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Sadly with Devs finding it humorous that even NPCs kite us to heck, melee is a hard road even in strict PvE.

As the way things stand, go heavy swordsman. Since the range modifier bugs STILL haven't been fixed after 2 months, pikemen can't use anything above a basic lance if they ever hope to hit their target. Both the long vibro axe and the vibrolance result in a permanent -50 to-hit modifier. Sure if you actually hit you'll do nice damage, but 90% of the time you're dead before that.

Two handed sword (heavy swordsman) would be the way to go right now. Its not nearly as defensive as pikeman, but has the highest damage output per-strike of the melee classes. Just make sure you buy some quality weapons as to avoid the same problems with hit percentage, at least with 2 handed swords its avoidable.

I have recently started a melee character and i am having a little trouble deciding which melee skill to pursue to master. I am mainly trying to decide between pikeman and 2 handed swords. Both look very fun. I never plan on doing pvp, i am strictly pve. Which skill does everyone think is better for only pve? Thanks for your time.

neither no melee dont ruin your character with melee skill

If you dont have a normal answer for my post then please dont respond, i am trying to get some feedback. Not doing melee isnt an option.

in decideing the right melee skill decide first what you want to be in the long run. if you are a pure melee guy then consider masterbrawler and atke them all. if you want smuggler terakazi is the obvious choice... a rifleman will get more bang for the skill point from swordsman a pistol user will benefit from fencer. each of these compliments the other.

so, whats your proposed end result? if I knew what you were looking for i could likely pont you down the path a bit better.

and as to the kiteing issue... yeah there are a few problems there... but sooner or later the server latency thing will be over.. and they ARE looking at fixes to it beyond that if you read the dev boards. decide on the approach/theme you would enjoy and dont be overall brought down by those who are talking from the experiance of haveing gone to expert pike and determined that trying to hit a gnort with a weapon with a -50 mod and a total to hit bonus of 15 is just a little to tough... wait till you get a bit further and have the +70 to hit and miss only 1/4 of the time max ( and often less)

Zemsta i am really just looking for a good ranged/melee combo. I dont like to pvp and i want the most effective for pve. My 2 choices i am trying to decide between are Rifleman/2 Hand-swordsman or Carbineer/Pikeman.

hehe i think im haveing 1 conversation on 2 replys here lol... as i mentioned it is a close call in pve as the mobs dont seem to heal each other... so long as your chosen weapons compliment each other you will do very close to equaly well. the main difference is in your play style.. i.e kiteing or stand and tank... rifle is more a hammer and anvil approach and carbine and pistol are much more of a mobile runing fight... once again got to ask do you have any images in your head as to what your charecter should look like... do you plan to go smuggler or bh? is this going to compliment a ch skill? or be a cbt extra to artisan?..

Well, personally I think TKA/Pistoleer is best.

Swordsman have better damage output. Pikemen have better tricks up their sleeves. We swordsmen just have nothing good to spam than 2handhit2 (or 3) or Headhit. Pikemen have stuns and other such and seem to be alittle more balanced.

I FOUND RIFLEMAN AND TKA TO BE THE BEST