Hi, my current swordsman build is barb-rodel-murm. I feel like the skills from rodel are weak and slow (except shooting star, which is quite good imo). I want a dps build, I chose rodel because I thought it provides additional damage to strike skills.
Is rodel more of a defensive/tank class? What should I switch it into if I want more dps-oriented build?
Rodelero has always been a bit subpar in PVE environment. It’s not completely garbage but will get outclassed by almost everything.
But it’s a pretty good PvP class through multiple disables, CC and added resistances
Rodelero is doing better than before for sure, but they lack the synergy they used to have.
I personally went rode/nak/barb, and it definitely deals some damage but there’s some spells in rode that still feel clunky, like targe smash, but it does quite some damage with a good AAR on shocked enemies.
You still get access to a %Pdef reduce with 3 OH and good damage on it, but they lack any very reliable spell to deal constant damage, there’s only shooting star that does this job well.
They’re kinda like murmillos, only one multi-hit spell and everything else is a high%, single hit spell that deals quite the damage.
one of my fave skills Targe smash doesn’t have that oomph anymore =/ even with shock debuff
Actually, with Murmillo’s Cassis Crista 50% bonus and Barbarian buffs, most of Rodelero’s skills do decent damage, but i think the biggest issue is the lack of def ignoring, as IMC was quite timid in featuring them. Shield Bash doesn’t do that much dmg in end game content for it’s 30 seconds CD, even with it’s double damage on plate armor and Shield Push’s 15% def reduction is just too little as a single target for PvE and should have at least an attribute to change the Unbalance status to something else, as it’s not useful on mobs.
The class has some double damage features that are quite nice, but because of how defense works, your damage goes down significantly as you progress in the game. Also, i wouldn’t play Rodelero with anything other than Murm/Barb, because ofc the damage would go down even further.
Hm… I don’t know what to switch rodelero into then… I was thinking highlander, but I already have a highland-barb-doppel, HL-barb-murm may just be a weaker version of it?
I might as well turn murm into a tank and switch barb into pelt and keep rodelero? Is pelt-rodel-murm the tankiest swordsman build?
Rod Synergizes with Hacka really well, if Hacka was good.
Rod gives you Strike Debuff which gives extra damage to Infinite Assault and Calvary Charge.
While Storm Bolt boosts Montano, which does a nice amount of damage.
They kind of go hand in hand, just…Synergy sucks 