Outside of 6 man and small scale oRvR, the not needed and laughable nerf to Runefang, stay focused( nerfed to “mirror” chosen aura and STILL not mirrored as it does less healing LOL, only worth running with tactic) and mighty soul they made has made the lowest DPS in the game even lower, 2H “dps” spec is laughable now, more so than before.
I run 2H in small scale and 6v6 in defensive gear, it provides a little more damage to help Pressure (as in you maybe do 100ish more a hit) and wounds debuff with crit debuff (if specced, I don’t)
Keeps, forts, cities your bread and butter is sword and board guarding with good CC control and solar flare if you can get M4 with the current Mara AoE morale drain.... so.. you’re a guarding CC buff bot cause you ain’t ever getting morale anymore
But if you want to DPS as a knight, get futile strikes, parry, dodge/disrupt, STR and weapon skill. You will however get melted just as fast as a DPS and not put out as much dps as a real DPS. Ottos bottom spec is decent for a dps knight but I hate lacking a KD or stagger (because we can easily be kitted due to no immunity ability) but if you spec the KD, you lose Shield of sun damage from not speccing right tree which is huge when fighting melee dps, but you up the OYG damage, all trade off and it’s tough
I think if they revert the change to runefang, stay focused, and mighty soul to what they were dps knight will be ok again. Knight was in a good place before that. Not overpowered not under powered. Just an easy mechanic coupled with the ability to turtle
To level to 40, go 2H, run all out assault, ON your guard, and stay focused. Pull whole PQs and profit. It’s a easy class to level, due to the “Set it and forget” mechanic essentially. You can leach ALOT of RR doing the same in oRvR and SCs.