well fu ck them, we can make our own crappy rejected swordmans/non-healer-clerics groups… even if we take twice in kill something 
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Just nitpicking, but all Clerics have (or should have) the ability to heal, because they don’t really miss out on more important skills by taking 5 ranks of Heal in their base class circle. This is unlike swashbuckling, which is not baseline for Swordsmen and requires us to sacrifice a class circle to fulfill our only niche in party play.
Being the mobber/aggro magnet in the party also requires us to pay more attention to mob pathing and ability cues/AI patterns to effectively fulfill our party role, while Clerics only need a button press and a small bit of SP to heal.
yeah but they need at least cleric c2 to be considerer in a party, because just 5 tiles suxs
Starting from ~220 lvl and until the 280 (basically the end of the game for now) all you can do to lvl up is grind in 5 man party basically.
And those parties will look for “Taunt”. You just run around and taunt 3-4+ monsters to make grind efficient. Without taunt you can pretend to get in a party as “DPS” but I can guarantee you it will be low priority compared with wizards / archers.
If you have no friends to party with and overcome the common opinion about it, then you’ll have a hard time lvling up and getting in random grind parties.
That’s how IMC balanced it.
Just some update as I played a bit more TOS:
After grinding my way to lvl 100+ I finally realized Swash is simply too good not to have, and guardian + manual guards are just godsend. In fact, now I’m having a tough time seeing as to how anyone can justify not going pelt. Thanks for everyone’s input on this matter. Appreciate it a bunch!
Pain barrier is fantastic as well for the knockdown immunity. You can sit through any sort of tough attack for a full stabbing/pierce rotation. With provoke attribute you will not lose aggro to anything whatsoever. Had a cryomancer spam ice wall against tree boss in the mission dungeon and it literally died in 10 seconds and never turned around to interupt him.
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If you go highlander… you can do just as much block using a skill…
Swash is good, but highlander can make you deal -a bit- more damage with two handed swords.
Stills, yes I agree, peltasta’s skills are awesome
It’s incredibely useful for any swordsman, especially for a hoplite which is using a shield. A few extra levels of gung ho, concentrate (which all fall down like a brick and are barely worth a buff slot later in the game) are irrelevant. Higher level pain barrier is indeed useful but doesn’t compare to the utility you gain from manual blocking and swashbuckle.