Royal Guard

Contents

• 1 Overview
• 2 Player Guides
• 3 Job Change Guide
• 4 Builds
  • 4.1 Vanishing & Cannon Spear Build
  • 4.2 Pure Cannon Spear
  • 4.3 Earth Drive & Over Brand
  • 4.4 Exceed Break
  • 4.5 Martyr’s Reckoning & Devotion
  • 4.6 Gloria Domini/ Genesis Ray
• 5 Royal Guard Skills
  • 5.1 Skills

Royal Guard

Job Base(s):	Paladin
Race:	Player Human
Job Type:	3-2
Job Level:	65

Royal Guard Alternate Sprite from jRO

Overview

The Royal Guard, or RG, is an order formed under King Von Schmidtz of Glast Heim, created to protect Midgard from chaos and any future evil that might rise.

They now come equipped with a mix of hard-hitting offensive skills and strong support abilities, making them a solid frontline class in all parts of the game. Their Sacrifice playstyle is still a reliable way to support party members and hasn’t lost its place over time.

Player Guides

• Quick Vanishing Point/Cannon Spear Royal Guard by Rime – THE ROGGH LIBRARY

Job Change Guide

Need help with the job change? Refer to the Royal Guard Job Change Quest for full details.

Builds

Vanishing & Cannon Spear Build

This build focuses on spamming Vanishing Point while using Cannon Spear whenever it’s off cooldown. Achieving 193 ASPD is essential for maximizing your DPS output.

To further boost your damage, stack ranged modifiers, flat ATK, and ATK%. These directly affect the performance of both skills.

Pairing a high base defense shield with Shield Spell Level 1 gives a solid ATK boost that helps increase your overall damage.

Key equipment like the  Fallen Protect Manteau [1],  Awakened Aquatic Spear [2], and the Vanishing Cannon Set significantly improve the damage of both Vanishing Point and Cannon Spear, making them essential picks for this build.

Stat Points

Key Equipment

•  Imperial Feather,  Imperial Ring [1],  Imperial Spear [1], &  Imperial Guard [1] combo
•  Imperial Feather &  Royal Guard Necklace combo
•  Aquatic Spear [2] /  Awakened Aquatic Spear [2]
•  Royal Guard Stone(Garment) &  Paladin Stone(Lower) combo
•  [NFS]Subject Cape(Range) [1] &  Old Crown of Protection [1]
•  Fallen Protect Manteau [1]
•  Brooch of Hero [1] &  Hero Plate [1] combo
•  General Helmet [1] &  Gungnir or  Gungnir [2] combo
•  Illusion Spectral Spear [1] &  Illusion Shoes [1]
•  Royal Guard Shadow Weapon & Vanishing Cannon Set

Pure Cannon Spear

Thanks to new gear, Royal Guards can now spam Cannon Spear with 0 cooldown. No need to wait for EDDA: Biolabs. You can cast the skill non-stop, as fast as your animation and cast time allow.

Right now, Cannon Spear doesn’t crit, so there’s no need to build around critical stats yet. That will change with the upcoming Royal Guard rework.

Cannon Spear currently has a 2-second cooldown. To achieve a 0-cooldown setup, you’ll need at least 3 of the following key items

•  Fallen Protect Manteau [1] & +11  Old Crown of Protection [1] (0.5 CD reduction)
• +9  Vanishing Cannon Shadow Shoes (0.5 CD reduction)
•  Paladin Stone(Middle) +  Royal Guard Stone(Garment) (0.5 CD reduction)
•  Guardian’s Shield [1] (1 CD reduction)

These completely remove the skill’s cooldown.

Just like Vanishing Point, you’ll need high attack speed (ASPD) to spam Cannon Spear efficiently. The faster your ASPD, the smoother and faster your skill animation will be.

For stronger damage, focus on:

• High STR – directly boosts Cannon Spear’s damage through its formula:
  Damage (ATK) = [{Base Damage + (STR × Skill Level)} × (Base Level ÷ 100)]%
• Ranged damage modifiers
• Flat ATK and ATK% increases

This build is all about spamming Cannon Spear fast and hard. Just be mindful of your SP, since the skill can drain it quickly with constant use.

Key Equipment:

•  Guardian’s Shield [1]
•  Royal Guard Shadow Weapon & Vanishing Cannon Set
•  Fallen Protect Manteau [1]
•  Aquatic Spear [2] /  Awakened Aquatic Spear [2]
•  Megingjard
•  Nameless Swordsman Boots [1]

Earth Drive & Over Brand

This is a viable build for Royal Guards, made possible by the introduction of Shield Rings. Equipping two of them removes Earth Drive’s cooldown and gives a total of 60% after-cast delay reduction (30% per ring), making it possible to weave in Overbrand if you choose to.
To spam Earth Drive and Overbrand efficiently, you’ll need to hit 193 ASPD and stack enough after-cast delay reduction.

Stat Points

Some players also invest in high INT to use items such as Seraphim Coronet or Lord of Royals.

Key Equipment

•  Shield Ring [1]
•  Shield of Phoenix [1]
•  True Randel Lawrence Card
•  Circlet Of Phoenix
•  Record of Swordman [1] &  Record of Swordman vol.2 [1]
•  Document Swordsman [1]

Exceed Break

Exceed Break is a popular skill for WoE, where it truly excels. While it can be useful in PvM, its strength lies in WoE scenarios, especially when paired with Devotion to support party members. It works effectively as ground control and supports your guild’s main stack, though it’s no longer as popular in the GGH WoE scene due to the presence of 100% player damage reductions.

Stat Points

Key Equipment
You will need Critical Damage and other physical attack-enhancing equipment such as:

•  Temporal Luk Boots [1] /  Temporal Luk Boots
•  Temporal Ring [1] &  Lucky Day
•  Physical Enhancer Ring [1] with Critical Damage option
•  Little Garden
•  Heart Card in Mouth &  Gambler’s Seal
•  Arabian Manteau [1]
•  Temporal Agi Manteau [1] /  Temporal Str Manteau [1]
•  Fallen Angel Wing [1] with  Critical Lv4
•  Critical Stone (Garment) &  Critical Stone (Lower),  Critical Stone (Middle),  Critical Stone (Upper)

Martyr’s Reckoning & Devotion

Martyr’s Reckoning once dominated the WoE scene, thanks to the introduction of Noble Mask. Similar to its pre-renewal counterpart, this build requires achieving 193 ASPD and maintaining a high HP pool to deal massive damage. It is commonly paired with Sropho Cards for their Crystallization effect, ensuring a target’s demise if the effect procs.

This build also works well with Devotion due to its high HP, but if a Royal Guard opts to use it, some fixed cast time (FCT) reduction may be necessary for smoother execution.

Stat Build

Key Equipment
You’re looking for items that will improve Max HP, attack speed, and casting time.

•  Noble Mask
•  Tao Gunka Card*

Gloria Domini/ Genesis Ray

With the introduction of items that support Gloria Domini and Genesis Ray, a magic build for Royal Guard has emerged. Key items include Themis Helm, Awakened Light Blade, Royal Guard Stone Set II, and Avaricia Encyclopedia.

The core idea is to spam Gloria Domini as fast as possible by achieving high attack speed (193 preferred), low to instant cast time, and equipping Themis Helm, which enables a chance to autocast Genesis Ray when using Gloria Domini. The Avaricia Encyclopedia further enhances this build by providing a chance to autocast Level 5 Gloria Domini upon casting Gloria Domini, effectively allowing a double proc for even more consistent Genesis Ray triggers.

Key Equipment:

• Themis Helmet [1]
• Avaricia Encyclopedia [1]
• Themis Libra [1]
• Light Blade [2] & Awakened Light Blade [2]
• Royal Guard Stone II Set
  
  

Royal Guard Skills

Skills

Skill	Description	Levels	Type
Moon Slasher	Damages surrounding enemies and forces them to sit.	5	Offensive
Exceed Break	Gather your strength to cause greater damage on your next attack. A short-range physical attack on your body will cancel the skill. Your skill damage is not affected by this skill. Movement speed reduces while this skill is active.	5	Offensive
Cannon Spear	Attack all enemies in a straight line up to 11 cells (width 3 cells) from the caster. Increase Damage depending on caster’s STR. Must have spear equipped to cast.	5	Offensive
Vanishing Point	Attack long distance enemy that is within 7 cells. Increase Accuracy rate as skill level gets higher. Give additional damage depending on Bash level. Requires a Spear to cast.	10	Offensive
Pinpoint Attack	Quickly move close to the target and hit its vital point. Has a chance to cause different status change or other effect depending on the skill level used. The caster’s Agility can increase the damage. Deals 100% critical damage. [Lv 1]:ATK 100% / cause bleeding [Lv 2]:ATK 200% / remove spirit spheres from target [Lv 3]:ATK 300% / break target’s Shield [Lv 4]:ATK 400% / break target’s Armor [Lv 5]:ATK 500% / break target’s Weapon	5	Offensive
Overbrand	Draws a cross on the ground to cause Pierce Damage at a range of 6 cells infront and Swing Damage at a range of 6 cells left and right. Enemies that receive Swing Damage are knocked back. If targets are pushed into a wall or obstacles, they receive additional damage. Pierce Damage increases based on the caster’s Base Level and Spear Quicken and Swing Damage increases based on the caster’s Base Level and STR/DEX.	5	Offensive
Vanguard Force	Increase your rage counter when you receive physical attack. The rage counters can be used for the skill Burst Attack. Vanguard Force will cancel when you cast Rage Burst. This skill consumes some SP at regular time interval to stay active.	5	Supportive
Burst Attack	Release all Rage Counters from Vanguard Force to deal great damage to an enemy.	1	Offensive
Banding	The skill boosts attack and defense while sharing HP with nearby Royal Guards in the party. Enemies near a Royal Guard with Banding active may be slowed and inflicted with Overawe, which reduces their movement speed, with higher skill and Base Levels increasing the chance and duration of the effect.	5	Supportive
Trample	Tramples a 5×5 area around the caster, destroying all traps. Explosive type traps will activate with this skill.	3	Active
Prestige	Chance to completely evade damage from magic attacks while increasing physical defense. The evasion rate depends on your stats. Your defending Aura level influences the physical defense rate.	5	Supportive
Hesperus Lit	Requires 3 Royal Guard with Banding activated. All Royal Guards in Banding targets the same enemy and attack it at once. Consumes half of your SP (by other Royal Guards in Banding).	5	Offensive
Piety	Endows you or a party member and nearby party member’s armors with Holy element. Consumes 2 Holy Waters.	5	Supportive
Genesis Ray	Summons the wrath of Angels from the sky. Causes all targets in radius to receive holy elemental damage. Requires two or more Royal Guards in Banding. When used on Undead or Demon monsters, has a 50% chance of causing Blind. When used on undead or demon monsters, there is a 50% chance of receiving the Blinding status.	10	Offensive
Reflect Damage	When receiving physical or magical damage, part of the damage is returned in an area around the caster. While active, this skill drains SP every second. Cannot be used with Shield Reflect.	5	Supportive
Earth Drive	Brandish your shield to causing all targets in an area to receive Earth elemental damage. Targets hit will have their defense and attack speed reduced by 25%. The weight of your shield can increase the damage dealt.	5	Offensive
Shield Spell	Summons magical abilities based on your shield defense, shield magic defense, or shield refine rate depending on the skill level used. An equipped shield is required to cast this skill.	3	Supportive
Inspiration	Increases your accuracy, stats, attack and MaxHP. Costs 1% of your experience to cast. Consumes your HP and SP over time. Part of your attack damage will reflect back to you. The skill deactivates when your SP reaches 0. You die if you HP reaches 0. When the skill is active, you cannot use Banding or Prestige.	5	Supportive
Shield Press	Strikes a target with a shield and stuns the target. The damage is influenced by shield weight, refine rate, and the caster’s status. A shield is required to cast this skill.	10	Offensive
King’s Grace	Bestow royal blessings to the caster and allies around the caster to recover HP and protect against status effects and damage. If used in a PVP or Siege area, only affects the caster and party members, and all targets under the skill’s protection will be unable to take any actions for the skill’s duration. Removes the following statuses: Poison, Blind, Frozen, Stone Curse, Stun, Sleep, Bleeding, Curse, Chaos, Hallucination, Silence, Burning, Crystalize, Freezing, Deep Sleep, Fear, Mandragora Howling	5	Supportive
Full Throttle	Fully restores HP when cast and increases movement speed for the skill’s duration. All stats +20%. After the skill duration ends, you will be inflicted with Rebound status. During Rebound status, your movement speed is lowered and your natural HP/SP recovery is disabled. Cannot be removed by dispel or clearance. 50 Minute playtime cooldown	5	Active