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What type of party are you referring to? Grinding? Boss hunt? or Dungeon?
Squire is decent in grinding parties because of repair. Other than that, the job doesn’t bring anything else to a party. Refreshment table and campsite are a moot. Maybe you can use refreshment table for boss hunt but the buffs are not something that will make or break the party. Dungeon parties doesn’t really matter. Since you can get into dungeons via auto-matching, any build would work. However, Peltasta would make you more useful than other builds. But get use to people thinking you are ripping them off when you are in their party as a Squire. Even if you put up repair with the cost just covering your repair kit, people will still complain that you are overcharging them. Some people actually think that you should repair their gears for free just because you are in their party.
As for C3 Peltasta, I actually tried it and dislike the build. The only reason that people are considering C3 Peltasta is for max level of swash buckler. I can tell you by experience that max swash buckler is not needed and sometimes it is a burden on you and your party.
It will shine later at high lvl, when u need doing 5x daily kill 90 100k hp mobs, grinding at 3* maps.
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Actually it doesn’t. I have done those quests by myself and with a party. You will hardly ever have 30 mobs near you outside of few different maps. Even if there are, you do not want to have 30 mobs all aggro you at once by yourself or with your party. Unless your party’s dps can take down 30 mobs in a few seconds, (in which, if you do, more power to you and your party) you will end up killing everyone. And yes, you have block, but not your teammates, a couple of AoE from the monster’s attack can kill a person before they can get healed.
And dat angry kirito kid needed to rush in calling people losers just to say how he absolutely, totally, utterly doesn’t care.
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Im not sure what u’re talking about. What i mean is squire skill, not about tanking. Camping, repair. Well yeah, u can still do it without squire, but u can grind more efficient with squire
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Nevermind then, we are talking about two different things then.
Squire is quite useful, but we didn’t got very recognized on iCBT2.
On power grinding parties, I dare to say that Squire is a must!
About your build, I would change a few things:
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How can you support WITHOUT SWASH BUCKLING??? Since you’re going to Peltasta C3, pick Swash Buckling at lvl 15, and since you want to play a full support, I would suggest going full CON
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I would change Gung Ho for Bash for the knockdown(when you use High Guard, +20 dmg will be nothing), this will make you a better tanker for controlling the enemies position
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Armor Maintenance isn’t worth picking, I was a Squire on iCBT2 and NOBODY besides me got the armor buff (not even my parties) and the defense buff is pretty… minimal, 15 points for 15 pDef isn’t worth. Arrest will be a better option here
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Weapon Maintenance is a must, and the lvl 15 choice is perfect there ^~^
So, as a Squire I say that you will be pretty useful in a party, and also for you, but for a solo Squire, Peltasta 3 won’t be so worth.
If you really plan on being full support on your entire gameplay, I suggest going full CON and do some changes on your build, like this:
Or if you want to be a DPS / Support with a good solo playing, I suggest going 1 STR 2 CON and follow this build
TL;DR
The role of a Squire on parties is to buff the weapons (max Weapon Maintenance), repair broken items (no need to max out), cook delicious food and lockdown enemies with arrest.
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Talking about Earth Tower, Peltasta C3 is great if not must (C2 IS must). Also it will be much harder to keep aggro later on when your party would deal tons of damage, so it’s important to have maximum aggro from swashbuckling.
Squire provides Weapon Maintenance buff that scales pretty well with level (100 damage for 1h is pretty decent). Also 40 minutes max HP and SP buffs are useful as well. Of course those buffs aren’t anything special, but they don’t need to be recasted every minute.
And yeah, the only reason to pick squire is because he is idle. So it will work for it’s full potential even if all you are doing is staying here in block stance. Repair is also a usefull skill to have, because you won’t need to go to the town at all in between runs.
To protect your party from AoE when you pull lots of mobs at once you just need proper gear. Full plate gear grants you 9 AoE defense ratio. I doubt there are a lot of monsters with bigger AoE attack ratio then this.
And with PD Healing Factor you will have no problems staying alive.
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Thank you so much guys for the feedback, I didn’t have the opportunity to make a squire on CBT2 so that’s why my build mostly suck.
Every opinion is appreciated and help me shape my build and playstyle for the upcoming OBT, I want to thank you guys so much.
I’ll be focusing more on CON + Table & camp to be more useful since I can find grind parties with easy. I was worried I’ll need to focus more on solo grinding since I thought ppl wouldn’t party with me cause I thought squire wasn’t that useful.
Hope I see you guys in the future.
*PS: blocking @Nirimetus right now, ty for the pms teaching me how to.
Since many of you didn’t understand my build, not defending it or anything like that (I got it sucks kk) but I want to explain my thoughts behind it.
Q: Why not “Swash Buckling” ?
A: Since I wasn’t hoping to get many parties to grind and mostly grinding solo, I wasn’t going for a tank build since would take me forever to even get to squire.
Q: Why so many damaging Pelta skills?
A: First to help me grind, second to offer debuffs in dungeons, that’s why focusing so much on “Umbo Blow”(Can stun with attribute).
Q: What were your strategy behind it?
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- “Umbo Blow” for stuning providing CC for my party.
- “High Guard” to survive front line, helping my dps casters.
- “Arrest” lvl1 just to hold bosses.
- I was hoping to boost my party chances in dungeons being a set-up support squire, giving free +15 def, 16~80 damage depending the stars of my pt weapons, HP and SP with food, +over reparing their gears before the dungeon.
Swashbuckling skills are useful even for a solo grind. Some attacks have AOE effects and being able to group them up and Attacking more than one people at the same time helps. It’s also less time consuming than attacking every monster, walk towards a end of a stage and hoping that they all group up for an AOE attack. In addiiton, Swashbuckling gives you bonus HP.
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Thank you!
I was just explaining my thoughts tho.
If you were planning on grinding solo, follow the Peltasta - Highlander C2 build so you can have damage.
As @jaunice571 said, Swash is useful even for solo grinding, so you don’t need to run after mobs, they will come after you.
I got the idea of damage, and was nice. But your damage will be cut by half while High Guard is active.
Umbo blow -> OK
High Guard -> Ok… But without Swash Buckling, the mobs will run after the highest DPS of your party (Archers and Wizards), so you taunt them to make them focus you
Arrest -> Why only use it on bosses? If there is many mobs and you got the maximum provoke (more mobs won’t focus you anymore) they will run after your DPS, then here comes the Arrest, you can lockdown the mobs that aren’t focusing you.
As I said, isn’t worth spending 15 Skill Points to have +15 pDef (ok, you can say +45 if you buff Armor, Pants and Shoes), but why you want to buff their armor if all the mobs will be focusing you?
I understand you concern of taking ages to reach Squire (which is true focusing CON or going full CON), but if you want damage, go Peltasta-Highlander C2. That’s the price of playing a Tank, you will have a lower damage.
When the OBT comes out, I’m planning on going Hunter, if I manage to play at same time as you, we can party up and level together 
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Thank you mate, appreciate your time.
Sorry 
im a bit curious…
Why peltasta > highlanderc2 and not hoplite or barbarian ?
Because Skyliner have 0s CD and low SP cost, also has a bonus damage on bleeding targets (Crosscut deals bleeding). 
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I see.
But… butt… with barb you have more 2 stuns and insane strike damage, and with hoplite you can use spears 
and powerfull pierce skills.
and Finestra that increases block and crit chance