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Mastered Brawler today and wnadered wich elite profession I should choose.

I have a TKM on a different server and loving him (except the fact that its a twilek and therefore can have max 500 focus/will, and so incap myself with unarmedhit3)

Fencer seems nice because of the defence mods.

Swordsman seems nice because of the mind bleeds and mind attack.

Pikeman seems nice because for the area KD.

And TKA is nice because of all the specials and special abilities.

Opinions? Stay with one thingI love (and seems like it will be easy to get training in since the whole server seems to be tka) or try something new?

I may be biased, but I would go with the swordsman. Mainly due to the mind attacking (which normally ends the battle) coupled with massive damage (a 120-450 3.5 powerhammer can dish out alot of damage....and when that is targeted at mind, its normally a two hit drop). The only thing people really complain about the class, is our lack of attacks that dizzy, blind, ect. However I say, that with our massive damage output its not really needed.

Pikeman rocks the hiznit! Be them all!

pikeman is awsome because they are so rare.. this means you either spend a long time looking for training or buy it though. they are fairly balanced and have cool moves, high dmg output.. slow and inacurate though.

swordsman is really cool (my main). we do mind dmg.. and lots of it.

fencer.. loads of defense, really fast attacks. nice debuffs. they block allot of attacks.. they are the tanks (TKA make great tanks as well)

tka:hard to get is alli know.. only one that i have little experience with.. still working on getting that one to 4

dude, why not get them all like me ?

uhhh by the way,ignore the signature. i havn't chaned it in 2 months

Pikemen have problems, lots of them (accuracy, HAM, low defense, etc).Those problems aside,only thing that sets us apart from other melee classes is our area KD. We are rare which makesbeing one seemmore special, but very frustrating because you can't do what other classes do. Hopefully, the problems we have will go away in a few patches and we'll be on par with the other professions.

If you're in it to win in pvp and rock in pve, TKA is the way to go. If you don't care aboutPCs standing over your corpse and laughing, but had fun while doing it, Pikeman is the way togo.

I whent master Brawler -> Novice Fencer recently. Here is my experiance, though keep in mind I have not progressed too far up the fencer tree yet.

The good:

Fencer CoB is very nice right from the start, and works well in conjunction with intimidate 2 and 1h blind. I can avoid a lot of hits.

Fencer specials are either multi pool, random pool, or health pool. I find this advantageous in PVE since your random HAM pool attacks hit the health pool most frequently. Basically I'm not working against myself whem I don'tspam my specials.

MasterBrawler + Fencer is a great combo for fighting humanoids thanks to 1hdizzy and lunge2 KD. They go down and often stay down. You get a dmg bonus while they are down.

Stun Baton is stun dmg so it goes right through most player armors. I've only fought in PvP 3 times so far but I won all 3 ( vs a X-4-4-4 BH in full composit ) thanks to this little weapon.

The bad:

All weapons except the vibroblade are AP0. The Vibroblade is AP1 and low HAM,but it doesn't do great dmg. Definatly doesn't compare to the heavy hitters of 2h.

The Stun Baton eats your HAM, especially mind, like crazy so it's relegated to special case use ( like PvP ) .

While great for Humanoid hunting, I've foundFencer less then spectacular for critter hunting so far, most notably vs critters with AR1+. Takes forever for me to kill armored critters.

I like my combo, great defense from the 3 classes, mind hits and bleeds with sword, TKA....well you know, and brawler, gotta love warcry2

-Fitzfield

Master Heavy Swordsman

Master TKA

Master Brawler

"It is quicker to go through your enemies than around them"