This class was very fun, but so strong that it felt impossible to die for the whole game, even with my lazy gearing. Basically a Marauder with extremely good survivability and even more movement. A better player could demolish the game with it.

The character I played

Footwork is the main culprit... when you start getting overlapping Moving Target stacks from movement speed it effectively becomes permanent (wait for 2 stacks before doing non-instant actions so it never falls off). Footwork working with all types of movement makes blink/phasing strategies crazy. Disables are no problem at all with Conditioning + Intrepid (great tree by the way, what Combat Veteran should be). Parrying disables enemy melee crits and my final parry rate was 98% (!!!). Stamina issues were negligible, just walking around with Spring Attack was good enough to kill many rares anyway, and the class is spectacular at running away if you're really dry.

Love having an alternative melee warrior that's neither hiding behind a shield nor a raging lunatic. However two problems I've noticed so far: With dual wield, using Harrying Blows is often not feasible because many many fights are in narrow corridors (often intentionally for survival) and the standard dual wield tree lacks a spammable movement option to get in 3 turns of strikes. Second, which seems more of a bug, daggers do not seem to be using Swordmaster mastery as described, instead still benefitting from Dagger mastery.

I love the idea of a melee class with mobility built in! This definitely goes a long way towards reducing the frustration of playing a melee class in TOME.

Now for some helpful feedback: I think the resources could use smoothing out.

From 1-10 I had no stamina issues at all, and I was beginning to wonder why everyone was talking about being tapped out quickly.

Then I fought some bosses at 11-20 and wow, there really is not enough stamina! It's impossible to have the stamina per kill talent very high (or at all, at 11) so boss fights basically came down to me doing burst damage until I ran out of stamina, the boss healing back up, and me trying desperately to flee across the map and find a place to hide and regen hp/stamina to try again. Fortunately I had a lot of regen and a healing totem, but I had a number of close calls. This was on Nightmare Roguelike, using an orange greatsword, so damage should not be lacking. I even had an armor of Second Wind.
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Surgical strike adds an interfered debuff with skill failure as well as stunning. However, in most conditions the enemy just simply attacks and never triggers the second stage stunning, even though the failure rate exceeds 100%. So in most cases the skill can only produce extremely short stun, making itself a waste of investment

Harring blow is powerful, but the requirement is too complicated. It is necessary only for 1 to 1 battle with a tough enemy. However, 1 to 1 battle often has no enough room to perform spring attack. And tough enemies are offen hard to hit(either having high evasion or some class power to deflect weapon attacks),making the preparing stage extremely fragile.

Was going to suggest adding Duelist but saw it got removed in changelog, why not have duelist as an option for dual-wield build tho? I feel the class needs a little more in way of defense. Also, would be nice to make Lightspeed Draw a core mechanic of the class, by lowering the stamina increse per use to match Tumble (and have similar or lower scaling), or maybe have it use a charge system, and making it give a shield and/or defense on use (maybe stacking up to a point? or not...). I just feel like the class needs more defensive options, maybe a whole tree of them (or bring back duelist).
Either way the experience so far was fun, reminded me a lot of playing Sil which had skills that let you attack by moving too. Nice concept!

Also, some other things I noticed upon playing further:
- Lightspeed Draw can be used while asleep
- Swordsmanship doesnt seem to give the mastery bonuses for daggers at all

Enjoying the class so far but just wondering for certain class trees. Since you will be focusing more on dexterity and strength wouldn't be better for requirements for them to scale of dexterity than strength so they are more readily available as in most cases you may have to ICTW prodigy (if you also extra physical power) I so you can acquire them. At least tie into the swordsmanship passive. Also to help make feel a bit more unique to class since you're focusing more on skill and technique than sheer brute force.

And Spring Attack cancelling movement infusions which can be can be annoying as only set amount of spring attack that can happen per turn.

For Lightspeed draw. It's a pretty underwhelming skill. Cause basically after around 3 or 4 uses (which take massive toll on your stamina ) for what amounts to range 9 and 120% weapon attack (granted it's instnat) but 40 turns of increased stamina usage which 40 of mere movement skill on cool down.. robably lower down amount cool down for your (your better off using mutiple evasions or rush is more reliable as lightspeed draw is under the same issue of can't use if there are no enemies) on raw talent cool down. If not probably atleast the increased stamina cost for turn is significantly lower per turn while resting so it you can probably do a hit run or simply that not trying rest with auto explore with it waiting for amount turns to use the rod of recall

Love the class.

I sometimes get a Lua error. I suppose it occurs when I reflect a beam or ray with "Web of Steel"talent.

An interesting class, seems to work well. Strangely, 2h build seems to work better - partially due to needing less talents to up. Maybe there should be a build based on sswitching between 2h and double-blades as well? Didn't try mindstar variant, but think it is only useful if you go Antimagic?

Can Japanese or Chinese translation be added?

This is a very fun and well-put-together class!
I especially like Spring Attack.

A couple notes:

• Vapor Blade knocks enemies back even if the attack misses
• Will To Live should have a cap, or better yet, be a flat (or based on player level) amount that's increased the lower your health is.
• Lightspeed Draw needs a Fixed Cooldown. Otherwise, if you take Hidden Resources and have some way of lowering the cd, you can cast it forever, doing infinite damage instantly.
• Spring Attack's stamina restore is kind of overkill given Tempo and Determination. Maybe it should only work if you're using a 2-hand weapon?