The Art of Finesse [1 Handed No Shield] Under construction]

[Lannistark]

Hey guys, I'm working on a simple guide for the 1h users. I'm editing some images and such. I'm no pro at 1h, I'd just like to give new players a simple idea of the strengths and weaknesses of this build.

My progress you can see here:

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"Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength."

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[Iymore]

swashbuckling

[KingBread]

impresiv

[Grumpy_Nic]

swashbuckling

what is the definition of this

[Bjord]

Uh huh.

[IR_Kuoin]

Do the Jackie build and go 21/15, works perfect 

[Ubereem]

what is the definition of this

The word "swashbuckler" generally describes a protagonist who is heroic and idealistic to the bone and who rescues damsels in distress. His nemesis is typically characterised as the dastardly villain.

  seriously though its basically a fighting style. A fencer type who uses a single sword and maybe a buckle in his off hand. those 3 musketeers were basically swashbucklers

OT: I like my 1h toon to have lots of ath so I can move in out in out. I do block but I prefer to dodge most attacks.

[Byrdi]

Just remember to post your guide in the subforum titled "Guides".

[Turboflex]

I would have to say an AGI build is quite important for this. 18-21 at least, maybe even 8 athletics, and no armor over 12 weight. Stick to 8-12

I am a shielder but I practice swashbuckling on duel server for fun and to improve my manual blocking (which isn't very good since I use shield all the time), and my 24-15 build just sucks for it. Decent duelists with greatswords and even longer dueling polearms just dance outside of my range. With a shield I can just put it down and bullrush them and then maintain position so lower athletics doesn't hurt me, but without it I have to play that dancing game too which I inevitebly lose with a much shorter range weapon and lower athletics.

I would think a long weapon like long espada would be useful too, so would making use of that stab. You'd also need to be really good at holds, footwork and headshots to make up for low damage of only 6 PS.

[Teeth]

I would have to say an AGI build is quite important for this. 18-21 at least, maybe even 8 athletics, and no armor over 12 weight. Stick to 8-12

I am a shielder but I practice swashbuckling on duel server for fun and to improve my manual blocking (which isn't very good since I use shield all the time), and my 24-15 build just sucks for it. Decent duelists with greatswords and even longer dueling polearms just dance outside of my range. With a shield I can just put it down and bullrush them and then maintain position so lower athletics doesn't hurt me, but without it I have to play that dancing game too which I inevitebly lose with a much shorter range weapon and lower athletics.

I would think a long weapon like long espada would be useful too, so would making use of that stab. You'd also need to be really good at holds, footwork and headshots to make up for low damage of only 6 PS.

Crap advice, I had no problems at all with 5 athlethics and 16 weight body armor. 1h's are not that short and you need that damage. I'll see if I can dig up a PM I once sent to a guy asking for swashbuckling advice, pretty much wrote a semi guide, use it as you see fit Duke.

Edit: Apparently responses to other people's PM's do not get saved, nevermind.

[TurmoilTom]

I would have to say an AGI build is quite important for this. 18-21 at least, maybe even 8 athletics, and no armor over 12 weight. Stick to 8-12

I am a shielder but I practice swashbuckling on duel server for fun and to improve my manual blocking (which isn't very good since I use shield all the time), and my 24-15 build just sucks for it. Decent duelists with greatswords and even longer dueling polearms just dance outside of my range. With a shield I can just put it down and bullrush them and then maintain position so lower athletics doesn't hurt me, but without it I have to play that dancing game too which I inevitebly lose with a much shorter range weapon and lower athletics.

I would think a long weapon like long espada would be useful too, so would making use of that stab. You'd also need to be really good at holds, footwork and headshots to make up for low damage of only 6 PS.

Thol can easily top boards with his 24/15 build with light armor and a long espada.

I don't know what game you're playing.

[Turboflex]

talking about duel arena not battle, and fighting good duelists with weps twice as long as yours.

[Froto_the_Loc]

It REALLY depends on the weapon.
But, in my opinion, a longer weapon should have more strength to damage with.
And a shorter weapon should have more agility to move with.

Either way, unless you are Bob, you are gonna glance. It's inevitable.

[Phew]

talking about duel arena not battle, and fighting good duelists with weps twice as long as yours.

I assume Turbo was dueling with an axe, a tough proposition regardless of build. Dueling with a 1h sword is basically like dueling with a gimped Longsword (less damage, worse animations), but doesn't require an agility build to do OK.

[Teeth]

Dueling with a 1h sword is basically like dueling with a gimped Longsword (less damage, worse animations)

1h animations are pretty awesome.