Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin

Swordsman Best Builds

Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin Walkthrough Team

Last updated on: March 28, 2022 12:37 AM

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Swordsman is one of the basic Jobs that can be accessed in Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origins. Read on to find out more about this Job, its best builds, and which Equipment Effects to go after to maximize Jack's potential!

Swordsman Guides
How to Use Swordsman	Swordsman Best Builds

List of Contents

Tank Build
Balanced Swordsman Build
Best Job Synergies and Pairings
Swordsman Job Info
Stranger of Paradise Related Guides

Tank Build

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The Swordsman Job is an excellent Basic Job that players will start out with. Many of the Abilities and nodes in its Job Tree include increases to a player's Slash Damage – harness the power of these stat boosting abilities, players can find it easy to activate the base Spinning Slash Ability.

Holding down on its button will cause Jack to spin widlly with increasing speed, easily a spammable move with enough MP that can defeat larger and much more difficult enemies.

Best Abilities Loadout

Combo Ability Setup

No.	Ability	Button Commands
1	Spinning Slash
2	Highbringer	> > > >
3	Piercing Thrust	> > > > > >

Command Ability Setup

Best Commands
Reinforce	Venom	Swayback

Reinforce: Reinforce is one of the command abilities that you can pick up in the Job Tree for Swordsman. The Ability decreases the amount of time required to charge attacks and makes the chances of being staggered when attacked low.
Venom: Serves as the central focus of this build. It allows players to get enemies to gradually accumulate Poison overtime, with them eventually getting the status ailment once they have received enough hits. As a Tank build, you can easily just cause your opponent to be rendered with the ailment and stand back to wait as they're affected.
Swayback: Useful ability that you can get from the Lancer, giving you an agile move where you can avoid enemy attacks and replenish your Break Gauge at the same time.

Passive and Effect Priorities

Best Passives and Effects
All Damage -5.5%	Ever Stronger	Slash Damage +2.9%

All Damage -5.5%: Increases all forms of damage that you can receive from opponents, allowing you more longetivity against enemies who can easily hit you.
Ever Stronger: Increases physical damage dealt of Greatsword abilities assigned to the Guard Attack Link. In particular, Highbringer is affected by this ability as it is the only Ability that can be assigned to the Link.
Slash Damage +2.9%: Increases slash damage for players – this ability is particularly useful for players who like to spam the Spinning Slash Action Ability.

Recommended Equipment Effects

Equipment Effects
・Magic Resistance ( + ) ・MP Recovery Rate with Normal Attacks ( + ) ・Physical Damage Dealt ( + ) ・Critical Damage Dealt ( + )

By running a Tanky build for the Swordsman Job, players can expect plenty of MP consumption coupled with many open opportunities for your enemies to attack and cause you to stagger.

Having equipment that can supplement and cover these needs, sustained by the Reinforce ability to reduce charge time for attacks and Spinning Slash Mastery for reduced MP consumption when using the spinning slash, can help keep you in the fight for much longer without having to pull back whenever your MP or HP runs low.

Balanced Attacker Build

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This second build relies more on the many different abilities that the Swordsman Job offers, with the primary focus being a player's ability to mix and match attacks with both long and short wind ups in their arsenal.

Due to the slow nature of attacks under the Swordsman Job, chaining together strings of Ability Attacks can be difficult, but ultimately rewarding when paired alongside regular attacks that can easily stunlock enemies into submission.