AH AH! A guide to swashbucklin'

[Casimir]

I played abit of 1h no shield.

I duels its really effective. The speed and manouverability you have easily make up for the lower damage.

Things become very interesti.g when you begin taking maces amd no shield. Playing defensive until your opponent closes and realeasing a quick left swing followed by a right jas a tendency to catch the dpammers.

Back hugging a 2h and overheading is also effective but be ready to upblock if u try it on poleusers.

[MrShine]

This seems like it would be fun every now and then.  I probably wouldn't retire and spec this, but maybe as a swashbucklin' alt it could give some chuckles.

What about this as a possible build?

Level 30 (4 420 577 xp)

    Strength: 21
    Agility: 21
    Hit points: 56

    Skills to attributes: 14

    Ironflesh: 0
    Power Strike: 7
    Shield: 0
    Athletics: 7
    Riding: 0
    Horse Archery: 0
    Power Draw: 0
    Power Throw: 0
    Weapon Master: 3

    One Handed: 132
    Two Handed: 1
    Polearm: 1
    Archery: 1
    Crossbow: 1
    Throwing: 1

Pros: 7 ps and ath, the two most important parts of a swashbuckler
Cons: less wm, no IF, no shield.  Super squishy.  Obviously a lot to lose, but it's the most maneuverable yet hard hitting build I can think of.

The next best build I'm thinking would be 21 str 18 agi.  Basically a trade off between 1 more ath and 3 more agility VS 3 more wm 4 IF.

[Bobthehero]

Level 30, going to put that last point of str next level. I currently have 87 hp, hitting 90 next level as well as 10 ps.

Strength    29    
Agility    9    



One Handed    130    
Two Handed       
Polearm    1    
Archery    1    
Crossbow    1    
Throwing    1    


Iron Flesh    9    
Power Strike    9    
Shield    0
Athletics    3    
Riding    0    
Horse Archery    0    
Power Draw    0    
Power Throw    0    
Weapon Master    3

[Banok]

playing 1h no shield = same as playing with katana tbh

[Casimir]

Showing yourself not to understand what your talking about banok.

1h animations ae very different to 2h and the weapons are also. Lemgth damage speed and weight. As such they are very different playstyles.

@Bob are you not super slow / getting flanked n spammed easily?
Doesnt look like you'd fair to well in duels with that litlle agility.

[Dravic]

Try 6str/33agi 2ps 11athletics 10wm build with Yanmaodao (or a Falchion, but Yanmaodao is better in every single stat).

Running will never be the same.

And I am not bouncing off that much if i have full speed.

As for mace/noshield build:

Level 30 (4 420 577 xp)

Strength: 13
Agility: 27
Hit points: 48
Skills to attributes: 10
Ironflesh: 0
Power Strike: 4
Shield: 0
Athletics: 9
Riding: 0
Horse Archery: 0
Power Draw: 0
Power Throw: 0
Weapon Master: 8
One Handed: 173
Two Handed: 1
Polearm: 1
Archery: 1
Crossbow: 1
Throwing: 1

With Iberian mace

or

Level 30 (4 420 577 xp)

Strength: 15
Agility: 24
Hit points: 54
Skills to attributes: 8
Ironflesh: 2
Power Strike: 5
Shield: 0
Athletics: 8
Riding: 0
Horse Archery: 0
Power Draw: 0
Power Throw: 0
Weapon Master: 8
One Handed: 173
Two Handed: 1
Polearm: 1
Archery: 1
Crossbow: 1
Throwing: 1

with Warhammer


Both effective and causing a lot of drama: if you knockdown enemy, in 85% of cases he won't get up ;D

[Kafein]

This build is for noobs. You don't even have to chamberblock with an usual 1hander. Take a dagger or something like that and feel the masochist inside you.

Also, some people do really good with 1h no shield agi builds, like MrTurtle. I think it's better to go 18 str / 21 agi, then you can run fast and you hit hard enough.

[Bobthehero]

@Bob are you not super slow / getting flanked n spammed easily?
Doesnt look like you'd fair to well in duels with that litlle agility.

The fact that 1 handed weapons are faster compensates, and with my powerstrike I usually kill people first.

[MountedRhader]

I swear I was just going to write a guide on the fine art of the Rogue

Nice guide though.