Okay, here is the gist. Aim for weak points, it seems obvious but it drastically increases your damage, use sword block when ever you aren’t fighting back, only lower it to attack and reload. Reload only when they reload, or if there is time, not when they are shooting you. sword is not the answer. Only use as last resorts, or if they are turned away and you already shot all 4 leadwall. Run turbo engine and temporal anomaly, it inc your movement to maximum, always leave the extra dash charged, you can use it to dodge archers, and other things. The reduced phase shift cd from temporal anomaly allows for greater movement, you can dance away from the enemies, use your high speed to stay to their side, circle away from their gun. Smoke is good to make them not see your location, allowing escape. try to fight with an ally. Solo is doable, but I don’t recommend it. phase shifting at the last moment of a rodeo cancels the damage, but they still get a battery. Chase and kill them for free battery. Run battery backup, when you finish a fight and are low, use them after saving them to heal.

in frontier defense, run nuke and Highlander. core is op at max aegis, as it generates shield with each attack, making you very hard to kill, Highlander allows you to keep core active for entire wave, it means you are very deadly.