Im experimenting with a Peltaster/swordsman Tank build and it works out pretty fine until now.
The reason why comes below:
Circle Plan:
Swordman->Peltaster->Peltaster->Swordman->Peltaster->Swordman
Character Level: 116
Class level: 12 (currently Swordsman 2nd time)
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Skills:
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Gung Ho 10
Concentrate 10
Pain barrier 2 (planned for lvl 5)
Restrain 5
Rim Blow 10
Umbo Blow 10
Swash bluckling 5
High Guard 5
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Attributes (without equip, with some quest bonus though)
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40 Dex seem to be enough atm to hit everything,
33 Spr is great to have enough mana, but you still might need potions sometimes, and it gives you defense against magic damage.
Int is unecessary
124 Con, you are a tank get this as high as possible
14 Str
Skill upgrade levels:
Swordman:
Plate Mastery lvl 11 (this is a bit low, i totally forgot to max this, so just go for it)
Provoke lvl 10 (MAX)
Gung Ho lvl 25
Concentrate lvl 50 (MAX)
Restrain Slow lvl2 (Restrain is very useful in pvp and pve, try to max the skill and its upgrades)
Peltaster:
Weapon Swap lvl 1 (MAX)
Shield Mastery Block lvl 5 (MAX)
Shield Guard lvl 1 (MAX)
Guard Defense lvl 5 (should also be maxed, since you rely on your shield with this build)
Umbo Blow: Enhance lvl 30
Umbo Blow Add Knockdown lvl 2
Umbo Blow add Stun lvl 3
Rim Blow Enhance lvl 15
Swash Buckling lvl 5
Guardian Evasion lvl 3 (MAX)
High Guard Umbo Blow Speciality lvl 5 (MAX)
High Guard Rim Blow Speciality lvl 5 (MAX)
Why does this build without high strength work out?
I tryed to make the class completely rely on shield, active and passive skills, skillupgrades aswell.
I figured out combining high guard + blocking with the shield increases your block immensely which allows you to block most of all attacks, even boss attacks. To balance out the missing sword damage, i use a Highly upgraded combination of Gung ho and concentrate. If concentrate and gung ho is maxed they give high damage bonus. And to balance out the increased mana cost since your class heavily relies on using those skills 24/7 i gave it 30 SPR, which makes it also more tanky against magic attacks. And it works pretty damn nice.
If you really want to you can add 1 point to Guardian skill, if you upgrade it it can give some nice Evasion bonus, but it reduces your damage immensely, the build works fine without guardian.
The upgrades when you become 2nd time Peltaster increases your Rim blow and Umbo Blow damage by 250% when they are beeing used while high guard is active, and 20% each upgrade later on. They will be your main damage source and are also great to save your Party comrades if they get accidently attacked by mobs.
Dont forget to upgrade swash buckling for increased health.
Great Damage: to go into the Rim blow/umbo blow mechanics:
you can use each of them 2 times every 12 seconds, if maxed on lvl 15 they deal about 500 damage.
With upgrade on 5(you can go higher than five, with +20% each upgrade, the first upgrade gives 250%) they deal 1650 Damage.
So you can cast 4 times in 12 seconds, each blow dealing 1650 Damage. So you do about 6600 Damage in 12 Seconds or lets say about 550 DPS.
Now lets say you maxed concentrate and upgraded it so it deals +100 Damage. As i noticed Umbo blow sometimes deals up to 3 Hits with concentrate damage, and rim blow 1 hit, and , so lets add additional 800 concentrate damage for 2x umbo blow and 2 times Rim blow. 6600+800 = 7400, or 616 DPS.
The DPS may be still higher, since i didnt calculate how often you can hit with the sword in that 12 second timewindow, where each hit gets +100 Concentrate damage and Depending on gung bao more damage.
In Total I would estimate about 700-900 DPS, with higher upgrades this can increase nearly infinitely.(Note: This calculated DPS is with active high guard, as far as i figured out you can cast Rim and Umbo Blow each about 4-6 times until High Guard effect wears off. So Damage per Minute is going to be lower :P)
In short:
- Upgrade Concentrate as often as possible, but dont forget the other upgrades.
- Dont put any stats in STR
- Most important: USE YOUR SHIELD BLOCK ABILITY
- As 2nd Circle peltaster get High Guard and the Umbo/Rim Blow upgrades
- When High Guard is active, Spam Umbo/Rim Blow for +250% damage or more
- Always use concentrate and Gung bao for proper Damage
Last time updated November 14th, 2015
