Whats the point of going highlander C3 ? I have never tested it and the database shows pretty low numbers for skills (tosbase shows the damage of the first hit ), so what are the strenghs of this class ?
thanks.
Avoid Vertical Slash. Very bad scaling (extremely low damage even if you put 5 points in it and invest in skill upgrades with silver).
Skull Swing - put 5 points in it. 1 point gives you 10 seconds Armor Debuff on enemy(s). 5 points gives you 30 seconds Armor Debuff on enemies. The CD is 40 seconds regardless of how many points you have in it …
You unlock more rankings for Cross Slash, Skyliner and Moult - definitely max those out.
Highlander C3 here.
The only additions are Vertical Slash and Skull Swing.
Like @acetatsujin said, Vertical Slash sucks, it might do some damage if a boss has like a million debuffs, but in the end its only one hit and its not on pair with other c3 skills out there.
Skull Swing is great but only maxed and will only be useful against bosses (higher defense) AND only shines if there’s plenty of melee in your party, because magic ignores defense anyways.
If you are not interested in any of those 2 skills or getting Skyliner, Crosscut and Moulinet to 10 (not so big of a difference), then maybe you should consider other circle options instead of Highlander C3, depending on your current path of course.
Right now ive chosen to keep going, but im aware that chosing Barbarian c3 instead of highlander c3 would had been a much better choice.
However if we had the zero cooldown skyliner that kTOS has… 
that would be another story.
In kTOS its actually the other way around, highlanders are more common than barbarians (hence why they buffed them recently, and thats the reason i think they wont be buffed further here in iTOS).
I went Highlander C3 for Skull Swing armor reduction, its kind of lackluster for general purpose but on Elite mobs and bosses it does wonders for physical DPS, like going from using a whole rotation on an elite to only using half of it.
There is also Skyliner 10 and Cross Cut 10, and more levels for Crown (huge reduction of magic damage mostly PvP focused), Moulinet imo needs 1. Overheat and 2. much lower CD, like 20 second. It would also be wonderful if not every boss was immune to bleed, it makes your DPS gutter tier without the bonus to Skyliner.
Going for Doppel 2, I wonder what IMC has planned to help the swordsman class, it seriously needs a rework.
Tree of Magic as some put it is true.
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