Brawler Archive

Yesterday I made a brawler on Gorath and I'm perplexed about this skill. Unarmed and one hand sword experience were pretty easy to come by, and I made it about halfway to advanced in both of these skills in about 4 hours playtime (wasn't grinding, just cruising with a friend of mine all over the galaxy).

The difficulties started when I tried using a two hand sword. I almost never hit the target, and usually ended up switching over to unarmed or sword just to stay alive. I'm currently using a "heavy axe" - is that my problem? I couldn't find a two hand sword anywhere and a master brawler I spoke with said they were basically not in game at the moment because nobody was making them.

Was I doing something wrong? I know with polearm my experience was really slow because I was trying to use a weapon (reinforced combat staff) that I'm not certified in, but with my heavy axe I never got any sort of message indicating that the weapon was too high for my level (or whatever that message is).

Any thoughts, tips, or advice are always greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
-Tennessee Whoopass
- Gorrath

The Heavy Axe is the only thing a Novice Brawler can use when starting off in the 2-Handed tree.

Welcome to the randomness of an rpg with issues. Take Berzerk for instance. People have had it fail up to 8 times in a row. I've had it fail 6 times in a row with plenty of times at 5 and 4. And then I'd miss half the time it seemed like. It happens. Just keep chopping down trees or animals as the case may be. You'll get better.

I'm still uncertain of exactly what berserk does, actually.

On the plus side, I finally managed to work up to intermediate in two hand sword, and now that I have "terrifying blow" (or whatever it's called) it's MUCH better. Easily soloing "tough" creatures now, and doing destroy missions by myself. I can't imagine it would be a very effective weapon in PvP because it's so slow, but against MOBs it's a dandy.

So if there's anyone else out there who is struggling with the 2 hander, I'd say - stick with it. It takes a while to get over the hump, but once you do...in the words of Tennessee Whoopass - YEEEEE HAW!