Hello, I’m a soon-to-be-fencer who’s almost reaching his 100s. I’ve been discouraged to play this class numerous of times already, telling me that tanks are pretty much unnecessary and that sword-dps are trash tier end-game. I mean yeah swordies are meant to be tankers but I thought there are DPS circles that would sacrifice defense just for damaging yet they’re pretty much minuscule compared to other dps classes. I already put a lot of time in my swordies and I don’t feel like rerolling to another class just to meet up with the meta. Is there anyone who can assure that swordies are still necessary in this game?
swordsman is necessary to make guild LOL
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they are wanted late game if you got peltasta in your ranks.
A bit, because monsters have terribly high HP and only a few swordsman classes have good stationary dps or anything similar (like Cyclone and Rush)
Doppel does the job if you really want to do damage, at the cost of defense. But still you need that pain barrier up to compete with other dps classes.
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I think if you want a fighting tanker… you better find a class that has huge damage per skills… and do a CON SPR build… that way you are a tanker and a hitter… pure skill no auto attack lol
Swordies are bad, don’t make a swordie if you are not ok with suffering. And Fencers SUFFER HARD.
This is a Tree of Masochism, after all…
I honestly not sure why people say those things. Peltasta is needed. Swash buckling alone even at level 5 is a godsent.
With that you can level anything swordie to 280. As long as you have 70+ con and swashbuckling
Guess I might as well reroll to another class; maybe someday I can go back to my swordie when they get balanced. 
Thank you all for the responses
ktos has a 30% extra damage gain from str points to try and fix the issue , thats how bad swordsman are atm
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fencer? its the low durability life!
ptsd triggered pls no