Balo Defensive Build (PvP)

This follows the same route as the offensive route, but there is a minor change in the tome allocation.  I suggest you get Iron Guts on your esper along with The Unbending Soul charm to be truly effective.  You need to max out Noble Spirit and / or Cloud Awareness or Path of Masters (both if you ask me) in your expertise skills to have a high resistance.  Get Tailor  Mastery and Hatcraft Mastery to rank 10 to get additional Critnull and Critshield up too.

Powerful Aid Route

Tier 1

Hard Blow 3

Finese 6

Muscle Repulse 3

Vigor 6

Flanker 3

Ordeal 9

Scoff 3

Potent 8

41

Tier 2

Fiery Flame 3

Nothingness Walk 3

Dragon Speed 3

Dark Injury 9

Tiger Defense 3

Penetrator 4

Blood Bathed 5

30

Tier 3

Mountain wind 1

Oubliette Break 3

Vilen 3

Twisting Dragon 9

Shatterer 4

Dragon Light 5

Ambition 5

30

Tier 4

Reinforce 3

Warsong 8

Combat Spirit 5

Sky Rift 9

Iron Guts 5

Blade Breaker 4

Spirited 5

39

Tier 5

Blade Swinger 3

Powerful Aid 5

Durable Fighter 0

Ancient Soul 2

10

Tome

You can spend the last tome point on whatever you wish.

Heaven

Savage Beast 2

Dragon Fury 2

Furious Charge 2

Vital Charge 2

Dragon Shadow 2

Heaven Vault 3

Noble Hunt 3

Spicy Paw 2

20

Combat

Light Walk 2

Cloud Climb 2

4

Blood

Wrath Hand 2

Glaring Eye 2

Unbending Soul 3

Best Power 2

Great Valiancy 3

Frenzied Escape 2

Self Doom 2

Iron Bone 2

Mass Evasion 2

Heroic Rotting 3

23

47 tome

Durable Fighter Route

Work in progres......just switch what I have for the Powerful Aid route and make it for durable fighter for now.  The Combat tome would remain the same, but the path leading to noble hunt would be switched to Unceasing Hatred in Blood.  I'll update this later.