SW2 is good build now SW3 is a waste IMO and take a pelt instead.
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I am fine with my build now. Coz gears work in tbl now. So brandish. Shieleded catagoon ftw
Having 36% restrain is all I need. I am using seedmia gem btw. So what is superior now 10 gunho or concentrate? Coz I got 5 concen 10 gunho now.
No gunho? Hmm. Lvl 5 gunho is a waste anyway. Bash has kd.
Played a bit just now. Some thoughts:
Restrain is actually good now at lv5. I stun a lot even with auto attacks. It almost feels like a stun lock and i see they get slowed as well.
Concentrate buff is cool. My conc gives me 172+ at lv140,roughly. It is also always up.
Guardian i only use it when i need it now even tho its only at lv1. U can feel the atk reduce.
U can feed companion in mission now. Very cool.
Cata still fun.
Am I the only one here who’s taking Gung Ho over Concentrate? Call me crazy or noob, but there’s a good reason why.
The new Concentrate didn’t seem to change things much for me.
I use Gung Ho situationally in PVP though, especially in TBL, as that extra pDef is more valuable than having more damage (we don’t have 1HKOs anyways). Concentrate might be more useful in these situations. If there are no p.Atk classes in the opposing team (e.g. all wiz/cleric), Gung Ho’s good.
PVE, Gung Ho’s just good all-around unless you need that extra pDef to handle mobs a number of levels above you.
It is different when u dont have pelt so u dont have access to guardian. U can only have either guardian or gungho up at a time. I still need guardian cuz it lets me evade like 80% and gungho still sucks…
Only time i dont have guardian up is if i can 1hko or if i already reach eva cap w/o it.
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Yeah, it doesn’t really synergize with pelt so that’s an exception. Thanks for the insight.
Seriously though I really dont use guardian ever even I have it at level 5… I really hate when my damage is reduced… I might use it more often if it is emergency survival mode.like 5 vs 1 lol
I wouldn’t use it either if it was level 5 lol. That would reduce way too much damage.
Level 1 is actually the best for DPS builds.
60% stun is a lot better than 30%, and lvl 15 concentrate is pretty strong.
That ofc if you want to pvp, if you want to pve i guess sword 2 is fine
but if you think you gonna win duels by having less dps, less stun chance, less concentrate damage and 1 less really good damage skill (double slash is really good)
then go ahead
concentrate lvl 15 gives me +300, (which is greaat )
You win duels with the evasion and block against other physical.
Against STR builds I’m pretty sure I can pull at least 80% evasion rate. Against dex builds I would still be able to block almost every hit.
Obv those are not effective against wiz/cleric though.
thats a big lie
lvl 15 concentrate can be uptimed because of the number of hits
and its much better than gung ho.
(unless they change gung ho to %ofc) in which case skill resets are available
Yeah stop competing with other and focus on the real enemies…
But still I still prefer 1900 block or 400 passive block. 25% hp .taunt and emergency 17% defence increase. Rather than
30% stun . 100 patk concen. 5 sec barrier. Another atk skill?
Both are good. And equally needed…though
I think they are supposed to be equally good. Sw3 and pelt I mean. Just IMC can’t really balance. So everyone picked pelt instead of Sw3 and thats why pelt got nerfed.
if people all choose sw3 now either sw3 will be nerfed or pelt will be buffed.
Haha they dont know the reason why most go pelt 1 is because they can atleast be accepted in parties when they reach 220 level above …lel as in lel imc
It is better but 40% (with sedmia) is almost the same as SW3 before and by own experience 40% is already more than enough for stun locking. You gain a lot from pelt instead of SW3. Thats 18% evasion, Block and swash buckling compared to additional 20% in restrain and a little bit of improvement on concentrate and pain barrier. You can wall physical with very high evasion while using block and gets to the party very fast.
you don’t get 18% evasion anymore from guardian.
Block just became worse with block penetration from str, it’s a fact that the best pvp swordies are still sword 3 cata 3
i have beaten enough sw 2 peltastas in team battle league to know that.
When your goal is to PVP you don’t care about getting into parties fast.
Guardian now just reduces your attack damage by PERCENTS
yea amazing skill
EDIT: my corretion, you still get 18% evasion from guardian, but it still reduces your attack by 14% at lvl 1 and 28% at lvl 5, which is very bad.
besides, it isn’t hard to take a superior bandit glove and +10 it and stack 2 accuracy gems.
swordsman 3 is still better for pure pvp.
if you want to pve go ahead and go peltasta, you just won’t be better at pvp.
The problem is this build got IMC’d. Which could happen to any build.
It got nerfed twice, before that it was very good.
If you think SW3 is better than SW2/pelt then thats your opinion the fact is SW2 gets the strength of SW3 from before. Saying SW2 sucks at PVP is like saying SW3 before the patch sucks too. For the record all of pelt1 skills are usable at PVP even swash for additional HP with the exception of course on blows something.