100 Physical attack if you made it level 15 isn’t horrible but I see what you mean. I think If they moved it to sword2 and changed it to attack and block penn increase it would at least make people think twice about passing up swordsman2-3 because its seen as more pvp based. Sword1 is just too freelo with the fact you get a 70 attack steroid for just being the class.
Concentrate is a fine enough circle 1 buff for 11 hits of 100+ dmg with the attributes. Good for early leveling and future proof scaling.
Gungho is actually becoming less relevant since people tend to take pelt 1 and just use guardian for evasion so it becomes less cloggy of a skill.
My thoughts would be give concentrate scaling with ranks as well like 15 extra damage per rank and make it 15 hits at level5 but move gunho off sword1 and put it on sword 2 and 3 with this effect
Gungho
Increase attack and Block Penetration by
(Level / 87) x (Strength x .03 + skill level) For 40 seconds + skill level x 5
And an attribute that gives it + 50 to block penn and attack(exactly what it does now basically)
So the attribute would make it so low level users can actually use it(pretty much like normal gungho) , but focus it in as more of a scaling skill to take when you go strength.
I did some calculations
at 330 if you put all points in strength and had 820 you’d get 131 attack buff + 50 from attribute like you currently get meaning 181 physical attack and block penn buff for 90 seconds. (about thrice what it is now just taking level 5)
at 330 with maybe 120 strength which is common of higher dex users(who probably wouldn’t go sword2 anyways) would see a 101 boost on their attack and penn (very similar to just going Gungho 15)
when you reach level 87 the buff converts into true scaling instead of working against itself where your level multiplier will start to make it better. if you invest 60 strength, you get approximately 120 strength through bonuses(the number that appears on your screen). so at 87 you will get roughly 13.6 + 50 from the attribute meaning you get 67 physical attack and penn which roughly what it is at level 5.
SO IN CONCLUSION
IF you changed gungho to work this way, Full strength builds would be more viable(you could get through guard blocks possibly) and as you level up, even if you don’t add strength, gungo gets better to compensate for the lack of damage you get unlike our Magic friends. It would also make swordie3 an actual path to take even if you don’t want to pvp.
Overall Its a buff to gungho to actually make it more than a 70 attack steroid for every sword user. If anything the more the game progresses the more effective it would be. Technically it also doesn’t force you to go sword 3 because it only adds about 15% more bonuses and another 25 seconds. While the focus of circle3 swordsman becomes more of getting restrain to 10 and PB to 15.
