Its really personal preference they both work fine.
Sword2 gives restrain which is great while soloing and extra time on pain barrier. Getting knocked down while using cyclone or your other skills is really annoying but for endgame content you might have Meltis so pb5 would be fine. Highlander gives you 50% crit attack and Catar Stroke.
I currently have a sword3 hl1 barb1 doppel3
Do not redirect people on a glitch-based build.
It works for the moment, but who knows at which patch IMC will correct this (more likely next one, since itās been months on kTOS), making this type of build useless until they rework STR.
I know how disappointed Iāll be since my main char is a full str doppel.[quote=āSpaghetti, post:13, topic:348020ā]
Whatever p atk you donāt get from going the Dex route is easily made up with level 2 or 3 trans and a level 6 red gem here and there. Even moreso if you use sub weapon as that is 185 p atk.
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Letās not forget the huge base damage of R8 skills, increasing even further the damage output with crits, rendering in str being completely useless the more you progress.
Hmmmmm good to know.
So its just another bug -_-
Tree of Bugs
I seeā¦ Thanks again.
Thanks to you all! I deeply hope that playing with this char i manage to fall in love again with the game. THe last weeks were a pain 
lol, this is DoV bug, infinity stacks
go for SW2 - ?? because restrain make a world difference in Rank 8 content.
I am playing sw1-hl3-barb1-doppel3 (not my main)
And i do regret not going sw2-barb3 at this moment.
But hey, at least i got a smexy costume going on for me, which is niceā¦
I know a guy who plays sw2-barb3-doppel3 he is in love with it. Restrain makes SO MUCH difference.
Has anyone tried sw3-hl1-barb1-doppels?
i heard after the defense system rework.
highlander would be better because of skull swing.
supposedly will go from constants right now to percent scale
so monsters will have def ratio
instead of an arbitrary number
and skull swing reduces all enemies defense to 0.
str is retard
many guide is outdate
some ppl rage bcoz update and he doesnāt get free stat reset
Oh! Do you have any link about that? Just to get more precise information about it before restarting (again, coz i got the sw2 path ._.).
Btw, ty all, guys. Iām not rushing for it or anything, so iām pretty ok with reādoing it. And you are helping a lot!