Sword & Shield

The SnS is an integral part of any team giving good damage output while being able to give your group 10% empower through leadership and good weakens & rends to back it up.

Attributes

The SnS scales more from STR the 350 Str perk gives us huge boosts to our abilities and light attacks.

Armor & Jewelry Perks

Perks in order of Importance, don’t stress about gearscore as you’re leveling , low gearscore with good perks beats high gearscore with bad perks. Sns is built around grey wizards hat as this is the highest damage artifact currently for this build.

Click the links below to see more specific armor and jewelry recommendations.

Armor

  • Enchanted Ward

  • Refreshing

  • Fortifying Shield Rush

  • Health

Amulet

  • Protection

  • Health

  • Empowered

Ring

  • Hearty

  • Leeching

  • Keen Awareness

Earring

  • Refreshing

  • Refreshing Toast

  • Empowering Toast/ Nimble

Rotations

  • Heavy Attack

  • Whirling Blade

  • 3x Light attack

  • Heavy attack

  • Rush

  • Upheval

  • Switch to offhand if needed or repeat the above always doing full light attack chains, you are using heavy attacks to give yourself empower. Critical Precision for Recuperation if you want more healing

Weapons

Butcher is the highest damage for SnS closely followed by a sword with rogue and refreshing move, look at pairing with a round shield with offensive perks like the Artesian round shield. for your Shield options Check out HERE

Offhand Options

This Weapon Pairs Well With The Following Options, 5% spear is the best pairing though.

5%Spear 10% Spear Blunderbuss Great Axe Hammer