Crusader - MU Online Character

The MU Online Crusader is the game's hammer-and-shield class: an armoured fighter who serves Lugard, the God of Light, strikes with a hammer and paladin shield blessed by light, and supports the party with Lugard's blessing. It arrived with Season 21 as the newest class in the game — the first class Imperial, Season 21's second Legendary tier, was built out for — and it is fully playable on our Season 22 server today.

This guide covers the Crusader end to end: what it is and where it came from, its skills with numbers read from the game's own files, how to build one on a server with max stats of 32,700, the gear path from character creation to the Imperial endgame, and whether it fits your PvE or PvP plans.

Who the Crusader is

Webzen's own description, straight from the game files, reads: the Crusader serves Lugard, the God of Light; it strikes down enemies with a hammer and shield blessed by light, and it supports the party with Lugard's blessing. Every part of that sentence shows up in the kit: the light element, the two-handed look of a hammer-and-shield fighter, and a support layer you do not normally get on a melee class.

Lugard is not a new name. Long-time players first met the God of Light through the Season 1 era, where the Dark Lord's Sunlight Armour and Soleil Scepter are described as blessed by Lugard — see the Season 1 guide for that table. Two decades later the same god hands out hammers. The Crusader's higher tier is the Impact Crusader, and its level 1,700 achievement reward on the Season 21 reward track is a Crusader muun (elemental defence +10 base).

Crusader skills, with the real numbers

The table below is read from the game client's own skill tables — the same files our server runs, not a fan wiki. Level is the requirement to learn the skill; mana is the cost per cast.

The names above are the client's own English skill strings, numbers included. Around them, the game files fill in the rest of the picture. The requirement table shows the gates: Divine Fall, Holy Sweep and Luguard's Protection ask for no prior skill, while Sacred Impact's scroll also wants Holy Sweep already learned, with points banked in its master-skill line. The master tree itself carries enhancement and mastery rows for Divine Fall, Holy Sweep, Sacred Impact, Luguard's Protection and a Hammer line — every core skill, plus the hammer itself, keeps growing on the Master Level track that Season 3 introduced.

How to build a Crusader

The Season 21 gear tables describe the class precisely: Strength-led, with a serious Agility bill behind it. That is the whole build in one line — feed Strength first, keep Agility climbing, and treat Vitality as the survival tax of a melee class that intends to be hit.

PvE: open with Holy Sweep when packs form, save Sacred Impact for the thing that must die first, and keep Luguard's Protection running — the emblem support is why a Crusader is welcome in parties that already have damage. PvP: a Strength-led shield class plays the short-range bullying game — close, sweep, impact — and leans on the defensive ceiling of the shield line rather than caster-style burst.

The gear path: from hammer to Imperial

The Crusader was the first class Imperial — Season 21's second Legendary tier, one step above Season 20's Temple Guard — was published for, as Progenitor's Imperial Crusader. That is the crafted set; the drop grade, Excellent Imperial armour, comes out of Rakion of Oblivion and sits at roughly 87% of the Legendary defence. The full six-piece Imperial bonus, flat attack power across the Nuke, Bolt and Area types, is the endgame goal for the class on a Season 22 server.

Season 21 also introduced Combat Power (%), the melee counterpart to Season 20's Magic Power (%) — and a hammer class built on Strength is exactly what that stat was made for. When you compare gear on the way up, an Imperial piece with Combat Power on it is doing more for a Crusader than almost anything else in the slot.

The cloak ladder, with server numbers

Where other classes collect wings, the Crusader collects cloaks — and the ladder runs all the way to level 1200. Levels and defence below are read directly from our server's item table:

Play the Crusader on a live server

The Crusader is live and directly selectable on our Season 22 server — high exp, max stats 32,700, events and mini-bosses all day, and the full Imperial endgame described above. On Webzen's official service the class opened on the speed server first and reached normal servers with the season update; on ours it is simply there from day one.

• Create your account — it takes about a minute
• Download the client and pick the Crusader on the creation screen
• New to MU Online entirely? Start with how to start, then come back and swing the hammer

Every skill on the bar, read from our server's own files

The complete list, pulled straight from the skill table our server runs — level to learn, base damage, mana and AG cost, range, the stat gate, the +1-damage-per-X scaling and the imprint value. If another site disagrees with a number here, ours is the one the server actually uses.

The master skill tree (3rd class), node by node

Unlocked at the third class change (level 400); every level from 400 to 800 grants one point. Three branches, with the node names read from our server's own tree file:

Defense branch: Durability Reduction (1), PvP Defense Rate Increase, Maximum SD increase, Auto Mana Recovery Increase, Durability Reduction (2), SD Recovery Speed Increase, Automatic HP Recovery Increase, Defense Increase, Elemental DEF Increase, Automatic AG Recovery Increase, Durability Reduction (3), Defense Success Rate Increase, Armor Set Bonus Increase, Vengeance, Energy Increase, Stamina Increase, Agility Increase, Strength Increase, Reinforcement of Cloak of the Desire Defense, Protection Shield, Reinforcement of Cloak of the Desire Attack, Steel Armor, Shield Block

Attack branch: Attack Success Rate Increase, Divine Fall Strengthener, Tornado Strengthener, Anger Blow Strengthener, Divine Fall Mastery, Weapon Mastery, Holly Sweep Strengthener, Maximum Life Increase, Secred Impact Strengthener, Maximum Mana Increase, Maximum AG Increase, Rush, Max HP Boost, Blood Storm, Blood Storm Strengthener

Weapon branch: Attack Rate, Hammer Strengthener, Shield PowUp, Hammer Mastery, Shield Mastery, Lugard's Protection: Punishment Strenghtener, Mana Reduction, Monster Attack SD Increment, Monster Attack Life Increment, Minimum Attack Power Increase, Monster Attack Mana Increment, Maximum Attack Power Increase, Increases critical damage rate, Restores all Mana, Restores all HP, Absorb Life, Increases excellent damage rate, Battle Mind, Restores all SD, Increases double damage rate, Absorb Shield, Increases chance of ignore Def

What each stat point does

The classic MU formulas, with this class's damage stat in the first row. Per-point HP and mana are in the table at the top of the page.

Class specialization and the EXP party

Two systems the stat screen never explains. First, specialization: as the class damage stat climbs past 1,500 and then 2,000, the character earns bonus damage on the same skill set — up to +45% at the top tier. Second, the classic EXP-party combos are Dark Knight + Dark Wizard + Fairy Elf and Dark Lord + Summoner + Magic Gladiator/Rage Fighter — this class belongs to neither, so build parties from the combat trios above.

Ability cards (5th class): Sacred Impact of Gale.

MU Online Crusader FAQ

What is the Crusader in MU Online?

The Crusader is MU Online's hammer-and-shield class: a heavy armoured fighter that serves Lugard, the God of Light, strikes with a hammer and paladin shield blessed by light, and supports its party with Lugard's blessing. It was added in Season 21 and is the newest class in the game.

Which season added the Crusader?

Season 21. The class opened that season, and the same season's Imperial tier — the second Legendary tier — was published first for the Crusader as the Progenitor's Imperial Crusader set. Season 21 also raised the level cap to 1,800 and added Combat Power (%), the melee power stat the Crusader is built around.

How do you unlock the Crusader?

On our Season 22 server you simply pick it on the character creation screen — the Crusader is a base class with no account-level requirement. (The gated classes in MU Online are the older unlock ones: Rage Fighter at 150, Grow Lancer at 200, Magic Gladiator at 220 and Dark Lord at 250.) On Webzen's official service the Crusader opened on the speed server first, then normal servers with the season update.

What weapon does the Crusader use?

A hammer in one hand and a paladin shield in the other — blessed by the light of Lugard. The shield is not cosmetic: the class plays as a durable front-line melee fighter, and the master tree even has a dedicated Hammer enhancement line.

What is the best Crusader build?

Strength first, Agility close behind, Vitality as the survival tax. The Season 21 gear tables describe the class as Strength-led with a serious Agility bill, which puts it firmly in the melee bracket. On our server every stat caps at 32,700, so the long-run answer is all three in that order, with the master tree carrying the real optimization.

Is the Crusader good for PvE or PvP?

Both, with different jobs. In PvE it sweeps packs with Holy Sweep and supports the party through Luguard's Protection — a damage class that brings a support layer. In PvP it is a short-range shield bully: close, sweep, Sacred Impact, and survive longer than the caster it cornered.

What is Luguard's Protection: Punishment?

The Crusader's signature skill: learned at level 50, it calls on Lugard's emblem to support the party while the Crusader fights — the "supports the party with Lugard's blessing" half of the class's official description, and the reason a party takes a Crusader over a second pure damage dealer.