Shattered Kingdoms

On an unrelated note, what bard uses songs of dancing in combat? It just isn't practical. If your enemies have even a sliver of willpower, your party will be dead before anyone is even affected. Only exception is pets, and from my understanding I don't think dancing prohibits rescuing..

Dancing does prevent fleeing, casting, bashing, tripping... I haven't tried to see how easy it is to make others dance when beefing up art.

Songs of dancing is not worth singing in PvP, and the reduction of accuracy and evasion is not worth using in PvE.

I like the sting idea better. Only not the name. When I think of swashbucklers I often think of fencing... perhaps thrust? The idea being an all-out assault on one limb. Quality of the garment protecting that limb will have to play a role.

Give swashbucklers scrolls! No more etherealform escapes for those pesky casters!

Or just give swashbucklers a passive ability to attack the ethereal plane...

Heh, no.

Etherape.

I like swashies not having scrolls. I'd prefer some of these other ideas; sting, leap, joust, whatever implemented

Can you elaborate on how exactly you feel that swashbucklers are weak?

Dulrik has stated that swashbucklers are a fighter class, not an adventuring class. They get light armor and cannot stand toe-to-toe with others in their same classification. Large weapons are a death sentence for swashies. They have very few skills compared to nearly any other class, especially active ones. While other fighters are dependent on consumables, the swash needs more than others, particularly healing.

I play a swash and I like it: It's a good class for learning PvP, in my opinion. However, there are considerable drawbacks. I would never go against someone 1v1 on a swash unless I knew before I started that I could beat them. They're squishy in PvE as well.