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Highlander 3 star feels... crappy

Class and Rank Swordsman
#21

I use this build recommended by @Autentist and I’m really enjoying it right now. It has a very strong damage to bosses. You don’t know how beautiful it is to combine Skull Swing and Spear Lunge. I use all strong spear skills (Stabbing, Dragon Tooth and Serpentine) during the 2 aplications of Spear Lunge in a “skull swinged” boss. After that, while spear’s skills are on cd, I use all skills from the Highlander tree before the Skull Swing debuff on boss ends. It is a pretty high initial burst and IF the boss is vunerable to bleeding, then things get real nasty! 3:)

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#22

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#23

bumpity for questions:

  1. does the bleed dmg from crosscut increase with skill lv? if so, by how much?

  2. is it a good idea to have cross guard lv10 or lv3 is enough?

  3. what should i max beside skyliner? can you provide a skill distribution?

please some HL master help me :smiley:

#24

Some people says its based on your STR, but some other skills says bleed are based on your PA. Crosscut lv1 or 10 do not affect bleed.

Cross guard increase more with STR. With our rank 8 being most DEX oriented, I really don’t know if you can make a produtive use of it even lv 3 or 10

Here my suggestion


With those 16 spare points, you can dump into crown, coss guard and vertical slash.
Crown is a good skill to dump 14 points.

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#25


skylinear and cartar are still holding their ground in R8 content and Skull swing make your DPS skyrocket with almost all that is above 278, vertical as a filler is good and with some clerics in your party can deal a lot of dmg.
crossguard is still good sometimes but hard to proc pre r8 content, since high dex is a must, crown still can reduce some dmg from magicians, but high or full str gain a lot more, because it reduce the dmg from magic attacks of bosses and monster to some measly 1.

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#26

What is the typical stat distribution of a high3>dop?

#27

sadly… all dex…

#28

can the skull swing debuff be kept up 100% of the time? it is hard to decide between h3 and b3 since each have their pros and cons. I don’t like that the barbarian buffs do not seem to be able to be kept up 100% of the time.

pouncing looks very fun but the h3 costume is amazing. is pouncing still bugged on bosses (it used to reset your damage or take you out of combat during boss fights).

#29

Skull Swing doesn’t have 100% uptime against bosses as it will only last 30 seconds on them at Lv 5, so you need a Pardoner with Lv 5+ Discerning Evil. On normal mobs, the debuff is permanent.

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#30

skill lv make the debuff last longer?

#31

For HL skull swing increases per level on bosses

For pelt3 umbo thrust no

#32

Thanks :smiley: do you have some informations about crosscut? i’m still not 100% sure if bleed dmg doesn’t increase with skill lv

#33

I have two different highlanders, one with lv10 cross cut(deleted), one with Lv1

so I can’t really compare for now, but I know it should scale with PA

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#34

I did this test with a skill reset long time ago.
Level 10 did about 750 dmg.
Level 1 did the same as above.

Leveling Crosscut will only bring more damage to the skill itself, not the bleed.

#35

  1. In a test I did a couple months ago it did increase but only by a flat amount that wasn’t very high it was like +20 per level or something? Most of your damage with it will come from p-atk any way.

  2. If you’re going to spam it to block all attacks then it might end up being expensive sp wise going lvl 10. If you’re going high dex then there is little reason to bother since crossguard block procs after evasion.

  3. Kinda depends on your stats, and your build I suppose.

Also was this your thread?

#36

can you elaborate on this?

#37

So evasion procs first. If you’re using cross guard but manage to evade it, it says dodge, not block. The only reason this is important is it means cross guard’s debuff doesn’t proc, which some people use cross guard for.

It’s funny that you are standing still, guarding and yet still evade.

#38

i wanted to post in the highlander main thread but i screw up and posted here by error

btw feels so wrong that evade come before block while using cross guard, kind of defeat its utility

#39

Do HL3>B1>Dopp for the best of both worlds. Everyone knows Barb attack skills except for Cleave and Pouncing are utter $#!+ anyway, just get cleave for slash debuff and you’re good to roll come Doppelsoeldner.

#40

So is barb3 really that crap in current content? does warcry and frenzy makes a big difference ? if i go hi3 , will i ever use any of skills at lvl 300+ ? im confused now becouse most ppl here picking barb3 for doppel , help me choose pls :slight_smile: