Word if not playing
Chronomancer, Ele 3, Plague Doctor, SR.
Uninstall the game and never come back. Pels can stay for grinding then once everyone hits 280 you can uninstall too and get the ■■■■ out.
You’re all suboptimal freeloaders.
/sarcasm.
yeah. planning your build and being optimal and useful is boring. go enjoy the game and take 1 circle of every class. and put all points to spr. you’ll enjoy it. enjoying like a useless retard is the meta anyway
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You’re gonna have fun in PvP. And pain while grinding. If you can handle that, then best of luck.
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Well I do like some… wait this is not that kind of forum! 
To each their own, I would take more risks with my builds if I had more time to play.
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Yea pretty much fine. Got a LOT stronger after advancing to cataphract. I’m loving all the new cata skills especially trot and earthwave, but I also found uses for steed charge and impale. The mount stat bonuses really help with my HP and evasion as well so that’s always good. In general, cata rox!
Only problem is since my token ran out, I’m levelling pretty slow. I’m like lv83 right now and fighting mobs 20 levels higher than me again as I’m doing Orsha story quests.
Gotta quit fighting this boss, cuz he does too much damage and I barely do any damage to him (20 levels higher than me :()
I guess I can try coming back with aspersion and blessing buffs.
Welp ■■■■ with sacrament, blessing, and aspersion I went from doing 1 damage to 500 damage per hit lol xD EZ’d him.
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To be very honest, I’m not ruling anything out. Even though I have chosen what I consider to be be my favorite build within swordsman right now, anything could change…and it does seem like big changes are coming…
And as you know, no option to respec so can only reroll. But it seems like this second time around is a lot easier than the first and the rerolling process seems to be a lot of fun.
I love my cata right now though!
Hello ToS Community.
Let me tell you about my experience as a Rank/Circle 3 Cataphract. I will discuss my build/stats/skills and reasoning.
Pure PVP Catagoon
Lv186 Cataphract
Rank/Circle 3 Swordsman
Rank/Circle 3 Cataphract
My adventure started out as a swordman. It was really tough. All I could do was AUTO ATTACK. I literally did not have 1 action skill to fight until I reach Rank 4 Cataphract Circle 1. All I had was skills that buff up my auto attack. ie Gungho/Concentrate. I spent early days just auto attacking until I finally got my first move, Earth Wave.
So lets begin…
Swordman Circle 1.
5 Points Gung ho.
5 Points Concentrate
5 Points Pain Barrier
Swordman Circle 2
10 Points Gung ho
10 Points Concentrate
5 Points Pain Barrier
5 Points Restrain
Swordman Circle 3
15 Points Gung ho
15 Points Concentrate
5 Points Pain Barrier
10 Points Restrain
Reasoning: Upgrade your Green Buffs over your Red Action moves because Buffs will matter more later in game. For the particular build I am building. There is no need for any other skills other than your BUFFS. Why not Pain Barrier? 10 Points over Restrain? Pain Barrier is nice, however with Cataphract. Your mobility will allow you not be hit. Quick and Agile. 10 Points into Restrain provides 40% chance to stun on hit while applying slow. Restrain works with your other skills. Not just AUTO ATTACKS. Pretty straight and simple swordman build. You just want to get the most of your Buffs for your later ranks.
This is the reason, hoplite and peltasta was not picked up. It is not necessary and you do more damage than them even when hoplite uses FINESTRO, but that requires your stat distribution. (Will cover later)
Cataphract Circle 1
5 Points Trot
5 Points Earthwave
4 Point Impaler
1 Points Steed Charge
Cataphract Circle 2
10 Points Trot
10 Points Earthwave
4 Points Impaler
1 Points Steed Charge
5 Points Doomspike
Cataphract 3
15 Points Trot
15 Points Earth Wave
4 Points Impaler
1 Points Steed Charge
5 Points Doomspike
5 Points Rush
Reasoning: Lvl 15 Trot = 50 sec cooldown / 50 second duration of move speed i believe 59. pretty damn fast. Lvl 15 Earth Wave for AOE. Short cooldown. 4 Points into impaler because not a lot of people know, but impaler increases its timer of the person impaled on stick. You get to hold them up longer. 1 point steed charge just for a dash move. Its quick for knocking people down. 5 Lvl5 doomspike because we want Lvl 5 Rush. All of your cataphract damage moves CAN CC lock someone or knock them down. It also works well with 40% chance with restrain.
It is also easier to max attribute for your swordman class as you do not need to increase your damage attribute because you chose the passive buffs skills. So lvl 50 concentrate, gungho is easily max.
I also have lvl 50 cloth mastery and am DEX BUILD. So I am aiming 100 Str, 100 CON and ALL DEX. Because of bonus. I stopped at 100 str. You get a bonus of like +16 stat points toward str for ranking up.
Why did I go DEX? Dex is required because for the lack of HOPLITE you didnt pick up. Finestro was not picked so you need DEX. Dex is great because not only does it give critical rate, but evasion. YES. Evasion is good. You still do great damage going this build. You can tank bosses, dodge their skills and the cloth mastery also helps increase your magic defense. Though if you do get hit, its not too much damage unless the mob is several levels higher than you. Also with cloth mastery, you can get more SP! Being a Cataphract 3. You would understand that RUSH is a SP killer. Nothing like more SP. You do not need the defense because the ability to dodge is great. You can survive magic attacks that normally kill higher lvls at higher grinding areas.
Now lets talk about the mount and why velhieder is better than hoglan for my build. Hoglan may be better if you are doing something else.
With my mount Vel, he gives bonus HP, Evasion and Defense I believe. Why is it great? It grants more Evasion which compliments my Dex build. HP well. HP is always needed and as for defense. It just helps boost my survivability. Not only that, as I know of right now. You can dump as much silver into your pet companion to boost them up. What does that mean? It means you get a stat boost as well because of the mounted stat boost. Technically, you can be the strongest player because all you need is to dump silver into your companion for more increase stats which other classes does not receive.
Anyway, that is all I have. I am in Orsha. I have beaten a lvl 220 Dragoon with my Lvl 186 Cataphract. You can come view the pvp fight as people always ask to see me do it. I might even post a video up of the pvp fight.
Well, Good luck Cataphracts players!!
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Never knew impaler increased duration with higher levels, I thought this was patched to 8 seconds for all levels? Anyway, go post the video man, I’m genuinely interested 
Thats a kTos change for battle league
Now with Concentrate buff a Sword3>Cata3 will shine even more lol.
Oh and restrain will change from 40% to 60% in level 10.
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If you’re at sw3 you should take conc 15 cuz concentrate is getting scaling buff soon.
But I’m only sw2 so can only go conc 10.
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that’s for arena only, i believe
price of Stun resistance card going to be skyrocket