Swiss Army Knight Build

[Rheinhardt]

Level 30 (4 420 577 xp)

    Strength: 14
    Agility: 21
    Hit points: 49

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

    One Handed: 120
    Two Handed: 100
    Polearm: 100
    Archery: 1
    Crossbow: 1
    Throwing: 1

Lance
Longsword
Knightly Heater Shield
Long Dagger

Cherbourg Cuirass
Open Salet w Coif
Shynbalds
Mail Gauntlets

Well-Bred Destrier

What do you think, sirs?

[Socrates]

3 PS good luck hitting most heavy armor dudes. Should sacrifice 3 shield skill to put 2 points in PS and convert one to get 15 str. 4 Shield should be fine or unless you wanna take like 2 away from shield and one away from riding.

[Christo]

Swiss army knight? 

I heard it only with "knife".

I love this forum, I learned about swiss army knights, tartars, calvary and whatever else.

 

[engurrand]

Level 30 (4 420 577 xp)

    Strength: 14
    Agility: 21
    Hit points: 49

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

    One Handed: 120
    Two Handed: 100
    Polearm: 100
    Archery: 1
    Crossbow: 1
    Throwing: 1

Lance
Longsword
Knightly Heater Shield
Long Dagger

Cherbourg Cuirass
Open Salet w Coif
Shynbalds
Mail Gauntlets

Well-Bred Destrier

What do you think, sirs?

Your stealing my gay french knight build

[Teeth]

Maybe its an intended pun, as a swiss army knife has a lot of functions and his build has triple split proficiencies.

If that is not the case I would rather just pick 1h or 2h and get some proficiency, or even better, just go with polearm and get yourself a poleaxe or something. 14 strength is a really gimpy build, as is 3 ps. Powerstrike is a very important, if not the most important skill. It directly determines your ability to kill.

Here is an example of a good hybrid build with wpf in only two classes

Strength: 18
Agility: 18
Hit points: 53
Skills to attributes: 2

Power Strike: 6
Shield: 5
Athletics: 6
Riding: 6
Weapon Master: 6

One Handed: 120
Polearm: 120

Good at 1h and polearm, good as inf and cav.

[Rheinhardt]

So drop -something- for more powerstrike, is that what I'm getting?

[Vodner]

If you really want a 3 way proficiency split:

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    Strength: 18
    Agility: 18

    Skills to attributes: 2

    Power Strike: 6
    Shield: 5
    Athletics: 6
    Riding: 6
    Weapon Master: 6

    One Handed: 105
    Two Handed: 100
    Polearm: 100
You really don't want to make a build with 3 PS. Especially a build with which you intend to occasionally use a 1h.

[Digglez]

why on earth would you do a tri-weapon spec without any form of ranged?

[zagibu]

why on earth would you do a trip-weapon spec AT ALL?

Fixed that for you. Simply not enough slots.

[zagibu]

Disregard this post.

[RibaldRon]

Yeah, jumping on the: WHY boat.

You're going to be mediocre with everything.  Two-handed/polearm I could understand, gotta do that longsword hoplite next gen, aw yeah.  But, uh, right.  Why two-handed and polearm and one-handed and shield and    Those WM points could be better spent in more PS, or more STR/etc.

[Jarlek]

I used the following build 2 generations ago. Incredibly fun and frighteningly effective! Having the ability to change weapons, switching them, picking up other weapons or shields from the ground, stealing a horse, basically using EVERYTHING is VERY few and mindfucks a lot of your enemies. Especially switching between 2handing, then halfswording, then suddenly changing to your shield&mace, midfight puts a lot of enemies into a "wtf" mode, making do mistakes.

Also: Looter playing. Spawn with a cheap, ok-ish weapon, pick up/steal whatever you find (prioritize +3 stuff) and you will always find new and entertaining roles to play. Requires above average strategical sense of you, btw, as you need to figure out by the situation, wether you should take the pike, greatsword, sword, steal the horse or whatever. But if you can read the situation right, and what your teammates need right now, you can be a VERY good addition to your team. Cav raping? Take a long-spear/pike (remember to pick up any 1-slot weapons you find/kill), HA annoying your team? Go hoplite. You and your team is doing good, but OH NOES, camping archers! Pick up that shield from the shielder you just killed and teach them a lesson! Seriously, this build is FUN!

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Level 30 (4 420 577 xp)
Strength: 18
Agility: 18
Skills to attributes: 2
Power Strike: 6
Shield: 5
Athletics: 6
Riding: 6
Weapon Master: 6
One Handed: 100
Two Handed: 100
Polearm: 105

[Cup1d]

Level 30 (4 420 577 xp)

Strength: 15
Agility: 18
Hit points: 56
Attributes to skills: 2
Ironflesh: 3
Power Strike: 5
Shield: 6
Athletics: 6
Riding: 6
Horse Archery: 3
Power Draw: 0
Power Throw: 0
Weapon Master: 6
One Handed: 100
Two Handed: 1
Polearm: 100
Archery: 1
Crossbow: 105
Throwing: 1

If you wanna be really useful in diferent situations - you need ranged complement.
I do not see mush sense in 2H wpf \ Shield skill combo. Pole with shield works much better (lances, spears).
You still CAN use almost all interesting 2handers in secondary mode or with shield (longsword\morningstar from horse, german gs in polearm mode etc)
This build will work with light-medium armor only, so do not expect to be shiny kight that can do anything.
Light xbow + lance and horse or light xbow + shield and cavalry sword - another good working combo.

[Rheinhardt]

Whelp. I suppose I'll max out PS, but I'm still going through with this basic concept. If you die to me on the field, don't cry about powergaming.

[Malaclypse]

I'd go with Vodner's build. Or a variation of Cupids. Both should work fairly well. However if you're hoping to use all of those weapons at once I'm sorry to say you won't be able to.

Lance 2 slots
Longsword 2 slots
Knightly Heater Shield 1 slot
Long Dagger 0 slots

5/4 slots.