Fighter needs a mid-late game buff

[Blue]

the class falls off hard later in the game to the point where it's seriously underwhelming

[Purple Sauce]

Completely agree once I hit level 20 warrior became useless af. It doesn't even tank properly either.

[Mr. Do Everything]

My fighter is nigh upon invincible it feels like. Are you properly upgrading equipment?

[Blue]

have you made it to battahl yet? I feel like a turtle, yet it cant even do that right. Useless offensively and defensively. Which abilities are you using?

[Signex]

Yea things die way too slow as fighter.

[Monk]

It's a sad state of affairs, there is no reason for a shield to equal very low damage, especially in single player games!

Heck, fighters arent even the tankiest, defense seems to do very little, especially compared to everyone else's massive invulnerability skills.

[ThatOneGuy]

If only we got Dragons's Maw, considering the whole stunlocking in this game, besides being an epic blender, Dragons Maw could be deployed while you were being attacked, they made full moon slash cooler, idk why they couldn't just make Dragon's Maw in DD 2 be a super fast multi spin attack, a horizontal skull splitter if you will

[Krówka]

The fighter's end game buff is called "Dragon's Dogma" there's an achievement linked to it. Also keep enchanting weapons, try having a mage with electric buff and complete any cave or dungeon on your way and less large monsters to level your vocation faster.

[Gamefever]

My character hit level 40 last night an well my pawn is tank.

My pawn has the Medusa shield pretty op shield I found north of vern area capital.
Also silver rapier which I maxed out.

Vocations maxed most of them, but still have to max warrior two handed and sorcerer. So probably start working on those. Holding threat my fighter does ok probably get better after 10 levels in Warrior growth then switch back.

[Gamefever]

My fighters knock down is crazy high though, she knocks small and sometimes medium stuff down then one shots it while it's downed.

Basically stacked knock down.

[ffrotty]

Originally posted by Gamefever:

My character hit level 40 last night an well my pawn is tank.

My pawn has the Medusa shield pretty op shield I found north of vern area capital.
Also silver rapier which I maxed out.

Vocations maxed most of them, but still have to max warrior two handed and sorcerer. So probably start working on those. Holding threat my fighter does ok probably get better after 10 levels in Warrior growth then switch back.

the point isn't "does fighter do fighter good" the point is "fighter is the worst class in the game"

as soon as you unlock warfarer, warfarer is immediately a better fighter in every way because you don't have to have 4 garbo fighter abilities even if you wanted to 1h+shield sometimes.

Originally posted by Krówka:

The fighter's end game buff is called "Dragon's Dogma" there's an achievement linked to it. Also keep enchanting weapons, try having a mage with electric buff and complete any cave or dungeon on your way and less large monsters to level your vocation faster.

that's not a buff, it's their 1h weapon.

[ffrotty]

Originally posted by Monk:

It's a sad state of affairs, there is no reason for a shield to equal very low damage, especially in single player games!

Heck, fighters arent even the tankiest, defense seems to do very little, especially compared to everyone else's massive invulnerability skills.

it's a DD trope: defense is pointless, magic defence becomes godly, and classes that avoid damage / invuln >>>>>>>> mitigating or blocking or whatever.

their fix to how junk fighters are was to make other melee classes and warfarer

[ffrotty]

Originally posted by Gamefever:

My fighters knock down is crazy high though, she knocks small and sometimes medium stuff down then one shots it while it's downed.

Basically stacked knock down.

right, and the problem is while you're knocking down, other classes build damage and kill the thing

[Gamefever]

Wardarer was not in topic though?

An I can't make my pawn a Wardarer ><

Pawn rights now!

[1CMF]

Fighter is "ok". It has a ton of tools to evade and parry dmg to create knockdown/stagger effects, then while the target is down you heavy attack to get the follow up animation burst dmg and spam chain attacks on the weak spot.

Problem is fighter requires really good timing on parry or dodge attacks, otherwise you get knocked around and feel pointless.

If all you are doing is holding block and taunting, You are playing wrong and it's a skill issue.

[Monk]

I'll be honest, right now I am on nexus mods hoping someone has a mod to bring fighter damage somewhat upto par without becoming OP, it's my favorite play style by miles.

I enjoy the added challenge, but, vs dragon's and chimeras said challenge becomes tedious and a huge waste of resource's and leaves the realm of 'fun'.