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-Tank
-Sword or Hammer
-Shield Tank
-Stunning attacks



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Background
Fiona is a balanced warrior who wields a sword and a shield. She values defense, so she uses her shield to protect herself during combat and then strikes strategically when enemies aren't expecting it. She is able to wear heavy armor from the start and later learns to wear plate armor as well.

Fiona comes from the south. She treasures her privacy and boasts a solemn, serious personality, so no one knows how she came to join the Crimson Blade mercenaries. She rarely speaks about her past. Even as people marvel at her combat abilities, they can't help but wonder what secrets she's hiding.

Role
Fiona is best described as a tank, with great shield defense. She can utilize both a sword and a hammer as her weapon. Fiona has the ability to stun enemies allowing teammates to quickly overwhelm them.

As a shield using tank, it is Fiona's responsibility to do damage while nullifying attacks done to her by blocking attacks with her shield or outright avoiding the attack.

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Fiona is a balanced warrior who wields a sword and a shield. She values defense, so she uses her shield to protect herself during combat and then strikes strategically when enemies aren’t expecting it. She is able to wear heavy armor from the start and later learns to wear plate armor as well.

Fiona comes from the south. She treasures her privacy and boasts a solemn, serious personality, so no one knows how she came to join the Crimson Blade mercenaries. She rarely speaks about her past. Even as people marvel at her combat abilities, they can’t help but wonder what secrets she’s hiding.
Skills

:Heavy Stander:

Allows you to defend against smash attacks. Greatly decreases damage taken, but does not block damage completely. When successful, greatly decreases the durability of your shield. When successful, this skill does NOT grant a chance to counterattack. Cannot use when shield is broken.

Pre-requisite: [Guard] Rank D or above.
How To Acquire: Complete the [Skill: Heavy Stander] story to acquire the skill book as a reward.
Counterattack:

Use Guard to block an enemy's attack, and then counter with a strong smash while the enemy is startled.

A successful Guard does not guarantee a successful Counterattack. Counterattacks are only possible when Guard is used at precisely the right moment. You cannot use Counterattack if your shield is broken.

Pre-requisite: [Guard] Rank C or above.
How To Acquire: Complete the [Skill: Counterattack] story to acquire the skill book as a final reward.

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Introduction
Fiona's main advantage is obviously, her shield. Not only as defense, but for offensive too. She can use her Guard skill to quickly defend against normal attacks, allowing to chain combos much faster than even Lann, if done properly.
She also is, by far, the character with the best chance to stun bosses, with amaranth kick, counter attack and shield bash.

I'm going to be calling the combos by "Sword #1", "Sword #2", etc. So people that do not know the specific names of each smash attack can still follow. I'll still be calling Amaranth Kick by it's name, because the awesomeness of this smash combo should be known across the land.
Sword #1 would be Left Click > Right Click
Sword #3 Left Click > Left Click > Left Click > Right Click, etc.

I'll be mentioning "sprint smash" often, that is the smash attack that is done while sprinting. (shift+direction key+right click)

Skills

Guard


Ranking guard is a good idea to reduce durability damage on the shield when guarding. Rank D is a must to get Heavy Stander and Counter Attack. Recommended: Rank A and eventually 9.
(Rank D needed to learn Heavy Stander; Rank C needed to learn Counter Attack)
[img]Ranking guard is a good idea to reduce durability damage on the shield when guarding. Rank D is a must to get Heavy Stander and Counter Attack. Recommended: Rank A and eventually 9. (Rank D needed to learn Heavy Stander; Rank C needed to learn Counter Attack)

Shield Mastery (SM)



The extra durability on shields will be great when you get Counter Attack. And the reduction in weight will come in handy like always. Recommended minimum: Rank A, and rank 9 eventually.
(Rank 9 needed to learn Large Shield Mastery)

Heavy Stander (HS)

Though usually a better idea to dodge rather than use Heavy Stander, this skill will save your skin several times. Recommended minimum: Rank A.
How to get it: Finish the "Decisive Battle", and talk to Marrec with Rank D (or higher) Guard.

Counter Attack (CA)

Amazing skill, enormous stun chance, but does serious damage on your shield; but ranking it reduces this damage. Recommended minimum: Rank A and eventually rank 6.
How to get it: Finish "Dethrone the White Tyrant", talk to Marrec and then talk to him again after achieving 120pts in "Brynn's Research".

Amaranth Kick (Sword #4)

Wide range, crazy damage, good stun chance. Though I recommend ranking the previous skills first, ranking this is not a bad idea, the thing is at about level 48 (?, Vindictus level curve change leaves this unconfirmed) you can obtain a prolongation of the Blossom smash combo (Sword #2) which does two bashes, and since Sword #2 is fast, and does good damage some people recommend ranking that instead first. Amaranth Kick is not available when wielding a hammer.
Hammer #4 instead is a chargable smash attack with tremendous stun chance and damage, if managed to load to its fullest.

Evy Sweep (Sword #3)

Good range, and does good damage. Recommended ranking it to 9 at some point, but not a priority.


These are the basic skills you'll get your first few levels, you'll want to rank guard to D before Decisive Battle, so you can get Heavy Stander quickly. After that you could either Rank heavy stander 2 or 3 ranks. And then focus on Shield Mastery, which would be a good idea to have it Rank A by the time you learn Counter Attack. After that Rank Counter Attack, because you will be using it a lot, and notice how your shield cries for help.