Myles' Hammer Fiona Guide

Myles' Hammer Fiona Guide

Table of Contents

''1. Intro on Me :)

2. Intro on Fiona

3. Intro to the Guide

4. List of Skills

5. Skill Guide

6. Playstyle

7. Credits''

1. Intro on Me My name is Myles, I have been playing Vindictus since the OBT launch and have been furiously researching Fiona. I am, by no means, an expert on the class. However, I do enjoy playing as her and I plan to continue playing her. Usually I play a crowd-controlling class. Since that wasn't an option in this case, she seemed like the next best choice.

2. Intro on Fiona Fiona is a female tank-ish character. The reason I included the "ish" is because there is no aggro system in Vindictus, but she can definitely take a hit. She uses a shield and a sword. However, at level 24 you have the option of switching to a hammer and shield. She can use the shield to guard regular attacks or switch to the heavy stand posistion to block smash attacks.

3. Intro to the Guide I have read countless guides on hammer Fiona's and personally, I don't like any of them. They all rely on counter-attack. I've tried counter-attack and some builds that people have posted previous to this. I....HATE.... COUNTER-ATTACK! There, I said it. Yes, I hate counter-attack. Therefore, I don't use it and it will not be in this guide. When I picked Fiona I wanted to take a hit and laugh it off, not just guard and hope its not a smash attack.

4. List of Skills This is the list of skills you will need to play as a Counter-less Hammer Fiona.

Guard: This skill holds up your shield and blocks incoming regular attacks.

Shield Mastery: This is a passive skill that decreases the weight of your shield as well as increase the durability. Also allows you to use higher level shields.

Heavy Stander: This skill holds up your shield and blocks incoming smash attacks. Uses more stamina than Guard.

Longsword Mastery: This is a passive skill that decreases the weight of your longsword. Also, allows you to use higher level longswords.

Heavy Armor Proficiency: This is a passive skill that decreases the weight of heavy armor and increases it's defence slightly. Also, allows you to use higher level heavy armor.

Strength Mastery: This is a passive skill that increases your Strength.

Standing Endurance: This is a passive skill that reduces the amount of time you are knocked down for. Also reduces the knock-back when using heavy stander.

Combat Mastery: This is a passive skill that increases the amount of damage your regular attacks do.

Agility Mastery: This is a passive skill that increases your Agility.

Willpower Mastery: This is a passive skill that increases your Willpower.

Long Hammer Mastery: This is a passive skill that reduces the weight of long hammers. Also, allows you to use higher level long hammers.

Stigma Hammer: This is a smash skill used after 4 regular attacks. It can be charged for extra damage.

Butterfly Swing: This is a smash skill used after 3 regular attacks. You are able to use it as many times as your stamina will allows.

Smash Mastery: This is a passive skill that increases the amount of damage your smash attacks do.

Critical Hit: This is a passive skill that increases the chance to score a critical hit as well as increasing the damage of your critical hits.

Combat Respiration: This is a passive skill that allows your stamina to recharge in battle as well as charge more quickly out of battle.

Weight Endurance: This is a passive skill that increases the amount of weight you can holds.

Stamina Mastery: This is a passive skill that increases the amount of stamina you have.

Health Mastery: This is a passive skill that increases the amount of health you have.

Shield Bash: This skill uses the shield to attack. It also has a chance to stun.

Shield Repair: This skill repairs your shield.

5. Skill Guide Note: Skills with square brackets indicate when a skill should be capped.

By level 10:

Guard: Rank D

Shield Mastery: Rank E

Standing Endurance: Rank E

Longsword Mastery: Rank F

By level 15:

Guard: Rank D

Shield Mastery: Rank D

Heavy Stander: Rank D

[Longsword Mastery: Rank D]

[Heavy Armor Proficiency: Rank D]

Strength Mastery: Rank E

Standing Endurance: Rank D

By level 20:

Guard: Rank C

Shield Mastery: Rank C

Heavy Stander: Rank C

[Strength Mastery: Rank D]

[Combat Mastery: Rank D]

Standing Endurance: Rank C

[Agility Mastery: Rank F]

[Willpower Mastery: Rank F]

By level 25:

Guard: Rank B

Shield Mastery: Rank C

[Heavy Stander: Rank A]

Standing Endurance: Rank C

Long Hammer Mastery: Rank C - Level as needed

Stigma Hammer: Rank E

Butterfly Swing: Rank E

Smash Mastery: Rank E

Critical Hit: Rank E

By level 30:

Guard: Rank A

Shield Mastery: Rank B

Standing Endurance: Rank A

Stigma Hammer: Rank E

Butterfly Swing: Rank E

Smash Mastery: Rank D

Critical Hit: Rank D

Combat Respiration: Rank D

By level 35:

[Guard: Rank 9]

[Shield Mastery: Rank 9]

Stigma Hammer: Rank E

Butterfly Swing: Rank E

[Smash Mastery: Rank 9]

[Combat Respiration: Rank A]

[Standing Endurance: Rank 9]

Critical Hit: Rank D

[Stamina Mastery: Rank F]

Note: If you don't have enough AP for everything listed by the level listed. Only get the most important skills ranked up.

Level 38 - Get Health Mastery: Rank F

6. Playstyle Playing a Fiona without counter-attack is quite easy. Instead of guarding and waiting for a counter-attack, you guard or heavy stand when necessary and since guard will be rank 9 you can perfect guard which allows you to attack after guarding without the recovery time. Once the official game is released, heavy shields will be available, which you can't counter with anyway.

7. Credits All of the above information is tested by me and the information comes from personal experience.