So I was playing around with the calculator, my Swordsman ingame, and going through EchoSon's guide on Swordsman (located here) and I realized that I have a tough time dealing with multiple mobs. Then it got me thinking "what can I do to help this?" I tested Burning Attack, and it was too large of an AOE to be practical and I felt Stronger Energy Barrage would be even less helpful. I tinkered around some more with my Energy Swordsman and figured "what about it's Dodge options?" So I did some heavy thinking for a build like that and this is what I came up with.
Some notes on the build.
- Intimidation goes well with Penetrate and Evade Up by further lowering the opponent's hitrate so I felt it was needed.
- Concentration at 1 puts Gravity Break at 5.2 seconds and Flash plus Focused Gravity Break at 8.7 seconds, so I felt no need to add more SP into this buff.
- Energy Recovery is at 1 because I won't be spamming a lot of RP effects, so gaining 1 SP was all I needed.
- Flash was an interesting skill I thought of adding because it can combo with Quick Attack to allow me to get behind my opponent. 15m and 350% damage isn't bad either.
- Maxed out Increase Hit Rate to help with Fighters and such.
So thoughts and comments on the build?