Tree of Savior Forum

Highlander Questions

Class and Rank Swordsman
#1

Short and Simple:
SkyLiner "Inflicts additional damage on enemies affected by [Bleeding]."
Does this act as a damage doubler, extra hits or?

Cross cut inflicts bleeding, is this a raw 100% of physical attack per second, is it under some kind of modifying and/or is it effected by defence.

Vertical slash:
"Deals additional damage on medium and large-type enemies according to how much their defense has been decreased by [Skull Swing]. An additional bonus damage will be applied depending on the amount of harmful effect that have been applied to the enemy."
Is it a flat, this defence has been lost so you do this much extra damage, or??? (I don’t know)
Also, how is the additional damage bonus applied from status effects? Is it a flat damage buff or a % increase per status effect? (My build leads to a total of 7 debuffs and i’m kind of curious to whether or not this’ll become a decent bossing skill endgame.)

#2

+70% damage modifier

To be honest I’m not sure, but the bleed damage itself is pretty negligible at higher lvl content. The important thing for Cross Cut is using it for buffing up Skyliner damage.

Not sure, this is hard to tell because enemy’s loss of defense already affects the damage.

+30% damage modifier per debuff enemy has.

#3

Thanks and wow… Vertical slash is pretty op then.

Overheat, relatively low cooldown. High damage % (That skill out damages any Dragoon skill) and +30% per debuff.

Oh and from what i’ve seen the extra damage from bleed is the same damage you do with a basic attack.
100% + Modifiers like elemental attack, blessing etc. If that’s also effected by skills like serpentine and gae bulg it’ll stack up.

Not 100% sure on what I want to do now.
Going Dragoon sounds like a God-like build. Assuming you can pull the combo off in 10 seconds:
Gae Bulg > Serpentine > Cross Cut > Skull Swing > Vertical Slash sounds OP
+150% damage from first 2, then a another 120% damage due to 4 debuffs on a… Crap misread the skill. Thought it was 2 hits.
(Obviously due to thinking it was a higher % damage skill than any dragoon skill.)
Might swap out then and do Highlander Fencer. (I’m enjoying the highlander skills.) Only issue then is the filler class. Corsair maybe?

#4

Highlander 3 is among the strongest (if not the strongest) class you can pick at lower ranks if you don’t consider synergies with higher ranks.

I believe Highlander 3 Barb 1 Doppel 3 is the cookie cutter build for doppels atm. It’s very hard for any other swordman build to compete with that build in terms of raw dps.

Dragoons have considerably less dps with their skills alone so it’s very important to them to pick Highlander or something with a lot of dps at lower ranks to combo with Serpentine’s debuff and make up for their dps loss.

Highlander -> Fencer is also very common in high DEX or average DEX builds. You get lots of 5 overheat 10 sec cooldown skills that improve animation with atk speed (Skyliner, Flanconnade, Atk Composee) so it makes the ultimate spammer build. Gotta be careful not to max all those skills because SP cost is pretty high though.