Eder had been stunned for a moment by Seongna’s sudden action, but fortunately, he managed to recover quickly.
Seven years of streaming experience—the mental fortitude of a veteran streamer wasn’t so flimsy that it would crumble over something like this.
“Uhh... yes, anyway, we’ve brought SaintessNice on like this... yes, I’m pretty flustered too.”
Of course, he hadn’t fully recovered yet, but he had at least recovered enough to continue the broadcast.
-Bro why is your face so red?
-What’s with him today lolololol
-What happened to this guy’s skin?
“Seongna has literally never told me her gender even once! I’m feeling exactly the same as all of you right now!”
The viewers teased Eder as he froze up and could barely speak, but from his perspective, it was unfair.
Eder really had thought Seongna was a man, and her revealing her gender had been an unexpected sudden move.
[ㅇㅇ has donated 1,000 won!]
[You didn’t know? Yeah right lol]
Well, whatever. It wasn’t like this was the first or second time the viewers had teased him.
What mattered right now wasn’t proving that I hadn’t known Seongna was a woman.
Today’s main content was to explain the one-handed sword Saintess build and interview SaintessNice, the creator of that build.
They were laughing and cackling now because it was funny, but internet broadcast viewers could lose interest and turn away at any moment.
“Now then, we’ll be properly looking into the one-handed sword Saintess build. Could you give us a brief introduction to the build, Seongna?”
So it was about time to move on to the main dish.
But.
“...Seongna?”
Where did you go now?
[“Mmph..! Eh, eh?”]
“...Are you eating something?”
[“Ramen.”]
“Ah, ramen...”
-Lololololololololololololol
-She’s eating something in the middle of all this
-Eder, your face is getting red again
“Um... the build introduction...”
[“Mmm... gulp, haa... Yes, just a moment.”]
Eder felt something welling up from deep in his heart, but he decided to calm that feeling down.
He was the one who had invited Seongna as a guest, and he was the one who had rashly assumed she was a man.
If there was fault to be found, it was his own fault for failing to properly leash that crazy bastard... no, that crazy bitch.
He’d thought she could be controlled as long as there was a script, but the moment he lost his grip on the leash after being flustered by the fact that she was a woman, Seongna had immediately started running wild.
[“First of all... to briefly introduce the one-handed sword build...”]
The one fortunate thing was that Seongna didn’t seem completely unwilling to proceed with the broadcast.
Watching Seongna finish her sudden outbursts with that as the last one, Eder prayed earnestly that today’s broadcast would end without incident.
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In Ias, there exists a passive skill tree called “Circuit.”
Each character is given a limited number of points, and those points are used to activate passives.
Depending on which effects you choose, your playstyle changes drastically, and it is a unique system that lets you combine passives according to your own tastes.
Of course, like in any other RPG, once enough time passes, most people end up using only a limited number of mainstream builds.
At this point, the reality is that if you’re not using a “mainstream” build, you’re immediately treated as a troll or a toxic player.
[Hosipui: Saintess, why aren’t you using True Faith?]
[SaintessNice: Because I’ve used only that so much it’s boring]
[You have been forcibly removed from the raid.]
This problem was especially harsher on supporters, who directly affected the performance of DPS players, rather than on the DPS players themselves.
In the end, despite being a system created to provide a variety of choices, supporters were placed in a situation where they always had to stick to the same passives.
But why should I?
Which passive you choose is the player’s freedom, and pursuing diversity is the very core of the Circuit system.
If there isn’t an extreme difference in performance, shouldn’t you be able to choose a different build?
This was oppression against all support players and an unjust discrimination.
As someone with troublemaking written into my blood, I couldn’t just stay still.
And so, it was born. The one-handed sword Saintess build.
“First, you all know the most standardized Saintess build, right?”
-Yeah yeah
-Isn’t True-Faith Four-Punishments the standard?
-└Yep
Ninety-nine percent of Saintess players in Ias use a build based on the “True Faith” passive.
The format is to use Punishment skills to fill the holy power gauge, then use the accumulated holy power to apply buffs and support allies.
It’s called True-Faith Four-Punishments because it uses True Faith and four Punishment skills.
But the one-handed sword Saintess uses neither the True Faith passive nor Punishment skills.
“First, you see this passive skill here, right? This is the core of the one-handed sword build.”
-Master of Counterattack?
-What the hell is that
-First time seeing it, did that always exist?
Master of Counterattack.
A passive that resets the cooldowns of all skills upon successfully executing a Perfect Guard, and charges the holy power gauge to 100%.
An absurdly powerful passive that further increases the already excellent return value of Perfect Guard.
However, it isn’t used often because it’s conditional, and because successfully executing Perfect Guard itself is difficult.
But what if you can execute Perfect Guard?
“If you just land a PG, your holy gauge instantly fills to max. That means you can cycle buffs without painstakingly gathering gauge bit by bit with Punishment skills.”
Master of Counterattack transforms into a balance-breaking passive that lets you repeat skill cooldown resets plus full holy power gauge charge with every pattern.
-I don’t really get it yet but her voice is damn good
-Ohhh
-Wait, isn’t that busted as hell??
-No matter how hard Perfect Guard is, if the return is that good, it’s doable, no?
-I don’t understand it well but anyway it’s broken, right?
I glanced at Big Bro Eder’s broadcast, and the mood in the chat didn’t look bad.
At the very least, they seemed to be people with enlightened perspectives who weren’t trapped by prejudice.
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[But that build makes no sense, Saintess shouldn’t be able to Perfect Guard??]
[“Ah, I see. Certainly, compared to True Faith using Punishment skills... Huh? She can’t?”]
-??
-What are you talking about
-We literally saw her do it last time lololol legendary fake gamer
[ㅇㅇ has donated 1,000 won!]
[Isn’t it true that she can’t? I thought supports were made so they couldn’t do it]
[ㅇㅇ has donated 1,000 won!]
[No, it was literally on stream, you fake-gamer bastards]
-Isn’t it a bug? I thought supports couldn’t do it too
-No, to begin with supports don’t have any reason to Perfect Guard lol
-No, you can, dumbasses
Oh.
Why were they suddenly fighting among themselves?
From my position, as someone who knew the answer, watching them fight while insisting they were right was quite interesting.
There was no way this wouldn’t be fun.
[“Now, now, everyone, calm down. Why are you all getting so worked up?”]
Honestly, I wanted to keep watching that battlefield a little longer, but if the stream blew up, that would be a problem.
Even if you’re going to stir shit up, you need to make sure the rent is covered first.
“That person is right. Structurally speaking, it’s normal for Saintess to be unable to Perfect Guard.”
Whether it’s because it would be too broken if a supporter used “Master of Counterattack” or not, the developers completely blocked the Perfect Guard function for supports.
Of course, there were always other tricks.
[“Then how are you able to execute Perfect Guard, Seongna?”]
-Wow bro, let’s not try acting
-Are you reading from a textbook? lolol
“It’s a kind of workaround. If you hold a one-handed sword instead of a holy scripture, you become able to guard.”
[“Ah, so that’s why you use a one-handed sword instead of a holy scripture?”]
“That’s right.”
-Oh, so that was it?
-Because DPS setups are treated as DPS, it works
-But then doesn’t the buff effect drop?
-└The efficiency probably drops by almost half
-Still, the cooldown resets every time she lands PG, so in theory it can be maintained 100% of the time, yeah. It also buys DPS windows
“And by filling the four empty Punishment skill slots with four Edification skills, you can expect some sub-DPS too.”
To summarize, it was this.
Compared to a Saintess using the orthodox build, the buff efficiency is lower, and the stability is greatly reduced, but if you can pull it off, it’s a build that enables constant buff maintenance and even sub-DPS.
A high-risk, high-return setup that aims for an extreme ceiling, with performance determined entirely by the user’s skill.
“What do you think? Not bad, right?”
After finishing all my explanations, I looked at the chat with anticipation.
Surely, they’d be reacting like, “Whoa, that’s insane. What kind of person comes up with a build like that?”
-Hmm...
-Is it really that good?
-I made a Saintess, but I’m going to delete her again
-Saw this and sold my Saintess avatar again, yep
Huh?
[ㅇㅇ has donated 1,000 won!]
[That’s it?]
Oh?
Why were they reacting like this?
“...Why is everyone reacting like that?”
[ㅇㅇ has donated 1,000 won!]
[No, teacher, if the minimum condition for the build is that you have to know how to Perfect Guard, what are we supposed to do...]
[“I think it’s because Perfect Guard is just that difficult.”]
“What’s wrong with Perfect Guard?”
Is that hard? Everyone does it just fine.
Catching the guard timing? That’s a bit hard. But it’s not so hard that you can’t do it.
Even in public parties, Paladins land it sometimes. If you know the timing, shouldn’t anyone be able to do it?
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[That’s only possible for characters with high Strength stats like Paladins or Berserkers. How is a Saintess supposed to do it??]
-But what does Perfect Guard have to do with Strength?
-└The higher your Strength stat, the better the Perfect Guard判定 gets
-Forcing Perfect Guard by making a Saintess hold a one-handed sword is the build lololol
-Isn’t Saintess Strength the lowest among all characters?
-└Yep
-Isn’t this just a freak-show strength act?
[Baedo has donated 1,000 won!]
[It’s just a giga-shitty cheese build. Landing Perfect Guard with Saintess Strength? Bullshit lol. It’s just a TikTok build where she happened to succeed once and clipped it. Don’t copy this lol]
[“Ahem, please watch your language.”]
[Baedo has donated 1,000 won!]
[Even god-tier Paladins only occasionally land PG when the angle comes up, but a Saintess is doing it on purpose? Absolutely impossible, yeah. If that’s real, I’ll cut my balls off. The level of the person who brought something like that as a build and the stream introducing it is obvious]
-Oof;
-That’s harsh
-Then you go make a build
-It’s because of people like this that new setups don’t come out
[“Hey, still, this person...”]
Ha?
A cheese build baiting attention with something that happened to work once.
The moment I heard that short one-line summary, an unpleasant feeling flashed through me, as if the nerves in my forehead had been roughly scraped.
It had been almost two years since I’d felt like this.
To think he’d succeeded in getting under my skin—the opponent was a rare “warrior.”
“You’re saying a Saintess can’t land Perfect Guard on purpose?”
[“Seongna, Seongna, you calm down too...”]
Then on this side too... it would be rude not to accept.
“Yeah, that’s just because you suck.”
-????
-?
-Huh?
-Oh my
[Baedo has donated 1,000 won!]
[? Can’t refute so you just pure-flame lololol If you prove you can land PG right now, I’ll dogeza]
“A regular dogeza isn’t fun. Shall we make it a naked dogeza?”
[“W-wait a moment, things are getting too heated right now...”]
[Baedo has donated 1,000 won!]
[Bet]
In a duel between fellow warriors, long words were unnecessary.
-Lolololololol
-Wow, she’s insane
-Mak’gora ON
-Contrary to her voice, she’s overflowing with testosterone
“I can just prove it right away, right? I’ll turn on screen share.”