This build is trying to be a hybrid of powerful aide and durable fighter for pre ascended. The points for it fit almost exactly.

Tier 1:
Hard Blow lvl 3 to unlock scoff
Scoff lvl 3 to unlock Potent.
Potent
With tome and charm, you’ll have 28 seconds of speed and only 30 second cool down, meaning only 2 seconds between.

Maxing ordeal and Talisp. Reasoning is to make powerfull aide and durable fighter stronger, not to mention talisp’s silence / interruption is rather nice.
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Tier 2:

3 points on first skill to get nothingness walk. Charges are always nice even if athan have long cool downs, that plus the speed can be just enough to jump on an enemy.

Maxed both postures, depending on the situation, defense for grinding, offense for pvp.

And max both powerful aide and durable fighter skills here. The bleed is semi nice at this level, and the defense reduction from penetrator is awesome for stuff like battlegrounds.
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Tier 3:

Mountain Wind 1, not going down the middle here

Maxed both passives, crit shield is good when ancient soul isn’t on, and crit strike dmg is always welcome.

Max both powerful and durable figher moves again.

And Max both attack and hp buffs, these are super special awesome buffs.
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Tier 4:

1 point on first skill don’t care to go down the middle, the array would be nice to have but pre ascend can’t really afford it.

5/5 on Iron Guts
2/5 on combat soul, in order to save points, it would really only be used when grinding anyways. In pvp having to pay for skills in hp doesn’t sound like very much fun to me.

Maxing blade breaker and sky rift. Again for durable and powerful.

(I kinda wanted slaughter but, its not exactly an instant cast, makes me doubt its pvp use, I mean by the time you get their hp that low and use the skill they’ve already potted back above the kill strike. And i can’t afford the tomes)

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Tier 5:

3 Points on Blade Swinger, Powerful aid and Durable fighter are both much better, and can be alternated, no need for this skill other then to unlock the rest.

Max out Powerful Aid and Durable fighter, this build maxes all skills that build it up. Those will be pretty sweet.

And Ancient Soul is a must have. It’ll let you laugh at lupins, skysongs, modo, vim, ardens, basically any one who can’t 1 shot you with out a crit or inflicting tons of statuses. The lack of crits combined with the 50% dmg reduced by iron guts will make you rather hard to kill.

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TOMES
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Max everything straight down the middle of all 3 trees. This will give us many nice things.

Lower cool down on ancient soul is a big one.

Rebound and 1 count invic every time you use durable fighter, so you can take no damage from every other hit basicly, This is a big thing for me> I’m building this guy for a siege unit, I wanna get to the gates and spam durable figher so it’ll take considerable effort to kill me.

Powerfull Aide will now have a 1/3 chance of removing negative effects, just incase ancient soul isn’t on at the time. Some one hits you with sky seeker, big deal just hit powerful a few times to remove it. That puts demon blast to shame, even at 78% chance to remove negative effects skysong’s demon blast still has to wait like 2 minutes between. This can be used as often as needed.

3rd Tome page, putting 2 points on the skill for Your mana shields tome and 2 points on the mana shields tome. I wanted 3 but pre ascended don’t have the points to spare. Thats still alot of mana shield power.

1st and 3rd pages, put the points to max out the 2nd skill on the last columns. That’ll give you a pretty awesome attack and hp buff.

Credits go to Donut.