JD Source: 2010-02-21

Introduction
If you went Dagos, you should know our Dagos Faction Skills are mainly AoE based thus you need to put points towards those skills. This build ignores Furious Roar II and Tiger Smash II skills because I find them useless. If you do not find them useless, then you will have to rewrite this build. This is because this build focuses also on PvP elemenets.

The way you distribute your points is up to you. I don't provide any methods on what you should use your points on for what skill first. I just post what the final build should look like.

Faction Affinity skills?
Warsong II is your primary focus and after that, you can do whatever. Personally, I maxed Trasncendental first then did Warsong II. I put 1 point in Thunderbolt II.

Song of Antipathy
In this build, song of antipathy is sacrificed for slaughter. This is because
1. Majority of people out there will focus Stun resistance so unless you plan on getting high stun resistances, you have no chance of removing health buffs.
2. In the case of Lupin, once you see them use Ancient Prayer, Slaughter will take them out. Clever strategy on both sides are needed though even then.
3. In the case of PvE, Blade Swinger > Song of Antipathy and II. Blade Swinger hits 2 times and will deal more damage. It also has a 6 second cooldown (5 sec if on esper) vs the 30 second cooldown on both SoA and SoA II.
4. Some factions are immune to stun due to skills.
5. Most people have low weaken resistance so TB2 is better.
6. The only annoying health buff comes from Lupins. Other factions have HP increasing buffs, but its nothing like a Lupin's buff.

If this bothers you quite a lot, then replace Thunderbolt with SoA. One will have to be sacrificed though. In this example, I chose SoA though.

But Yuri, I want Slaughter, SoA, and TB all at 9!
I highly suggest you don't do this until you're 150, but you can make some other adjustments. Remember, this is a pure offensive build.

Make the following changes from the skill set below
Iron Guts - 2
Blade Swinger - 3
Tiger Defense - 2
Durable Fighter -0
Vigor - 4

After that, you are able to add 9 to SoA thus getting SoA II also. My reasoning for lowering the below skills is because
1. Iron Guts is a tanking skill mainly. This is a offensive build.
2. If you don't aoe grind or don't use Blade swinger in PvP, the cooldown and extra attack don't matter. If you get it on your esper, its at 4/5 so its not that bad anyways.
3. Tiger Defense is a nice skill to have in PvE grind, but a sacrifice had to be made. Never seen a Tiger Defense on a esper, but if one could get it, then there is one free spare point.
4. Durable fighter sucks. I only put 1 in it because I have no other skill that would be beneficial.
5. Every other skill is required so lowering Vigor to 4 won't hurt. This build focuses on HP more than SP so the minor loss won't kill you. If you really wanted to, you can lower it to 1 and put 1 point back in tiger defense and whatever else.

Necessary Skills on Esper
Powerful Aid
Ancient Soul
Slaughter
Sky Rift
Twisting Dragon
Dark Injury

*Never seen Combat Spirit or Dragon Speed and such on a esper, but if that can be put on the esper, no need for Dark Injury and such.
*Ancient Soul must be on your esper. That is your #1 priority.

Necessary Charms
Rutheless Kill
Blood River
Noble Hunt
Heaven Design
Light Walk
Cloud Climb
Dragon Fury (Elder of Arcaness)
Self Doom (Elder of Arcaness)

*It will take you quite awhile to get the EoA charms unless you are made of $ (or honor) and arcane coins.

Gear
I don't go in depth on this because it totally depends on your own personal tastes.

For PvE, get the most attack you can. This means your imbues should be focused on attack, essence focused on attack, and so on.

Balo really need a Skyseal necklace over any of the other necklaces. Getting that 4% critstrike necklace is dumb when you can get a 16% critstrike bonus and 3% critstrike rate with SS. Is 1% critstrike going to kill you?

You should focus on having honor deity body gear. Skytouch and BG are only for PvP or other activities that don't involve you grinding for 058450840584 hours. Balo is the only faction period that can easily get the 135 ascended mobs to do -1 damage to them if you get +8 on your 135 gear.

Damage Reduction rings are needed for PvE and they need to be 3 star. Its the only way you will take -1 damage.

Charm? If you are going to spam fiery wind, the Fiery Land charm is what you should have on when grinding. When you have ancient soul at 140, you should put that charm on. Otherwise, you can always have the Dragon Fury charm on or even noble hunt if you spam Powerful Aid.

PvP, obviously, you need health, resistance rings, and so on. I don't go in details like I said. There are a lot of things you can do in general for both PvE and PvP and I expect you to already know this.

Conclusion
Technically, this is my favorite build. The other dagos build I posted is ok, but this one is for the pure offensive dagos balo. If you really want the tome for Tiger defense and Iron Guts, you will have to replace the Dragon Speed and Combat Spirit tomes for those. But that negates the "offensive part."

Skills

Tier 1