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This Portal Knights warrior build details the attributes, talents, skills and equipment to maximise your durability and damage as this popular melee class. Whether you’re a solo player or joined by allies this comprehensive class guide provides the template for high damage and survivability for end game content such as hard mode bosses.
Table of Contents:
– Attributes
– Talents
– Skills
– Equipment
Portal Knights Warrior Build Attributes
The warrior primary attributes in Portal Knights are constitution and strength. Strength should be your first priority as it has a direct impact on your melee damage. This also has the benefit of reducing incoming damage by defeating enemies faster and buffing any equipped life leech for survivability.
Points in constitution are generally not recommended as you’ll acquire some naturally as you progress that is sufficient enough to survive even the hard mode bosses of the game. If you find yourself struggling to survive generally upgrading your equipment or healing items is going to be a better option first for the warrior.
Portal Knights Warrior Build Talents
The warrior class has a clear pathway for talent build with only a small amount of variety based on if you’re playing alone, hunting bosses and the equipment you currently have available. These circumstances are discussed in detail below and I recommend the following default allocation as as starting point:
Commander > Last Stand > Aggression > Chain Attacks > Empowered Lung > Combo Swing
Similar to other Portal Knights classes the warrior can tweak the above to suit their playstyle and these options are discussed below:
Level 2 Talents
Level 2 talents are always based on your choice of weapon which may change during a playthrough although is usually going to be axes or swords. End game warrior builds also can use the fast attacking fist weapon class that does not benefit from any of the expert weapon specialisations in which case the choice is irrelevant unless you are using a backup weapon that has an associated talent. Despite this the Portal Knights best warrior weapon can sometimes be the fist weapon due to its massive attack speed.
Level 5 Talents
- Eye For An Eye: While not recommended in the above default build this is a highly effective solo talent depending on your current activity. If you’re being hit regularly by a boss or monster type then the free 30% damage boost is useful.
- Fortification: Not used as a talent given you’ll rarely want to stand still to regenerate health. Food and potions are both readily available during your journey and should be used instead in most situations.
- Commander: A good default option in this tier of talents given it provides a consistent 15% buff to you and everyone that stays close to you.
Level 10 Talents
- Adrenaline Rush: When progressing through the core game this is likely to be your preferred talent as it provides an effective method to regain health throughout your adventure.
- Last Stand: Perfect for fighting bosses as it gives you a safety net if you die and also provides a massive armour buff for 10 seconds which allows you to reposition or use health recovery items.
Level 15 Talents
- Aggression: With your primary warrior shouts having a cooldown equivalent to the duration this talent offers convenience as it is easier to maintain shout uptime. With these shouts being a damage contributor players are only giving up a small boost to armour from other talents in this tier for this convenience.
- Determination: While a 5% boost to defence sounds nice on it won’t significantly impact damage taken and players have ample methods to quickly regenerate any lost health that are usually sufficient to prevent death.
Level 20 Talents
- Chain Attacks: A huge boost to damage that makes this the best option in this tier of talents. When this pairs with the multi strike on the equipment you’ll be using nearly every attack will benefit from the 50% increase in damage.
- Echo: Mana is rarely an issue when casting your shouts and if it is players have other viable options to prevent running out of mana through potions and equipment.
- Titan Slayer: Rarely triggers in practice as often a low health enemy will already be a single hit or two from death anyway making this a poor talent option.
- Tank Mode: Healing sources are already sufficient to maintain your health pool in the vast majority of cases which means the extra 30% is overkill and unnecessary.
- Empowered Lung: Further boosting your shouts that are already a central component of your damage makes this talent an easy decision and by far the best option for solo and coop gameplay regardless if you are farming resources or battling bosses.
Level 30 Talents
- Combo Swing: The best damage boost of the level 30 talents by giving you a good foundation of multi strike chance and is the same as the ranger talent of the same name.
- Hardened Armour: With a 25% boost this does have a noticeable impact on the damage that monsters deal. However, the combat mechanics of Portal Knights simply don’t emphasise the need for defence and you’ll have better results through increasing your damage and life leech instead for your survival.
- Eternal Rage: An okay option if you are killing lots of monsters in quick succession and don’t have significant multi strike equipment available yet although is eventually beaten out in terms of damage output by combo swing.
Portal Knights Warrior Build Skills
The warrior is primarily known for shout abilities but can also use some other Portal Knights skills that pair nicely with their melee combat focus. With a low mana pool though you’ll need to carefully manage usage of all your skills.
- Enrage: The first shout that players will likely encounter due to its early availability. With a boost to melee damage which is further improved based on your strength stat this is a must equip for the warrior.
- War Cry: Used alongside your enrage skill noted above once unlocked given it also applies to your party. This should always be active when fighting enemies and a large source of the overall power of your warrior and also your party members. If you only want to run one shout in your build for simplicity this one provides a larger boost than enrage.
- Recklessness: Has a dramatic impact on damage taken by the warrior that makes it consistently useful as a hotbar skill although not something you cast all the time like war cry or enrage above. Note that this can be combined with or replaced by Deafening Shout as it impacts other party members as well although that skill has a limited range and thus requires additional micro management to use effectively.
- Poison Rain: While you might think of this as a mage spell it can be worth using due to its fantastic power and ease of use. Adding an additional source of damage as you swing your weapon this skill has a similar cooldown to your war cry shout so you can often cast them together once you can maintain the mana cost to boost your damage.
- Strength Flask: While not a skill this consumable item is an easy boost to your melee damage which along with shouts makes the warrior a deadly melee damage class.
Portal Knights Warrior Build Equipment
Selecting the right equipment for your warrior will be based on what is available as you progress. With a large list of items being directly craftable these should always be your first priority before chasing chest or boss drops which are harder to acquire but generally more powerful as a result.
As a warrior your equipment should focus on the following statistics:
- Multi Strike Chance & Additional Strikes: Multi strike turns all of your attacks into a chance of hitting multiple times and ties in nicely with the warrior talent of chain attacks perfectly. When combined with additional strikes which is often on the same equipment pieces every swing of your selected weapon will quickly multiply.
- Melee Damage: The warrior is unique in that they have a direct source of damage through equipment with the melee damage stat that spawns on multiple pairs of arms.
- Critical Strike Chance & Damage: A secondary damage stat for slots that you can’t fill with the above stats will let you maximise your overall damage output and is better than defensive options in an equipment slot in most situations.
Some potential items in each equipment slot for your warrior build are as follows:
Weapon
- Titanium Masterwork Cleaver: A late game craftable item that offers both critical strike chance, damage and a small health boost that makes it a great option from the Portal Knights warrior weapons. Apply the Axe specialisation expert talent when using this weapon.
- Gold Masterwork Fists of War: A fist weapon with significant attack speed and a solid amount of multi strike that despite not benefiting from any of your level 2 talents is a very effective weapon and often the best warrior weapon once available when you factor in the element of this weapon and late game battles.
Head
- Outlaw Hood
Torso
- Elite Eliminator Jerkin
- Primal Unleased Chest Piece
- High Reaper Robes
- Avenger Breastplate
Arms
- Outlaw Gloves
- High Reaper Gloves
Legs
- Gladiator Champion Legbraces
- Avenger Legbraces
Cape
- Cloak of the Eternal Watcher
Ring
- Ring of Divine Protection
- Ring of Fire
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