I recently reactivated my account after a year, and once again I am completely overwhelmed. I had a character that I thought had a good concept, but I'm not so sure. My character's skills in the game are relatively high, but when I tried "dueling" some friends, I seem to get my *beep* handed to me. Here's my build and current skill:

Swords 87ish
Tactics 80ish
Parry 84ish
Bushido 94ish
Anatomy 100
Focus 100
Ninjutsu 94ish

And yes, I have both ninjutsu and bushido, because I went back and forth with what I wanted. I thought ninjutsu would be a nice skill to have just for animal form and deathstrike, but I liked the whole parry with a 2hander thing too.

I was thinking of dropping Ninjutsu for resist spells.

Sooo, since I'm getting whooped all the time, can anyone point me to the direction of a better template? I'm looking for a melee based swordsman/fencer for PvP.

Oh, and first post here