Hello everyone, bk(pronounce as bweekay) here, as you can see I am an vagabond main player, so we will discuss about the class of “Vagabond”, her current state of art and all other small tips to player her elegantly.
110lv Character traits and how to play it 2
Global overview of the class 2
Meta skill building(With Aspect weapon): 4
Off meta building (with Culmination Weapon) 7
Everyskills explained 1 by 1: 9
Avatars, Emblems, Creatures, Titles 57
Beginner-friendly equipment build 73
Bakal fusion recommandation 78
Lets start with a simple question, why you should play Vagabond,
CUZ VAGABOND NUMBAAAAA ONEEEEE
WE ARE NUMBER ONE,
well, technically, we were, but 2 years ago, time passed and things changed a lot. Just blame Swini.
To be honest, at current patch, vagabond has just an “ok” dps output, the skill form of this class is very good, big aoe, smooth cdr rotation, easy to pilote, high speed and by extension relatively decent survivability.
So for a newbie who just start to play dfo, I highly recommend picking vagabond or other slayer class to start your dfo life.
By the way, we are one of three class(Vagabond, Weapon Master, Dark Knight) that are able to use lightsaber weapon due to our lovely “Lightsaber License”
Yes my boi and gals, if you wanna play with Lightsaber, Sword master is the wrong class
With Aspect type weapon , Vagabond’s skill build is pretty much fixed and does not require any trade off
with the top build, there is a few hundred skill point that u can spend on skills that arent maxed, the increase is very small so not that important since we already maxed our major damage skills
for my part i still maxing Sword barrier and event put my leftover tp point on it, it has very low interest nowadays, but i quite like this skill, so its up to you.
I dont put tp on basic training because vaga major skills arent affected by it, so pointless
its worthy to put tp on it since it increase triple slash use count, it makes your daily chore more smooth.
putting skills points on Qigong - Yang is also possible, as the description said, it increase abnormal status proc chance per level, however, to only xstring trigger Qigong - yang, and the abnormal status from it isnt stable enough to be really impactful.(See explanation in Qi Gong - Yang part)
in early stage of 110 patch era, culmination weapon actually dominated aspect for its substain, cdr and smoothness, but later on, aspect weapon received damage buff, hence the 99 percent of Vagabond user are using meta building with aspect weapon.
09/02/2023, weapon usage count on top kdnf server. (The second weapon is bakal weapon which we dont have yet in our server, even when we get it, aspect still dominating)
With Culmination weapon, we have to make some trade off in order to max cross
therefore, most common decision is to give up fluttering blades to free extra sp.
TP wise, we also switch tp from fluttering to cross
Tips:
for both of suggested build, i have maxed leap, which is a core skill in dfo late content, a lot of gimmick in late game dungeon require to jump or stay in the air in order to dodge damage skill from mobs, if you aren't meeting those dungeon yet (Majorly ipsin and warpath), you can pull down skill point from it and just forget the existence the this skill.
Vagabond leather armor mastery, basic armor mastery | Inner passive, no skill point to allocate, inner maxed at 1 | |
Inner class armor mastery skills, basically it's telling you to wear leather armor in order to receive bonus stats So make sure your armor is retextured to leather to receive extra crit chance and strength |
Spiritual trinity | Max at 1 | |
Vagabond damage passive, nothing to comment about, except this is our major skill to choose when about using a platinum emblem on avatars |
Second Weapon Mastery | Inner maxed | |
Allow Vagabond to wear a second lightsaber as secondary weapon, only 10pct of its raw stat(physical attack and strenght) are counted |
Cleansing fire | Max | |
Second Damage passive, comes with a small bonus, when vagabond enter abnormal status, she’s immediately cured from it and gain a small proportion of speed. Only negative abnormal status are counted, we got several status epic in 110 cap but those are not cured by this passive like self-shocking or self-status. Just consider this skill as passive dmg upgrade. |
Zenith | Max | |
Third damage passive, just max it, nothing to add |
Sword Deity | Max | |
Fourth damage passive that comes with third awakening. Allow you to chain skill immediately after chain blast usage. |
Blade integrity | put 1 | |
Allow you to use the adjacent 2 skills (Blade triangle and Gyre), those 2 skills are only counted as one skill, and scale with the lvl of blade integrity, both are not used skill, you can keep them at 1 |
Qigong- Yang | Inner maxed at 1 | |
When used, change the form of your autoattack to different weapon type, Zanbato: Higher autoattack dmg (which is equal to none) Lighsaber: Faster Autoattack speed (Recommanded to use) Katana: Chances to bleed enemies while autoattacking Bludgedon:Chances to stun enemies while autoattacking Short sword: Chances to Immobilize enemies while autoattacking Its recommended to switch to lightsaber form and lock this skill, and throw it away. As i said, only autoattack are affected by this skill (aka repeatedly pressing x button) in 110 cap, boss are affected by abnormal status only after neutral gauge break, even boss is in neutralized form, we dont have time and patience to waiting the status to proc. |
Quintuple strength | Max at lvl10 | |
Vagabond major buff skill, on cast, increase critical damage, One single cast is enough to get full 5 stack of quintuple strength, |
Spiritual Suction | lv1 | |
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Chain blast | lv1 | |
very nice skill to max while leveling, if you already lvl110, just put it back to 1 and use it as dash skill |
Fluttering Blades | Max or lv1 depending on preference | |
Relatively ok hit count, acceptable damage to max it |
Oppressive pressure | recommended 1 or max depending on preference | |
Great levling skill, short cdr great aoe. not that good once lvl110, you can pick either this skill or cutting palm depending on your preference to max |
Cutting palm | recommended 1 or max depending on preference | |
Btw can also be casted in the air, in order to dmg and dodge ground gimmick You can add directional button to make the flow bigger but shorter, or smaller but longer Y-axis range |
Soaring | lv1 | |
Hold skill, can grab grabable mob, lv1 for qol, nothing special, the rising time is invincible, but on downfall you are still vulnerable, so its less than mountain wheel for dodging gimmick |
Sword Wheel | lv1 | |
Another hold skill,you can adjust throw direction with direction keys |
Blasting Palm | Max | |
Major dps skill, its basically like a kamehameha, you charge then blast the enemie, all enemies who received first blast will receive a second aftershock dmg 1s later |
Explosive Sword | Max | |
Has actually two form, if the skill is rapidly pressed twice, the character will immediately cast a giant sword smash, meanwhile if the skill is only pressed once, the character start with a spinning rotation then followed by the sword smash, generally the first option is preferred for quick damage output, both has same dmg. |
Comet Rush | Max | |
Quick slash forehead then followed by 2 backward sword hit, in order to use this you must press the skill twice. (We rarely use this form because of talisman system will readjust the skill form, see talisman section) |
Verdant blast | Max | |
Nearly fullscreen aoe awakening skill, not used that much because its overwritten by third awakening skill, We still need to max this skill since it will increase 3a damage. |
Cross Sword | lv1 if aspect weapon, max if culmination weapon | |
Standard form: (No talisman, Not culmination weapon) Culmination Weapon form: Remove the entire hold animation, and you can cancel skill with cross sword before and after the casting of this skill. |
Lotus Dance | Max | |
Can also be casted while in the air: Or combined with backstep: |
Explosive Palm | Max | |
Normal cast: If you press up button while casting, the range will be longer Can be casted while in the air: |
Lotus Flash | Max | |
One of major skill of vagabond, the skill is divided in 2 part: the first part is a slash that will mark the encountered ennemie with ! symbole the second part is when the char move back to her initial location then deal the entire damage. For the second part, it does not require the ennemie to be in a damageable stat, as long the first part has been locked, therefore, you can abuse this skill to deal damage even after the ennemie goes into invincible stat, as long he was damageable when you cast the first part.
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Moonlight Dance | Max | |
Second awakening skill, you can use directional key to adjust final slash position. |
Kinetic Drift | Max | |
Teleport into your front ennemie then deal 2 part damage, the second part will come slightly later |
Lunar Arc | Max | |
Vagabond’s ultimate damage skill, the third awakening
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The talisman system allow you to upgrade and power up the skills of your choice.
You can filter the talisman by clicking on desired skill icon, therefore i will simply use skill icon instead of talisman name.
I will first introduce you the meta choices of talisman set up, then ends with a second section that will present all talisman effect
Unlike some class like asura who want to wear 7 talisman slot, vagabond has very small skill form gain from talisman,her talisman are majorly damage related, their major utility is to boost your desired skill damage.
Old build(If communion belt)
New build with communion shoulder without communion belt, runes shifted to blade dance instead of lotus flash
Must have (In red):
Lotus Flash is mandatory in all build
Lotus Dance is second mandatory
Nice to have(In blue):
After taking the two above, we only got one talisman slot open for one of three skill from below
Highly suggest to Comet Slash
Or one of these two depending on your preference.
If u running communion shoulder fusion without communion belt, pick up
instead to squeeze as much benefit from the shoulder
Two option are possible, either Lotus Flash, either Lotus Dance
I preferred Lotus flash since my title is lv80 range increase, both are pretty much dealing same gain.
With introduction of bakal armor fusion, the second runes set up (lotus dance) suits vaga better if u running only communion shoulder, if you run communion shoulder+communion belt, you can stay with lotus flash focused runes set up
For colors, optimal color set up is Blue+Purple+Red,
you can purchase runes reroller with Exile mountain material
BPR is optimal but other color isnt that bad, just try to avoid yellow when you are in early stage of runes optimization.
We will begin with a showcase of all talisman effect,
Fluttering Blades | Usable | |
Before: After: More slash count |
Blasting Palm | Usable | |
Before: After: Faster charge time, bigger range and longer waiting time for the aftershock damage |
Comet Rush | Usable+ | |
Before: After: |
Cross Sword | Not recommanded | |
Standard form: (No talisman, Not culmination weapon) Before After: Culmination Weapon form before: After: Basically the cross become a single one |
Explosive Palm | Not recommanded | |
before: After: basically make you autojump then cast the skill |
Lotus Dance | Must have | |
Before: After: First move that makes you goes air is removed, so its acting like backstep+Lotus Dance |
Lotus Flash | Must have | |
Before: After: Allow you to press a second time lotus flash skill, which makes you teleport in front of your marked ennemie, if multiple ennemie is marked, the boss ennemie got higher priority |
Vagabond is a physical percentage class, therefore all enchant are oriented to physical attack then strength, with 100 percent crit as basic case.
For enchants, i will make 2 part, one is for beginner friendly or casual alt tier, second one is everything bis or near bis grade.
Dfo’s enchant card been really really affordable since the 110 cap, so i would suggest newbies to start with beginner filler enchant, then move directly into bis version when they got the opportunities.
I only give 3 tier of enchant, beginner tier with gold beryl free enchant, token shop free enchant, and end game bis enchant.
Its not worthy to invest in between range, just waste of gold
Around the entrance of advanced dungeon like Castle of the Dead, Nobless code or Meister Lab, you can found npc like Meryl Pioneer whos sells enchant for golden beryl or ominous crystal, those are what i recommend for newbies, because neople always gift golden beryl with event, so its really easy to get those material. Those are nearly “free”, economic, and very suitable for the early stage of the game.
For cards, you can open the game menu
then DFOpedia
Enchant section,
you will found all wiki of all enchant cards and their effect, sometime you may found better card to use instead of what i recommend to you, its on your own choice, better the card, higher is its price.
For enchant cards, you will find them as raid reward, card album result, monster drop.
but those are too rare chance to be a stable source, so I will just list the auction house price.
Its better to grab them directly from the auction house
Parts | Card/Bead name | Location/price |
Weapon | Pick one of those card, upgrade it to max, and use it, dual 15 is bis enchant, no need to purchase weaker version from beryl enchant bead shop | Auction house, raw card around 600k, adding the upgrade cost, its just 2m at worst. |
Shoulder | very nice card, unbeatable price/gain ratio | Auction house for around 2m |
Top and Pants | ||
Belt and shoes | Auction house for around 1m | |
Accessories(Bracelet, Necklace,Ring) | Same bead exist for other attribute type, same cost and source For enchant thats all i recommend as newbie/start up enchant, if you want to move further, just move to bis or near bis tier with 30 ele or 35 ele cards | |
Sub equipment | ||
Magic Stone | I only recommend to use this as filler enchant until you are ipsin ready and farmed enough token in order to get 30 ele dmg enchant bead for free, yes magic stone bis enchant bead is free, just a bit hard to reach. | |
Earrings | Nearly unbeatable cost/efficiency rate | Not recommended Either bis or 125 stats, the 150 stat enchant is completely outdated |
Parts | Card/Bead name | Location/price |
Weapon | Pick one of those card, upgrade it to max, and use it, dual 15 is bis enchant, no need to purchase weaker version from beryl enchant bead shop | Auction house, raw card around 600k, adding the upgrade cost, its just 2m at worst. |
Shoulder | Don’t be foolish, if you need physical crit, just go Silver Light Tagor. AKA the notorious booba card If booba card shows up in weekly auction, you know its time to beat ozma ass! | Around 6m in auction house Auction house for around 1m Auction house for around 60-90m Best way is wait ozma auction week that has it as auction item, price generally goes for 40m max upgraded |
Top and Pants | you can get it free in ipsin | nice holder around 4m for brute card price, or free if u purchase album with your own ipsin mat |
Belt and shoes | Near Bis: True bis of current patch | Auction house for around 2m, but upgrade cost is quite high dropped in warpath, can also be purchased with warpath mat |
Shoes | Auction house for around 2m, but upgrade cost is quite high | |
Accessories(Bracelet, Necklace,Ring) | Previous cap bis item, do not use them if you just arrived, those are just upgrade fodder tier nowadays Our lovely friend Flo is happy to sell you those for “free” in ipsin. True bis of our current cap Its recommended to pick one ele and use dual ele card that has that element included, all elemental enchant not outstanding in current cap, so just forget about unstable rift card | Use 35 ele version instead Auction house for around 8m raw card price. Adding the cost to upgrade its around 30m |
Sub equipment | Previous era bis, recently dethroned by siv sub bead, True Bis, expensive, actually we will get it permanent available form in bakal raid, but neople decide to prerelease this bead via danji box | Not recommended to buy ozma card, just use HOD token shop free bead Around 70-90m on first release, now you can buy it with danji coin in danji shop |
Magic Stone | Garbage 25 ele card, when you got free and better version at our lovely friend Flo -Ozma raid ocasionnaly setup 30 all ele bead as auction item, which is around 20-40m depending on how rich you or your raid teammate are -With warpath update, we do get 30 ele as enchant card: | Do not use auction house, price was around 20m on release, should keep dropping down |
Earrings | 150 stats is outdated, New near bis: you can get it free at Total war token shop, one purchase per month
Only produced at bakal raid, | Currently around 300-400M in auction house |
For avatar options im talking about normal clone avatar or rare avatar which have stats (look avatar doesnt have any stat), with addition of the skin.
On redeem, you can select the class in order to let the game decide the majority choice of options, which is roughly the same that i'm recommending right here
Part | recommended option | Emblem option |
Hair | Casting Speed +14% | [Red: Strength] |
Hat | Casting Speed +14% | [Red: Strength] |
Face | Atk speed +6% | [Yellow: atk speed] |
Torso | Atk speed +6% | [Yellow: atk speed] |
Top | Spiritual Trinity or Quintuple Strength, first one is attack skill, second one is buff swap skill if you haven't maxed your operation Hope swap | [Green: phy crit] or [Green+Red:phy crit+Strength] |
Bottom | hp/mp/def up to you, hp generally, mp if you archon | [Green: phy crit] or [Green+Red:phy crit+Strength] |
Waist | Corresponding ele resist+35 | [BlueLMove speed] or [Blue+Yellow:Move speed+atk speed] or [Multicolore:All elemental resist+5] |
Shoes | Strength+55 | [BlueLMove speed] or [Blue+Yellow:Move speed+atk speed] or [Multicolore:All elemental resist+5] (special case) |
Skin | PDef or Magical Def, up to you | [Red: Strength] or [Green: phy crit] or [Green+Red:phy crit+Strength] |
Aura | Red: Strength] or [Green: phy crit] or [Green+Red:phy crit+Strength] | |
Weapon avatar | Strengh +45 | Red: Strength] or [Green: phy crit] or [Green+Red:phy crit+Strength] |
This is the true bis form of buff swap window,with warped trio set and lv20 quintuple strength
for newbie, pick up encroached trio set instead
All possible buff swap gain
Basic:
Weapon | Fragmented Abyss Beam Sword S: Quintuple Strength | +1 |
Armor+Accesories | Fragmented Abyss | +1 |
Special Equipement | Encroached | +3 |
Easy to get:
Creature | any with quintuple strength option | +1 |
Top | Choose quintuple strength as option | +1 |
Title | Buff swap title, have 2 grade, either with +1 or +2 QT enchant bead, +1 extra lvl from range lvl example: | +2 or +3 |
With all those listed option here, you can already archive Encroached lvl19 or lvl20
In order to gain more stat, you need to swap special equipment, that will give less lvl increase, but more stat gain
Hard to get
Top/Bottom Rare avatar Plat emblem slot | In addition of skill option from top slot, rare grade avatar comes with platinum emblem slot which we can put Quintuple Strength as option Example: | +2 max |
Aura: Motion Unique Aura | the specific case of Motion Unique Aura have Platium aura slot, so we can gain one extra lvl of QT example: | +1 |
So in order to achieve perfect buff swap: in addiction of basic slot filling,
you need either
Lvl+2 buff swap title + 2 QT platinum at top/bot slot + Motion aura with 1 QT platinum |
Lvl+3 buff swap title + 2 QT platinum at top/bot slot |
With title reroll pity, difference of price between +2 and +3 buff swap title is very small, so i would suggest everyone to pick +3 lvl buff swap title in order of buying Motion aura and 1 extra QT platinum slot.
Those 3 slot require to purchase with in game gold or cera, i won't be giving every specific option available, but i will classify 3 grade of possible item, choose your option with your wallet. Stronger equipment also means a way more expensive cost.
For newbie, sweat point is generally T2 or T1 depending what on sell package has to offer
Dps Title:
For Title, major point of view is line, its value determine the grade of the title
Grade | Comment and example | Estimated Value |
Filler T3 | Garbage Damage value+10pct title | 1-2m |
T2 | Damage value+15pct Usable | 10m |
T1 | Damage value+18pct, and +6 elemental damage | 25m |
T0 | Damage value+18pct, +6 elemental damage, +10pct dmg on a specific range skill (for Vagabond, its generally 80>40>75 for range preference). | 100m |
Aura:
Grade | Comment and example | Estimated Value |
Filler T3 | No Damage value line or nearly none stat | 1-2m |
T2 | Damage Value +5pct, and some elemental damage | 5m and under depending on package provision |
T1 | Damage Value +10pct, +25elemental damage, +10pct speed, +1 to passive damage skill | 30-50m |
T0 | Damage Value +10pct, +25elemental damage, +10pct speed, +1 to passive damage skill, one extra dps platinum emblem slot (for Spiritual trinity) | around 100m depending on provision of package |
Creature:
Grade | Comment and example | Estimated Value |
Filler T3 | Damage Value+10pct | Not worthy |
T2 | Damage Value+15pct | 10m |
T1 | Damage Value+18pct, +1 damage passive | 10m on package release + reroll cost, around 20-30m if not on sales period |
T0 | Damage Value+20pct, +1 damage passive,+25 elemental damage | around 200-250m depending on sales, 300m if off sales period |
For creature, generally neople offer you the possibility to reroll your on sale package creature, for dps what we want is the t1 grade +18dmg pet (at left)
Vagabond is a physical percent class, which means she’s only affected by strength and physical attack modifier, (by extension, independent attack has no impact on her)
Therefore what you need the Insignia of Protection
About gems, you can buy from the npc from guilde hideout, its quite easy to get it 4/4
generally, the combo is made by all those 4 gems:
+7 ele damage of each attribute, pick the one that you are u sing |
You dont need to waste your time and fp to farm guild dungeon,
each week you will receive a bunch amonth of guildie token according to your character activeness (party, echo in guild chat, raid)
just afk until you reach 5k guildie token
In the game menu there is an guide menu that will help you gear out your char
As i mentioned in the first paragraph, vagabond use Lightsaber as main weapon, in the old era, we also used zanbato, however with further patch and update, the damage difference between zanbato and lightsaber is small enough to be ignored, but you will never be able to ignore the cooldown difference between them. Therefore, your main weapon should be Aspect-Devoured Lightsaber
I suggest Vagabond newbie to start with archon build, which is shown as below
For the upper build, several alternative are possible which i list below:
Part | Gear | Comment |
Pants | Archon pants, you can choose this if your elemental damage is high enough | |
Pants | Amp pants, require all your gear to be +10 amped or more to be efficient, not a newbie choice, too costy despite been bis | |
Top | Custom archon top, which require 1~2 specific line and some good line to be swap over reversible coat Must have: Nice to have: | |
Shoes | Archon shoes, but for newbie, the qol brought by accelerator is better choice | |
Belt | Higher coldown recovery, but need to pot a undiluted strength potion to trigger the effect | |
Belt | Holder Belt until you get Power Plant | |
Shoulder | Holder shoulder until you get Manipulation | |
Magic stone | Better than Cursed Heart, but require ipsin epic box, which is a bit hard to access for newbie | |
Magic stone | Bis for magic stone, but requires to possess 20 creatures on the single char. | |
Earrings | I put it here because some other class ppl may read it, rhombus is bad on Vagabond so i dont recommend it. However on other class like soulbender, rhombus is better choice |
Meta bleed+petri:
Strong in all situation, require a bit minmax to reach 275 elemental damage, if you not familiar with duty belt, you can swap it for
Archon+cyberspeed:
Very hard to archive, require late game perfect minmax, more importantly, the core piece Ent Top is RNG related, git lucky.
Going cyberspeed isn't mandatory for vagabond, she already got tons of speed, standard archon is perfectly viable set even till very late game
When you reach ipsin, you can purchase fusion epic for accessories slot, each fusion gives you dmg or qol increase depending on trigger situation
Here is the major combination possible
Brace | Neck | Ring |
Empyrean x3, relatively easy to trigger, standard damage increase, high survival, recommend as default combination | ||
Or | ||
Alternative to standard emp3, black drake will make your mana permanently fixed around 10-20 pct, you can pick green dragon neck if you go bleed or can’t trigger empyrean neck requirement You CANNOT pick black dragon brace if you are archon build. | ||
Standard archon fusion choice, black ring actually increase the mana regen so making u tankier if you have mana regen line. | ||
Flame dragon x3 for more coldown recovery, a possible choice if you going archon and struggle to have more cdr | ||
A mix of the 2 build above, but note that 2 drake proc got empty times, so you may lose drake stack in a long animation fight. | ||
Not recommended, near useless effect unless you going for nature guardian build |
Slot | Recommended fusion |
Shoulder | Highly recommended to use Communion shoulder, Vagabond lv75 skill lotus dance is a major skill, and she has 2 lv40 skill that benefit too Possible choice, ice shoulder gives 3pct attack speed which can help to build cyberspeed, still too much loss, if you got tons of shock and poison custom that need to proc, predation shoulder is ok |
Top | Recommended to pick icy or predation, icy need to be pickles in multiple slot, if you only got 1icy, its better to pick up predation top instead 16 attack speed in party, nice if you building cyberspeed Communion not recommended, that range sux in this slot |
Bottom | Same than Top slot, either multiple icy, either predation pants for the 8 attack speed, Communion not recommended, that range sux in this slot |
Belt | Only 2 choice, Communion for more cdr on Lotus Flash and Comet Rush or Predation belt for general increase. If communion Belt can’t let you archive 3 casts of Lotus Flash in 40s sandbag, its better to pick Predation belt. For newbie i recommend predation belt, At very endgame if you got DD shoulder and other custom that makes you very high on elemental damage, you can swap off predation belt, otherwise its nearly unbeatable increase |
Shoes | Either Icy shoes or Communion shoes, Communion shoes allow you to cast 95 skill twice in a 40s sandbag, however vagabond’s lv95 got hitbox issue and damage delay that may makes your dmg nullify. so i recommend icy shoes. Wrath shoes is ok, it provide super armor and few damage reduction while running. But Vagabond is quite agile class, so no need that much qol |