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Thread: My Guide to Mastering All Melee Classes
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KeitaroIniro
Mon Mar 29, 2004 9:19 pm
#1
Easiest way imo to master the Brawler Classes is:
1) Master Brawler: Doing this first will ensure your quick grind through the Elite Professions give you the Intimidate 2 Lunge 2 and Warcry 2 abilities. As you progress through the Classes you will be thankful you snagged these skills.
2) Master TerasKasi: By mastering Tka first you get access to the Meditate Line (single best line imo). The grind is pretty straight forward. Get some Buffs/Kinetic Resist Armor/Speed Sliced Vk's and head down to Rori for Levia Squall Missions. Pretty easy to grind Unarmed 1-4 just using Berserk/ Vk's on the Squalls. About 2k exp per and they go by fast. Your Nov to Master grind will go fairly quickly on Dantooine. I took Piket/Huurton Howler/SavageQuenker Missions. Always group with a pet/droid to get the most out of your grinding exp.
Weapons: VibroKnucklers: Good for 1-4 and Novice Grinds. Once you start to progress up the Speed and Dmg you will use these less and less.
Once you get Nov Tka I would pursue the Tree like this:
X/X/1/X Speed and Dmg
X/1/1/X Dizzy Kd
2/1/1/X PowerBoost
2/1/4/X Cap on Speed and Dmg Until Master
2/4/4/X Kd2 and Defenses
4/4/4/X Med4 Self Heal Wounds
Combat Experiance should not be too big of a deal. Once you hit Master Tka I would advise you to Cap on your Combat Experiance to make the other Melee Prof Grinds that much easier.
3) Master Fencer: With MasterBrawler/ TerasKasi: 4/X/X/X Fencer should also be a breeze.
Main Weapons you should concern yourself with are:
Ganderifi Baton: For heavy Hits.
Ryyk Blade: Good all purpose Weapon.
VibroBlade: To Spam Specials ( might not be an issue ifyou have access to Doc/Mind buffs).
Best way to grind up the tree is:
X/4/X/X Speed
X/4/4/X Specials to spam
4/4/4/X Finish off tree
With the saved up Combat Experiance from Master Tka you should be able to go X/X/X/3 right off the bat. Grinding on Dant using the Tka method is probably your best bet. Once master Cap on Combat Experiance once again and you should be good for Swordsman.
4) Master Swordsman: Once again should be a fairly quick grind. With the nerf bleeds Swordsman has become somewhat more difficult to master.
Weapons:
Two Handed Curved Sword: This will be your main Weapon until you reach Novice Swordsman. Hits fast and decent dmg make for an ideal Berserk/Grinding Tool.
PowerHammer: Once you gain Speed the Power Hammer will be your best friend. Good Damage Blast Type and Nice Ap make for a solid Elite Weapon.
Best way to grind up the tree:
X/4/X/X Speed
4/4/X/X Area Attacks
4/4/4/X Defense Line
Combat Experiance should again be easy to come by once you Master. As you finish off the Speed tree you will rely on your Spin and Area attacks more and more. They not only do decent dmg but will net you more and more Experiance if you use them correctly. I did most of my grinding at Fort Tusken because of the close proximity of the Mobs and the fast respawn. Spin Attack 2 and Area Attack 3 help out alot in here as you can usually kill the lower end Tuskens in one or two Specials.
5) Master Pikeman: Hardest Melee grind in the game (if not the hardest prof imho). Your best bet here is to take things slow and remember to take deep breaths.
Weapons:
Basic Lance: This will be your best friend untill you hit Novice Pikes. Nice Accuracy Mods and fairly decent Dmg/Speed make this your best bet for 1-4Novice grinding.
Long Vibro Axe: This will be your Slow/Heavy hitting Pike. I really only started to use this after i was 4/X/X/X. Good damage Ap2 and Kinetic Type are the main stats of this Weapon.
VibroLance: After Novice this was my main Grinding weapon. Decent Hit Mods, Electric Type, Slightly lower Dmg then an LVA are the stats of this weapon.
Best way to grind up this tree is:
4/X/X/X Speed....... not much else to say
4/4/X/X Useful Specials to go along with your speed.....
4/4/4/X Defenses and the end of the tree.
Once again youll use your combat experiance to get to X/X/X/3 right from Novice. This grind can be difficult because of the slow Pike Speeds and the low Accuracy Mods. However once you get the Stances Line youll be swinging fairly quickly. As with Swordsman your best bet to grinding this Profession quickly is Fort Tusken and Savage Quenker missions. Buffs are the key to Surviving the PIkeman Grind, and dont forget to Spin Attack 2 to maximize your exp intake.
So thats about all there is to Mastering the 4 Melee Professions. If you have any questions you can Post here or Msg me in game.
Keitaro' Iniro
~SoldierOfTheRebellion~ "Seldom have the oppressed themselves led the way, but rather those who have been aroused by their suffering and degredation."
LtSoupy
Tue Mar 30, 2004 8:22 pm
#2
Nice Guide. Deserves a sticky!
(i'm going to do a personal sticky, never the less)
Aoxus
Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:47 pm
#3
obviously you have no idea how to master swordsman fast, as for pike, get a cm and got to endor with buffs and armor.. if you get alot of good nests you can master it in 2-4 days
KeitaroIniro
Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:43 pm
#4
Aoxus writes:
obviously you have no idea how to master swordsman fast, as for pike, get a cm and got to endor with buffs and armor.. if you get alot of good nests you can master it in 2-4 days
My intention in writing this guide was not to cater to the Holo grinding masses but to help out someone new to the game interested in mastering one of the 4 elite Melee professions. If you feel you can contribute to the community in a way that is helpful and productive feel free to write your own guide to mastering the Melee professions.
Keitaro' Iniro
~SoldierOfTheRebellion~ "Seldom have the oppressed themselves led the way, but rather those who have been aroused by their suffering and degredation."
zzSeawock
Wed Mar 31, 2004 4:43 pm
#5
Thank you for posting this. I was just going to post a question about same. I'm a TKM, climbing to Master Brawler 4/3/3/1 and I've been struggling with what polearm I should use to get up the polearm tree.
Thanks!
Thanks!
KeitaroIniro
Wed Mar 31, 2004 5:02 pm
#6
Np glad i could help 
Im thinking about writing a Melee Pvp guide for all the different Professions......... well see how much support there is for that and maybe ill get around to writing it.
Keitaro' Iniro
~SoldierOfTheRebellion~ "Seldom have the oppressed themselves led the way, but rather those who have been aroused by their suffering and degredation."
Ackis
Wed Mar 31, 2004 11:45 pm
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I disagree with your TKA grind... IMO you got 2/4/1/x first than 2/4/4/x so you get kd2 first.
BlackAria
Thu Apr 01, 2004 9:40 am
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Ackis, it really all depends when he did TK. As he stated he had master brawler first. For grinding out TK, I never used KD2. I got a good suit of ubese, buffs, speed sliced vks,and headed to Dant toslaughter savage quenkers. It was all UA2 and thenlunge 2 for when the little cowards tried to run away. Hell, XXX4 helped me the most in my grind for the unarmed accuracy bonus.
Doing savage quenkers I flew through TK. It was the easiest eliteprof I have done in the game so far.
KeitaroIniro
Thu Apr 01, 2004 5:24 pm
#9
Post Kd Nerf Warcry/Kd worked on everything not just humanoids. My Faq was written with my experiances post Warcry Patch. Take my info as you wish im just stating what I did on my grind.
Keitaro' Iniro
~SoldierOfTheRebellion~ "Seldom have the oppressed themselves led the way, but rather those who have been aroused by their suffering and degredation."
Gaesierum
Fri Apr 02, 2004 1:08 am
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Ackis wrote:
I disagree with your TKA grind... IMO you got 2/4/1/x first than 2/4/4/x so you get kd2 first.
KD only matters when beating on humanoids. I personally am using mynocks for my grind through TK. The nests on lok give out 30k xp a mission. With the damage and speed mods, I can knock off a mission in like 5 minutes tops.
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