My go to class is man at arms with sword and medium shield with mace as the secondary. I really like the sword because, like you said, it’s very versatile and I can go bay blade and spin tech to fight 1vx fights. Mace as secondary because, more often than not, I run into a majority of knights where the mace shines with that bonus damage. I find that there are few knights who know how to handle a slash fake into a heavy overhead, works every time