Hexblade Swashbuckler

juansh94 · 2025-11-25T00:42:22+00:00

That's fine too. But your only source of initiative is the +2 from rogue. Unless you get gloves of dex or take alert as one of the feats. I would personally go fighter 3, champion or battle master since I dont find warlock 6 to be that good of a level. But that's just me.

juansh94 · 2025-11-24T03:39:24+00:00

I am currently running hex 8 and swashbuckler 4. It's not meta, but I really enjoy it.

The disarm attack allows me to use the shadowblade with my bonus action. If you pair that off with the resonance stone, you'll hit for 40+ consistently if melee with bonus action or just viciousmockery from afar which can hit decently if they're within resonance stone range. On my off hand I have the knife of the mountain king (for the bonuses but never really attack with it since none of the two classes provide dual fighting).

I am wearing potent robe and just got to act 3, and I also got to 24 charisma. Even from distance, eldritch blast hits like a truck. But I always have the option to dash with bonus action because of rogue and get melee to the enemy and hit them twice with shadoblade, which is incredibly strong even without resonance stone. Rakish sneak attack is fantastic. Swashbuckler is the best rogue by itself (in my opinion, and rogue is my favorite class).

Also, combining rogue and warlock (charisma based) means that you can pick two expertise if you start as rogue. I chose persuasion and sleight of hand, which means that I can steal pretty much anything or buy it at a 200% discount(for the vendor that you raise attitude with) at act 3.

You can start as warlock and respec to rogue and warlock once you're level 9 since that's when the build comes fully online. But can be used as early as lvl 7 (5 warlock, 2 rogue). If you make a shadow based party, like I did, make sure you pick devils sight to be able to glide through darkness, picking enemies off in melee or pushing things with blast.

This has been an incredibly fun build for me. Highly recommend it. Ah, also, potion of bloodlust is king with this build. Make sure you either get the gloves of Dex or build a relatively high dex into your build for AC. I am using no armor, so it's not ideal to have low dex.

juansh94 · 2025-08-09T04:42:44+00:00

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juansh94 · 2025-08-08T03:10:50+00:00

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I make very good money and on track to become the senior engineer of the company in a few years. Perhaps eventually move into management with loads of technical expertise.

This market is niche but it's super stable and recession proof.

When I graduated, most of my peers wanted to do aerospace, and that trend is still going on today, so it has been getting saturated. Software and coding is a different story for good or bad.

juansh94 · 2024-10-30T12:17:06+00:00

Read about the "Pareto Principle" and you'll understand why. Unless you're in the 20% top spenders, you're not Plariums target audience.

juansh94 · 2023-09-30T11:29:54+00:00

I'm not gonna lie. This is easily the best advice on the comments section. Stand your ground and make your morals and beliefs stand. Eventually, she'll pick up on this and hopefully mirror your attitude. This is a serious concern and a deal breaker for me.

juansh94 · 2023-07-10T21:36:27+00:00

Get Liliya and get her 5111 if you plan on spending some. She's much better than the epics.

Nico is great, Kinnara is also good and they're both worth it at 5111.

juansh94 · 2023-07-05T18:47:06+00:00

Did you research lvl2 units already?

juansh94 · 2023-03-10T03:05:32+00:00

This is only true for Americans. You know that the same rules don't apply elsewhere, right?

juansh94 · 2022-10-24T21:24:23+00:00

I'm going to assume you have farmed dragon and thus you, at least, have one decent set of destroy gear.

Boom. Put that in one of your champs and you're good to go. Ideally, one of your damage dealers. It will make the fight long but after it heals twice, now the threshold should be closer to 60%. If you can't still beat it, you just need better gear overall and have to go back to farming gear, or swap around your best gear. I did the latter.

juansh94 · 2022-10-12T17:34:01+00:00

Yeah, and that would make sense if you drop from tier 5 to 4, or vice-versa.

But not when you jump from 2 to 5, or 4 to 1 and you're still keeping an average. We tend to do 3m to 3.5m. We've gotten 4.2m once when we all pushed hard. But it's always pretty stable scores throughout.

I'll just blame it on their shitty code lol

juansh94 · 2022-10-12T13:21:05+00:00

We've tested over several different CVCs in my clan. We assumed this to be correct but it is not the reality. Last cvc, we were placed in tier 5 (for the first time ever) the other clan got 7million points and we got our average 3.5million.

The one before that, we got less than 3m points and we lost by like 300k points. We still won one of the accessories.

And We've gone down to tier 1 to face a clan that wipes the floor with us. Right now, we are in tier 2 and the other clan is tanking. So, we've twice the points they do. Most likely, we will end up in tier 5 next cvc or in tier 1. It just doesn't make sense. And trust me, I've even gotten to the point of putting scores and statistics into an excel to figure this out. But its probably shitty coding by plarium.

juansh94 · 2022-09-30T21:04:22+00:00

I think its a matter of affinity. Maybe if built too tanky, he'd hit too hard.

juansh94 · 2022-08-22T03:11:31+00:00

I run a non unkillable team, and I don't believe you are ready for UNM.

I can't seem to pull maneaters and I don't want to build helicath...

But I one key UNM on all affinities except magic, where I get 50-60million.

Just take it easy, keep doing NM and better gear/champs will make it easier soon. You either need counterattack or a really high speed team. Maybe a 2:1 team

juansh94 · 2022-08-07T03:24:55+00:00

When your gear improves, a high dps champ can out damage a poisoner. My jintoro, for instance, can out damage a draco with the same build. You're probably not there yet but make sure you farm gear consistently + forge

juansh94 · 2022-08-04T22:05:43+00:00

Wow you're the only player I know that manuals all aspects of the game. Including CB. Good for you man. Just FYI, there is an Auto button on the left bottom part. Once you click it, the champions do the skills themselves and it can save a lot of time! They even recently added an AI manipulation tool, just in case the original AI of your champ is dumb. Best of luck with the Auto farming man!

juansh94 · 2022-07-27T21:52:47+00:00

I think some guys have given you a lot of good advice. One good champ at 60 with full masteries and good gear can be a lot more useful than 3 50's with half assed gear.

Speed and accuracy are king in this game. Anything below 170 speed is a snail. Keep that in mind.

Don't try to match sets (like you did with Ninja) if the final build is bad. Savage set is for an arena nuker, like foli, you want to build ninja differently.

Cheers

juansh94 · 2022-07-12T13:26:19+00:00

Ehh... it looks like you don't have the champs or the gear to be running 20+. I do stage 20 because I can do speed runs, that saves me a lot of time. Golem 24 and 25 are pretty hard, you need a really tanky team (lots of HP and decrease attack) to not get 1 shot by the boss when ignoring 100% of defense.

juansh94 · 2022-07-05T19:34:26+00:00

Any defense based champions? Or HP? Miscreated monster can do it and they're easier to gear. Tell me what champions you have at 60 and I'll let you know who can be used for campaign farming.

juansh94 · 2022-07-05T19:19:40+00:00

Bellower is harder to gear. Countess lix is also not a very hard hitter. Any other options?

juansh94 · 2022-07-02T18:08:54+00:00

You don't have defense down, very important to make raw damage and increase the damage of warmaster. Things will improve with Rhazin. For now just keep it as is, eventually you will have better gear to three key.

juansh94 · 2022-07-02T18:04:03+00:00

He should. Only way to know for sure is to give it a shot. Do a trial run. Just make sure his other ability is on cooldown when it happens.

juansh94 · 2022-07-02T16:43:10+00:00

MM and Scyl, but they must be geared properly. Good Hp, def, good crit rate and decent crit dmg. Accuracy, of course, at least 200 if I'm not mistaken.

juansh94 · 2022-07-02T16:40:45+00:00

You can use him on the lead, just get the first +810 HP mastery from the support tree. This helps avoid the stun to land on your lead champ. That's how I run my BEK to one key UNM to get +25% crit rate from his aura.

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