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· This video covers everything about the Swordmaster skill line in Dune Awakening.
· It analyzes the timing, usefulness, and effects of each skill in specific situations.
· It explains them by categorizing into passive, slot-able passive (technique), and active skills.
· It emphasizes that understanding the skill line is key to creating your own build without a build guide.
· It notes that there is a separate detailed explanation video for players with no prior knowledge of the skills.

· Knee Charge: Useful as a mobility skill and can be used in both PvE and PvP. Even a single point investment is enough, and it is a prerequisite skill for acquiring other skills.
· Field Medicine: Low usefulness, and at low levels it is recommended to invest minimally or skip.
· Optimize Hydration: A very useful passive skill; should be prioritized when you lack points.
· Disciplined Breathing: Increases stamina recovery speed, making it useful in various situations. Especially effective when preparing for boss fights or facing many enemies.
· Inspiration: Increases damage in melee combat but requires many points and has low priority if you are not a melee build.

· When building, it\'s efficient to select active skills first, then fill in techniques and passive skills.
· General Conditioning: A core passive that should be considered top priority in every build. After acquiring it, invest in it as the highest priority.
· Optimize Hydration: A passive with high priority right after General Conditioning.
· Prescient Strike: Currently non-functional or only intermittently works, leading to heavy skill point waste, so it should be avoided.
· Crippling Strike: Useful for melee builds; it blocks enemy dashes and applies a stun, providing an opportunity to use Slow Blade. Effective when facing multiple enemies in PvE.

· Deflection: Low utility, so its priority is lower than other skills. Skip it unless you have to invest to unlock another skill.
· Bleed Tolerance: Not worth investing unless you frequently encounter bleed damage in specific situations.
· Reckless Lunch: An effective technique when you have enough slot space and points. Particularly useful for beginners.
· Confidence: Used together with Reckless Lunch and provides a damage reduction effect on melee attacks. A mid-to-high tier skill worth considering when you have spare points.
· Thrive in Danger: Not recommended due to low efficiency in the current game meta.

· Blade Damage and Long Blade Damage: Basic passives that must be invested in if you use those weapons. Consider them as top priority after acquiring the skill and technique.
· Retaliate: Useful in melee boss fights or PvP. Especially effective when melee combat is essential, such as against poison bosses or darkness bosses.
· Foil: A good skill that adds 120% weapon damage in boss fights. However, it\'s only useful in very specific situations and has low utility in PvP.
· Eye Storm: Currently not recommended due to insufficient damage or crowd control effect and difficulty to land. It can be used limitedly when facing many enemies in PvE, but other skills are more efficient.

· Solid Stance: A high-tier passive that lets you endure more poise damage before being staggered. Invest in it if you have points.
· Reckless Lunch and Confidence: Increase survivability in melee combat, so consider them if you have point and slot room.
· Retaliate and Foil: Useful in melee boss fights, with Retaliate often taking higher priority.
· Precise Parry: A useful passive that grants extra damage after a parry in melee boss fights. Effective when using spices.
· Dance of Blades: Has a minimal damage increase effect and short duration, resulting in low utility.

· When selecting skills, it\'s best to secure active skills and techniques first, then complete the build with passive skills.
· Essential skills: Optimize Hydration, General Conditioning
· Considerable skills: Knee Charge, Disciplined Breathing, Crippling Strike, Solid Stance
· Situationally useful skills: Inspiration, Reckless Lunch, Confidence, Retaliate, Foil, Precise Parry
· Not recommended skills: Prescient Strike, Desert Conditioning, Eye Storm, Dance of Blades
· Building the optimal build for each situation based on understanding the skill line is important.