Swordsman — the ones who arrive first

Swordsman — editorial class illustration

Easy to learn, hard to master, and always the first through the gate.

Swordsmen start young. The training is deliberately brutal — take the hit, keep your feet, hit back — because the job they are being prepared for is standing between something and the people behind them. A swordsman does not show off strength; that is considered a failure of the discipline, not a display of it.

Threads

— Prontera training yard
Izlude arena
the Continental Guard, where swordsmen are the ones holding the quarantine line.

Where this goes

All classes — the other eight answers
Equipment eligibility — which items the database allows