The Swordmaster class in Dungeonborne is famous for its skill and massive damage output. In this guide, I’ll walk you through the optimal build for both PvP and PvPvE. We’ll go over everything from active and passive abilities to the best tools and stats.
Best active skills for PvP and Solo for Swordmaster Build in Dungeonborne
Like all other classes in Dungeonborne, Swordmasters have two active skills, and both of them are equally useful. Here’s a quick overview of the active skills and what makes them so great.
| skill | effect | Why It’s Big |
|---|---|---|
| Psionic Blades | Summon up to 4 Psionic Blades from your inventory that track and attack enemies to deal damage. The cooldown is determined by the number of swords fired. | It offers great damage and self-sustainability, making it an invaluable choice in prolonged battles. Additionally, with Healing Scabbard, you also restore 30 life per hit, making it an even better option that deals insane damage and healing. |
| Spinning Blade | Summons 1 sword that continuously orbits around you for 8 seconds, dealing minor damage to nearby enemies. | This one provides constant area damage, which is a great option when you’re surrounded by a crowd. On top of that, when you have Deflection, you also negate 50% of damage taken, making it a top skill. |
Best passive skills for PvP and Solo for Swordmaster Build in Dungeonborne
Passives are the make and break for this build, so you have to prioritize the right ones first, and getting them in PvP is pretty easy. For adventure, you will need to grind some and unlock some weapons to unlock some passives. This is how you should prioritize passive skills for PvP and adventuring.
| Passive Ability | effect | Why It’s Big |
|---|---|---|
| Healing Thrush | Psionic Blades restores 30 life on every unblocked hit. | Essential because it not only helps you deal damage, but also restores a lot of health to increase survivability. |
| deflection | Reduces all damage taken by 50% while Whirling Blade is active. | It’s a no-brainer because you become mostly invincible for a short time where you can get in close and deal tons of damage. |
| A moment | Increases your Critical Chance by 50% for 5 seconds after hitting an enemy with Psionic Blades. | This one is to support Psionic Blades by adding more firepower that you can use with other attacks later. |
| Flare of Blades | Reduces the cooldown of psionic blades by 10 or 15 seconds after firing 3 or 4 blades at once. | Lastly, this skill allows you to use your Psionic Blades more often, which allows you to activate the other passives more often. |
Best stats for Swordmaster Build in Dungeonborne
When leveling up or choosing gear, you’ll need to prioritize certain stats over others so you can unlock the passives faster.
| Stat | Purpose | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| strength | 54 | Unlocks the Healing Grief passive, which is crucial for self-healing during battles. |
| Endurance | 36 | Unlocks the Detour passive, which greatly reduces incoming damage. |
| skill | 35 | Unlocks the Momentum passive, significantly increasing your critical chance. |
| Will | 27 | Unlocks the Flurry of Blades passive, allowing you to use Psionic Blades more often. |
Best Swordmaster Build gear and attachments for PvP in Dungeonborne
In PvP, you’ll have all the gear in the world to choose from, so it can be overwhelming. The main stats you want with your gear is to increase your stats unlock the liabilities that you have not already unlocked. Then, with secondary stats or affixes, go for anything that has life on hit or life on kill to increase your survivability even more.
Best Swordmaster Build gear and affixes for PvPvE and Solo in Dungeonborne
The situation changes when it comes to gear in PvPvE or solo adventure, as you have to get the gear to equip them. In those cases, go for the best gear you have available or create the heritage kits. Give legacy kits stats you need to complete the build, and add other stats or affixes that help with survivability like lifesteal.
A tip for heirloom gear: You can craft the already created legacy gear for a Mithril Token, which you can buy from the merchant for 1,000 coins. Getting an already created legacy will only cost you 1,000 gold, so don’t worry about losing it much if you created it.
How to play the Swordmaster Build in Dungeonborne
To play this build effectively, you need to follow a simple gameplay loop that ensures you always do optimal damage without dying. While this loop is the optimal way to play this build, you may sometimes deviate from it to handle special situations, but otherwise, stick with it.
- Start engaging the enemies by launching your 3 or 4 Psionic Blades deal damage and start healing. With 3 or 4 blades, your cooldown for Psionic Blades will be reduced.
- Immediately after that, use the Spinning Blade reduce all incoming damage by half and deal damage to nearby enemies.
- Also take advantage A moment and start attacking with your sword to deal critical damage with the increased chances.
- If the enemies are still alive, use Psionic Blades again to start the whole cycle again.
- Finally, when you’re done, store yourself with swords to use Psionic Blades for the next encounter.
How to beat bosses
Bosses in Dungeonborne are extremely difficult to deal with, but if you follow the tips below, you’ll have a better chance of defeating them.
- When fighting bosses, positions it matters how things turn out for you. Always be in a place from where you can hit the boss with Psionic Blades.
- Another thing you have to remember is to use Healing Thrush effectively and how long you can stay in the fight.
- Lastly, if you can’t avoid the boss, use Spinning Blade to reduce the damage you take.
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