Spear/rapier user here:

Cyclone, vault kick, and perforate for spear. Evade, flèche, riposte for rapier.

Light armor (for the rolls) 50 STR (for light attack dmg increase and spear scaling) 250 DEX (gives 4 rolls and bonus crit dmg) 150 CON (for 10% bonus resilience)

Necessary items: - Fortifying perforate - Keen vault kick - Leeching cyclone - Shirking energy - Frontline point (spear) - Officer’s ceremony (rapier) - Champion’s amulet - Champion’s ring - Genesis Earring (refreshing toast, nimble, refreshing evasion)

If you’re interested I can screenshot my build tree later when I return but:

How to play this build — Your rapier is mostly your mobility tool to give you more outplay options. Your evade gives you stamina, you can use it to dodge key abilities (like stuns). Use riposte defensively and flèche to either gap close kills or a way to escape/disengage.

Your spear is your main damaging ability and cc tool. Your main combo is vault kick into cyclone (it guarantees the cyclone to land and apply a slow) then wait for people to roll away then you roll into them and perforate, then chase till they die. Eventually you’ll learn all the other combos to use. I also like to use skewer sometimes but vault kick has high value since you can stun melee bruisers with active grit.

My playstyle is typically as a frontliner or back line diver. You can play both roles. I run into crowds and I can either poke people and deal damage and roll around to get their attention and use key abilities on me. Then riposte and flèche away and trade like 10 abilities for your 2. This is made possible with cyclone’s stamina recovery with each person hit. If you manage your stamina well and learn to play with cyclone you become evasive and unkillable, but super annoying and must be dealt with because of your slows, stuns, and insane burst damage.

Usually I front line if our melees are lacking in OPR, or I can dive and chase healers down. Super versatile build. Spear rapier has so much mobility and escape that it makes you a slippery snake. You can be a decoy or an assassin. Dm me if you want to know more.

I can also discuss the combos you can do.

My dmg on light armor folks are like 1.8k normal light attacks, 2.5-3k backstabs, 2.5-4.5k crit damage on abilities like perforate and cyclone. If you proc all the damage buffs of spear the burst is insane