Brawler Archive
Thread: Melee Template
Luker78
Tue Jun 01, 2004 5:35 am
#27
If you want a true melee template you need some tka because of defences.
Apophis1
Tue Jun 01, 2004 6:41 am
#28
No need for TKA defensive wise as Fencer has better defences anyways 
Go with master brawler as well as 2 master elites, I would pick Fencer and TKA myself (although not for the def)
Mapai
Wed Jun 02, 2004 7:15 am
#29
I would get the master brawler (but then I am biased )
I would do Swordsman OR Pikeman if you want to do high level PVE. (swordsman is probably better atm because of all the things with low blast resist, although the corvette and Deathwatch have low electricity resists that Pikeman can benifit from.
For pvp I would do Fencer.
or you could do master Swords(or Pike) ,Master Fencer, Master Brawler and have a nice combo of the two.
kAotiC_HeRo
Fri Jun 04, 2004 12:04 am
#30
Well in all honesty, TKA's at mastery have only Defense vs. Dizzy +5 TOTAL from the entire Profession,
I decided to go Swordsman/TKA/Fencer because
1. The defense from Fencer owns in PvP
2. The Armor Piercing Blast Weapons for Swordsman Own in PvE
3. TKM does 2k damage to most anything with Unarmedhit3 at .5 speed (Hard Cap?)
Swordsman is where its at for Krayt, you're gonna do about 200 damage a sec to a krayt with a VK, whereas, with Swordsman and a Decent Scythe does about 800-1000 damage a tiny bit slower. Because of the Fact that Swordsman technically NEVER use true swords except 2 a lower level and a kick arse one. The rest of the certs are hammers and other things that aren't really useful. You want to be a Tank for your buddies or be able to solo high level creatures, go Swordsman
If you want to PvP I recommend Fencer Defenses mixed with Pistol Defenses You'll be at or around the hard cap for Every defense. Usually Rifleman take this template approach to have hard capped defenses for ranged which make them beasts from 70m away.
Fencer's aren't really what I would call "a tank", Pikeman are an elite profession as needed for the Corvette and Deathwatch bunker because most of the agro's are vulnerable to electricity.
Pikeman have never really been IMHO a profession worthy of any REALLY good recognition, they are a cool profession to have for bunkers and quests where enemies have 90% resistances to everything and a vulnerability to electricity.
If you were to go with PvP Fencer/Pistols/Swordsman if you are all melee attack, and the pistols for defense stacks to hard cap.
if you were to go with PvE I would suggest Swordsman/Rifleman/Pistols for the AP2, AP3's and Stun weapons.
JawaJoey2
Tue Jun 08, 2004 11:28 pm
#31
Hmmm... thanks for the advice. I'm still nt sure though. I know I want to master Swordsman, and I'm pretty set on Pikeman too. I just mastered TKA on another character, so I'm not doing that again, but I'm considering getting Meditation. I think it's pretty much necessary to get at least the first line of fencer for that +54 ranged and melee defense.
I could get 4/0/0/0 fencer and 4/0/0/0 TKA, and master swordsman, pikeman and brawlerand brawler, and still have 7 skill points to spend getting some more TKA or fencer defenses.
Or I could forget meditation and spend the points on more status defenses in fencer.
Or I could master Swords, pike and fencer, and have enough points left over to get unarmed 1.
I think I'm leanign towards the first option.
BTW. I'm not a real big PvPer, so I won't think I'll be going the TKA/Fencer route.
Stormbilly
Thu Jun 17, 2004 1:05 pm
#33
Since when do TKAs have a speed cap of .5? I thought everyone was capped at one hit per second?
OslasAne
Sun Jun 20, 2004 1:05 am
#34
Do what you really want to do mate. I have done them all. I Really wanted to do pike because I wanted to find out myself why everyone thought it sucks and I wanted to do swords. I ended up with MFencer/TKM/MB. Now I love tkm and have since the first time I mastered it so I did it again. Now I enjoy fencer but would like to give sword another try and just keep the med tree of tka but who knows thats me. Honestly You have a good set up there so go ahead and do it. If you don't like it you can always switch to something elses. BUt there really is no reason on the last option to get ua 1. My advice hit the Sword/pike/brawler and pick up some med skills. You'll need them at some point especially in the lower levels. After novice and buffs probably not so much.
JawaJoey2 wrote:
Hmmm... thanks for the advice. I'm still nt sure though. I know I want to master Swordsman, and I'm pretty set on Pikeman too. I just mastered TKA on another character, so I'm not doing that again, but I'm considering getting Meditation. I think it's pretty much necessary to get at least the first line of fencer for that +54 ranged and melee defense.
I could get 4/0/0/0 fencer and 4/0/0/0 TKA, and master swordsman, pikeman and brawlerand brawler, and still have 7 skill points to spend getting some more TKA or fencer defenses.
Or I could forget meditation and spend the points on more status defenses in fencer.
Or I could master Swords, pike and fencer, and have enough points left over to get unarmed 1.
I think I'm leanign towards the first option.
BTW. I'm not a real big PvPer, so I won't think I'll be going the TKA/Fencer route.
Tocy
Tue Jun 22, 2004 7:32 pm
#35
this is the one that i use for pvp
master fencer // master brawler // tk 4304 // pistoleer 1040
very nice for pvp.
now for pve template wise, here it goes.
master riflemen // master heavy swords // tk 4004
master doctor // master heavyswords
those two right their are the best pve templates plain and smiple, good luck and have fun.
master fencer // master brawler // tk 4304 // pistoleer 1040
very nice for pvp.
now for pve template wise, here it goes.
master riflemen // master heavy swords // tk 4004
master doctor // master heavyswords
those two right their are the best pve templates plain and smiple, good luck and have fun.
cheserna
Mon Jun 28, 2004 4:36 pm
#39
well here is the template I'm using
(sorry but there is a bit of TK in it... I know the original poster said he's sick of it.. but I use it to max my ranged defence and heal mind out in the wild)
Master Brawler
Master Fencer
Master Swordsman
4003 TK
Novice Medic
I absolutely love this template... it can PvP and PvE with ease....
You can take out Master swords and put in Master pike... but I don't like the pike because I fight Nightsisters.. and prefer blast over electricity...
(sorry but there is a bit of TK in it... I know the original poster said he's sick of it.. but I use it to max my ranged defence and heal mind out in the wild)
Master Brawler
Master Fencer
Master Swordsman
4003 TK
Novice Medic
I absolutely love this template... it can PvP and PvE with ease....
You can take out Master swords and put in Master pike... but I don't like the pike because I fight Nightsisters.. and prefer blast over electricity...