing.

Skill Description & Overview

Illium Third Job Skill Build

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

• Reaction - Destruction II (+1), Reaction Domination II (+1), Endless Research (+1)
• Endless Research (MAX)
• Reaction - Destruction II (MAX)
• Lucent Brand II (MAX)
• Reaction - Domination II (MAX)
• Crystal Skill - Wings Of Glory (MAX)
• Umbral Brand II (MAX)
• Tenacity (MAX)
• Might Of The Flora (MAX)
• Crystal Skill - Resonance (MAX)

In third job you get plenty of passive buffs for Illium and it helps with scaling up their damage. Maxing out Endless Research early is a good idea as it only has 4 SP points needed and you get +30% Critical damage! Your Reaction skills all get upgraded to be bigger and better at mobbing. You get two new Crystal skills- Wings Of Glory transforms your Illium into a super-speed flying Flora that allows you to fly all around the map attacking enemies at will for a short period. Your Umbral Brand and Lucent Brand all get upgrades too, further adding to your passive damage to mobs.

Skill Description & Overview

Illium Fourth Job Skill Build

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

• Radiant Javelin II (+1), Radiant Orb II (+1), Wisdom Of The Crystal (+1)
• Radiant Javelin II + Radiant Orb II (MAX)
• Wisdom Of The Crystal (MAX)
• Umbral Brand II (MAX)
• Lucid Brand II (MAX)
• Resonant Wings (MAX)
• Vortex Wings (MAX)
• Hero Of The Flora (MAX)
• Longinus Spear (MAX)
• Crystal Skill - Deus (MAX)
• Flash Crystal Battery (MAX)
• Floran Hero's Will (MAX)

Fourth job will upgrade your first job Radiant skills into better versions, as well as enhancing your Wings Of Glory with new attacks and power. Your brand marks all get their final upgrades too and Wisdom Of The Crystal further increases passive damage and attack speed of skills. Your new Crystal Skill - Deus will combine both your Ex summons and Machina summons into one might summon (they both need to be summoned to use the skill) and Flash Crystal Battery will help charge your battery faster.

Skill Description & Overview

Illium 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.

• Javelin - Reinforce
• Javelin - Extra Strike
• Javelin - Boss Rush
• Longinus - Cooldown Cutter
• Longinus - Extra Strike
• Longinus Zone
• Divine Wrath
• Crystalline Bulwark

Illium 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.

Phantom's Nodes should include:

• Crystal Ignition
• Reaction
• Templar Knight
• Crystaline Spirit
• Crystal Gate
• Trinode: Radiant Javelin II, Reaction - Destruction II, Reaction Domination II
• Trinode: Umbral Brand III, Deus & Ex, Longinus Spear

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

• Decent Holy Symbol
• Decent Sharp Eyes
• Decent Speed Infusion
• Erda Nova
• Rope Lift
• Weapon Aura

Skill Description & Overview

Changelog

09/03/2021 - First update