thanks always good to hear from fans, looking forward to having you as an afk partner
@jynxie08 ya before update murmillo skills had high skill damage with long cooldowns, now we have normal damage with long cooldowns, so i find pumping into survivability more important than ever due to other classes having better skills with faster cooldowns… =/ had no need to upgrade gears if i did 55k damage with headbutt lol. when i fought catas that knew my playstyle, they would always hit me once with dethrone, then run the clock for the entire match (since my HP is soo high my potions barely heal any of my health so they win be default for being full hp at the end, hence why i re-specced to have shield lob)
@Aegrus
gonna sound weird here, but i did the testing myself, and this is quite funny
believe it or not, max level shield push (once considered the worst skill ever for that class) does AS MUCH DAMAGE as my murmillo skills do… also shield bash has had its damage increased by almost as much… (shield bash has 2 uses and is a very fast skill, takes longer to hit an enemy twice with 2 normal attacks) lastly umbo thrust has had its damage increased to the point where its actually necessary to put 5 points in instead of 1 (usually you just put 1 point in for the debuff, but lv5 actually does over 1000% damage scaling its insane)
i can give you rotations if you tell me your build, if you dont know your build id have to ask you many questions revolving around your goals and such. im heading off to bed for work in the morning but ill be checking this thread back later and theres alot of more info i could say now regarding skills to get and such but this should be a start for you.
oh one last thing i forgot, i dont consider umbo blow or rim blow to be worth getting (unpopular opinion) because i find it more necessary to get lv15 swash and lv15 guardian. i tested the damage of those 2 skills (with high guard attribute and murmillo helmet attribute) and i found their damage to only deal around 12k, while at the time my murmillo skills dealt 45k + 55k damage so it was highly not worth it at the time especially with survivability being more important to me by getting the hp and defense buffs instead. i DID NOT test these skills after update as ive grown accustomed to needing other skills over them.