Well, well, shall we turn this thread around alittle? There are many things in the first statement I question.
The first is if any other specc than hp is worth having. Hp is a skill that is not at all affected by the formula about skill^0.4. Bonus by hiding, dodging, aiming, stamina and leadership is easy to get by cloths wich can be easerly proven if any of you play on the-west.se world 2 where I am a level 77 duellist with pure trading and with that charisma specc and my bonus is barely any wurse than a level 120 worker who has followed this you have here. The reason for this i that as said in a earlier coment so does all skills give you a lower after you have placed afew points on it thanks to the formula "skill^0,4" and the right clothes gives you about the same bonus as this so called "speccing tips". Judging by this so is any spec just as good for bonuses as long as you have the right clothing and since hp is not affected and gives you more for the bonus becouse you can dodge more bullets and still shoot just as good as all the others. The skills does have it's effect but as long as you have the right cloths thay are not that great.
And one more thing i realy question is the realy stupid idea of the statement that duellists would be the worst type since they have the the only bonus that does work at EVERY turn.
An adventurer needs to be hit two times to actevate his/her bonus. If the player with that class doesn't have enouth hp to use it to the full potention and insteed specces like this guide suggest's so will he only wast his entire caractes bonus.
Workers need to be in a tower or on the wall to even be able to use their bonus. If you are a attacking worker and the attackers are unable to take the wall/towers so are you not more than a greenhood, a totaly wasted bonus.
Soldiers (not counting the HP bonus, the only other bonus that makes them worth being) have a leadership bonus. Becouse the bonus you get from a skill only gets wurse and wurse the more point's you use it so is it, wich reworks itself with the fact that you need over 150 leadership and have premium to even consider it a bonus and by that takes point's away that gives you a much better bonus if you give it to another skill. It's bearly any help as long as you are not surounded by players who are not in a tower. I'm not saying soldiers are bad because they have a very good hp bonus, however the leadership bonus is very bad.
Duelists on the other hand hav a 1/10 (1/5 with premium) chance to get a critical hit every turn as long as they hit, and their hit is just as good as any other caracter (exept workers but they have conditions for using their bonus as said earlier) wich makes them the most offensive type you can have. And a critical is always 10% extra damage from your original hit wich gives you potential to hit over 1500 in one git if you meet a hp monster (my record is 1768 in ONE hit) and since it is a 1/10 or 1/5 chans EVERY turn as long as you hit, and considering I where able to do 15 990 damage in 32 turns I would like to any other class do the same in the same amount of turns.
Links to prove my damage claims:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/20/15990skada.png/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/717/dusktmotjola998ochorsak.png/
Both are from arizona on the-west.se and for people who whant to see the original report can contact me there under the same name as here.
And remember that most of the things in a fortbattle is determaned by luck, meaning that no mater how you specc so can you no mater what tips you use so is it always the RNG (random number generator) who decides if you hit or not and if you dodge or not so the only ting you are affecting with this is the chanse, and no mater the chance are, the chance that you get hit or misses is alway there every shot you or you oponent do, there is nothing saying you can not miss or that you can not get hit so deal with being unlucky or lucky. This is why HP monster are better becaue the can take being alittle unlucky and can be gods if they are lucky. Same for duelists no mater what.
Sorry if I spelled anything wrong in my post but english is not my native language so please don't judge me by that but insteed try the facts I have given.