* *Concentration* at highest level should last more. I work and I have no time to click on it... maybe you can lower the bonus gain. As it is now, it's useless to me. * As above,* Auto-concentrate* of *Military lineage* is practically useless... it lasts too little time. * *Swashbucklers* and the other similar enemy I don't remember the name... are too much weak. And I say this against myself, because they are the only enemies I can beat at higher levels...

I won't say anything about the first 2 points, as i think it's fine. On the third point i'll have to disagree, that depends on your fighting style. The ones that use blitz are weak against Barrage, but if u were to use Guard you'll see that those enemies are quite hard, as they'll hit and hit and hit

Part of the trick of the game is that you can't rely on just running it 24-7 and plowing through everything (at least, until the proper Lineage abilities). You need to balance the active aspect of locking in good fights on your Top Duels lists and the passive aspect of earning offline gains (either through actual offline time or Lineage abilities that grant offline gains). So Concentration isn't really the kind of thing that you **need** to have running all the time; just to let you get your top-notch fights on top duels to beef up your offline returns. Also, even with just Auto-Concentrate 1 or 2, if the fight is short enough (and you **should** be aiming for short fights), you can still keep perpetual Concentrate. I went for a **long** time before I finally found it worthwhile to get Auto-Concentrate 3. Now, regarding Swashbucklers, JPD basically has the right idea. If you're using a standard Barrage build, then yellows are going to be easy and blues are going to be hard for you. And Swashbucklers are the "balanced" version of Blitz opponents so they tend to be better earlier and trail off faster compared to Marauders which are "focused" Blitz opponents (and they also wear chain armor so they have quite a bit of HP). But it would be like that no matter what matchup you had. I use a Barrage/Blitz tactics toggle build where I start in Barrage until I begin a combo, then use Fighting Tactics to auto-switch to Blitz to complete the combo, then back to Barrage and I fight blues with that (with Power Strike turned off) and, between Knights and Paladins, I'll find different "breakpoints" in how well I can get my wins against them. When I beat both of them in Attack so I can get auto first-strike, then one is just as good as the other. But as my hit-rate trails off, Paladin becomes a better match up as his defense tends to be lower for the increased damage (which is a thorough waste since they can one-shot me a million times over). But then, Paladin eventually gets enough Atk that I no longer get guaranteed first-strike so Knights actually become a bit more desireable. **But then** I can't get guaranteed first-strike on Knights either so it becomes a matter of Atk% times Hit% to figure out which is the best matchup. And then I hit the floor on Hit%, first for Paladins, then for Knights, then I hit the floor for Atk%, and it's all about just nailing that best, fastest win you can and locking in as much exp/sec or gold/sec in your fights and, once you're satisfied, either go offline to earn offline exp or pop a Secret Training to get that exp and gold bump to help you push farther. The major point to take away here is that Sword Fight isn't a "mindless" idle game like most idle games are. It actually demands strategy and tactics to optimize and is asymetrical between active play and offline mechanics; one isn't a straight substitute for the other.

I agree with Concentration, I foudn the trick myself. IMHO it's a bug, but it renders it decent :-P About Swashbucklers, as I said in another thread, I just reached level 670 with enemies at level 680, and the only combination that does something is Dual Sword with Barrage. I just tried all the combinations with all the enemies, but I get 2% to all stats, apart Attack at 7%. With Dual Sword with Barrage I have at least a 28% attack against Marauders and a 31% against Swashbucklers. All the other enemies are too strong. In Stats, under Duels, I have 7 Swashbucklers and only one Marauder. But maybe the problem is not they are the weakest enemies, the problem is the other enemies are too much strong.