*cross guard- doesn’t work with 2h spears?
*sword man c1-2 skills useful or useless?
*does this build lack too much defense?
*stat point distribution?
*cons - pros etc…
any advice?
It doesn’t.
C2 is a total garbage and gives almost nothing. Grab Peltasta c1 instead so you can swap weapons between 1h spear and 2h spear even if you said you want to use 2h spear as primary weapon.
Your “defensive capabilities” will be decided on your status distribution and armor of choice.
Grab more CON if you are going defensively (to tank in hard dungeons), and then DEX-STR (more DEX if you wanna PvP).
Grab more STR if you are going offensively, then DEX-CON (more DEX if you wanna PvP).
Grab Plate Armor for more HP and survivability against magic.
However, if you keep insisting to go Swordsman c2, at least :
-Grab Bash at lv 3 for knockdown attribute.
-Grab Pain Barrier at lv 10. This is the reason why you should bother to go c2 in the first place.
-No need to max out Concentrate because it scales badly at late game. Gung Ho is better.
For Hoplite, you will rarely use Long Stride. If you insist to keep it, then lv 1 is enough. Spend the rest of the points to Pierce instead.
For Doppelsoldner, I don’t think you will use Punish or Mordschlag very often especially since you have spammable Spear Throw and Dragoon’s skills.
For Dragoon, abandon Gae Bulg and max out the other skills.
thnx for the advice,
i changed a few things:
*what is better?
concentrate-bash-thrust at lvl:
4 > 0 > 1
0 > 4 > 1
1 > 3 > 1
5 > 0 > 0
0 > 0 > 5
*why abandon gae bulg?
is it not better to have it at least lvl 1?
Concentrate : 3 (Damage attribute, but I dont recommend to raise it)
Bash : 3 (Knockdown attribute)
Thrust : 1 (When you hit Hop c3, you will use Spear Throw, not this garbage)
Because if you are looking for damage, Gae Bulg has the lowest damage among all. The rest of the skills are multi hit skills.
Even if you take it at level 1, the attribute that provides bonus 2% this and 2% that doesn’t give much impact. You also lost your weapon temporarily after you use Gae Bulg, so it’s really risky in PvP. Same goes in PvE.