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Which 2 melee clases compliment each other the best? This asuming they are bost masterd and one is alos a master brawler.

My guess would be TKA and Fencer, because of the great defences fencers get and the overall qualities of a tka. then again swordsman is also great for all the great damage it can do specialy to the mind.

Currently Im tka and would like what compliments it best. If 2 other melee compliment each other better than with tka i would also like to know. I really dont want to get into any range profesion and eventually want to drop most of my ch. Only want to keep my big cats. 1/1/0/0.

Thx for any advice

I'm TKM and Master Brawler and and am about halfway to Master Fencer. I leveled Pikeman about halfway before deciding on TKA/Fencer. I'd say that TK/Fencer is a great combination. Both have the best melee defense modifiers. The downside (as I see it so far) is that we dont have an Uber strike like 2HmeleeHit3 with a power hammer. However, the defensive modifiers appear to be making up for this. Im finding that Im becoming capable of controlling the tempo of most of my fights (no matter how long they are). This extends to PvP as well. I recently sparred with a M_Doc/TKM and beat him 5-0 (it was a little embarrasing since he's a friend).

I think a superior defense is way more important than a strong offense. The real test of this will be one on one with a M Commando (nerf the Flame DOT devs ). There's no shortage of damage dealers out there. however, there is a shortage of players with strong defenses.

Ya, I agree. I was very tempted to go for the 2H route for the mind bleed but after careful examination of the modifiers from both sword classes, I went fencer (for better or worse). 2H barely has any defense (currently). As for pvp, I opted to stick with TK due to the higher toughnessalong with the superior attack speed (try to land those debuffs a little faster). My plan is to use the fencing in a passive mode for all the nice resists and defenses (although i hope to have success in it withpvp once mastered).

Oops, I meant to say that I thought tka/fencer/master brawler would be ideal for PvE. Anywho, that was probably obvious.

StGabe.

I don't thnik it is worth it to get two master classes (i.e. swordman and fencer) you just was way to many pts since you can't use two woapns at once. Get master brawler then one elite class, then get the defensive lines in different melee classes if you want. That has been posted before not my idea. In terms of math say you had tka and fencer if you had a sword equiped half the tak tree would be usless to you i.e. 28pts wasted

For PvP I think that swordsman/tka/master brawler is a good combo. The mind bleeds are a very nice.

for PvE I thinkt hat swordsman/fencer/master brawler is very nice. You get better defensive mods, and the health bleeds tend to be a bit more useful (since most a lot of people are doing health damage anyway).

StGabe.

Well If I go MTKA/Brawler/fFencer. Lets asume I dont master it, what skill branch should i get? It appers that with every branch you get some type of deffense. What would you recomend?

Is it a good idea to master Brawler to get Berserk2 or warcry2 or whatever... ALONG with Teras Kasi?

If you don't want to go into ranged this would be easy, but since you want to keep CH it will be harder. CH requires all the scouting stuff to be kept so that takes away points, and so does the actual CH.

The ideal melee char is:

Master TKA

Fencer-4/4/4/2

Swordsman-3/4/0/0

Pikeman - 0/0/4/0 (i think that's right, if not then go up the def. tree )

Master Brawler

that would give you the most def. stats possible and with the new patch from the TC it becomes even more godly with the COB, FOW, even more def. stats....... But since you want to keep CH you'll have to ddrop some stuff

Would you create macros to allow you to go from VK to stun baton allowing you various speicals?