Another Inavan style build. I was never really a fan of it, mainly due to oscillator. Not my favorite blade. But, the combo, if your able to do it consistently, is pretty awesome. I would like to point out that Inavan's build has moved to using the VP61PS shield. It is just a better shield all around. My sword and board build is vastly different, omitting the 'combo', and instead adapting more of a damage over time approach. It uses the pulse plade with vp61ps shield plus javelin beta and the straight 4 cell hand missles. Ran on a RJ midweight frame powered by fluegal boosters. The strategy is simple, soften enemies up with missles, then complete stagger via RJ's powerful kick or PB's first attack ( saving second for punish). If you stagger with the kick, followup with PB double slash and another kick then egress, if PB first attack staggered then follow up with pb's second attack then kick, twice if possible. The expansion choice is up to you, however I find assault armor to be the better choice on basically any cqc build.
main drawback of oscillator i think is the spinning animation, makes you easily get flanked by missiles and enemies has enough window to shove in extra atk. 2 reasons i stayed using su-q85 is its lower en and 1 second initial guard window (i find it easier shield feathering following the 1 sec tick tock tempo). i do think ps shield is way better tho. your build sounds interesting to fight against. do you find jav beta consistent enough? i find it hard to reliably catch lw kites (moreover sky lamm) with it, that's why i stick with dual act on the double melee. also, i haven't test this much, but i think you can also reliably punish with charged pulse blade if you ab towards them first (kinda like that ab cancel tech). 1. enemies got staggered 2. ab towards enemies (they usually break stuns and initiate qb during this time frame) 3. charge blade punish (if timed correctly, you'll start lunging in the direction they qb away)
Another Inavan style build. I was never really a fan of it, mainly due to oscillator. Not my favorite blade. But, the combo, if your able to do it consistently, is pretty awesome. I would like to point out that Inavan's build has moved to using the VP61PS shield. It is just a better shield all around. My sword and board build is vastly different, omitting the 'combo', and instead adapting more of a damage over time approach. It uses the pulse plade with vp61ps shield plus javelin beta and the straight 4 cell hand missles. Ran on a RJ midweight frame powered by fluegal boosters. The strategy is simple, soften enemies up with missles, then complete stagger via RJ's powerful kick or PB's first attack ( saving second for punish). If you stagger with the kick, followup with PB double slash and another kick then egress, if PB first attack staggered then follow up with pb's second attack then kick, twice if possible. The expansion choice is up to you, however I find assault armor to be the better choice on basically any cqc build.
main drawback of oscillator i think is the spinning animation, makes you easily get flanked by missiles and enemies has enough window to shove in extra atk.
2 reasons i stayed using su-q85 is its lower en and 1 second initial guard window (i find it easier shield feathering following the 1 sec tick tock tempo). i do think ps shield is way better tho.
your build sounds interesting to fight against. do you find jav beta consistent enough? i find it hard to reliably catch lw kites (moreover sky lamm) with it, that's why i stick with dual act on the double melee.
also, i haven't test this much, but i think you can also reliably punish with charged pulse blade if you ab towards them first (kinda like that ab cancel tech).
1. enemies got staggered
2. ab towards enemies (they usually break stuns and initiate qb during this time frame)
3. charge blade punish (if timed correctly, you'll start lunging in the direction they qb away)
Why do you use the worst shield in the game?
low en cost, 1 second ig window (longer than ps shield), and the ig's dmg and impact dampening aren't that bad.