Shattered Kingdoms

Alternatively, they approach tanking in different ways. So while Swashbuckler is limited in terms of being able to reach, should they be able to cut down their enemies a lot faster? Should they counteract the lack of armor with better damage output? What is the goal of each class?

I'm curious as to how well swashies can handle massive weapons now.

Real post.

A swashbuckler should be able to tank via parry/eparry due to the absence of a shield. A swashbuckler shouldn't be putting out massive damage with their pointy swords against a plated suit of adamantite, though they should be more than capable of taking it -- dancing around strikes seamlessly and lasting much longer than a Merc v Barb match. This is the concept behind the swashbuckler. They evade bashes easier without the constraints of heavy armor and dance around knuckle dragging brutes swinging huge weapons.

This isn't accomplished when a swash fights a merc/barb, why? They are (a) taking too much damage, (b) not parrying enough, or (c) not hitting hard enough? Those are rather similar, but the code/fix for each is drastically different and as can be seen, the suggestions for new skills/buffs generally address one of those categories.

You could buff riposte, having it do more damage
You could buff finesse, giving swashies more strikes
You could implement something like leap to make them more evasive
You could implement sting to make damage output tactical instead of devastating
Someone proposed having kick sap PE
You could buff finesse, giving swashies the ability to ignore shields

Idk. Dulrik needs to figure it out on his own.

I wouldn't mind a new active, a skill that gives some sort of bonus to swashies only when fighting multiple opponents would be really cool: Like a "focus" skill that a swashie could use on a target that would decrease the attack speed or accuracy of other opponents fighting the swashie.

Or, even something that just looks cool, like

When I think of people facing multiple opponents in fantastic situations, I usually notice that they do the opposite of pick an opponent out -- they're about making everyone bump into everyone else, redirecting strikes and quick, efficient stuff. If that's the flavor of swashbuckler you're going for, maybe it'd be better to just focus on what happens when many enemies target one?

Well, swashbucklers already do that by default. I was thinking of giving them something active that counteracts massive weapons a bit and also allows them to also redirect strikes if multiple other people are targeting them.

So something like pageantry, which I suggested?

Except mine looks cooler and is an active skill, yeah.

Actually, a Misdirect ability would be really cool. Where if a person is taunted the swash could use an active command to direct all attacks for one round to another for one round (friendly or enemy). Of course, Misdirect would only be allowed to be used every x rounds. Whatever x is, I don't know, but that would give swashies an offensive and defensive boost, so that they just wouldn't take any damage so many once out of every x turns.

I've got a great idea for a skill.