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Afania said: »
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Asura.Saevel said: »
WAR has been able to do this for years now, there is a reason fencer builds are not used as DPS builds.
This.
Savage Blade can spike much higher than Upheaval, the latter is normally in the 25-30k range, the former even without Kaja Sword can easily get to 35-40. But the WS frequency of Great Axe (and TP overflow) is just so much higher, then there's the random SCs you get even when spamming.
Kaja weapons closed the gaps with remas indeed (especially the financial one), but they're still not "free", and we need to keep in mind that the target of these weapons are the more casual people that are stuck spamming ambu on easy/very easy, for which it will still take a month or two to get a single weapon to Kaja, at least. Those users are not represented here on forums at all, but they exist and are the majority.
Anyway, situations where sword + shield is king:
- soloing or duoing with not-so-great buffs, assuming you end up tanking. WS frequency then becomes similar to gaxe thanks to retaliation, but you're sturdier because shield.
- caturae in escha, because Requiescat SB SB SB dead.
- Kin. It's the perfect fight for Fencer WAR and it's hilarious how far behind all the HURRDURRRESOLOL wars end up in the parse.
- fights where you do not want SCs to happen and don't have enough buffs to make Resolution worth it. Few, but they're there.
- fights where you get constantly dispelled and the rest of your PT gives up on rebuffing. Without any buff at all Fencer Savage Blade is still really strong, great axe less so.
That's pretty much it.
Fencer build in low buff has a weakness when compared to GA in low buff. GA has armor break. Which in low buff I am assuming attack isnt capped. So 25% defense down is going to be pretty hard to overcome. I would say fencer build is only really feasible for DPS when partying with a dnc for 10% haste samba. But it sure does spike out huge numbers.
Fencer build doesn't stop war switch weapon to GA, do an armor break then switch back. So armor break is irrelevant imo.
Losing 200ish TP for 25% def- in low buff situations every 540 sec....sounds totally worth it. You would do more than enough stronger ws within the def- duration to make up 200 tp lose.
You only lose tp once if you equip GA before engage.