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The Swordsman Best/Worse Builds?

Class and Rank Swordsman
#1

Greetings fellow swordsman’s, nice to meet all of you. I’m here to gain some knowledge about the swordsman path in the current state of the game. I know every class and circle have passed by “pros” and “cons” until now, that’s why I’m here trying to get some info from your experience. Possibly this will help other newbies like me who ask the same questions or just for curiosity, so it would be great to have your opinions.

I think every build is good or bad in different aspects of the game like PvP or PvE, so right now which build do you think is the best and the worse for:

1.- Dungeons?
2.- Bosses?
3.- Farming?
4.- Having fun?
5.- Playing solo?
6.- Playing on party?
7.- PvP?
8.- More expensive to build? (attributes, set pieces etc.)
9.- Leveling up quickly?

And for number 10: What’s the most boring for you? (The Templar maybe?.)

Thanks for the answers! :confetti_ball:

#2

1-9: Corsair.

Or play Cleric.

#3

Number 2 Cataphract (worse)
Number 5 Cataphract (worse) nerf damage weee and rush will eat your sp
Number 8 Cataphract gotta invest in those skill, atleast 70 enhance attribute to be “viable”

#4

These are very subjective questions. It depends on opinion but also other party members.

Best:

  1. Dungeons - Any class can do good in party queue for dg. I like Pelta/Murmillos cause they can group mobs easily and help party clear dungeons easier. Doppels have very good AoE that clears mobs fast so they’re also very good (among best AoE dps of swordman tree).

  2. Bosses - Doppel >> Shinobi >> Murmillo >> Lancer >> Dragoon. Not going to include Fencer cause I never played one.

  3. Farming - Cataphract 3 surely wins at farming. Killing weak mobs is easy for anyone with a good weapon. All you need is move speed to get to mobs quickly. Peltasta is also nice to group mobs easily but usually Peltastas will pick Murmillo which means bad move speed.

  4. Fun - Subjective. My Cata3 -> Dragoon2 and Pelta3 -> Hop3 -> Murmillo were most fun builds. Templar and Squire are super annoying to play (I feel like dead weight in party). I didn’t like Shinobi because clones are somewhat slow to follow you around (frustrating they often miss skills too) but they’re not really weak.

  5. Solo - Anyone can solo with proper gears. If you mean doing dungeons solo I’d say something with high block or evasion and high dps to improve survivability/clear time of dungeons. Doppel and Shinobi can deal lots of damage but they can die really quick if you mob too much and things go wrong. Cata 3 also has good survivability cause of move speed (but quite awful dps compared to others).

  6. Party - Anything with good AoE dps or semi-support capability (i.e. Swash Buckling). I’m tempted to say Murmillo again cause I feel this falls into the number 1 question. Doppels are surely more popular for ET with cryochrono in party.

  7. PvP - I don’t really pvp that much.

  8. Expensive - Murmillo are the most costy for sure. Not only need tons of silver into attributes but also need 1h weapon + shield which is generally more expensive than just 2h wep.

  9. Quick leveling - Cata 3 can do quest pretty fast because of mov speed. If leveling in dungeons, refer to question 1.

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#5

If you want an all rounder a SW1/Pelt1/Hop3/Corsair/Shinobi/Murmillo will be one of the most viable build for everything:

https://tos.neet.tv/skill-planner#1134448dc.233555.153545.3f4f516571.152535.1325314155.1121354573

Pelt give you access to the best shield abilities (Guard and +25% block), 2 CC on the same skill (Stun and Kd on Umbo blow) and Swashbuckling for farming abilities (gathering mobs).

Hoplite 3 will give you strong abilities: Finestra Crit and Block buffs, Spear lunge to improve your damage and Synchro thrusting as a main nuke (Billion of damage under Cassis Crista and with the improved pierce attribute). You’ll also have the gap closer to have the Hook + Long stride combo (it is actually upgraded on the Ktest to have 3 charges).

Corsair: Pillaging gives you more money during farming session. Iron hook is one of the best CC in Pvp. Jolly roger is nice in PVE when you have Archers and the unity buff on it is really decent.

Shinobi is what makes you a deadly bosser. You use one of your skill to be stealthed, cast Bushin, use spear lunge into 2 Kunai (301832) into 2 Synchro thrusting (copied by bunshin too).

Murmillo offers you damage upgrades (Umbo blow even with only 5 points is deally really neet damage under Headbutt Attribute, especially on a staggered enemy) 2 more CC (headbutt + Frenzied Charge).

For the questions for this build:

1-This build is a strong asset in dungeons, you deal a lot of damage, are able to gather mobs and have nice CC.

2- You have one of the strongest Burst in the game, with a good stuff (ie not the BIS you already vaporize all the bosses)

3- You kill the mobs easily and have Pillaging. It is not corsair 3 but it is already decent.

4- The build is strong and fun to play, You have one of the biggest array of possibilities: you can be stealthed, you can CC, you have a huge burst, you are really tanky (against magic and physical) and ready to go in PVE/PVP

5- Easy way to solo any content

6- See 1 and 2

7- Not as strong as SW3 (mainly because of Pain barrier and Restrain) but you aren’t a dog either. You have strong assets (Hook + stride combo to have 9 sec CC => into insane burst + other CC, high mobility via skills)

8- This build need at least 15M to kick in (Headbutt attribute and Cassis Crista Hoplite attributes).

9- Leveling is a pain. Hoplite is slow because of the lack of Aoe until you reach Hop3. At Hop3 it becomes a cake walk. At R7 it becomes harder because Shinobi isn’t insane to lvl (you vaporize bosses but you struggle against packs of monsters). At Rank 8, you steamroll again.

One of the worst build I would say dragoon 2:
Your R7 skills sucks, your R8 skills sucks and cost billions of SP. You have no AoE (if you went hop3 route) and you aren’t the best in Boss damages. Your animations are slow as ■■■■ and you have 0 CC. If you put in Cata and you have a mobile USELESS character

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#6

  1. I thinks “Peltasta” is the best ,he can provoke all monster in screen. The worst is “Squire” nothing to talking about.

  2. It depend on what your party members, if depend on solo “Fencer” is the best. However the worst is any support Sw build like Squire or Templar

  3. Any with “Peltasta” like I said before.

  4. FUN to PLAY is any class but if i choice funnest class for me. I will choice “Cataphract” because the moving speed is the best

  5. Solo “Peltasta” with Aoe like “Doppel” or “Dragoon”

  6. Dragoon is the best melee support for the party ,and even grater with hoplite (c2 or more) or Templar2 for party buff sharing.

  7. PvP , no comment about this

  8. Murmillo / Cosair / Lancer(the knockdown att LoL )

  9. Pel or Cata3 ,If now everyclass that doing dungeon daily and doing all recommend quest is fastest

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#7

1-9 play corsair

2020

#8

@Parmenion what are the stat allocations for that build?