Talk:Mystic Knight/@comment-5447796-20121205034520/@comment-5847779-20121213224615

I usually just play without the shield unless I really really need it. The shield only has a handful of usefull abilities. The Trance abilities affect the entire party yes, but they only last for 1 minute and they take forever to cast which is pointless for what is basically a melee type vocation. The single one ability of the shield which I find the most useful is Abyssal Anguish. All the others are Meh. Sure the Mystic Knight has cool counters, but they only have full effect on a perfect block which is far to hard to pull off because of the shield animation which preceeds the actual block.

The vocation is broken. After the Assassin this vocation potentially has the highest damage output (if levelled well) and it has some overpowered skills, but half of the abilities are pointless which is a shame and playing pure Mystic Knight seriously impairs stats.