Duelist

Duelist is one of the twelve classes in Ateleista, and one of the three Vanguard classes.

Overview
The Duelist is an offensive melee class that focuses on weapon damage. Unlike Assassins who inflict large burst damage on a single target, Duelists can inflict area-of-effect damage and focus on whittling down enemies with debuffs. They excel at high-speed battles and fighting on the move.

Duelists can equip one-handed weapons, some two-handed weapons, and throwing weapons. While they have less weapon variety than Assassins, their lightning-fast serial attacks and wide range lets them mow down groups of enemies.

Among the Weapon Attack classes, Swashbucklers have the highest HP, and Defense, making them the most durable as vanguard attackers. As a result, Duelists equipping small shields can be seen serving as off-tanks in smaller parties.

Sample Builds
The Duelist has four main builds, which revolve around their choice of weaponry: Dual Blade (dual-wielders), Fencer (single-blade), Gladiator (sword-and-buckler), and Juggler (throwing weapons).

Dual Blade
The classic Swashbuckler who wields two lightweight weapons and unleashes a flurry of attacks to overwhelm the enemy. It is a build that easily draws out the class' strengths, but is difficult for players to truly master.

Battle styles among this build's users varies greatly; for example, Nyanta is a dual rapier wielder who emphasizes speed, while Shouryuu and Federico wield straight swords for greater attack power. Chika, meanwhile, is a rare dual tomahawk wielder.

Fencer
Single blade user. Able to increase damage from traditionally one-handed weapon by using them two-handed and spec in skills that gives % bonus damage. Popular among those who don't raid often, since they are less equipment intensive. It is noted that people have been arguing on the forums whether one-handed or dual-wielding is better since the game's launch.

Gladiator
Sword and Buckler. Allows Swashbuckler to act as off-tank, possible tank in low level dungeon. Not popular in raids since they can't tank as well as a tanker, nor can they DPS as well as the other builds. Nevertheless, HighlandSky of Silver Sword uses this build, and Shouryuu occasionally uses this build as well.

Juggler
Specializes in throwing weapons. Very rare build due to the ammunition cost, but becomes more viable from around level 50, when more weapons with the "returning" or "respawning" property start to drop. Juggler builds are often the survivor of a near wipe, since they are fighting ranged and still have the same survivability as a Dual-wielding and Fencer build. Occasionally called a cowardly build that doesn't contribute because of that.

Known Skills

 * Note: This section will be heavily revised in the future.
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