Notes : I copied and pasted the defination from cuchulainn, but i added skill then i think ice blader should take~ SRY FOR COPY AND PASTING!! BUT THIS FROUM IS REALLY GOOD FOR A GOOD BLADER!! SO PLZ READ!!
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From cruhulainn. <-- Read this
Skill-- You should take For Ice /Str / Blade
Ice
Cold Force Series
Frost Guard Series
Frost Nova Series
Cold Armor Series
Frost Guard Series
Cold Force Series
Cold Imbue, the most annoying imbue EVER in PVP. Freezing will totally stop any skill in progress and frostbite will slow down any skill in progress even after pilled until the skill is finished. Damage is low though.
Frost Guard Series
Physical defense boost. Unless you plan on maxing it out, there is no point in getting this because the increase is pretty low. The fourth book of this skill is very good however. A 55 defense boost. Combined with the Cold Armor series, this can increase defense A LOT.
Frost Nova Series
Good for freezing and frostbiting to slow down enemies so you can catch up or get away. Book 2 is AOE getting everything around you. Can be very useful
Cold Armor Series
Permanently increases physical defense. Maxed out it gives a 27 defense increase. Combined with Frost Guard gives a good increase in defense.
Fire ( Adding damage to ur blade Blade)
Fire Shield Series(Unsure, since people said its useless, Pills)
Flame Body Series
Fire Protection Series
Flame Devil Force Series
Fire Shield Series
Reduces status effects by a certain amount. Saves some money later on because you can use smaller pills. Without this buff, I need High Grade Pills, with I need Large. Also, combined with freeze/frost reduce you can be immune to ice later on.
Flame Body Series
Increases physical damage by a certain amount. Must get for strength since it will greatly increase your damage.
Fire Protection Series
Increases magical defense. Very good to get to be able to withstand nukers better. (VERY GOOD FOR PVP)
Flame Devil Force Series
Permanently increases physical damage. Great for strength, just like the Flame Body Series buff.
Lightning Skills:
Piercing Force Series
Wind Walk Series
Concentration Series
Heaven's Force Series
Piercing Force Series
Magical balance and attack is already low, but it increases your imbue damage. At later levels it increases by more than 10% is a decent increase even though magical balance is low. Combined with Flame Body Series and you get max damage.
Wind Walk Series
Books 1, and 3 if you can get it, gives great walk speed increase. Speeds up grinding since you can move from mob to mob faster. Necessary for PVP if you want to be able to catch and kill people (or run when their higher than you). Book 2 is teleport/flash step good for catching up or getting away. It teleports in the direction your mouse is pointing.
Concentration Series
Increases parry ratio. Using this will help you take minimum damage.
Heaven's Force Series
Increases parry ratio permanently. Take less damage.
Force
Force Increasing Series (increase ur MP pool)
Force Increasing Series
Increases mp by a certain amount. At level 2, it's about 10% of my mp pool. Once mp isn't a problem any more, I'll get rid of this to free up some masteries.
Blades Mastery
Chain Sword Attack Series
Blade Force Series
Hidden Blade Series
Killing Heaven Blade Series
Shield Protection Series
Chain Sword Attack Series
This is the bread and butter of PVE for bladers. Chains do good damage and the two chains (or one later on) can pretty much kill a monster in PVE. The 4-Combo attack is not very useful for PVP except for inflicting status effect like ice. The 5-Combo attack is a bit more useful in PVP since the last hit is a large hit which followed by a smashing series attack and knockdown attack can give a big chunk of damage in a short amount of time.
Blade Force Series
Good for luring monsters since it is one of the two ranged attacks a blade has (see sword dance for more info). Soul cut blade is kind of low in damage, but evil cut blade has good range and damage. Very useful as an opening attack in PVE
Hidden Blade Series
Also called Knockdown. This is great for giants and PVP. When you knock it down only sword and blade can attack it so this is good if a glavie or nuker is trying to ks you.
Killing Heaven Blade Series
This is the attack that stabs the target while it's knocked down. Once you get book 2 you can stab twice (or 3 times when you have book 3) because you can use two skills while the target is laying down (when the servers aren't too laggy).
Shield Protection Series
Passive which increases blocking ratio. A MUST. If I have to explain, reread the section on shields.
Clothing :
Protector (Recommended) (+20% Walking Spd)
Good balance of physical and magical defense, but doesn't shine in either category unless you have lots of high + or Seal items.
This is what I'm currently using. One piece is a 47 SOS +5 chestpiece which greatly helps. I was planning on switching to garmet before I found this.
Garmet (Recommended) (+20% walking spd also -20% MP)
This is what most people recommend for blade users. Great magical defense to survive in PVP against nukers, but physical defense is much lower than protector or armor. The low physical defense doesn't come into play very much because a majority of glavies and blade users (STR builds in general) use garmet so they have the magical defense to survive against nukers in PVP
Get the best your can. Higher absorbtion means less damage. Also, if you can find high level frost reduce, you're lucky and can become immune to ice with enough % reduction. Low level jewelry with frost is useless because you'll take much more damage, so it's better to get frozen but not take as much damage and just call a friend to help kill the person. Also you can't get frozen when they're knocked down.
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