Look, back on August 26, Arthdal Chronicles rolled out some tweaks to active and passive skills across various classes. The update significantly bumped up the grinding speed for five specific classes, including the Dual Swordsman. Let us dive right into what actually changed.

The Main Goal: Boosting Grinding Efficiency

The recent balance adjustments focused squarely on sharpening the grinding efficiency of the Dual Swordsman, Archer, Danggeuri, Priest, and Stormbringer. First off, basic skills that used to deal only single-target damage now dish out area-of-effect damage starting from the Hero tier and above. On top of that, core skill multipliers got a nice little nudge to speed up your routine mob clearing. Have a look at the breakdown below.

Recommended Grinding Skills for the Dual Swordsman

Grinding as a Dual Swordsman typically follows this rotation: Flash Slash > Consecutive Slash I, II, III > Flash Stance. You dash into enemies with Flash Slash and follow up with your main damage-dealers. Thanks to this update, Hero-tier and higher versions of Flash Slash now deal AOE damage, making your farming runs much smoother. Other active skills generally lag behind in efficiency, so you might want to leave them off your auto-cast list.

The passive skill Unending Flash gives you a hefty chance to reset Flash Slash cooldowns whenever you secure a kill. Meanwhile, the Rare passive skills Sharp Blade Wave and Random Scar drastically accelerate your farming speed, so grab them as soon as you can.

Recommended Grinding Skills for the Archer

The Archer received adjustments to four distinct skills in this balance pass. Consecutive Shot gains AOE damage at the Hero tier, while Aimed Shot gets the same treatment at the Legendary tier. In addition, Multi-Shot and Rapid Shot received direct damage buffs.

Stick strictly to Aimed Shot, Multi-Shot, and Consecutive Shot for your auto-battle setup. Aimed Shot’s grinding efficiency skyrockets the moment you unlock the rapid-fire passive skill, so unlocking it early is a priority.

Recommended Grinding Skills for the Stormbringer

Stormbringer's Whirlwind skill also picked up AOE damage in this update, completing the class's transition into a full-kit AOE powerhouse. While Vortex also received a damage bump, the gauge-consuming skill Typhoon remains completely unmatched when it comes to pure farming efficiency.

Setting up your rotation is straightforward: Typhoon > Thunder Cloud > Chain Lightning > Whirlwind I, II, III. When your gauge runs low, throw out Thunder Cloud for buffs, stun enemies with Chain Lightning, and wrap things up with Whirlwind. If your gauge is full, just wipe out nearby packs with Typhoon.

Recommended Grinding Skills for the Danggeuri

Much like the other vocations, the basic skill Summon Spirit now includes an AOE damage effect. The primary skill Dance of Slaughter received some love too, featuring increased damage scaling across all tiers, and turning into a general-monster-only AOE skill at the Legendary tier. Needless to say, this makes farming immensely faster.

The ideal skill rotation goes: Spirit Aura > Dance of Slaughter > Ghost Explosion > Summon Spirit I, II, III. Fire off Spirit Aura to bump up your overall damage amplification, then follow through with Dance of Slaughter. If you are low on gauge and cannot cast Dance of Slaughter, mixing in Ghost Explosion and Summon Spirit keeps the efficiency high.

By the way, you can string together Danggeuri's active Curse and passive Curse Chain to push your grinding speed to absolute extremes. Curse deals initial damage while slapping targets with weaken and slow debuffs. Once you unlock Curse Chain, it applies a 10-second Curse Chain effect. Taking down an enemy afflicted by this immediately resets the cooldown of Curse. In short, once your gear is strong enough to one-shot targets with a single Curse, you enter an infinite, cooldown-free spam loop.

Keep in mind that Curse in its base state deals low damage, meaning the passive loop will not trigger automatically. You will need to level Curse up to the Hero tier before unlocking Curse Chain if you want to see any real farming gains. Also, make sure to configure your settings so that no skills other than Curse are firing off in your farming spot.

As a side note, both of these skills are classified as common skills. This means if you pick Danggeuri as your secondary class, any class can make use of them. It is particularly useful for the Priest, a class that famously struggles with slow grinding due to a lack of offensive skills.

Recommended Grinding Skills for the Priest

The Priest traditionally acts as a support in combat, leaving the class considerably short on offensive options compared to peers. Up to a certain point, you mostly rely on Strike of Light, Spear of Light, and Binding of Authority to deal damage. When healing is required, Sanctuary or Healing Light are your go-to options. Just be mindful that healing consumes authority, so avoid using it during routine monster grinding.

Once you hit the threshold for Hero-tier skills, your options finally expand. Picking up the Earth of Retribution passive lets you deal AOE damage through Sanctuary. Meanwhile, acquiring the Prayer of Death passive turns Resurrection Prayer into a massive-damage tool against nearby foes. Crucially, this patch reduced the cooldown of Resurrection Prayer to 20 seconds when there are no valid resurrection targets available.

Pairing these updates with the Danggeuri curse-linking trick mentioned earlier should noticeably improve your grinding performance. Check the link below for all the specifics.

※ [Nikke Tips] Fast Grinding Method Using Danggeuri Curse Chain [Link]