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Squire 3 self-sustain solo grind build

Class and Rank Swordsman
#1

Solo farming in HG as a swordsman is really costly on potions, especially SP potions to the point where you might even spend more money on potions/repairs than you earn, so I have tried to think of a way to solve this.

I think the solution may lie in squire 3. Reasons are:

  • Foods at max level increase HP/SP regeneration by a lot, to the point that spamming low rank skills on cooldown such as Skyliner might not even require potions anymore.
  • Base camp - convenient teleport, saves a lot of time in long grinding sessions.
  • Repair - cheap and on-demand.
  • Weapon maintenance - boosts your attack for more efficient grinding.

Now the problem is that squire 3 will take up ranks 5-7 of your build and you will sacrifice a lot of DPS from these ranks. Fortunately, after the revamp, skills from low rank classes like double slash and Skyliner actually do enough damage to kill things now. They are also very SP efficient as low rank skills. Squire themselves also have the skill Deadly Combo at circle 3 which is a decent slash skill with low cooldown and good AOE attack ratio. However, to use this skill requires you to equip a 1H sword, which has lower attack than a 2H sword and this forces you into a sword + shield setup unless you want to ignore Deadly Combo altogether.

This brings us to explore some possible builds:

  1. Sword 3 > Barb 1 > Squire 3 > Shinobi - good burst build for taking down mini bosses but poor sustained DPS. Barb’s cleave can also boost Deadly Combo to produce decent damage.

  2. Sword 1 > Highlander 3 > Squire 3 > Shinobi - good burst and better sustain with Skyliner 10, but no pain barrier 3 and no cleave for Skyliner/Deadly Combo.

  3. Sword 1 > Highlander 2 > Barb 1 > Squire 3 > Shinobi (or Doppel 1) - weaker Skyliner but has cleave.

  4. Sword 1 > Pelt 3 > Squire 3 > Murmillo - lower sustained DPS but good burst from Murmillo skills + Umbro Thrust. No cleave to boost Deadly Combo though.

I didn’t include spear builds because they don’t have much synergy with Deadly Combo and squire 3 unfortunately. Dragoon and Hoplite dps is weak too and Lancer requires mounting/dismounting all the time.

This might be a decent way to grind for 315 purple gear with an upgraded 315 blue weapon if you can’t get yourself into a cleric party. This can even extend to farming for mats for 315 orange weapons.

#2

just don’t grind as squire

level it to r7 class lv5

make camp/open shop then switch char

end of squire story

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#3

depends on what you want? Meta slave or roleplay. There are people who enjoy playing unorthodox classes. There is a reason IMC gave Squrec3 a dps skill. But I bet people like you are just going to be like “what for? the dps is lower, bla bla bla”

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#4

I totally agree. I even main a Corsair 3 Fencer 1 because I think a pirate should have a rapier or cutlass together with a pistol.

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#5

it isn’t about dps nor meta thing

every char have its own use

imc give squire atk skill just becoz they want every char can solo quest/lvl up

not making squire to be a godly solo grind char

when u grinding, u want to pull a lot of mob and kill them fastest as u can

do squire have capacity to do it?

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#6

Isn’t that my point. Not everyone wants to play a godly meta build.