Foot Knight/Builds


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General Playstyle
As a melee frontline career, Foot Knight should funnel enemies in front of you as much as you can and buy space for your range focus and more squishy teammates. When there is a Boss on the field, focus on the weaker mobs first then help your team deal with the Boss. Or pull the Boss aggro onto you so your low health teammates have a better chance surviving.

Recommended Range Weapon Choice
All range weapons are very viable on Foot Knight. Only on certain builds, one range weapon can outperform others.

Shield weapon focus build
https://www.ranaldsgift.com/3/111121/21,1,3,3/11,1,5,7/3,2,1/4,1,2/3,2,2

Description:

This build is meant for shield weapon.

With this build, you should prioritize at crowd control. Utilize your Shield Push and Shield Bash(need wiki mechanic page) to stagger all types of Horde Mobs and Elites so your team can safely dish out damage onto them.

The core talent of this build is Level 10 talent Staggering Force and Level 25 talent Counter-Punch. With Staggering Force and melee weapon trait Opportunist, you can stagger Stormvermin/Mauler/Bestigor overhead, Savage/Plague Monk flurry attack combo with your push. Counter-Punch gives you free push after blocking which means free stagger for your team and free Temporary Health for yourself from push.

Recommend to pair with Sword and Shield, Mace and Shield.

Low push/push attack consumption build
https://www.ranaldsgift.com/3/222131/18,1,3,6/12,3,7,2/3,2,1/4,1,2/3,2,2

Description:

This build is meant for melee weapons/playstyle that don’t use push/push attack a lot in your combo.

With this build, you should utilize the high stagger moveset on your weapon or your career skill to stagger Elites from time to time in order to get the 15% power boost. If your weapon lack stagger power or Elites are out of reach, you can shot them with your range weapon once which can stagger most of Elites.

The core talent of this build is Level 10 talent Have at Thee. With the long duration of Have at Thee and low cooldown of your career skill, you can receive 15% power boost basically all the time on high difficulty where Elites are very common across the whole map.

Recommend to pair with melee weapons like Two-Handed Sword, Executioner Sword, Two-Handed Hammer.

High push/push attack consumption build
https://www.ranaldsgift.com/3/232131/19,1,2,6/14,3,8,7/3,1,1/4,1,2/3,2,2

Description:

This build is meant for melee weapons/playstyle that use push/push attack a lot in your combo.

With this build you should utilize your push/push attack to get an attack speed boost, helping to activate your Swift Slaying and killing Elites faster. But you should still be conservative on consuming stamina and stop unnecessary push spam if you have already activated Swift Slaying.

Core talent of this build is Level 10 talent Crowd Clear and using stamina as Properties on both melee weapon and Necklace. Trading your high stamina with a decent amount of attack speed to boost your damage output.

Recommend to pair with melee weapons like Halberd, Sword, Mace, Mace and Sword.