Is this build viable? I am trying to put synergies between bleeding, and lunge slash bonuses, because highlander has some good slash skills, and it goes well with lunge, and bleeding of course for bossing. Any other good builds you have? I’m currently browsing for more viable dps-offtank builds for fencer.
This term gets thrown around a lot, but this isn’t like other MMOs. You are either a tank, or you’re DPS. There is no real ‘off-tank’ here. That’s part of what makes Swordsman DPS characters less desirable to a lot of other people. It doesn’t take a terrible amount of Con to tank though, so as long as you pump it a bit, gear can make up for a lot. You could, conversely, pack some damaging gear and a dagger in your offhand and go for an aggressive build too. Just don’t try too hard to mix the two up.
You’ll naturally end up tanking in pickup groups just due to being the only person on the team with Swashbuckling. Just be prepared for that.Your build does work. Most builds do work in this game, as the balance team is fairly solid. It isn’t what most people would go though.
Peltasta has a lot of synergy with Fencer, naturally. That’s a very good choice.
Rodelero is the next most common choice to pair with Fencer. This is a match made in heavy if you want to tank, or if you’re looking for some utility in PvP. It doesn’t currently offer a ton in terms of damage, but we should be seeing some buffs to them (that are just now happening on kToS)in the future to boost their damage a fair amount.
Corsair is another popular pick if you want to PvP. If you can land it, Iron Hook can be devastating. Hexen Dropper if you go circle 2 is a very high bursting skill. Dust Devil, well the CC is good for PvE, but not so much for PvP. They also have Jolly Roger, which a lot of people like in PvE. They really add nothing in terms of tanking though.
Highlander is a good class and Fencer is a good class. Together they have interesting potential. You have a lot of debuffs and utility to open nice windows of damage. It’s not what you’d call a typical pairing though. If you like it, I’d say give it a shot, but if you’re just looking to be the best, then with the current patch we have, this probably isn’t the best choice.
I could get further in detail , but I’m tired, and there are a bunch of recent threads like this that I’ve already explained a bunch in.
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I see, thanks for that long and clear reply. Anyways, what do you think of replacing highc3 with barbc3? I heard barbc3’s damage gets picked off a bit in late game. Not so sure about it though. I also see that fencers are supposed to be skill spammers, not all the time but most of the time, because of its skills. Does spamming work with barbc3’s?
The way you play with either Barb3 or High3 will be very similar. Fencers are indeed skill spammers. They are both fine options, and they both have pretty similar styles.
The main difference is like this:
Barbarian excels at bursting down lower HP targets and chaining stuns (they are getting their stun rates buffed currently in kToS). They buff their own attack fairly heavily (WarCry can boost your attack by over 300 in the right situation, and Frenzy can add in a 200-400 as well) to increase their damage.
A highlander takes the opposite approach by making his opponents weaker instead. They specialize in debuffs to deal their damage like Bleeding and Armor Break.
In the end , they are both good classes. I think you’d be happy no matter which you choose.
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Well, I guess I’ll give them a try. Thanks for your time, mate! 
im playing fencer high3, tested fencer barb3 in beta. I have to say yep, barbar c3 let you mobbing easier than high3, even in late game. But it doesnt matter because you still clear mobs easily with high3 skill (barbar cooldown just too long and frenzy wont stack if you use skill, kToS buff them but i think it wont happen in iToS).
And thats all about solo PVE. Things change a lot in higher lv with pt, high3 is more helpful than barb3, with armor break in 30s, bleeding, and decrease enemy’s INT + SPR. About barb3, they just like… uhm glass canon, only deal dmg (stun 2s seem not really cool).
The choice is your, become high3 for teamwork or barb3 for lonewolf style
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Well i am soon at rank 6 and got Peltasta and Highlander c3.
Won’t it be bad to take Fencer because you don’t have any AOE attacks at all?
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barb3 and high3 AOE skill are already good enough for you, fencer skills can hit multi targets but not really AOE, the power of fencer are high eva and give bonus dmg to high3 + barb3 skill.
Actually most of players who chose fencer because of outfit, style or because they just want to be a good tanker. Swordmans now really underwhelming at lv 220+, class balance is too bad. it even worse for DPS fencer…
Cant block physical missile attack and cant dodge magic attack are stupid
Yes, that’s what I thought. I’ve always liked having debuffs and wearing down the opponent slowly, then it’s highlander for me. But still gotta try barbs, but I think it’s good only for 2h sword builds, like dopp.