Things I've learned through extensive experience of building a knight, and being competitive in all events, pvp/pve and wb.
Rule 1: Crit Build is for cashers, at 60+ levels.
Reason: is that crit gems/astrals take the place of defensive gems/astrals. To compensate for the loss of defense you must use balens to buy mounts, full defense in academy, sylph hp, fate stones, and vip to get the highest medallions for the crit boost.
If you are not a casher, going with a will destroyer and block astral will give you much more benefit, than a crit and determination combo. You will not be alive long enough to survive. In pve you will be weak against long boss battles, in pvp you don't crit as much (especially against opponents higher level than you)
World Boss: keep a crit and determination astral for world boss, and switch them out for will destroyer and any defense astral. Crit and determination give greater gold than will destroyer. Purple crit and determination are good enough till lvl 50, unless orange or red drop.
Rule 2: For the most part, enhanced delphic destroyer is only for world boss.
Reason: With the addition of sylphs, Apollo shield build or hybrid build is better pvp and pve. Your regular delphic attack should be enough. With sylph aoe knights do not need whirlwind as much. Therefore put the skill points that were in whirlwind, intercept and enhanced delphic and get the passive 7% defensive resistance instead. The pvp example of how this works is below.
PVP: open stun then ultimate slash, rune then ultimate slash, apollo shield then ultimate slash, agoran shiled then ultimate slash, then sylph, and do two of the sylphs aoe attack, they will both be at the 50% timer, then drop sylph brute rune and delphic = dead or close to it. if they are not dead after this they are probably higher br and have cashed more than you, so you would have lost anyway.
PVE: your job is to survive, 7% passive defense is much better than ehanced delphic.
Rule 3: the block passive is for levels 50+
Reason: block is a secondary defense not your primary. Build your primary first which is pdef/mdef and hp. Block doesn't proc as much in pvp vs higher lvl opponents and against bosses in dungeons. Knights who build block first with low hp and defense are flimsy.
This is all I had time to write for now. This is my take, some may differ according to taste, but I've seen a pattern of people violating these principles and complaining that knights suck. Then people always say "you have to build a knight correctly" but never say how. Well there ya go, goodluck
Rule 1: Crit Build is for cashers, at 60+ levels.
Reason: is that crit gems/astrals take the place of defensive gems/astrals. To compensate for the loss of defense you must use balens to buy mounts, full defense in academy, sylph hp, fate stones, and vip to get the highest medallions for the crit boost.
If you are not a casher, going with a will destroyer and block astral will give you much more benefit, than a crit and determination combo. You will not be alive long enough to survive. In pve you will be weak against long boss battles, in pvp you don't crit as much (especially against opponents higher level than you)
World Boss: keep a crit and determination astral for world boss, and switch them out for will destroyer and any defense astral. Crit and determination give greater gold than will destroyer. Purple crit and determination are good enough till lvl 50, unless orange or red drop.
Rule 2: For the most part, enhanced delphic destroyer is only for world boss.
Reason: With the addition of sylphs, Apollo shield build or hybrid build is better pvp and pve. Your regular delphic attack should be enough. With sylph aoe knights do not need whirlwind as much. Therefore put the skill points that were in whirlwind, intercept and enhanced delphic and get the passive 7% defensive resistance instead. The pvp example of how this works is below.
PVP: open stun then ultimate slash, rune then ultimate slash, apollo shield then ultimate slash, agoran shiled then ultimate slash, then sylph, and do two of the sylphs aoe attack, they will both be at the 50% timer, then drop sylph brute rune and delphic = dead or close to it. if they are not dead after this they are probably higher br and have cashed more than you, so you would have lost anyway.
PVE: your job is to survive, 7% passive defense is much better than ehanced delphic.
Rule 3: the block passive is for levels 50+
Reason: block is a secondary defense not your primary. Build your primary first which is pdef/mdef and hp. Block doesn't proc as much in pvp vs higher lvl opponents and against bosses in dungeons. Knights who build block first with low hp and defense are flimsy.
This is all I had time to write for now. This is my take, some may differ according to taste, but I've seen a pattern of people violating these principles and complaining that knights suck. Then people always say "you have to build a knight correctly" but never say how. Well there ya go, goodluck
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