Build a green fighter kit for high-roller PvP - Dark and Darker 

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fight 4 vs the bardiche barb w/ crush is a perfect example of why you should be trying to hilt block. If you hilt block the first bardiche swing you can actually fight him. Without it, you're so heavily staggered that he can just swing you to death. Get in a little closer than you'd like and stuff your shield right at their hands, generally aiming at the chest and off to the side. Its the best way to completely shut down a barb

"yeah nice try bud" and then immediately gets folded 😂

nailing the guy that said "nice try bud" always feels good

The blur on the naked fighter was a nice touch.

"That's a tasty mace, if I mace-ay so myself" I see what you did there

You have inspired me to play more PDR longsword fighter. Its harder than swordnboard but parrying and then killing somone in 2 swings is such an amazing feeling. The longsword also is great for pve as you can sidestep mobs as they attack and swing your block onto their attack to kill them with a quick riposte to the head. After just a few games ive developed a strategy for goblin caves to head to the middle, kill the 2 centipedes in the middle, then 1 centipede and 1 mummy to the south, then head north above the center lift tile and kill the 2 mummies there, then north to the next tile and kill the 2 mummies there. Thats 8 enemies with a high chance for rings and necklaces as loot. From there i like to head one tile east and check the mines for players, kill and mine and copper/cobalt. If no players i head west to the cyclops spawn and see if players have killed the cyclops then fight/loot the boss treasure room. Im getting 600-1000 gold each run being ablemto sell good loot on the market and im starting to gain confidence to make geared runs

Good method of shopping. Though if you are going to search for a specific roll then you don't need to filter for uncommon, that way you will also see higher rarities if they happen to be a lower price.

This is a great buying guide and very funny sneaky rat game play. I like how you narrate everything helps to understand how to play the game.

Some things I've noticed that get you caught You make some dark areas too large, which makes it obvious where you are You only make one dark area at a time, if you made 3 dark spots in any given area it would be a gamble for other players where you're hiding You never use darkness as a distraction, you could create a dark spot and hide in the light on the other side perhaps behind some barrels or crates, other players will be so cautious of the dark spot they won't expect you not to be in it.

What a great video Blinn. So satisfying watching you win some of these fights and get out with some pretty decent pieces. I'm experienced at the game, but your videos are great for new players and are very positive and informative and really helps bridge the knowledge gap. Your playstyle is unique and keeps me coming back for more of your videos; excited to see how you improve and adapt as you play more and more. Great job!

Absolutely loving these longer uploads 🙏

I've learned so many tactics and tips from your videos. Thank you!

Green gear = skill diff! Blinn is exceptionally skilled.

Literally the exact vid I was hoping you’d drop. Nice fights and I’m hoping to catch the future stream!

33:06 - he might have hit the floor but I believe you can block high impact weapons without staggering by blocking the sour spot/shaft of the weapon. Putting a shield up in their face seems like the winning strategy against barbs theres also the perfect block skill but who's really using that... maybe try it out!

The audible damn I let out with the 3 tap headshot on the looting dude 😂😂😂

If I was learning how to play this game from zero, I would have come to you. So on point, so clear. Muah!

Great video, love seeing a guide walking through using marketplace to build a kit. I feel like that's something that most of the other content creators skip over.

This is really fun to watch and I love to hear your thought process on all this.

Mr. Blinn, your content is god tier, bless up

If needed, you can choose max hp or hp bonus instead of vigor. Necklace of peace is a good budget item instead of bear amulet. You can get a ton of hp from the right neck.

650g is a great price for a budget set for people i think u pretty much nailed it

hey guys! i found the only guy playing HR like you're supposed to! now stop holding hands and fight each other.

You dont understand how much your vids have helpled me❤

Hey Blinn, your videos are always inspiring and very comfortable to watch, you are doing awesome man! I learned so much from you (altho I am still quite bad at blocking in pvp lol I wish there was some kind of practice instance in the game to train on it). I wanted to ask how to enable those Adventure Results that appear on your screen after you successfully escape the dungeon (tried to google and look in the settings with no luck).

Really enjoy your running commentary! You should be the voice of asmr haha, it blends with DaD atmos sound perfectly👌

Amazing as video! Loving the long form style! The warlock fight was intense 😅

You can ctrl + right click to move items between stash/inventory. Makes looting much faster. Good video!

Dude talks like Mordin From Mass Effect, I love it! efficient.

so you get 4 things from the wolves, meanwhile i have cleared that room 7 times without a single drop, i have just given up on the quest where you need wolf pelts. i love my luck

great vid, enjoyed the warlock fight a lot, theyre normally such a pain to fight

Very cool devs made new gear score bracket(25-124) and now we can experiment with green and blue staff. Im newbie and played 0-24 bracket before this change.

Awesome content!! Love this style of video, love the length of it too. Really enjoy your commentary and demeanor. This type of video could also be scaled up to maybe the 1000g/1500g/2000g budget range which could help show how what you search for progresses as you become more advanced. Keep up the good work!

Today I hid in the dark next to an extract after spotting a rogue nearby. The same rogue came over and squatted next to me thinking he was going to camp the extract. I wonder if he jumped when the crossbow hit him in the head lol

man everytime you get a kill im like literally cheering lol, lets go dude my mans dialed in

I've been running full plate from the squire 50% pdr with shield out. Going into high rolla clearing has been slow but being able to take 3 to 4 hits from mistakes is nice. Great video btw. Keep it going.

i was waiting for a warlock fight ty

Observations about the barb fight, Blinn could have used sprint to make distance while healing. Blinn also got 1 "barrel stuff" block on the bardiche handle which did not stagger the shield, so Blinn could try to face-hug against bardich for more of those. Edit: It seems the sentiments have already been expressed elsewhere in the comments, so I leave this. If Rogues are the watchers in the dark, then who watches the watchers?

I've come back to this video from the future! Fighter just got buffed and it's glorious. Swift reduces your movement speed penalty even better, and Weapon Mastery no longer has a negative. Also, the Morning Star is fantastic. And the Halberd is good fun, if challenging to use effectively. I've taken to using Laced Turn shoes, Loose Trousers, either the Dark Cuirass or Dark Plate, Light Gauntlets, and the Spangenhelm or Crusader Helm. My Vigor isn't the best but with just uncommon gear and Swift, you run close to 100% move speed with your hands empty. I've used it with the halberd, I've run it with shield and morning star, I even tried it with dual wield daggers.

33:03 when a brb roars like that in close proximity to u. u get a debuff u can see above ur health in red. During that time u r doin 40% leas damage. In this instance u should bait out a swing amd then get distance until the debuff wears off. Hitting him is almost pointless and trading with him during that time is almost a guaranteed loss.

Thanks Blinn. Your content is always a pleasure to see pop up. Stream comin!? Will be there

great lengthy video, i am always eager and look forward to your uploads. great fights, great learning experience. also i think im your first sub to your new channel

Hey Blinn, i love your content! Your playstyle for solo is so strong and solid. I just got my first win in combat using your methods haha. As you've said before the sword and shield fighter is such a fun way to play the game. I've got a question though, how can i build a good sword and shield fighter build for duos or trios? My friends and i have been playing the game together and i believe i can help out more with a better focused build for team play. Keep up the good work, God bless you.

this guy is pretty cool

Fun stuff, keep it up! As a new player I've found your videos extremely helpful.

Love the longer videos. I killed you last night on my rogue. I feel bad I was super geared compared to you, but now we are 1-1 let’s go!!!😂😅

Your videos are awesome man thank you for your service to our community

Thanks for a great video on how to build a kit! Keep up the great content!

Literally saved up as much plate as possible and kept getting wrecked. Considering just NPCing all of it because I'm saving light boots and trying to stack agility/str/dex over anything and I need room.

Really useful video, especially for new players. Keep up the good work Also rip to the warlock who said "nice try bud" after crutching on phantomize so much 😂

About fight 4, fighting weapons that have the impact to stagger Heater its always best to block their sour spot, which is most likely the shaft/hilt area of the weapon. With the bardiche the best thing to do is literally stand face to face with him. Blocking at the sour spot of the overhead swing prevents him from getting to his stab (which has no sour spot). While it can seem intimidating not really being able to see your opponent over the shield at that close range, with him using the bardiche it was your best option for blocking. Another thing that Im sure you know but Im gonna put here for others. Fighting Warlocks/Ranged classes in general: They will almost always have higher MS than you, so its best to save sprint when you are already on top of them and they start to run/bhop away. Take the fight with the bow/crossbow (ever since warlock buffs 2 patches back I switched to recurve over crossbow), close space. When you can engage with your SnS if they start to run pop sprint to get a few more hits in. If fighting a warlock ONLY use sprint after they use phantomize, stay on top of them for the moment they come back out and you will win the close range fight unless you get absurdly gear checked. Also when moving up to ranged classes with shield you can jump, crouch, and block. This reduces your hitbox considerably and will block all warlock spells/curses, all forward shooting wizard spells (but you will still get hit by aoe on fireball), and ranger arrows/bolts. Keep in mind that you also keep all momentum while jumping, so only block once you begin the jump so that way you can cover slightly more distance. A little tidbit about fireball, it has pretty good knockback so if you jump crouch over it and the wizard hits the floor it can fling you towards the wizard, pretty funny when it happens.

If you are facing a barbarian who is defeating your blocks with impact power, your window to attack is at the end of his combo. You were doing very well blocking him and it seemed like you only got hit when you tried to attack too early. That loss was a shame because I really feel like you had that guy out skilled.

Love your videos! Had an idea for a vid that might be pretty helpful - tips for different shield fighter matchups? 👀 Fighter v cleric, warlock etc etc

This set is gonna be worth 1.5k now lol

excellent video as always

And then the 25-124 lobbies were created and the majority of this advice is now obsolete, unless you're a cleric or rogue. Greens are no longer cheap, I've been making a mint off them since that patch. But I did find the searching for like attributes a fun exercise. Very educational video, thank you for taking the time to make it.

Great video, one thing I would say with any class, never run boots in solos without additional movespeed

really nice video, loved it!

the grand brigandine with vigor is now average 200 gold now

5:30 there is some missinformation about Vigor recovery here. This is copy-past from Wiki: Affects the rate at which you restore health when Resting, but not when using Bandages. Health Recovered per tick = Base Recovery * (1 + Health Recovery Bonus) For example, a Barbarian resting with 95% Health Recovery Bonus will recover Health Recovered every 2s = 1 * (1 + .95) = 1.95 Health It doesn't affect Bandages and Potions and I am pretty sure it doesn't affect Campfire bonus recovery, but can't confirm that.

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highly educational

Why don’t you never use your sprint? Do you keep it to disengage?

100000g pants

i have a lycan cleric build that is bis 124 bracket gear and its fun af and im still making bank of kits in that lobby xD

as someone who always plays plate fighter with the movement speed for plate talent I think it's better for trios, you dont really need all that ms as long as you have a decently balanced party with say a druid and anything else your party members are staying back anyway so they can help you cut fleeing opponents off and the plate makes you a 2v1 god

I noticed you switched to the Mace.. any reason as to why,, I feel stuck on the Arming Sword

hello, love your videos they helped me a lot getting familiar with sword & board. but why not lantern shield or buckler ?

im trying to buy those pieces and they are either all sold out or very expensive

Have you ever thought of useing the Spangenhelm for the +2 moves speed over the Crusader for the +5 extra Armor?

Great Videos 👍👍

How do you feel about using the Lantern Shield to counter morning stars? It has a better size than the Buckler and because of how it's counter attack works, gives you a pretty good timing window on block to do it, seems to work with counter attack and shield mastery

Personally, my "baseline kits" are blues, you can get some crazy kits for way under 1k. Except the rings and pendant, those stay green, they explode in price between green to blue.

So I've been having problems with making myself push into modules that I know will take time to clear out. Like pyramids on Ice Caverns. You can sneak around some of them yea but I'm always afraid that if I start clearing mobs someone will get the drop on me. I know most of my kills have come from stalking people and jumping them when they're covered in goblins. Got any advice for that? Just kill the PVE faster? Its the only thing I can think of lol

Love it!

I was just in a lobby with you w (I was a spell cleric on the ice mountain saying “we will all get rich and live)

Yo quick question, people tell me that leather gloves are better than the heavy gauntlets, what’s your opinion

Have you heard that for the most part nobody is playing in High Roller? At least that's the latest topic of gossip due to some hidden gear brackets what's his face FireTV started talking about last week. I've queued up for it a few times and been the only person in there.

Could you do this for a longsword fighter?

Really great job with the rogue, I really think they’re better off removing rogue than keeping them in their current state. Even though you were able to kill that rogue. It was purely his own choice to continue to engage you in my opinion incorrectly, his speed advantage was so grossly apparent he had complete control over that engagement and if he knew better on how to buy items in the same price range he would have been able to melt you in 3-4 hits or just leave and you couldn’t stop him.

try and use sprint in combat

man i must be the most unlucky player of all time ive killed 60+ wolves no pelt but sure got arrows and bolts from them, and ive killed 80+ ice walkers never got an eye

Can’t someone else use those pockets of darkness?

this is a good vid but this play only really works in solos

ill never understand why anyone in a pvp game would expect anyone to be friendly. i prefer playing the game lol.

I want to Thank you for ruining my gaming exp now... this was basically wht i was ruining now all your viewers taking all the gear peices that i never had an issue buying before.... SMH

Longsword is so ass pvp. Theres no way to consistently parry..