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[KOTBS] Gottschalt's Guide To Gnight.

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[KOTBS] Gottschalt's Guide To Gnight.

Post#1 » Mon Mar 16, 2020 4:39 pm

Rought draft 1: Quick Overview with ability and tactic pointers
Disclaimer: May contain ramblings of salty old timer


So, you rolled knight and want to have somesort of guide? I am here to deliver. This guide might be expanded with builds and more indepth tacticool stuff of tanks, but for now, this guide is here to help you make informed decisions on what or how to build your knight. It won't cram down any meta builds down your throat and call you useless for straying off the beaten, meta-path. All abilities will be given mostly neutral opinion on them, but in case of one tactic.. There is no good things to say about it.
Let’s start off by listing generally accepted pros and cons of the Knight.
PROS
+Strong party wide buffs
+Non-resource or mechanic tied CC
+Tough and flexible class

CONS
+Weakest damage output of order tanks
+Not the best solo pick
A quick summary

A knight of the blazing sun has many ways to build itself, but as his/her archetype is tank, you are expected to absorb a lot of punishment, Therefore defensive stats should be your priority. Just like any tank archetype, the mastery and proper usage of your core abilities is the key.

As knight, you are team-player and should act like one. Not only you get most mileage out of your auras by being in full party, but due low, but constant damage output you do rely on actual DPS to kill something in rvr fights. Still, you can build a knight in myriad of manner, even offtank (meaning offensive tank, a tank that trades some survival for attack power) as long as you remember that you’ll never be top damage and should never build for top damage.
As a tank archetype, you really don’t have damage rotations. Only bread and butter you apply between soft and hard CC.

ABILITY LIST (From order of appearance)

Flee
-Nearly every class gets this. Basically your “sprint”, you lose all AP and can’t regen while fleeing. Great for.. well.. fleeing or when you can’t mount at all. Luckily, you start with this.

Throw Blade
-Your only true ranged attack. It’s basically for dismounting destro or trying to score that really hurting back attack proc on the wounded and escaping

Sunder
-Your PVE tanking tool. Let’s you keep aggro. Outside of some builds, you should almost never use this in RvR, but considering it’s your only attack tool at level 1, might as well use it...

Press The Attack

Your first aura and one that won’t stop giving. This one boosts the strength of you and your party, also lowering enemies’ strength who are close to you.

Precision Strike

Your sunder replacement. The armor ignore is all knight will get in terms of armor strip. You will be spamming this a lot as it is most efficient melee ability at your disposal.

Stand Strong
-Your second aura and another good one. Having more toughness never hurts anyone and reducing toughness is nice bonus to boot!

Blazing Blade
-Your first DOT. Now instead of spamming just precision strike, you can also mix in Blazing blade, apply it three times for full stacks and refresh every 15 seconds for extra sneaky damage. Only if it did elemental like it used to in live days, still some extra bread to your bread and butter spam

Vicious slash

-Your first interrupt with a dot. Interrupting channels is something tanks will do. If you see an enemy in long animation or doing a longwinded combo, interrupt them!

Gather Your resolve
-And with this we finish the basic trifecta of useful auras. This one boosting your resistances to make those spellslingers hurt less while lowering nearby foes’ resistances.

Taunt
-Now something to define your archetype. A taunt often employed in both PvE and RvR. While a target is taunted, you deal 30% extra damage for 15 seconds or until the target lands three hits on you. Taunt even interrupts and has a nice range. If you manage to see healers in “praise the sun” pose or other dramatic posing, taunting them usually means you have ruined their cast bar as they were about to revive their ally or toss a power heal. Use taunt and use it often.

Shield rush

-A fine skill for your bread and butter if you are sword and shield, increasing your block by 10% is always helpful and you can keep the buff up all the time as long as you use SR everytime it’s off cooldown.

Demolishing strike (morale)
-Your first morale and pretty useful to boot. Not only this leaves a good dot, but it also chops off a nice amount of armor. All around solid morale to have with you, no matter how early or late in the game you are

Emperor’s ward (tactic)
-First tactic, for early game it’s decent but it’s usefulness wanes the more you rank up, mainly because you’ll unlock much better defensive tactics. Each time you get hit, you have 25% to gain a damage absorbing barrier. Definitely great for early game gear and stats as you rely on sheer Hp instead of blocking and parrying

Crippling blow
-More archetype defining moves. Your basic slow and something you should be applying left and right to hinder advances and retreats.

Hold The Line
-The ultimate meatwall technique. If you got shield, you will end up using this at somepoint. While this is channeled, you gain 45% to dodge and disrupt, making those pesky mages and shooters a little easier to tank. Everyone behind you in 50 feet radius also get 15% to dodge and disrupt, this effect stacking three times. This means you can have three shield and sword tanks up in front to give substantial ranged protection to your allies

Guard
-The stuff dreams are made off. Guard makes you intercept half of the damage your guard target is receiving, but only if you are within 30 feet. Best part is that this damage can be both blocked and parried. An essential tool to any tank, no matter the build. YOU WILL guard that softer ally.

Shield wall (morale)
-The ultimate turtling morale as long as you can keep most of the foes infront of you. You basically block 90% of attacks for 10 seconds. This is going to be your only morale 2 for awhile, so rejoice!

On Your Guard
-This sounds awesome, delivering free damage to anyone who dares to attack your or your party? Problem is, this triggers once every two seconds and only works with melee attacks. I classify this as backup and PVE aura, great when you are taking on mobs and alright if there is two knights in same party running same auras, one of you have to change as auras don’t stack.

Juggernaut
-Another archetype and staple of tank classes. You pop this and you break from slows, roots, disarms and silences. Use it when you deem necessary, but remember, sometimes just waiting out a root is better than clearing it out with juggernaut.

Focused Offense (tactic)
-Another one that sounds good, but in reality isn’t that good. The reduced armor hurts your ability to take damage. This can be great in some PvE scenarios. Say, your dungeoneering party needs little bit more DPS to clear faster.

Perseverance

-Now, this is nifty skill to use whenever you are running out of AP and getting attacked. A good buff of armor and getting 10 Aps everytime you get hit.

Champion’s challenge
(morale)
-A new morale 1. Champion’s challenge can be nifty alternative to Demolishing strike. The challenge hodls you and your target still for 10 seconds. A root that cannot be broken too.

Rugged (tactic)
-This grants you extra toughness. A pretty good tactic to use, but not always mandatory.

Repel Darkness
-Your punt and something you should use often, but not without a thought. Never punt away enemies that are about to die with this, always make sure they don’t got immovable immunity on them. One of the tank archetype staples. You can do many things with this, like slow a fleeing target, move infront of them and punt the poor sob towards your team for easier killing. The punt distance isn’t much alone, but after slotting banish darknes.. Oh boy, you are golfing.

Unwavering faith (tactic)
-This raises your spirit resistances. If you find yourself getting rocked by spirit damage, this might be worthwhile to use, but since tactic slots are premium you might want to run Gather Your Resolve aura instead.

Shining blade
-A mix up to your bread and butter. First you do damage comparable to precision strike, but without the armor ignore and then the next damage on the target receives extra elemental. An alright skill to have now that it’s part of your core skills.

Stay focused!
-A mediocre aura at best, everytime you or your ally defend, they receive a meager heal over time. The healing from the aura is great in PvE, but usually doesn’t cut it in PvP fights. This used to have AP regen, making it a little bit better back then. Still, this may find its use in party that can parry, block and dodge a lot for those precious survival moments. However, with appopriate tactic this tactic makes healers in your party love you.

Challenge
-Filling out the core and critical parts of tank duties, Challenge is not only your AoE taunt, but also other ways to mitigate damage your allies are receiving. Each enemy afflicted by your challenge deal 30% damage to everyone else except you. The challenged can clear the debuff by hitting you three times or waiting 15 seconds. Challenging a cluster of melee is always a viable move.

Raze (morale)
-An AoE channel dealing total 900 damage. First morale 3 to acquire and not too shabby.

Gilded Shield (tactic)
-Nice good 15% disrupt bonus with your shield. This can be pretty great, making your disrupt little more reliable if a spell manages to get through your block.

Sigmar’s Favor
-This might be somewhat useful to have despite being 25% chance to give you meager extra heal whenever you are healed. If lots of spam heals are happening, Sigmar’s favor could prove to be useful, but generally there’s better tactics to have.

Distracting bellow (morale)
-Juiced up challenge basically, cutting the belloweds’ damage output by 50%. Another solid, general tankpurpose morale to have. More benefical to your buddies than earlier shield wall morale 2

Shatter Confidence
-Your first buff removal. Each tank has their own. This one smacks an enchancement type of buff out of your target. Shatter confidence used to be ridiculous with its 3x removal and damage tactic and 50 range. Now? Shatter Confidence is something to use whenever you can. Buff removal is one of the lesser works of tanks after all.

Menace (Tactic)
-Your aggro related tactic. A mandatory to slot in when you are a main tank in dungeons.

All Out Assault
-Passive Aoe damage! Sounds good, doesn’t it? It’s great for PvE though, utterly useless in RvR. You mostly end up breaking roots, proccing on-hit things on the enemy.

Mighty Soul (Tactic)
-Oh boy, now this used to be mainly meh tactic that was in glory mastery. Now it’s.. something. Mighty soul tries to mimic Chosen’s tactic but having bigger negative part in. Receiving 15% more damage is very very hazardous trade off to do elemental damage with all of your abilities. This can be somewhat useful for high end builds that can already take tons of punishment, but need to deliver some extra damage in return as resists are harder to build than armor.

Guardian of light (morale)
-Feel like you don’t need to strip armor or force a root on a person. Guardian light is generally good morale 1 then. It gives chunky barrier to absorb damage. A pretty solid morale.

Unstoppable Juggernaut
(tactic)
-Reducing the cooldown of juggernaut could be helpful, but due the nature of CC immunities, I myself find rarily craving for more frequent juggernauting. If you feel like you need to have juggernaut off the cooldown faster. This is the tactic for you!

Shackle
-The last tank archetype ability. The AoE root. This stops those without juggernauts or juggernauts on cooldown right there. This can be a lifesaver, a literal showstopper. Due the long cooldown, don’t spam it off CD everymoment though, wait for just the right moment.

Sun’s blessing (Tactic)
-This can be pretty dang good tactic, mostly because it lets you have only 5 second downtime with perseverance. Nearly constant armor buff and AP regain whenever you get receive damage? Go for it if you can fit the tactic in the precious slots with other great tactics.

Emperor’s Champion (Morale)
-Used to be godtier morale 2, but right now it’s “merely” great morale to use. You get a good hefty stat boost all around the board for half the minute.

Well-trained (tactic)
-This is a tactic that needs a little tweak to fit the RoR version of cores and trees. But still, if you feel like crippling blow, smashing counter and shield rush should be zero AP moves.. Well, here is your answer.

Shield Of The Sun

-Your thorns and something you might as well use in conjuction with perseverance at least. The damage you return might be tiny, but it’s ‘free’ damage.

No escape (Morale)
-I consider this the better raze. The damage is instant and it leaves eglible targets rooted. Pretty decent morale 3 to pop every now and then for a surprise.

Bellow Command
s (Tactic)
-This tactic keeps your AP regen high and rarily makes you AP starved. For every aura active, you gain 5 AP per second for total 15. Basically, free AP since you always have three auras active anyways

Immaculate defenses (Morale)
-The only M4 you can have without mastery trees. This is what you will be using by default whenever a push in rvr happens or dungeon boss is about to drop a “nuke”, Reducing the incoming damage by 75% for your entire party is great and is what lets your and your allies survive the worst brunt all that damage slung around like cheap biscuits.

Arcing Swing
-The only great weapon skill of knights. An AoE that reduces Max HP. A very strong “kill enabling” attack can be upkept constantly. One of two reasons to go 2H with knight.

Mastery paths


Conquest
The conquest tree is overally the weakest of them all, mostly specced for 1-3 things, mostly involving making enemies easier to kill
Slicethrough (tactic)
-For price of reduced damage on crippling blow, you can now hit three enemies close to each other and apply slow on each. Since crippling blow is an utility skill anyways, that reduced damage is ignorable. Another solid skill to have, especially if you like to slow advances of clustered foes.

To Glory!
-While this is inferior in personal use when compared to bellow commands tactic, this affects you and your party but also drains AP of nearby enemies. It’s a good aura if you want to run something else than the basic trifecta of stat boosters.

Overpowering Swing (tactic)
-The second reason to go 2H as a knight. With this tactic, not only your overpowering swing reduces wounds (AKA max HP), but also makes them 10% more likely to be critted. That is huge, especially to DPS folks.

Myrmidia’s Fury

-The animation looks pretty nice, but otherwise it’s a poor man’s channel combo, almost always outdone by precision strike spam in same duration. It’s only saving grace that it is marginally more AP efficient than Precision strike.

Efficient Swings (tactic)
-If you somehow want to go conquest and don’t want to use To Glory or bellow commands tactic, then this may help you alleviate with AP starvation. I’d recommend using the AP aura ofrthe tactic instead for more all-around effect.

Staggering Impact
- A bit lackluster ability for so high up in tree. The 10% reduced defense chances is alright, but the damage is easily shrugged off. Does need a bit of tweak to sit right up here as last ability. Use this at your own caution and prepare to be disappointed.

Nova strike (morale
-Sure, damage is damage and in morale dumps, everything counts. However, Nova strike is one of the weaker offensive morales and the other morale 4s are generally better choice. Still, this might have a place in some whacky warband composition. I rather have Immaculate Defenses popped back to back though.

Vigilance

Vigilance is great defense oriented mastery, allowing knight to be pretty sturdy and make his pals lethal.

Coordination (Tactic)
-This can be great early- midgame tactic as your block chance might not be up to reliable levels yet. Since block is checked first when defending against damage, a good block overshadows parry. 15% as early mastery tactic is pretty good though.

To victory!
-The worst of the auras you can spec for. The 25% setback resistance and deristance to enemy isn’t anything spectacular and something one should rely on. Interrupts and hard CC do canceling job much better.

Dirty tricks (Tactic)
-Everytime you block, your party gets 5% increased crit chance. A great tactic that procs pretty much all the time.

Smashing Counter
-One of the skills considered mandatory for a knight. It used to be actual counter (as in you needed to defend first). A good, basic KD without any requisites attached to it.

Laurels of Victory (tactic)
-This will remove the next ability’s self debuff on damage. Perhaps useful if you are somesort of vigilancing 2H knight and need that damage at max as possible?

Vigilance
-Reduces damage you receive by half and drops your own damage output by 25%. Great for hunkering down when enemies overcommit by ganging up on you and your manly tankiness.

Flawless Defense (Morale)
-This is odd one and can be great companion morale 4 to the basic Immaculate defenses, making your party extra sturdy. A morale 4 that certainly requires constructed party for it.

Glory
Glory is more of utility, magic knighting and more subtle forms of battlefield control. It has two extremely strong things going for it.
Sunfury (tactic)
-Pass, Even with this on shield of sun isn’t going to deal enough damage to justify the tactic and the reduced cooldown on vicious slash is unremarkable.

Now’s Our Chance
-Another tactic that sounds good but in reality isn’t. Yep, a bit of theme with knights. Any decent healer can adapt to the heal debuff and really brings down this aura is that it only affects outgoing heals. Meaning you need to stay close to enemy healers to get use out of it. Still, if you see a trend of MPDS not applying healdebuffs, this is better than nothing. (which is not a lot)

Focused Mending (tactic)
-While 25% healdebuff isn’t much, now.. 15% heal buff however is pretty nice. With this tactic, stay focused elevates from mediocrity to greatness., making your party healers’ job easier.

Heaven’s Fury
-The skill that can break or ruin a fight. A good, sizeable AoE that causes stagger. Stagger lasts 5 seconds and it is broken by any direct damage, much like roots are. In worse, this means granting free CC immunity to your foes, but well used, you can force a bunch of priority targets sit on a bench for five, grueling seconds. A very powerful skill in right hands and with right folks by your side.

Runefang (tactic)
-Oh, how they massacred my boy. If you have looked at Chosen’s skills, you see something similar but strength and weaponskill instead of strength and weapon skill. Runefang used to be both this and Chosen’s version before it was gutted and nerfed so severely, hung up high in glory tree in hopes no one would smell the putrid miasma of this once glorious tactic while the vile chosen feasted on the entrecorte made out of this once-glorious tactic. Anywho, as it currently stands, runefang is hard to justify occupying tactic slots.

Unbalancing attack
-A fairly servicable AP drain ability that could be a little bit more considering how high is in the list. Then again, it can work nicely in tandem with To Glory! aura to AP starve your foes.

Solar Flare (morale)
-The ultimate offensive morale push tool in knight arsenal, granted if morales are dumped before enemy does. Resetting nine morale bars gets your sides’ push so much more oomph as it’s nine less morales to respond. This may not seem much in large scale, but the chances are.. There won’t be just one knight with Solar Flare.

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jvlosky
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Re: [KOTBS] Gottschalt's Guide To Gnight.

Post#2 » Mon Mar 16, 2020 6:49 pm

Thank you so much, can you give any insight on stat priorities for a tank and a 2h build respectively? Also do you have any build recommendations?

Serbrek
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Re: [KOTBS] Gottschalt's Guide To Gnight.

Post#3 » Sat Mar 21, 2020 3:33 am

Nice guide, the skill and mastery breakdowns are great, especially for new players going from 1-40.

Keep up the good work!

rafiozo
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Re: [KOTBS] Gottschalt's Guide To Gnight.

Post#4 » Wed Mar 25, 2020 8:02 am

Hello thank you for guide.

What i miss as KOTBS in this guide:

SnB questions:

- what aura are in high demand in WB or team play ?
- what build should i use as SnB (talent points distribution)
- what RR build should i use as SNB
- what RR level should i have before level 40
- what talismans should i use to be viable? (wounds, armor, weapon skill, thoughness, strenght)
- what gear - anihilator - ruin - mercenary - mix ? (for start to dont be destroyed in cities, sc, open rvr)
- basic rotation ?
- are tome items viable for SnB (rings)
- stat priorities for a tank (or ratio)

2H KOTBS questions:

- what aura are in high demand in WB or team play ?
- what build should i use as 2H (talent points distribution)
- what RR build should i use as 2H
- what RR level should i have before level 40
- what talismans should i use to be viable? (wounds, armor, weapon skill, thoughness, strenght)
- what gear - anihilator - ruin - mercenary - mix ? (for start to dont be destroyed in cities, sc, open rvr)
- basic rotation ?
- are tome items viable for 2H (rings)
- stat priorities for a 2H (or ratio)


General:
- should i use any specyfic mods ?
- are tome items viable in use ? (rings)
- challange have any use in rvr ?
- should i get gear from PVE ?
- how to get nice trophy to "show off" on my char (not tokens from RVR or SC)

Disclaimer:

I have level 40 KOTBS and use some build made by myself. Its Hard to find any reliable build on internet now. OFC i found some but it is like this is my build and next post is like nope 100% you are wrong (simple version).

Thats why i ask here for some advice. For sure there is some MAIN build for Snb or 2h. Just is hard to find it. When I or other new KOTBS will have it it will be good start to experiment with.

My build for now: (probably its not optumal)
RoR.builders - Knight of the Blazing Sun

rr build
https://builder.returnofreckoning.com/r ... ;3;0;1;0;0

Idea:
block and parry everything and reduce chance that enemy will crit hit me. 22.7 block /47.5 parry ( with shield rush)

ps.

I think that this are most urgent questions for all new players of KOTBS that people are thinking about. (OFC there are more and easy can be added) but in my opinion this is what i miss in guide or in any guide for new players.

best regards.

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mytreds
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Re: [KOTBS] Gottschalt's Guide To Gnight.

Post#5 » Wed Mar 25, 2020 11:48 pm

Rafiozo those are some great questions that need to be answered, but never are in ANY guide I’ve tried to find on KotBS. Hopefully the OP or someone else can tell us. Kind of frustrating trying to figure out a class with old information and current vets keeping the cards close to their chests. I always feel the basic rotation which is vital to any success in PvP is never brought up in any guide.

I’d like to add, and again no one ever mentions this, what weapons are we supposed to be getting at 40?

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phononHYPE
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Re: [KOTBS] Gottschalt's Guide To Gnight.

Post#6 » Thu Mar 26, 2020 1:12 am

rafiozo wrote: Wed Mar 25, 2020 8:02 am Hello thank you for guide.

What i miss as KOTBS in this guide:

SnB questions:

- what aura are in high demand in WB or team play ?
- what build should i use as SnB (talent points distribution)
- what RR build should i use as SNB
- what RR level should i have before level 40
- what talismans should i use to be viable? (wounds, armor, weapon skill, thoughness, strenght)
- what gear - anihilator - ruin - mercenary - mix ? (for start to dont be destroyed in cities, sc, open rvr)
- basic rotation ?
- are tome items viable for SnB (rings)
- stat priorities for a tank (or ratio)

...

General:
- should i use any specyfic mods ?
- are tome items viable in use ? (rings)
- challange have any use in rvr ?
- should i get gear from PVE ?
- how to get nice trophy to "show off" on my char (not tokens from RVR or SC)
My knight has always been snb and I am currently rr73...

For SnB, I think this is the standard, with plenty of room to customize: RoR.builders - Knight of the Blazing Sun. Auras are Stand Strong! + Gather Your Resolve! + Stay Focused! for toughness, resists, and a touch of heal procs, though really SF! is for the 15% group heal bonus. Depending on what your facing and your healer, you can change GYR or SF for some situational aura. Your tactics have space for customization, and I feel Emperor's Ward is mandatory. In general ORvR, I use Banish Darkness for control, and for sieges Gilded Shield is a great one. If there are a lot of WEs, aoe magus, or 2H chosen I use Unwavering Faith ( I prefer passive bonuses as opposed to proc or boosted stuff like Gilded Shield, but GS is a solid choice). As you get around rr 60, I am a fan of Dirty Tricks for that party boost. I think an ideal keep or fort defense would use Rugged + Emperor's Ward + Dirty Tricks + Focused Mending. Here is a solid rr70 build RoR.builders - Knight of the Blazing Sun.

For your RR as you level up, 20 in Defender (block), then 10 in Reflexes, and up the Futile Strikes to III is a good way to go, with Reflexes IV when your 70. Never put rr in wounds, the return is too low at anything but the full 34 points and then you miss out on too many block/parry. From rr71-80 you can play around, I plan on D/D as I finish out the last 10 rr.

Talisman are a personal preference. I see a lot of snb tanks that have regular and well organized guilds run near full strength or initiative. I almost exclusively pug (pve too) so use a mix of wounds, toughness, and armor. Bolster should keep you up (assuming your gear is +/- a few levels of your actual level) so just keep that current as far as sets go. A great set of rings is the Winds Impervious and you can find other rings that my interest you at this sticky post here.

Basic rotation is Shield Rush or Crippling Blow, then just watch for needed interrupts with either Taunt (15s CD) or Vicious Slash (10s CD), or CC with Smashing Counter or (improved) Repel Darkness. Use those last two to either counter melee on other soft targets not in your group (you ARE guard swapping as needed yes?) or lock down a healer (Taunt > VS > DK > Punt and they hate you) or punt away rival tanks when your team is focusing a dps/healer.

General mods, Enemy is the only real mandatory one. You can find all mods here or browse add ons (and find some bundles) here.

As for pve gear, a great set for tanks is from the Gunbad dungeon in the NW most corner of The Badlands greenskin T3 area. 2pc is -3% to be crit and 3pc is +720 armor. I don't have a guide for this dungeon, but the middle path (optional boss drops cloak, main boss is chest) has Ard To Feed which is a tough fight due to technical reasons. Most of the fights are technical, with the first dps race boss being in the city dungons as far as I know.

Hope this helps fill in some of your questions, good luck.
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rafiozo
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Re: [KOTBS] Gottschalt's Guide To Gnight.

Post#7 » Mon Mar 30, 2020 6:24 am

Thank you for your answer :)
If anyone want to shere his ideas please post it too.
More info the better for new players.

orillah
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Re: [KOTBS] Gottschalt's Guide To Gnight.

Post#8 » Mon Jun 29, 2020 5:42 pm

Gottschalt wrote: Mon Mar 16, 2020 4:39 pm
CONS
+Weakest damage output of order tanks

Mighty Soul (Tactic)
-Oh boy, now this used to be mainly meh tactic that was in glory mastery. Now it’s.. something. Mighty soul tries to mimic Chosen’s tactic but having bigger negative part in. Receiving 15% more damage is very very hazardous trade off to do elemental damage with all of your abilities. This can be somewhat useful for high end builds that can already take tons of punishment, but need to deliver some extra damage in return as resists are harder to build than armor.

Emperor’s Champion (Morale)
-Used to be godtier morale 2, but right now it’s “merely” great morale to use. You get a good hefty stat boost all around the board for half the minute.


Bellow Command
s (Tactic)
-This tactic keeps your AP regen high and rarily makes you AP starved. For every aura active, you gain 5 AP per second for total 15. Basically, free AP since you always have three auras active anyways

Arcing Swing
-The only great weapon skill of knights. An AoE that reduces Max HP. A very strong “kill enabling” attack can be upkept constantly. One of two reasons to go 2H with knight.

Overpowering Swing (tactic)
-The second reason to go 2H as a knight. With this tactic, not only your overpowering swing reduces wounds (AKA max HP), but also makes them 10% more likely to be critted. That is huge, especially to DPS folks.

Staggering Impact
- A bit lackluster ability for so high up in tree. The 10% reduced defense chances is alright, but the damage is easily shrugged off. Does need a bit of tweak to sit right up here as last ability. Use this at your own caution and prepare to be disappointed.


Heaven’s Fury
-The skill that can break or ruin a fight. A good, sizeable AoE that causes stagger. Stagger lasts 5 seconds and it is broken by any direct damage, much like roots are. In worse, this means granting free CC immunity to your foes, but well used, you can force a bunch of priority targets sit on a bench for five, grueling seconds. A very powerful skill in right hands and with right folks by your side.

Runefang (tactic)
-Oh, how they massacred my boy. If you have looked at Chosen’s skills, you see something similar but strength and weaponskill instead of strength and weapon skill. Runefang used to be both this and Chosen’s version before it was gutted and nerfed so severely, hung up high in glory tree in hopes no one would smell the putrid miasma of this once glorious tactic while the vile chosen feasted on the entrecorte made out of this once-glorious tactic. Anywho, as it currently stands, runefang is hard to justify occupying tactic slots.

Unbalancing attack
-A fairly servicable AP drain ability that could be a little bit more considering how high is in the list. Then again, it can work nicely in tandem with To Glory! aura to AP starve your foes.
Something i want to add up after reading this:

1) Knight damage output is probably weakest in the game, pretty sure any other calss can do a better job at damaging, even runepriests.

2) Mighty soul is very close to "garbage" tier, same spot as Focussed Offense. I did some testing at its a generally a 10-15% dps increase for a flat 15% more damage recieved.

3) Emperor's Champion have 15 second duration, not 30. Sadly dev team does not updated a lot of ingame descriptions.

4) Bellow Commands currently restore ap even if you have no auras up,but its not so big of a deal.

5) Arcing Swing becomes a main source of crit debuff and makes Overpowering Swings and overall going 2h route untill lvl 40 useless, cos you only get Arcing Swing at 40.

6) Staggering Impact used to do 200+ dmg ticks in conq gear era, why nerf it to current 20-40 was beyond my understanding.

7) Heaven’s Fury is only a 3 seconds stagger, you can clearly see a pattern about ingame descriptions now ;)

8) Runefang was mostly the argument about all the nerf knight recieved through all this years, every time it was:" You have runefang, you dont need more utility/survivability/damage - pick one you like". Now its gone and somehow ended in chosens hand in slightly gutted version. Current implementation to knights have 2 builds with it in my eyes:
a)RoR.builders - Knight of the Blazing Sun
or
b) This one is for conq geared knights that managed to be 70+rr but not in a better gear yet: RoR.builders - Knight of the Blazing Sun

9) Atm even with +2 from sov i cant find a good build to use Unbalancing Attack, it a another lackluster abiltiy in knight disposal.

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Cadien
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Re: [KOTBS] Gottschalt's Guide To Gnight.

Post#9 » Tue Sep 29, 2020 1:33 pm

What endgame stat goals should a s&b knight shoot for? I know, for example, you want to overcap armor due to the prevalence of armor debuffs, but how high is good enough before focusing on other stats? Same with wounds and toughness.

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Re: [KOTBS] Gottschalt's Guide To Gnight.

Post#10 » Tue Sep 29, 2020 3:04 pm

hi, are you sure the stagger is 5sec ? i know the tooltip shows 5sec but iam pretty sure its 3sec only here,
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