First tier

Swordsman

Swordsman is the go-to "tank" of the six first jobs. With high HP, access to great defensive gear, and skill options to boost sustain and reduce damage taken, they are adept at getting into bigger fights than they can handle and finding a way to come out on the other side.

The Swordsman's weakness comes from their damage. Though they can generate decent amounts of sustained DPS from the Bleed status, they have few other ways to output damage, meaning they often find themselves needing to leverage that increased survivability to win encounters in the first place.

Swordsmen have two key Status Effects: Bleed and Vulnerable.

The Bleed status effect does constant damage based on the user's Strength, scaling up with Base Level. With few other damage options, and all of those options being very SP intensive, this becomes the primary source of damage for Swordsmen before they job change to Knight or Crusader.

The Vulnerable status is similar to the Provoke status of Vanilla RO, with one major change: it does not increase the ATK of the target. This allows the user to strip up to 40% of the target's defenses (both hard and soft) at will, increasing their own damage and that of any party members...though its primary purpose is to combo into other skills belonging to the Knight and Crusader classes.