Swords of Legends Online - Spearmaster FAQ Answering

[@MrScooter312]

Honestly a great guide

[@4R35K]

Indestructible and Brave General ?

[@Bakaidi]

great info, thanks!

[@lucifare]

Would it be possible for you to export a copy of your ui please?

[@asamayomi]

is that possible? haven't checked. but here's a slightly dated image of it. alice.s-ul.eu/Nkczs8r0

[@lucifare]

@@asamayomi Thank you. Would you mind sharing the most up to date please? I noticed theres some buffs popping up to the right.

[@nevadabdo]

Love u

[@AngelicStreak]

As a tank you want to boost your DPS instead of aggro? Doesn't make much sense to me. I prefer permanent Turtle on just to get +30% aggro permanently the whole dungeon and I of course unslotted Dragon Cleaver permanently for Phalanx -- replaced it with Wrath of Spear which generates about 5k(!) aoe aggro on each hit. I don't have to even use re-taunts much in hard dungeons. And I still deal decent damage. But tank isn't supposed to deal super damage in my book. The priorities for tank are: 1) Aggro, 2) Don't lose aggro, 3) Reduce your incoming damage or dodge on all heavy hits, 4) Help with DPS. That is what I call a good tank. If you want more DPS you can always hire an extra DPS. But as a tank you don't want to arrange your skills in a way to maximize DPS instead of aggro. That just is plain wrong tanking if you ask me.

[@asamayomi]

that's great, have fun playing how you want. but not everyone likes to be useless.

[@AngelicStreak]

@@asamayomi Useless? You clearly don't know what the role of tank is. Maybe in some other games tanks are useless. In this game, in hard dungeons, they are not. Tank that focuses his or her skills on max damage is useless. Nobody needs your extra dps when they can add one more damage dealer to get 5 times more dps than you can do.

[@asamayomi]

​@@AngelicStreak current dps classes are doing ~3.5k on dummies. I fit all your criteria of a "good tank," while simultaneously not intentionally disregarding how to play my class optimally. I've tanked all of the content during betas and again in launch. I'm already gl60. I'm not sure what mmos you have been playing, but clearly you are not with the times. the days of 1 handed paladin are over. do damage while simultaneously doing your job as a tank. if you're not trying to make the runs faster on top of tanking, why are you even bothering? extra aggro? do more damage to get more aggro. damage mitigation? damage in this game is highly telegraphed and on a timer like other games such as ffxiv and wow. meaning you can pre-plan your cds around tank busters so that you're never taking more damage than you need to. the current fights in the game don't even do enough damage to warrant using great wall/indestructible as mitigation cds. you're the kind of person who people flame for actually being garbage because you think that you have to fulfill this ridiculous notion of mmorpg trinities long past. dps? deal damage. tanks? deal damage. healers? deal damage. unless the game specifically neuters the damage output of a class, much like solo does for healers, then why are you not doing damage on top of your job? there is no good player that would ever want to play with someone who has your mentality. if you're casual, that's fine. enjoy the game your way, but if you're going to argue with someone who gives a shit about playing optimally and being an actual asset to those I play with, then you better have actual reasoning to back up your idiotic and hyperbolic claims.

[@AngelicStreak]

@@asamayomi Wow, such a rant. First, I _am_ dealing damage the whole time I am tanking, but I'm not trying to be the best DPS dabbling as an off-tank, which is exactly what you do. Second, I'm not talking about normal dungeons, where tanking isn't really needed so much. I'm talking hard content with 1 healer and 1 tank and 3 dds. Third, this game's tank role is designed exactly the way I describe. If you want a proof, then look at the passives recommended by the game itself. Can you see the little "thumb up" icon at the Turtle passive for Phalanx? Yeah? But feel free to impose your "fashion of times" type views -- which you seem to have brought from some other games where tanking is really useless and not needed -- on this game.

[@asamayomi]

@@AngelicStreak www.twitch.tv/videos/1087930758?t=6h24m24s ok let me know when you decide to not be dead weight.