DFOArchive: Female Grappler Guide

Acknowledgement

The author has requested peer review in the Female Grappler discord group but couldn't get a review from anyone. If you see any part of this guide that can changed for the better, fill out the suggestion form.

The author thanks everyone in the General DFO discord group for SP dump recommendation.

Overview
General information can be found at DFOWiki

Guides from the community

GrabMeACoke (posted May 2019) - Great Detail

Sample 25-second rotation (from JangJiTube)

497 billion damage using level 100 epics

My Personal Guide

Mechanics

Sliding Grab

Allows for skills such as to slide forward and grab an enemy.

Grab Cannon

Allows for un-grabbable targets to be grabbable.
Chain Connection allows for chaining to other grabbing skills.

Chain Grab

Gives 40% damage boost for a successful grab. Last for 30 sec. Make sure this buff is active at all time.

Turn Heel

Significantly reduces attack animation for
It's recommended to have active during PvE gameplay.

Skill Build

Max these passive

Then max these active first

Then use the rest of SP for these

My hotkeys

Skill Rationale

Popular Talisman

Descriptions and demonstrations of each talisman can be found on this page.

TP points

Shoulder Tackle

damage is good, and would be great with . However, decreases the charge time and that could potentially be a problem with DFOG's lag.
Charging will make you move much faster and if you happen to move past the target due to lag, you can potentially miss out on the next grabs. Therefore is situational depend on your connection.

Cyclone Attack

Not worth if is used as SP dump.
has great damage but long cooldown and SP heavy.

SP dump in order of recommendation

- Highly recommended

Great damage with low cooldown. Can be cancelled into other grabs. making it castable in mid-air.
has great sustain damage with low cooldown and does't take as much SP to level as compared to

- Moderately recommended

The Grappler will be in mid-air at the end of the animation, thus making it chainable with other aerial attacks such as
The damage is good but takes much more SP per level as compared to and .

- Mildly recommended

damage is actually great. However, the cooldown is way too long and takes a whopping 70 SP per level. With long sustain damage fights, it's more bang for your buck to put SP elsewhere. Maxing is completely fine, you will not have enough SP to max all
damage is not high enough to invest SP on. Good for skill connection though.