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I posted this on fencer board, but i though i would get some feed back from all bralwers:

I have been a master brawler for a long time, andfor a while there were only 3 of us on Starsider, lol not anymore. I am also master fencer and have been for close to 6 weeks. So i feel ihave enough background to provide perspective.

We all know the favorite Templates for Fencer(any melee really) are the followiing

Master Fencer, Master Pistoleer(subsititute appropriate ranged here if you are not fencer i.e pike/carbine)

Total points Without master brawler is 92 master pistol 92 (without ranged support.) which leaves you with 66pts enough to have a some good secondary skills maybe , ranged support, medic and/or scout.

Now with Master Brawler you are down to 66 - 48 = 18pts barley enough to get a secondary skill and no medic skills if you get ranged support!!!!

Master Fencer, Doctor

Total points without master brawler is 92 plus 83 (novice doc only) if you want master doc its 140 for a total of 232 just enough for novice scout.

With master bralwer the most doc you can get is 0 3 4 0 or 0 4 3 0 for a total of 249 pts trust me i know this is my template.

Master Fencer/ CH

Without master bralwer you can have master ch and still have enough pts for some good medic skills.

With master brawler you cannot have medic. MAsterbralwer/fencer 140pts ch 106 = 4pts

Just wanted you all to have perspecitve on the constraints that having master brawler is on your template. i don'tthink itisvery feasable tohutn solo withough at least novicemedic, but that is my opinion.

Now is it worth it, thats up to your personal choice, warcry 2 is very good as is intimdate 2 and best of all lunge 2, the added bonuses are also worth it, Howver warcry 2 sticks less then half the time and i use bio clothes, with the change on dizzy/kd lunge 2 may alos not be worth it. Furthermore since they added significant bonuses to the elite melee professions and have not added anything except center of being to master brawler it has become less efective then it once was.

I have not played enough since last patch to be able to say whether it is stil worth it, if kd has been nerfed like i haveheard from some posts,it might not be worth it. Overall assuming not much has changed to benefits the benefits are becoming less and less,

In summary with thehuge bonuses added to the elite professions (center of bieng, dodge and melee def and now damage mitigation), the benefits that you recieve from master b are SIGNIFCANTLY less noticible and are mostlikly not going to be missed. Which is why i will probably drop it soon and will definatly drop it if the kd/dizzy has been nerfed.

Tyle Kyreon Master Brawler Master Fencer Master Medic, Doc 0 3 4 0

Starsider - TAL

What do you guys think, with the huge newbonuses in elite classes and no real change to Master Brawler is it worth it anymore???? Whats your opinion??