LogFAQs > #950198384

To keep this topic alive, how would you salvage the Mortal Savant and Holy Knight classes. Easily the worst of the Master Classes in the game.

In fact, how would you salvage sword users in general, since they have very little going for them.

For Holy Knight, I would essentially make them into a Paladin upgrade. Cert requirements: A Lances and Riding, C Faith. They would have Lancefaire instead of White Tomefaire. It'd be kinda like the classic Paladin in D&D.

Mortal Savant needs a lot more work. If I want to keep the theme of a sword/magic user as opposed to dumping the magic aspect entirely and just making a super swordmaster, I think the first step is making the reason requirement C. Anyone wanting to go into the class is already gonna be physical focused (magic-first users have so many better options), so having an A Reason requirement just makes it not worth it compared to staying a Swordmaster/Assassin. I would add Sword Crit +10 as well. It would effectively outclass Swordmaster entirely but nobody complains that Wyvern Lord outclasses Wyvern Rider, despite the fact that if Wyvern Lord wasn't a class in this game Wyvern Rider would still be one of the game's best classes. Right now the only character that would ever want to be a Mortal Savant is non-DLC Dorothea. And it's less that MS is good so much as her banes make it harder to get into better magic classes and MS gives her 1 more move and Black Tomefaire over Gremory and the strongest Soulblade in the game. With DLC she just becomes a Dark Flyer because even with a weakness in flying the requirements are comically low (she can reliably cert with D+ in Flying).

Now even a better Mortal Savant is still not going to make it worth it to invest in swords over Axes/Lances, so my fix to that would be a Master Class that is essentially super Swordmaster. It would have 6 move, Sword Crit +20, and it's gonna steal Dancer's Sword Avoid +20. This class would actually be decent, not broken because Swords still have bad 1-2 range, but at least something to make someone consider making Felix a sword user like the game wants him to be instead of a Warmaster/Sniper like everyone makes him. Alternatively, it would be an outrageous Enemy Phase Dimitri class, where it admittedly would be kinda busted.

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