S/S question

[slytther]

First i wanna say hi all im new to this forum although i did play sro for about a week..and i got a question about hyrbid s/s..
What should be a good hyrbid s/s like:
70:70 balance or a 1:7 ,dont answer with; depends on what u want, like tank or this or that...just in wich is best of the 2 in both pve and pvp..and i want opions pls.

ty in advance

[ontaria]

Sword/shield is definately 7:1 ATLEAST. If I were a s/s I'd got for either a pure INT build or about a 90% magical balance

Welcome to the forums!

[GatoradeR]

Maybe he wants a fighting 70/70 s/s like those spears and bows which have turned out to be so successful, and quite frankly, I've been wondering how they'll do in that area, too.

[torinchibi]

70:70 in terms of percentages is something like 3:5 stat distribution. The problem with this build for a s/s is that the nukes are pretty weak and since you are using blade skills, those wouldn't be enough either. so 80%+ naked balance is preferable.

[GatoradeR]

I don't mean to hijack, but what about from a fighting point of view?? xD

Like UnDutchable made a 70/70 spear that does very well (on his video anyway....he's not even using snow shield, and he's taking out sun users with non sun gear if i remember correctly)

In other words, what about fighting w/o using nukes, but instead, using chains etc (basically fighting blader style) ?

[glavie]

First i wanna say hi all im new to this forum although i did play sro for about a week..and i got a question about hyrbid s/s..
What should be a good hyrbid s/s like:
70:70 balance or a 1:7 ,dont answer with; depends on what u want, like tank or this or that...just in wich is best of the 2 in both pve and pvp..and i want opions pls.

ty in advance

PVE would be best with pure int or light int hybrid, unless you lag a whole lot and will die constantly. Grind with nukes that do splash damage is extremely effective, or just 1 hit everything.

PVP, its hard to say since there arent any fully farmed 70:70 sword users in good gear(that I am aware of). The balance has been proven effective for spear and bow. The issue with sword is weapon skills are on the weak side (thats the trade off for having the honor to carry a shield).

Logically if a str blader has a chance of killing someone then 70:70 definetly can kill someone.

It has been shown that 70:70 with snow shield can tank like an str character, while dealing more damage then an str character.
The question is can you handle the 1min cool down time? Especially with euros who can sneak up on you, what if you don't have time to activate the skill.

Just remember hybrids don't show there true potential till higher lvls. My bower who is 70:70 didn't get strong in pvp until around lvl 52-55.

Oh and yeah it does depend on what you prefer lol, this game is surprisingly balanced between builds.



GatoradeR

Very roughly a 70:70 sword users nuke would hit only a little harder then a knockdown. Basically nukes would only be used as an opening move since they don't give good status, and they can't crit. They would be used for grinding, the splash really helps, and you will be able to tank multiple mobs.

I do think snow shield is mandatory. Though I rarely use it at the beginning of the fight unless, i know i am going to loose without it.

Yeah it would be blader style fighting. "Blader on Steroids"

I don't remember Undutchables video, but he has extremely good gear, and you don't know what his opponents lvl and gear was, or how much editing he did. Gear makes you godly in this game.

Oh and using a blade wouldn't hurt you much, nukes would be weaker and perhaps non crit hits, but crits would be stronger. You would be surprized how many people hate fighting bladers, its a psychological thing.

High crit weapon is mandatory.

[slytther]

so 80% mag balance (naked) should be better for using nukes right..cause i want to be more a nuker then a bicheon user.

[Regret]

I would go with for 90 cap,

Full int s\s, 90 ICE, 90 LIGHT (EMBUE) 30HEUKSAL(for hp, or 30FIRE)90 BICHEON seems to be one of the best nuker builds for coming 90 cap, if your starting from scratch i doubt you can beat the cap, so plan ahead for 90cap.

[magisuns]

unless he makes a good high level friend who will powerlvl him then he can...just about

[glavie]

so 80% mag balance (naked) should be better for using nukes right..cause i want to be more a nuker then a bicheon user.

GlaviesGirl is a lvl 62 hybrid int sword with 80%magic balance naked. It is a very good build, she was kinda crapy up to lvl 42 for some reason though, but after that things have been good. You might want to head closer to 85% so your nukes hit harder for grinding, then if you want you can tweek it whichever way you want when you get a bit higher lvl.