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My thought on Circle 3 Highlander.(All dex highlander)

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#1

My thought on Circle 3 Highlander. Note that I am playing all dex highlander. My current level is 84.

Circle 1

1st - Wagon Wheel - it is good because it can stun your enemy but the damage is very far from fantastic. Only 1 level in this skill for me.
2nd - Cartar Stroke - most OP skill for the first 40 level but at level 15 casting time become very very long. Anyway, it can release at lower charge and still have an impressive effect. I think it is very good against Elite monster in dungeon which give a lot of xp and it is still very good against bosses. It is really good and deserve 10-15 level.
3rd - Crown - Sorry I dont even know how to make this skill useful. Maybe it will be good against enemy with high magic damage later in game?
4th - Crossguard - I think it is better to spend my time spamming skill. I usually fight against many monster so it is not useful at all.

Circle 2

1st - Moulinet - only 1 charge with 35 seconds cooldown - fantastic damage but cooldown is pretty long. There is also a attribute to make this skill get 50 % more critical chance. It is very good skill. Only 1 level and it can slaughter any non-elite non-boss monsters in one combo.
2nd - Cross Cut - this skill has 2 charge with about 28 seconds cooldown. This skill has misleading description. This skill apply bleeding. It does not do more damage on bleeding target. This skill has good initial damage and bleeding is very strong. It lasts damage over time for about 8 seconds and damage for each tick is higher than you basic attack ! (Anyway, many minions are not affected by bleeding.)
3rd - Sky Liner - this skill do more damage to bleeding target. Without bleeding this skill do mediocre damage but it hit like a truck against bleeding target.

Circle 3

1st Skull Swing - this skill apply armor break status for 15 seconds which reduce target armor to “0”. It is very strong but the damage is not very good compare to Circle 2 skill so I think only 1 point of this skill is enough because debuff is the same for every levels.
2nd Vertical Slash - I do not know if this skill is bugged or it is just terrible. It does very very low damage. Not worth a single point imo.

This is my build for C3 Highlander.

1 Wagon Wheel
15 Cartar Stroke
0 Crown
0 Crossguard
8 Moulinet
10 Cross Cut
10 Skyliner
1 Skull Swing
0 Vertical Slash

Or maybe max out skull swing and vertical slash and leave cartar stroke at 5.

Problem there is no class that support combat capability to select at rank 5. Only choice is Squire that can improve my damage a bit more.

#2

Cartar doesn’t deserve 10-15 level, even at 5 many bosses will be able to hit you if you try to get a full charge off. Even if you have 15 points in it if you only charge to 5 you’ll be doing the same damage as someone who put 5 points in it.

Crown is Strike type, which is useful for those plate-type enemies that take 75% damage of everything else you do…when Cartar (also Strike) is down…yeah it’s worthless for anyone going more than one circle into Highlander since you can save the points for those higher skills.

Are you aware that Cross Cut’s initial damage is about the same as non-bleed Sky Liner? Funny how you say one have ‘good initial damage’ but the other ‘mediocre damage’

Skull Swing - u sure it’s 15s? Mine (lv 5) shows 30s.

Vertical Slash get extra damage equal to defense loss from Skull Swing, AND about 10% more damage for each debuff on target.
It still loses to Sky Liner on bleeding target, but pretty much nothing in the game is immune to Skull Swing and VSlash have a pretty fast animation.

Basically both C3 skills really shine on world boss where there’s more debuff from other people and Skull Swing’s reduction really help kill the boss faster.

I went Squire at rank 5…personally I’d say going for Barb 1 would’ve been better (alternatively Highlander 2 Barb 2)

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#3

What do you think about

sword > highland x 3 > Squire

Compare to

Sword > highlander > Barb x 3

I have tried Barb 1 and I do not like it so I start new character and go Circle 3 highlander.

#4

Barb rank 2 have the best skill: Frenzy, warcry, seism.
I play sword > High > Barb x2 with only 5 points spent on Barb 1

My main skills for grind is: Catar stroke, stomping kick (strike AOE), Seism (slash AOE), Gung ho and Concentrate
My cycle for boss is: Concentrate, Gung Ho, Frenzy (10), Warcry, Catar x 2, seism x2, stomping kick
My opinion is highlander is cool for catar and wagon. other Highlander skills are not as good as Barb ones.

my build here : http://www.tosbase.com/tools/skill-simulator/build/pfhrbs8d86/