Best Cutlass Brawl, Mixed Or No Brawl Based Leveling

[SpaynX]

If yer gonna put 5 points in brawl take skill points that put damage on the enemy as fast as possible like the advanced combos BUT by taking 5 in brawl you are relegating yourself to kicking butt on 1 to 1 fights and suffereing by loss of slash points in big fights. Think of how your fights tend to go after lvl 25 in cutlass. Lots of 1 to 1 or larger group melee. Brawl good if maxed or at 4 pts otherwise dont use at all. Good vs PvP high powered enemy or like I said 1 to 1 vs anything. You could take 5 in slash as well but I cant remember how many times parry helps regardless of its only 10% maxed. It works more like 20% of the time for some reason. Maxed Brawl on 1 to 1 is devastating you WILL dominate but slash sooo usefull as well.

Here is a decent "I want the best of both worlds" build: Hack 1 Slash 1 Flourish 5 Thrust 2 Sweep 3 Taunt 1 Brawl 4 Bladestorm 3 Parry 5.

Here is the Brawl based build: Hack 1 Slash 1 Flourish 5 Thrust 4 Sweep 1 Taunt 1 Brawl 5 Parry 5 Bladestorm 2.

Here is the no brawl general build: Hack 1 Slash 1 Flourish 5 Thrust 4 Sweep 5 Taunt 1 Bladestorm 3 Parry 5 (swap a point with thrust and bladestorm if you like).

Also, if you are a big Cutlass user, max Dagger's finesse and Blade Instinct. Anyway, Parry is not the "end all - be all" but it helps a LOT more than you might think. Also, for quick weapon leveling, please dont put a bunch of points at once into any non-passive skill unless you prefer taking on a larger quantity (of enemies) over quality of weapon rep rewards. This does not apply as much after you max a weapon, by all means dump those points. If ya wanna dump parry, place points in combos if brawl based and put more points in stormblade if not using brawl.