I'm currently playing through the game on each class, and I will be sharing my thoughts with regard to character builds. Today we will be looking at the last of the three currently available classes, the Bandit. This class is your typical "rogue" archetype, with an emphasis on mobility, evasion, and hard-hitting physical skills. Their dedicated weapons are katars (two-handed) and bows (also two-handed). A new update also added guns (two-handed).
To become a Bandit, you must reach level 10 as a Novice and obtain the quest "Devious Pact" from Sally, then read the tome she gives. This cannot be undone, so make sure this is the class you want.

I've decided to introduce a 5-point grading system for each skill to give a better idea of what I think of each one. A 1 (●○○○○) means it's almost never worth taking, and a 5 (●●●●●) means it's almost always worth taking.

I will be updating these guides as my opinions and the game itself changes. If you have any criticisms or thoughts of your own, please feel free to share them.

I will eventually make guides for subclasses but not until they get more fleshing out and polish.

In games with limited available slots for active abilities, I find that there's one primary rule you need to follow: Use your abilities, or lose them. If you find that you aren't using an ability often, it's almost always better to swap it out for another ability you will get more use out of.

Experiment. Try different stuff. Learn what you like, and what you don't like.

Your choice of race is largely inconsequential as it only dictates what skill you start with permanently unlocked in your book. All racial skills are able to be learned via scrolls.

For this character, I picked Byrdle mainly because I like cute birbs, but also because their racial, Inner Focus, is very good for Bandit.

Stats for Bandit are weird. It's built like a dexterity class, but half of your skills cost MP. Your primary stat should still be dexterity though, as it would take a lot of points to gain a meaningful amount of extra MP and none of the skills scale off of mind so that would be the only benefit gained.

You might think about investing in strength for extra stamina, but don't. You only get +1 stamina per 5 points and you get plenty of extra stamina through gear and levels.

Enchants will play an important role, especially once you get to later levels. Some gear comes with enchants, which is a nice bonus.

Magical, Manafont, and Killer will generally not be useful to you. Magical is for magic damage and crit, manafont gives you extra max MP, and neither are really desirable. Killer gives attack power (which is strength-based) and phys crit. Having that phys crit is better than nothing, though.

Both Lively and Guardian can be useful if you need to be a little tankier, especially with how hard it is to stay alive as a Bandit if you're not good at staying away from the enemies. Energetic can also be helpful if you're using melee and doing a lot of blocking.

Your most desired enchant will be Precise, which gives dex power and phys crit.

●●●●●* Venom Shot - Bread and butter single target damage. Requires a ranged weapon.

●●●●●* Killer Jab - The melee equivalent of Venom shot.

●●●●○ Volley - Vastly improved in the recent update. The area is bigger and I think the delay is lower too. Also does a LOT of damage.

●●●●○ Pay Day - Melee stun that dashes through enemies and drops currency. Stuns are very useful. Just make sure you use them.

●●●○○ Bomb Trap - Drops a bomb on the ground that will explode, dealing AoE damage. Good ability, but how you use it will depend on if you're playing with friends or not. You can't really kite enemies into your bombs if a fighter is holding all the aggro.

●●●○○ Caltrops - It's good. Just good. But hey, since it's a persistent AoE it allows you to stack em with Volley to make a blender, so go nuts. About on par with Bomb Trap as an AoE skill, it does more damage overall but has a much longer cooldown.

●●●○○ Mist Veil - Defensive ability that turns you invisible and heals over its duration. Very useful, the healing was also improved in the update (I think it scales now?)

●●●●● Devious Signet - As I stated in my Mystic and Fighter guides, buff skills are pretty much mandatory picks unless you have someone else in the party that already has it.

●●●●● Avoidance - Free survivability (as long as you have the points).

●●●●● Agile Technique - Gives crazy mobility. Highly recommended.


*Unless you are planning on running both melee and ranged and use them equally, I only recommend grabbing one of these. Now that we have an action bar for each weapon now however, this playstyle is more viable.

Classless skills are currently generally weaker options compared to class skills. For instance... oh, huh. Guess spread shot is the only dex scaling one currently. Anyway, here are a couple worth considering:

●●●●○ Life Tap is highly worth considering. The update changed it so now it costs a flat 30 and gives you a flat 50, and its cooldown was massively lowered. This will be your only source of MP management currently at the cost of some survivability.

●○○○○ Adrenaline - Not worth taking, imo. Half of your skills use MP, so taking more of that away doesn't help you in the vast majority of cases. Stamina is a resource that is much easier to manage, as you just have to wait and it comes back quickly.

●●●●○ Inner Focus - Guaranteed crit on your next hit. Pairs very well with any of your active abilities due to them being one and done instead of multi hit.

●●○○○ Leg Up - If you really want to go crazy with the mobility, this gives you even more. More of a meme than anything.

●●●●● Spread Shot - Actually goated skill now, practically mandatory if you're running a ranged weapon. Does good burst damage on a short cooldown in a wide arc. And when it says it hits twice, it hits twice PER TARGET. Its only limiting factor is costing MP and your MP regen as a bandit is not very good at the moment.

There are two skills you can obtain from Sally via a quest that gives you skill scrolls:
●●●●● Dexterity Mastery (formerly Weapon Masteries) is just an easy good passive. Increased weapon damage and a charge attack. Bow and katar charge attacks are especially potent because it's essentially just a flurry of attacks that do far more damage than a single hit would. Though the bow charge attack is more useful because using katars means having to stay in the enemy's face.

●●○○○* Focus Shot - My opinion on this changed after some more testing. It generally doesn't do enough on its own to be worth it with such a long cooldown. But it's not terrible.

*If you're running a ranged weapon.