Shattered Kingdoms

Age tick #1 is not far off for mine.

Just a random idea.

What if riposte had a chance to disarm and throw the weapon to the ground?

Like 10% or something. I don't know.

Then it wouldn't be a riposte.

Aging is not a horrible thing, and it does not make a character unplayable. For instance, the last paladin I played had -3 from max str, because I intended to play the character to age death. I did enough damage as it was. I'd probably use that same build on any swashbuckler I played as well. In fact I gave that advice to the player of Ayora since it's dead easy to get a +3 str mod for darkies. I also haven't maxed out dex since about 2004. There's just no reason. I think there's a lot of fun things you can do with builds anyway. I mean, Ayora had brilliant int naturally, which was probably overkill for a swashbuckler, but whatever. I live vicariously through some players.

Also I feel that one of the things that hurt swashbucklers is light armor. Not that they're forced to wear it, but the available light armor to wear is absolute crap compared to the amount of adamantite/diamond stuff that can be found out there. Mithril being the de facto good stuff for light armor classes typically has pieces that don't utilize the maximum value, and generally have terribad enchantments on them. If this stuff was brought up to snuff, then that'd go a long way to helping them out.

Judging from how "The Queen of the Elves" participated in PvP I don't think you're qualified to make that assessment.

I PKed by attending classes while Syn walked all over you. With a warlock.

Super ADVANCED riposte-disarm

Are you kidding me? There is a metric butt ton of good light armor/ energy armor out there or swashbucklers to use. Especially after the player base has shrunk over the years, the loot/player ratio is ridiculous.

There is a ton of mithril, yes. But most of it really is trash.

Really don't want to compete with 500 barbs for heavy armor, but yeah, sometimes being a front row with mithril armor is practically like front row with cloth armor. In the swordplay shows and movies, having light armor can actually be advantage because you're so much faster than the chumps wearing heavy armor. You cam dodge so much better and sneak in attacks quickly while avoiding the big guys. Of course a big cleave will still hurt, but it should be a lot harder to make that hit in the first place.