Hybrid Lann Guide

For Lanns who want massive DPS but also want to survive longer as well

Summary
So, you want the best of both worlds. A sword Lann has Slip Dash, which keeps you alive due to Invincibility frames. However, a spear Lann can rush in with 900 more ATT due to Fury Infusion and crit and kill. So, like any Sword/Spear guide, I don't want to enter the annoying debate of which one to choose. As a matter of fact, that's why I'm making this guide!

Balancing two Titan-like weapons is hard to do. If you do choose to be a hybrid, I would recommend choosing to do so earlier, at levels 30-40. Otherwise, you will waste precious AP ranking skills that you need for both worlds, and most importantly, if you get too used to one playing style, you'll totally forget the other. It's like learning a new language. If you learn at age 5, you're all set. If you try it at age 50, you're screwed.

So anyway, this guide is a simple one; this is just here to sort of help you along the way if you ever get totally confused.

Skills
SWORDS: Slip Dash Proficiency: MAX

Double Crescent: MAX

Smash: Thousand Needles: Rank 9 to get downward slam

Twin Sword Mastery: Rank as you need it

SPEARS: Fury Infusion: MAX to get instant cast and 900 ATT

Twin Spear Mastery: Rank as you need it

Mostly Swords:

Willpower Mastery: Gradually max to get more power

Agility Mastery: Gradually max

Mostly Spears:

Smash Mastery: Gradually max

Critical Hit: Gradually max to get more Gliding Fury chance

Both:

Strength Mastery: Rank slowly to get more power

Average:

Standing Endurance

Ok, If you got nowhere else to spend AP:

HP Potion Mastery  Kinda Bad and Sorta Worthless:

Meditation: Rank to F or E

'''Terrible. If you are caught with these you are terrible:'''

Cloth Armor Proficiency

Intelligence Mastery

Also, rank Armor skills as you need them. Rank Light Armor to E to get Savage Leather at level 26. You might want to gradually rank it to get it to rank B to wear Nightmare armor. Rank Heavy Armor from F to A as you need it from levels 32-54. Rank Plate Proficiency from F to C to A as you need if from levels 44 to 60 as you need it for Laghodessa Plate helm and the entire Sinister Half Plate set.

How to Decide
This section is very important. When do I use a conservative, smart warrior or a slashing, rushing warrior? I would judge it on which one you are slightly better on. For earlier levels, you can spam spinning in circles until levels 47-50. - I would recommend still using Swords sometimes to never forget actually how to use them, because if you do, you'll probably suck if you use Swords later on... This changes like hell later on. Spears are harder to control (Stop spinning in half a second before some Kalok-looking boss with a spiky pillar smacks and kills you) and swords should keep you alive. You could be a Spear pro and avoid all this, but Swords are kinda easier in my opinion.A trick is to dogde while in hurricane but you need like 30 stamina on you so if you want to do this rank Battle Resperation, but overall swords have the edge. Slip dashing away and double cresent...-ing... at the same is always available, unlike the Crit-dependent Gliding Fury.

Does this confuse you? OK. So basically, I would run the quest with swords in your first run. This way, you don't die all the time and you can study the bosses' attacks. Then, I would run with spears to make it slashin'. Don't worry, re-running quests gets so tiring and redundant by the time of Hilder Forest Ruins anyway... -_-

Choosing between two giants is crucial to survival or domination.

How to Balance AP
So now you have to level BOTH skills. That... OK. Well, I would start ranking Sword skills earlier on, and then at the same time ranking the expensive Smash and Critical Mastery at the same time, every now and then. You want to keep doing this until Sword skills are totally maxed. Then, at like level 40, I would go all out on Spear skills. This is OK as those bosses are easy. Stop this at level 48, and then go back to the balancing thing until everything is maxed. This could take 20 more levels. Okay. Then, if you REALLY still have time, spend AP on the non-necessary but nice to have skills.

ok now this is edited part by me so this is different

so well I am a spear lann and i normally train spears, now, it is better to decide what you want to be or else you waste a LOT of AP.

Conclusion
If this guide is really bad, my bad. My first guide. If you want to add something, send me something on my talk page.

--Wongjmeng388 01:54, 22 March 2011 (UTC)