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Hello Everyone! My name is Sybarite. I'm a Imperial Guard from the guild Filthy Casuals on Helheim, and today I will be explaining the defensive aspects of Imperial Guard I will try to explain as much as possible, but this is my first guide. So pardon in advance if I am not able to explain myself fully. What is Devotion, and why is it important? Devotion is one of the most powerful support tools that are in the crusader class. Is a skill that makes a link with the target party member between 30 base levels of difference. Redirecting all the damage they take towards you, allowing you to become a powerful tank without the need of direct tank and position yourself in the back line. With that explained lets get to the contents of the guide. Contents of the Guide: 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Advantages and Disadvantages 1.3 Equipment 1.4 Stats 2.1 Leveling Phase 2.2 Instance Phase 2.3 End Game Dungeons 3.1 Skill Mechanics 4.1 PvP 4.2 WoE 5. End [1.1] Introduction Regardless of what majority of people think: Devotion Royal Guard is not that expensive. Most of the gear can be obtained through grinding and party play, but keep in mind you are a tank. Not a DPS. So there would be cases where u will feel that u can't really do nothing rather than watch your giant Gryphon being carried through instances but don't feel powerless. This guide is aiming to explain all the defensive capabilities of Royal Guard and how to become a colossus to lend your high amounts of hp to classes that struggle to survive. [1.2] Advantages and Disadvantages TL;DR + High HP + Increases the overall durability of the Party + Enables glass cannons to go for high damage builds + Look at those muscles bro. - Low to no damage at all. - AB's struggle to heal, and you need to rely on Yggs. - If a tool is misused you can cause a wipe. - "Sacra ples" [1.3] Equipment Here I will leave two screenshots of the build finished and explain the tiers of the equipment: That would be an example of the build finished, with that equipment you can reach (1m - 1.8m HP) at a party setting + consumables. Low Tier equipment (Starting Set) Middle Tier Equipment (Instancing) End-Game Equipment (Pit. Ruins and World Bosses Tanking) Luxury Items (MvPs) [1.4] Stats The stats I'm using currently are for maximizing Prestige dodge ratio. Due to the existence of Gym Passes and Call Storage having large amounts of STR is not needed anymore to carry potions around. Magic Dodge Stats (75.75% Magic Dodge Chance) Suggested Overall Stat Build. [2.1] Leveling Phase Now with the Stats and Equipment settled aside. The skill setup and leveling: Imperial Guard Skill Tree [250/60] Leveling as Devotion Build [2.2] Instance Phase [2.3] End Game Dungeons Fortessa Dungeons Purgatory Difficulty (On progress...) Guardian Angel (On progress..) [3.1] Skill Mechanics [4.1] PvP [4.2] WoE [5] End If you managed to reach this far through all the walls of text giving explanations. I'd like to say thank you for taking your time and i hope this was useful enough or motivated you in any way to try Devotion RG. I'd tried to give insight of on what I have learned in my time of playing the class and explaining stuff that you learn from practice and experience is not that easy. Don't let failures let you down from trying the class. Learning how to time Earth Dive and King's Grace might take time and only practice will give you the correct feeling of who you should Devo. I hope the guide was useful or at least entertaining to read. If you have any suggestions to the build, or you know any build that will possibly give more MHP please feel free to share it below. If you have any suggestions or questions towards the build or anything I might probably ignore feel free to contact me on discord [Sybarite#6602] or finding me at @fc on the Filthy Casuals's base. Thank you for reading!