Kyudo Samurai: Iaido (Lv70 Skills) Because @Komibii @Komibii beat beat me to the punch Iaido (commonly shortened to Iai) is a japanese fighting style which emphasizes the user to draw their blade quickly in response to a dire situation or a sudden attack. This is NOT meant to be pure DPS . It uses a combination of far range and close range positioning positioni ng to take advantage advan tage of the enemy. We will be mainly using Zentei and Snipe. This is a continuation continu ation of @Komib @Komibiiii’s ’s guide to Kyodo Samurai (Bow + Katana) which can be found here here.. That guide is more versatile than this one since its convertible into other styles, this being one of them. This one will only consider bow + katana and not converting into bow + arrow or two handed katana. What this subset of that guide will be, is to be alleviating one of the snipers main problem: aggro. Snipers 1mp combo tends to generate a lot of aggro, and once said sniper gets the aggro, they do not have the ability to deal with it. Most snipers would run around far while the enemy is chasing them to reposition another 1mp snipe, which significantly lowers the DPS they can do. Not to mention most snipers have poor defenses and hp anyways meaning their survivability is abysmal without putting some crit/str points into vit. So what stats would we need? Stats: Dex 255 Split the rest between Str (dps) and Vit (tank) depending on play style Skills (*Optional): Shot Skills: https://goo.gl/RKPzu4 Mononofu Skills: https://goo.gl/C5HmFD Battle Skills: https://go https://goo.gl/Nm o.gl/NmScRg ScRg Survival Skills: https://goo.gl/5rJGbF Other Skill Trees Optional Skills: (Useful as star gems)
Combos: After a large amount of testing (grinding to level 150 by fighting everything) these combos have suited me well, but you can mix and match to your preference. Qwasi Waltz : Meoba/Pulse → Smoke (Save) → Paralyze (Consec) → Meikyo (Consec) → Snipe (Smite) → Pommel (Consec) This Combo is mainly to attract the attention of the enemy, since Smoke saving attracts a lot of aggro, if the enemy is far and it aggros onto you from smoke, moeba would slow it so snipe will finish once the enemy is almost next to you, then you can Pommel so can stun and set up your positioning. Pulse is good if you wish to save Moeba for the Zentei Combo. Also if you don’t take aggro this is still a great combo for being a normal sniper. Bloody Intervention: Moeba/Pulse → Smoke (save) → Meikyo (consec) → Zentei (smite) → Pulse/Moeba (Swift) Smoke saving will help you keep aggro onto you, and zentei is our sub-dps skill, but it’s also useful for the nullify damage it has on successful parry. This can be used from far away so you can have a buffer zone for free roaming, moeba can help with that, but pulse can do the job well when you learn enemy attack patterns and can coordinate it well. After zentei, its be best to get the hell out of dodge, so putting swift on a 1 mp skill will use up the last mp from smoke and have enough time to run from an aoe. Meoba so you can make a safe getaway, pulse if you used moeba already and its slow, plus the sidestep can help, reminder that this skill is incredibly fast so you may not get the timing for the sidestep.
Let’s talk equipment (Stats below can work, choice is yours) Bow: Elemental Bows (due to not having access to an arrow) Crit Damage+ Atk +% Tyrant Machina Grecia Imitator Katana: It doesn't matter, go make a katana just to use the free trash equip Armour (Heavy): Motz Armour Crit Damage+ Atk+% HP+ Ifrid Iconos/Onlarf Additional: Anything you’d put on an archer Tyrants Mask Gracia Mask Baphomela Proto Leon Special Gear: Dex Talisman IV Beast Talisman Bexiz York Lyark Master Specialist The one thing I will emphasize is heavy armour, it will help with your defensiveness and survivability and lower your dodge rate, because zentei will not work if you dodge the attack. The others are fairly dps oriented due to this also dealing a decent amount of damage. You wont be topping charts on attacker, unless the heavier DPS dies from boss aoe. You will be topping many tank charts if you can get the zentei timing down.
Kyudo Samurai: Senso (Lv 150 Skills) Senso is the common japanese term for war. Which in this build of the Kyudo Samurai Class will follow this quote: “There are only two tactics a true warrior needs. Frontal assault, and death by frontal assault!” With our new and shiny Lv150 skills, we can see a lot of new options with combining the two Long and Close range skills. This one, will focus on nuking the enemy, much like what happened to Japan in Worl- Nevermind that, but this part is serious, the fact we have so many options to consider, this combination of weapons can be very sersitile. This one will mainly use Crossfire + Tenryu. This will not consider transformation to Bow + Arrow or Dual Handed Katana. The goal of this build this time is to assault the enemy until you are ready to drop the nuke. The damage from this will be constant until you decide it’s time to let it rip. Crossfire will be the nuke, and Tenryu will be our constant damage. The damage from this won’t have the highest burst damage, but will have a lot of decently high numbers adding up to do a lot of damage. This is alleviating a snipers problem of mainly dealing only burst damage to a boss, and will give a sniper something better to do while charging crossfire instead of using snipe (which it’s damage has kinda been less reliable lately, but if you wish to still use it I will put it under optional skills). Stats: Dex 255 Split the rest between Str (dps) and Vit (tank) depending on play style Skills (*Optional): Shot Skills: https://goo.gl/scjFZo (Crossfire not affected by Long Range) Mononofu Skills: https://goo.gl/ihfRKf Battle Skills: https://goo.gl/NmScRg Survival Skills: https://goo.gl/5rJGbF Other Skill Trees Optional Skills: (Useful as star gems)
*Snipe if you want to stay long range and armour break. Get Long Range as well if you get this *Smoke dust if you wish for a 1mp snipe combo *Garyou if you wish to fill the prereq for the full damage (10 katana skills + armour break)
Combos: After a large amount of testing (grinding to level 150 by fighting everything) these combos have suited me well, but you can mix and match to your preference. Everlasting Power Moeba/Pulse → Crossfire (smite) → Kairiki (consec) → Decoy (save) → Pommel (smite) This Combo is to charge up Crossfire, I know it’s 5mp which is A LOT but it is worth it, due to how after it sets up a decoy and it charges up those 5mp bars really fast. Pommel should never actually connect because you should be far enough away from the enemy. Ricochet Meikyo → Crossfire (smite)
Use after Everlasting Power, and wait 35 seconds for the full charge (around when the buff from Kairai ends) will only cost 2mp but will do large amounts of damage. Flashing Blade Pulse/Moeba → Triple Thrust/Paralyze Shot (save) → Tenryu Rensei (Swift)
This is to start your spammi- I mean, Tenryu Rensei buff. Triple Trust is there if you wish for another stack for Garyou, but this is what will start Tenryu, leading into Tenryu: Zannou (use Magadachi if you plan on charging a crossfire while doing this). This WILL put you in range of attacks, so be careful but if you can avoid hits, this will do a lot of cumulative damage. Swords Dance Magadachi/Zentei Settetsu = Tenryu: Zannou Tenryu Rensei → Tenryu Rensei → Tenryu Rensei → Tenryu Rensei → Tenryu Rensei This is not really a combo in the traditional sense but this is what you do after Flashing Blade and before the Finale. (Does not raise attack by 2 stages.) Finale: The End of Waging War Kairiki Renshin → Decoy (save) → Snipe/Zentei (Swift) → Meikyo (Consec)
Born in a world of strife, against the odds you choose to fight. You know what to do. Garyou Tensei
Let’s talk equipment (Stats below can work, choice is yours) Bow: Elemental Bows (due to not having access to an arrow) Crit Damage+ Atk +% Tyrant Machina Grecia Imitator Katana: It doesn't matter, go make a katana just to use the free trash equip Armour (Light): Motz Armour Crit Damage+ Atk+% HP+ Ifrid Iconos/Ornlarf Additional: Anything you’d put on an archer Tyrants Mask Gracia Mask Baphomela Proto Leon Special Gear: Dex Talisman IV Bexiz York Lyark Master Specialist Light armour is a contrast to my other build, but this is because I wish to have more AMPR, so Decoy will be A LOT more useful and I can charge my battery a lot easier. Kairiki will deal burn damage to yourself based on HP, so no matter how much HP you have you will take 65% damage if you use it, it’ll never kill you but just remember most of the time you won't have HP or Defense. *All pictures from Unison League
