Crusader - Greatsword + Sword PvP Build for Throne and Liberty - Metabattle (2024)

Overview

This Greatsword and Sword build is designed for large and small-scale PvP content such as Riftstones and Sieges. It's particularly effective at dealing significant AoE damage as a frontline melee combatant, while the Sword & Shield provides added protection. The build also offers agile movement, allowing for easy navigation between groups of enemies and quick retreats when necessary.

Attributes

Prioritize Dexterity & Strength as your primary attributes for extra defensive stats and a much needed HP increase. Investing in Wisdom isn't worth it as it brings little damage and some mana regen. Your secondary priority should be perception as they increase your damage further while Wisdom can be gained passively through certain items but you still shouldn't invest points in Wisdom.

Skills

As the build focuses on being a tanky front-line fighter, you should focus on upgrading Counter Barrier and Shield Strike first as you make great use of them a lot early on and throughout the time you play this build. Stalwart Bastion is another important skill, both for your party and yourself, helping a great deal during pushes. You should aim to always be with your group in order to make use of this and keep them alive as much as possible.

Focus on passives next as they quickly increase your resistances and allow you to remain in a fight for longer and do your job of causing chaos in the enemy group. Vital Force and Robust Constitution should be the first ones you upgrade though as they provide a nice damage boost while also increasing your HP, synergizing perfectly with eachother.

Equipment

Weapon Masteries

Charge

Ranged Defense

Melee Evasion

Firm Will

Max Health

Cooldown Speed

Overcome Snare

Buff Duration

Skill Damage Resistance

Bold Steps

Incapacitate

Mana Regen

Melee Hit Chance

Ultimate Impact

Damage

Mana Regen

Complete Stun

Melee Hit Chance

Stun Chance

Firm Resolution

Face Off

Melee Hit Chance

Damage

Rough and Wild

Melee Critical Hit Chance

Mana Cost Efficiency

Fierce Attack

Skill Damage Boost

Melee Hit Chance

Fierce Glare

Provoke & Counter

Melee Defense

Health Regen

Decayed Sword God

Max Health

All Evasion

Impregnable Stance

Buff Duration

Damage Reduction

Indomitable Spirit

Boss

Melee Hit Chance

Damage

Undefeated Perseverance

Max Health

Stun Resistance

Desperate Evasion

Mana Cost Efficiency

Melee Hit Chance

Subjugator's Punishment

Collision

Max Health

Melee Hit Chance

Calculated Rush

Damage Reduction

Weaken Chance

Steely Physique

Damage

Melee Defense

Blade of Rage

Greatsword:Investing 9 points in Face Off is a no-brainer as it significantly boosts your damage and heavy attack chance. The remaining points should be allocated to Charge for added defense and bonus Amitoi heal.

Sword: Investing 9 points in Provoke & Counter offers great Shield Block Chance and Stun Resistance along with more defenses. Allocate the rest of your points into Collision to boost chance and resistance alike.

Rotations

• This is your primary single target damage rotation by catching enemies out of position and pulling them with Annihilating Slash to kill quickly. Instantly use Stunning Blow to pin them down with a stun before following up with Death Blow to deal quick damage so you can follow up the CC combo with Ascending Slash before finishing them off using Guillotine Blade.

• This is your main engage rotation. Start with Devastating Smash to engage on a group of enemies that are stacked together so you can stun them all at the same time before following up with AOE damage by using Gaia Crash. A lot of attention will be drawn on you when you push in like this though, which is the perfect time to use Counter Barrier to negate some of that damage while also using Shield Strike to deal damage to enemies caught in its path, repeatedly using this skill as it gets reset while you are being hit.

Counter Barrier: Use when you start drawing focused attention. Utilize your defense skill to reflect damage when you're under pressure or when an engagement doesn't go as planned.

Stalwart Bastion: Use when initiating a push with your team or when being pushed by the enemy. It's typically requested by your shotcaller, but you can also initiate it yourself if your shotcaller doesn't give the command.

Chain Hook: Use it to pull enemies into your group in order to kill them quickly.

Useful Information

• Select Green Ranger Elowen as your guardian; it roots people around you and can assist in executing your rotation. If you manage to root enemies using this guardian, you can effortlessly execute both rotations and eliminate groups of enemies on your own.

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