2H Aggro-hog build

Just sharing a build that was fun to take to 160 cap.

Spoiler: Stats

Str>Dex

Spoiler: Gear

Weapon: Integridar Sword +C (Pillar Golem)
Arm: FC16 arm (Iconos)
Add: Cupid Potum (Guignol)
Special: Muscle Talisman IV (Bexiz)

Spoiler: Skills

Spoiler: Blade

Trigger Slash 10
Rampage 10
Meteor Breaker 10
Buster Blade 10
Sword Techniques 10
Warcry 10
Berserk 10

Spoiler: Magic

Impact 7
MP Charge 1

Spoiler: Martial

Sonic Wave 10

Spoiler: Mononofu

Shukichi 1
Two Handed 10

SP used: 180 (so around 50 left spare)

Spoiler: Combos

1. [2mp] - Sonic Wave -> Berserk (save) -> Rampage (swift) -> Decoy (con)
2. [4mp] - Buster Blade -> Berserk (save) -> Warcry (swift) -> Impact (con) -> Meteor Breaker (smite) -> Trigger Slash (con)
3. [5mp] - Impact -> Meteor Breaker (smite) -> Trigger Slash (con)
4. [2mp] - Trigger Slash (solo/no combo, 4th shortcut)

Spoiler: Playstyle

• Use Combo 1 to initiate. Its ranged, generates lots of aggro quickly to lure enemy towards you, and more importantly, the range of your Decoy
• Spam either (long) Combo 2 or (short) Combo 3
• Weave in auto-attacks to manage proration and top up your MP (which is already regenerating thanks to Decoy)
• Add Trigger Slash for extra ampr buff (and speed up next skill/Rampage finish)
• Use Combo 1 again when Rampage is down to refresh it, as well as your Decoy

Normally I would finish boss with full mp, immediately ready for next run~

Spoiler: Extra Notes

• Party Popularity - Being a (DPS) tank, its easy to start boss runs because you make up your own parties!
• MP Management - No worries! With Rampage, Trigger and Decoy going on, you will rarely be low on MP, and/or unable to regenerate it back quickly.
• Gear/xtals - above is only what I've been using. There are many ways to further tweak/optimize this (like weapon refine, switching to more aggro% gear/xtals etc), but for sure the +10k hp on Integridar Sword is very handy for staying alive even with Berserk and Rampage up
• Crit - Really low requirement on crit gear. With Berserk always up (+50crit), you only need to ensure skills+gear is over 25 only. Very easily done. Rest of the gear can focus on DPS/HP depending on preference
• Sonic Wave - on top of being a great ranged initiator, having this maxed (and smash lvl 6) means you can be a capable 1hfu (with 100% flinch+tumble) on the side

Feel free to try it out, and I hope you enjoy it too!

 

Whats a good replacement for intergridar?

 

There's a few other 2hs with +HP out there (Sinergatis, Order Espa, Choco Banana from event).
You can also swap the full crit arm for Ritual Dress (5000HP)/Snowman Garb(7000HP) and then use a +crit add instead (shaved ice hat, gothic, beast collar)

 

My guut sir, I understand whyyy you called this a "Tank" build. But, using various skills that lower your defenses and renders you hopeless to fraction hits...kinda makes you a normal ampr dps d:

 

Its not exactly a "tank" imo. Its just a "Tanky" dps lol

 

And by Tanky, it just has a little extra hp. No damage mitigation whatsoever. Its true that 2h produces lots of aggro tho

 

Oh yeah aha the aggro from Rampage+Warcry (and the dps added) definitely makes it get the aggro role in a party xD

 

Yeah, it's the spamming without any care for aggro that makes it a 'tank'. Your only defensive options are that healthy hp pool, manual dodging of aoes and the invincibility frames from meteor. As they say, sometimes the best defense is a good offense

 

Well, a pure tank will still do better at managing aggro on extreme cases. But I guess you can be a part-time tank lol. Tanks arent that rare nowadays. But some bosses don't really need a solid tank and could be more efficient with a DPS aggro holder