LINEAGE II · PRIMA GUIDE · 2004
Weapons, bows and critical hits
Learn how to read weapon attack values and shot requirements, then review the guide’s notes on critical hits, bows and dual swords.
P.Atk and M.Atk are the weapon’s attack values. Shot is the number of soulshots or spiritshots required for an automatic maximum-damage strike. Weight is item weight. Pays is what an NPC trader pays you, rounded to the nearest thousand above 100,000; it is not the shop’s selling price. Crystals gives the type and quantity obtained by crystallization.
Each weapon has a base critical-hit chance. The guide says these numbers were changing and therefore omits individual values. Its general estimates are about 4% for dual fists and blunt weapons, about 12% for bows and daggers, and about 8% for other weapons. Exceptions: 4% — Soulfire Dirk, Hell Knife, Broadsword, Long Sword, Sword of Solidarity, Butcher’s Sword, Sword of Sentinel, Homunkulus’s Sword, Elemental Sword, Phantom Sword, Red Sunset Sword. 8% — Short Bow, Bow, Guard’s Bow, Heavy War Axe, Red Sunset Staff, Sprite’s Staff, Eldritch Dagger, Skeleton Dagger, Cursed Maingauche. 12% — Silversmith Hammer, Cedar Staff, Willow Staff, Blood Tomahawk, Guard Spear, Blood Base, Rusted Bronze Sword.
Blacksmiths craft the listed dual swords when supplied with both original swords and enough adena. Craft is their service fee in adena. Arrows work only with bows of the same grade: Bone Arrows require D-grade bows. Mystic weapons are one-handed with attack speed 379. Bows have range 500, normally attack speed 293 and reuse delay 1.5 seconds; starred bows instead have speed 227 and reuse delay 1.1 seconds. Bow MP is the MP consumed per shot. Pole arms have attack speed 325 and range 80.
Source counting discrepancies: page 3 describes fifty-nine classes and page 7 says there are 32 choices at Level 40. The comparison chart actually lists 31 third professions,18 second professions and 9 first professions, totaling 58. All printed statements and listed records are retained with this flag.
Source page-reference error: the contents on page 4 point to page 345 for Dark Fighter skills. The actual Dark Fighter skill table starts on page 348. Navigation uses the verified table location; the printed contents reference is preserved here.
Source page-reference error: the printed table of contents on page 5 points to page 247 for recipe ingredients; the actual recipe-ingredients section starts on page 274. The printed reference is preserved here; navigation should use the actual section.
Source arithmetic label error: page 12 calls the result of 270 XP divided by 3 hits "90 XP per kill". That calculation gives 90 XP per hit; the total per kill in the example is 270 XP. The printed wording is preserved with this note.
Conflicting source descriptions: page 24 says WIT influences Casting Speed, while page 26 prints its formula as 166.5 × [DEX bonus]. The guide does not reconcile these statements. Both printed statements are preserved; this website does not infer a corrected formula.
Conflicting source ranks: the Level 15 recommendations continued on page 33 print Weapon Mastery 2, while the Human Fighter skill table on page 286 lists Weapon Mastery 3 at Level 15 and Weapon Mastery 2 at Level 10. The printed advice and table values are preserved with this distinction.
Page 93 calls Orc Mystics the Mystics with the lowest DEX. The printed base-stat boxes give Orc Mystic DEX 24 (page 104), Human Mystic 21 (page 44), Dark Mystic 23 (page 86), and Elven Mystic 24 (page 66). The prose and values are preserved with this inconsistency noted.
Printed quest-reference difference: the Antharas’ Lair advice on page200 says “Audience with the Green Dragon”; the walkthrough heading on page156 says “Audience with the Land Dragon” and the index on page145 says “Audience w. the Land Dragon”. Each printed name is retained.
Printed spelling difference: the helping-monster list on page200 uses “Pytan/Pytan Knight”, while the aggressive-monster list uses “Ptyan”. These spellings are retained without silently treating them as an identical record.
The printed guide lists Mechanic Golem (4) at Level 57 and Mechanic Golem (5) at Level 51. These values are preserved exactly; the unusual rank/level ordering is a source inconsistency, not a correction made by this website.
The printed guide lists Viper Cubic (2) with M.Atk 544 and poison power 5, followed by Viper Cubic (1) with M.Atk 791 and poison power 6. The original labels and values are preserved; their reversed ordering is flagged rather than silently corrected.