I’m currently making a fencer and on sw3>pelt1 now, I feel like taking hoplite over corsair since im purely pve player, but I’m not sure if it’s worth it.
Do fencer’s skills have downtime where i need to fill in with stabbing and pierce?
You won’t be able to use finestra the only good hoplite skill besides Spear throw because of the required stance.
Corsair is mainly taken because of the farming ease (pillage attribute), the possible use in pvp (hook) and dusk devil that could be use with a rapier and a dagger.
I experimented Hoplite as a fencer build filler and kinda regretted. But only because I value CC skills more than future-obsolete damage. Also, unless you’re thinking of not taking Attaque Composee for some weird reason, Fencer skill kit has no downtime.
What you could get that is as good as Corsair but more PVE like you want is barb1, which is kinda future proof because nothing there actually is bad (50%+ slash dmg and 50 crit rate+, 2overheat stun). Although I frankly hate the Barbarian theme in a Fencer build, this class is pretty good.
Another I would take, but this is actually a bad option, is Rodelero. Why? Because Montano is the perfect CC skill for Swordsman. Unlike the other ones like Bash, Wagon Wheel, etc it makes the enemy stay still near the place you hit it (heres a video of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET2Um6Tqn3k).
Exploding the mob to the other side of the map is pretty counter productive, even more to a Fencer, who specializes in low range skills. And not only that, it stuns and gives a slow afterwards. However, Rodelero forces you to use shields to make full use of the rank, which is a pain.
Go with Barb if you a want more things to use. The other two skills might even be buffed as CC skills (wishful thinking), which will make the Barb1 perfect.
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Barbarian sounds good, but is CC useful for general PVE? Since most if not all CC skills dont work on bosses
Unless you have a healer to help you, it helps stop some enemies that you either can’t dodge (because there will be a time when your evasion will stop to shine) and magic ones.
Boss killing is sufficient with Fencer3. Any more dmg classes are either not that good late game or just make your hotkeys confusing.
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Wow I’ve never seen it from this angle before, thanks, I guess I’ll stick with the meta for now, maybe i’ll change things up when we get the reset from the stat update! 
Stick to the meta or make fencer alts (what I’m gonna do). They’ll give out resets in the future anyway
it’s worth
prep+stabbing all the way
many ppl underestimate hop c1 stabbing and just look at finestra
stabbing do 14+1 hits
it’s 2x compare sept etoiles (but sept is faster)
as rank3 skill, attribute are cheap as hell
forget about barb, slash attack is nothing for fencer c3
just stick with pierce attack