That video… Not to be mean or anything towards Bong, I love that he does these videos… But Bong is not the best person to use as reference for what classes can do.
For one he doesn’t even have Moulinet for a Clone+Crown+Skull Swing+Moulinet combo. That is huge, and I mean HUGE burst chunk that they are missing out on. Another burst they are missing is the Clone+Crosscut+Double Slash, another hefty burst.
Anyways on to you.
This will be good when fighting lots of enemies back to back. It’s not the best when fighting a boss though. You have plenty of skills to stun, which you can then combo into a bleed with thrust to get bonus damage on double slash. Lots of tankiness, etc…
If you are going this route, I suggest you don’t take pelt. I have this right now (no squire). It is currently rank 7, Sword 2-High3-Pelt1-Shinobi, and am planning to take it too sword 3 for rank 8. I constantly get #1 on damage in merc missions when not up against agny necklace mages. When the combat changes come I will be removing pelt and going with barb 1 for slash debuff and stun.
Pelt is usefull for gathering enemies, but that is more quality of life than anything.
Your math is a bit confusing as there is no telling of what the certain numbers represent. For example:
I’m assuming the x5 in that is from clones? Yet for all the other equations that work with clones I don’t see this step repeated. Is this new or old combat formula calculations?
More info please.