Hi fellow Swordman, as the tittle say i need some advice about Rodelero, currently im going to reroll my swordy (sword c2,hopc3, dopple c1) because the lack of pelta = no people wanting to party with me, despite that im doing pretty fine solo with stats like(7 str 3 con 2 dex dealing plenty of dmg(cyclone crit for 2,5 per hit at lvl 1 and is almost all the time with finestra) and over 17,2k of hp just being 177, but magic recks me and no party means no exp atm, i was planning to go dragoon but before i go further i think it would be much wiser to reroll instead of ending with a broken character and the other swordy that i kind of like is the Rodelero (if not 2hspearmen then sword&shield).
the build that i wanna try is the next one
my focus will be tanking but i want to level too and do duels don’t know if i want the bonus from guardian (evasion) or to pick gung ho(raw physical dmg) and to be honest i really don’t know anything about stat allocations on rodeleros or the proportion to use.
That’s pretty sad how people are on this game all wanting a sword with peltasta and nothing else or something. I never pick the guy i play with for their classes except one cleric to have some heal but that’s all.
it really is but well at least i kind of enjoy tanking too, the sad part is that swordman doesn’t even work as a off-tank. (you can all say how much you hit for but it isn’t consant at least for hoplite i can burst for a lot of dmg but need to wait around 20 second to re-use pierce-satb combo).
but getting back on topic anyone can reccomend what i need to change or what stats are the best overall for a pve/pvp situation?.
You wouldn’t want to max Slithering. Leave it at level 1. The skill is used only to tank magic damage and to apply +100% Strike damage debuff. You will never use it as a damaging skill with its poor animation and long cooldown with 1 overheat.
And I’m personally not a fan of Babarian Rodelero since if you go Rodelero C3 you will end up relying so much on Strike type damage from Slithering + High Kick combo (+200% Strike damage for 10 secs). Babarian just don’t provide good Strike type attacks besides Helm Shopper and You won’t benefit much from Frenzy since you won’t auto attack that much once reachinh Rod C3. You will become a burst off tank.
I suggest grabbing Peltasta C2 for Swashbackling lv 10 and more Umbo Blow, or go Hoplite to get Finestra which benefits Shield using with that Block bonus.
Or end up with Fencer which allows various Pierce attacks, the most commonly useful melee attack type, and provides some tanking ability (evasion bonuses) plus Fencer allows you to use Rapier and Shield.
Haha, this is actually the exact build I was going with, but I was considering a different R7 that would give me more damage than Rodelero C3. Unfortunately we have to kind of face the fact that C3 is kind shabby compared to Dopple, Drag or Fencer, as Vayu mentioned.
Definitely don’t fret at people who put down Barbarian though, even pre-KTOS buffs their damage output per skill cycle is the highest of all the pre-rank 4 red circles. It has obscene burst, a mini-finestra, and 2/3 of the bread and butter skills have a stun (which makes cleave do more damage too).
Once the barb buffs hit (if and when), you’ll be glad you tuff’d it out as a Barb. Three overheat per skill? Lowered CDs? Jesus christ we’ll be strong.
It’s tough pick for me but I’ll probably be doing Dopple for my Rank 7. I was thinking honestly of Dragoon a few days ago, but Cyclone is just too hard to pass up considering the group disorientation potential Rodelero has.
Somethin’ like this…
lol rerolling?
1st of all, it is Early Access. There are much to be changed.
2nd it is only out for less than a month or may be almost just a month.
People nowadays are just impatient. It is sad, but it is truth.
If we would get the same Barb+Rode buffs as kToS did though… by looking at things here I don’t think imc plans to balance the 2 servers in the same direction.
I’m just hoping IMC has a little bit of common sense, and that we get buffs that are obviously needed and justified in both versions…
I hope…
well i had already started with my toon (currently rodec1) and i did some changes to my old build.
didn’t add bash because is imo worthless in a rode/pelta because has a crappy dmge and rode/pelta has already a knockback in a lot of their skills plus no bash is more concentrate and gung ho, leave umbo thrust in lvl1 for increase duration in guardian (lazyness of buffing every 60 seconds, get tiresome after a hour or two). keeping the barb seims is too good to miss helm chopper is a nice stun a cleave is a mini finestra, warcry is a nice debuff that create more aggro and frenzt works nice in longer battles aka boss, opted for shield bash 10 instead of montano 15, as i alreadt have slash skils plus the stun duration don’t increase still do a nice dmg with 2 overheats, shield bash is a strike dmg and rode do almost 200% increased strike dmge (high kick+slit) if the update is in his way i find that this build will do fine in pve and pvp(they incrase and change the dmg of shooting star to strike and increased the dmge of shield bash, all the other skills will be only for cc and didnt know what exactly is unbalance soo ni shield push because the defense is pretty linear in this game.
hi again, i’m rank 6 atm with this build
i was mind set to reach rodelero c3… but now i’m not so sure… the only
good skill is high kick with no overheat and a long CD plus more
montano and smash+ shield bash(my main strike dmg source). then i don’t know if keep going the rodelero path or picking fencer for evasion+pierce
damage… my stats are heavily invested in STR+Con with 60 of DEX … soo
what do you think guys?, any advice could be helpul.
PD: i don’t have any trouble tanking nor killing mobs atm kind of barb
skills do more than enaugh damage and with the stun control that i got i
can reset almost all my cds plus slithering have save me many times so
avoid the “reroll” comment.