So, I've noticed how insanely awesome a sin looks with a longsword. Ninjas were meant to have swords, not little knives! So I've been thinking up ways to make an effective PvE A/W that uses swords.
Essentially, you would be running a spread like this:
Swordsmanship 12
Critical Strikes 9+1+3
Tactics 9
or
Critical Strikes 12+1
Swordsmanship 12
Tactics 3
Maxed out sword damage, 3 energy for every crit, and you can hold a max shield. Alternatively, you would run a req. 3 shield and max out CS and Swordsmanship without the need for a sup rune. A req. 0 shield can give you about 10 armor; so I imagine a req3 would give you ~12 armor.
Critical Agility, Critical Defense, Way of the Master, and Malicious Strikes are all skills that come to mind on the sin-side of things.
Sever Artery, Gash, Hundred Blades, Sun and Moon Slash, Disrupting Blow, Distracting Strike, and Save Slash come to me on the Warrior side of skills.
Healing Signet and Assassin's Remedy seem like good support skills.
As I've been told many times, you're just gimping yourself severely to run a sin without Critical Agility. Assassins are kind of fragile, so you should have up Critical Defenses, too. Sever Artery, Gash, and Malicious Strike work as somewhat of a pseudo-chain, and it works to restore your Critical Enchantments. Way of the Master does its job of cheaply increasing your spike damage output. Hundred Blades is a "decent" replacement for Death Blossom (although it does eat up your Elite slot). Then, depending on your spread, you may want to run Healing Signet, Assassin's Remedy, or put a few points into shadow-arts and run Shadow Refuge or Way of Perfection. Pouring points into Shadow Arts does mean you have to run a req. 0 shield... BUT that's not completely bad! With those options in mind, a lot of people would probably opt for a Rez.
E Critical Agility
E Critical Defenses
A Sever Artery
A Gash
A Malicious Strike
E Way of the Master
A Hundred Blades
O Optional
A=Attack, E=Enchantment, O=Optional
A question to other warrior/sin players... Does Frenzy stack up with Critical Agility?
Now, if you would all please mind... Being constructive. I don't care for useless comments about how I should just be running DeathMoebius
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