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The fire mage Jong-in, nicknamed 'Final Weapon,' is a Hunter who can be expected to deliver excellent offensive performance with powerful skills, including burn and defense reduction debuffs. Uniquely, instead of applying critical hits, his attack power increases, which divides opinions among users.

Since Jong-in's ultimate skill applies a buff that enhances his skills, utilizing the ultimate is considered paramount, and he is often operated in a hit-and-run style after unleashing attacks in a short time. Since the ultimate is not easy to use frequently, some setup is required to expect proper performance.

Jong-in is one of the hunters representing fire attribute based on attack power, and he has a unique characteristic of being a dealer without applying critical hits. He has a characteristic that increases attack power by 40% instead of critical hits, so pure attack power setting that does not utilize critical hits is important.

Moreover, the buff 'Final Weapon' is activated when using the ultimate! Since the cooldown of normal skills is reset and attack power and defense penetration are also granted, it can be said that utilizing the ultimate is the core of Jong-in. Jong-in's main attack pattern is to inflict a powerful blow on the enemy with the ultimate 'Day of Doom' and then link normal skills 'Rain of Fire' and 'Spear of Fire' based on the 'Final Weapon' effect.

In addition, the QTE skill 'Hwaryong Cheonsang' greatly contributes to increasing attack efficiency by inflicting burn and defense reduction debuffs on the enemy. By appearing with 'Hwaryong Cheonsang' and applying a defense reduction debuff, and then composing an attack combo with the ultimate 'Day of Doom' and normal skills 'Rain of Fire' and 'Spear of Fire', you can inflict maximized damage in a short time.

Attack efficiency may be somewhat reduced in situations where the ultimate cannot be used, but fortunately, the normal skills 'Rain of Fire' and 'Spear of Fire' both show good attack power. Usually, the normal skill composition of a dealer hunter consists of one with low attack power but a dedicated effect and one with high attack power, but Jong-in has two skills with decent attack power coefficients without dedicated effects.

When evolving, Jong-in shows noticeable changes in stages 1, 3, and 5. In the 1st evolution, the normal skill 'Rain of Fire' that follows after using the ultimate in the 'Final Weapon' buff state is changed to the 'Giant Fireball' skill, transforming from several small fireballs into a scene where a huge meteorite falls.

At this time, the 'Rain of Fire' skill changed to 'Giant Fireball' increases the damage by a whopping 3 times, so it can inflict a powerful blow beyond the ultimate. Thanks to this, a powerful attack combo with the feeling of two ultimates hitting in succession is achieved, and Jong-in's performance varies greatly depending on whether or not he has evolved to the 1st stage.

And in the 3rd evolution, the damage of the ultimate 'Day of Doom' is increased by 50%, which is a suitable ability enhancement for Jong-in, for whom the ultimate is important. In addition, when the final 5th evolution is achieved, the cooldown of 'Day of Doom' flows 3 times faster during tag-out, and the power gauge is recovered by 0.5% every second.

Achieving the 5th evolution means you can use the ultimate more often. The tag-out effect acquired upon the 5th evolution is quite useful for Jong-in, who often utilizes a method of inflicting maximum damage in an instant with a combination of ultimate and normal skills, rather than being active in the field for a long time and then switching.

Since Jong-in is attack power-based, he also uses weapons with attack power, and in the case of the exclusive weapon 'Equivalent Exchange', it additionally has the effect of increasing attack power and granting a defense reduction debuff when attacking targets in a burn state as exclusive options.

Defense reduction can also be found in Jong-in's QTE skill 'Hwaryong Cheonsang', and since 'Hwaryong Cheonsang' also has a burn effect, it is easy to satisfy the activation conditions of 'Equivalent Exchange's option. In addition, since the burn effect can also be granted through the core skill 'Explosion' in addition to 'Hwaryong Cheonsang', there is no difficulty in utilizing the 'Equivalent Exchange' option.

If you don't have an exclusive weapon, you can use 'Steel Dagger', 'Steel Bow', and 'Steel Longsword' with attack power from SR weapons, and among them, it is good to use 'Steel Longsword'. The critical damage increase option of 'Steel Bow' is meaningless to Jong-in, who does not apply critical hits, and the normal attack damage increase option of 'Steel Dagger' is also not a good option for Jong-in, who does not use normal attacks much.

However, the weak point attribute damage increase of 'Steel Longsword' can be expected to be effective against enemies with fire attribute weaknesses, so it suits Jong-in well. Currently, fire attribute weakness strategy content can be found in Instance Dungeons, Thrones of Destruction, and Battlefields of Chaos.

The armor artifact chosen by many users who own Jong-in is typically 'Archmage'. 'Archmage' has a 25% increase in ultimate damage in the 2-set and a 40% reduction in ultimate cooldown in the 4-set, so it shows a perfect match for Jong-in, whose attacks are centered on the ultimate.

And you can also utilize 'High Demon', which makes it easy to charge the ultimate thanks to the power gauge acquisition increase set effect. However, even if you quickly charge the power gauge by using 'High Demon', the cooldown may not return, delaying the use of the ultimate, and in this case, the option of the Jong-in 5th evolution effect, which flows the ultimate cooldown 3 times faster when tagging out, is required.

Therefore, for Jong-in below 5th evolution, it is useful to receive the ultimate power increase and cooldown reduction effects with 'Archmage' and to have a party member supporter wear 'High Demon' to assist with the power gauge acquisition increase. However, if you are above 5th evolution, you can consider directly equipping 'High Demon' to acquire the power gauge more quickly.

In addition, 'Black Lion', which is easy for any attack power-based dealer to use with attack power increase and defense ignoring attack options, can also be adopted without difficulty.

For accessory artifacts, 'Chwiruk' is often used, which can concentrate instantaneous firepower. 'Chwiruk' has a set effect of increasing damage dealt and reducing normal skill cooldown at the cost of increasing the magic consumption of skills, which is a good set effect for recording high damage in an instant with powerful skill combos.

The drawback of 'Chwiruk' is that it is difficult to maintain magic power as magic consumption increases, but it can be compensated for by reducing magic consumption with artifact sub-options, gems, etc. In addition, Jong-in tends to switch out and pour out skills rather than staying in the field for a long time and continuously using skills, so there is less worry about magic consumption.

Besides, as an accessory that can be used without difficulty, you can choose 'Behemoth', which increases damage to enemies with health below a certain level. On the other hand, 'Beast' and 'Red Eye', which are used based on critical hits, and 'Aquamarine' with supporter effects cannot be used, and 'Skull', which has a damage increase effect when your health is below a certain level, is not chosen because it is difficult to meet the conditions.

Jong-in is good to use by forming a party with 'Emma Laurent', who is the same fire attribute hunter. 'Emma Laurent' has a break effect that 'Jong-in' does not have, and since she inflicts burn on the enemy with core attacks and QTE skills, it is also good to utilize the burn state enemy defense reduction debuff option of Jong-in's exclusive weapon 'Equivalent Exchange'.

Similarly, since Jong-in also has a burn effect on core attacks and QTE, the damage increase effect on burn state targets in Emma Laurent's normal skills 'Burn Up' and 'Flame Slash' is easily triggered. You can create synergy with each other based on the burn effect without having to switch with QTE skills.

In addition, in Emma Laurent's 3rd evolution, the 'Heat Absorption' buff of Emma Laurent's defense increase, health recovery, and shield is applied to all team members, so you can expect useful performance for Jong-in, who has poor survivability.

The supporter of all people, 'Min Byung-gu', is also good to use with Jong-in. At this time, 'Min Byung-gu' can wear a High Demon set on his armor and grant the effect of increasing the power gauge acquisition to allies to support Jong-in's use of the ultimate. In addition, if 'Min Byung-gu' wears an 'Aquamarine' set on his accessories, Jong-in's attack power increases, so it shows good synergy.

In addition, since 'Min Byung-gu' can grant a damage received increase debuff to the enemy with the skill 'Judgment of Light', he can further increase the attack efficiency of allies. Afterwards, 'Min Byung-gu' applies a damage increase buff to allies with the ultimate 'Heavenly Blessing', and if the ultimate 'Day of Doom' is linked after switching to Jong-in, a large amount of damage is inflicted in a short time.

In addition, if 'Min Byung-gu' is 5th evolution or higher, he additionally grants a 50% increase in the next ultimate damage buff to the team member with the highest combat power when using 'Heavenly Blessing', so it is also possible to set up Jong-in's ultimate even more powerfully!

However, due to the characteristic of Jong-in, who cannot utilize critical hits, some of Min Byung-gu's performance is not applied. Min Byung-gu's ultimate 'Heavenly Blessing' applies critical hit chance and critical damage increase buffs in addition to damage increase, and Min Byung-gu's 1st evolution increases critical hit chance and critical damage to the entire team, but it is meaningless to Jong-in.

Webzine InvenSong Cheol-gi Reporter
2024-06-05