In the Spotlight! Lisa Lynway.

This will be the first installment of my "In the Spotlight" series. I will do one UPC or Stock Character a day and evaluate each of its perks and flaws and rate it myself on an overall scale of 1-10. I will not list the individual skills of these UPCs or Stocks, as you can easily find them by going to http://www.bookofwind.blogspot.com/. I will list, though, the stats and stances of each UPC or Stock I evaluate.

Today's UPC is Lisa Lynway.

Stat Evaluation

Strength : 5
Agility : 8
Constitution : 5
Dexterity : 6
Intellect : 3
Charisma : 3

Stats Pros/Cons

Pros
1. Fast as a speeding bullet

Cons
1. Low strength, therefore low power.
2. Low constitution, therefore will die easily.
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Stances

Bareknuckle - Virtually Useless

Escrima - Lisa's single dagger pre-vet stance until Arnis comes out with version 3.0.

Dobalada Corte - Lisa's pre-vet double dagger stance, it has its uses with one or two skills in pvp after vet.

Raid Assault - Lisa's unique double dagger stance, no one has it but her. It has the strongest light weapon skill, good aoe for knockdowns during Pvp, a powerful "line" skill, and a powerful spammable skill.

Arnis - Lisa's Expert single dagger stance. It has very nice evasion, penetration, and attack speed at level 25. Almost all of it's skills have a chance to ignore more defense. Even though I would love to go more in-depth with this stance, it isn't out on Sword of the New World yet as it comes in version 3.0.

Stance Pros/Cons

Pros

1. Perfect setup as Lisa is the most specialized dagger user in the game.
2. She has her own unique stance, which is also a very powerful one too.
3. Lisa gains access to an Expert Stance in version 3.0.

Cons

1. Her Raid Assault stance only has 13 block(stance level 25), thus leaving Lisa vulnerable to almost any and all attacks.
2. Her pre-vet single dagger stance is neigh useless after veteran because Raid Assault completely overshadows it in strength and power.
3. Expert melee stances have low accuracy, but the SotNW community has been informed that Arnis is the most accurate.
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Performance

Lisa can pretty much be coupled with any other characters because she specializes in one aspect, single-target light weapon damage, which completely annihilates any and all light armor wearers(Elementalists, Wizards, and Musketeers.) With this being said, Lisa is by far one of the worst multi-task characters because she is so specialized, but that is of course why you couple her with big damage dealers such as Elementalists, Musketeers, Fighters, Claudes, ect. But lets see our team setup so far, Lisa/[see list from above]/??? What could we possibly put in the third slot? I strongly recommend a scout. With the scout's ability to give Lisa extra power and attack rating from Insistendo, HP and defense rating from Forte, Attack Speed from Accelerando, Penetration from Consilidation, and HP and MP recovery from Meditavio and Divine Blessing; they truely give her a much needed power boost.

But having Lisa in a team so she can use her specialization to the full advantage isn't enough. Lisa must definatly have the best possible daggers to do the max damage she can do because the high damage dealer in your second slot of your team will overshadow her and why would you want to level her anymore if shes totally useless? Although this rule can be lifted a bit depending on your goals for her. If you want to take her all the way to grand master, I would definatly consider investing much vis into her daggers and armor. If you only want her for status effects and colony breaking, I would advise one Veteran Polish Dagger and a 92elite dagger enchanted with speed and poison/stun.
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Overall Pros/Cons

Pros

1. Specialized in light weapon damage.
2. Very fast and perfectly suited for breaking colonies in Colony Wars or La Tierra de' Amor.
3. Her low damage to hard armored foes can be easily lifted by an Elementalist, Fighter, or other magical or heavy weapons user.
4. Her veteran stance, Raid Assault, is perfectly designed for one vs. one pvp due to her 9meter aoe knockdown skill and her finisher skill is pretty much a one-hitter on light armored enemies.

Cons

1. Horrible on Raids.
2. Specialized in one aspect of damage, light weapon damage. She does horrible damage to hard armor.
3. She dies easily due to low constitution.
4. She isn't very good in triple melee teams due to lack of means of defense(Evasion or Block). [Unless you use Escrima of course] <- subject to change once Arnis comes out 5. Horrible in Caebolan. (Although she does quite nicely in Bahamar and the Katovic Region.) 6. Could be easily replaced by Soho once version 3.0 arrives due to Soho having more Strength and may be more useful than Lisa with Arnis.

Overall Rating

7/10