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Thread: Combat Dancer Professions
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FILTHPIG
Mon Aug 02, 2004 1:40 pm
#1
I really want to master Dancing. I really want to be able to fight too. I can not decide on a effective Combat Profession to accompany Dancing with the skill points left over.
I've considered Dancer/Teras Kasi (probably the strongest, but I kinda want to use guns), Dancer/Bounty Pistols, Dancer Pistoleer.
So if you want to, please tell me some of your Dancer/Fighter templates.
Thanks Everyone!
I've considered Dancer/Teras Kasi (probably the strongest, but I kinda want to use guns), Dancer/Bounty Pistols, Dancer Pistoleer.
So if you want to, please tell me some of your Dancer/Fighter templates.
Thanks Everyone!
Dreamland
Mon Aug 02, 2004 1:42 pm
#2
Im a dancer/master swordsman, so im utterly useless in pvp but i can kill a krayt dragon by myself and dance all night to boot. If Pve is your thing
PhoenixStar
Mon Aug 02, 2004 1:46 pm
#3
You'll either want two accounts or to start a character on another server to dance/play music on if you plan on pvping. I made my dancer/ider on a different server than my main because you seriously need every point you can possibly get for pvp combat. If PvE is your thing just about any combat class would suffice...except pikeman why'd I becomea pikeman? 
Ikewe
Mon Aug 02, 2004 1:50 pm
#4
I'd say the combo will depend upon what you like and whether you hunt in a group or solo. I have been a Master Dancer/Master Teras Kasi and am currently Master Dancer/Master Rifleman. Both were very fun combinations but I changed to rifles because TKM only dealt one type of damage and that made me useless against certain targets. I rarely hunt solo unless I am resource harvesting easy creatures so I chose my current combat prof because it fit nicely with the rest of my usual group.
Whatever you choose, enjoy it!
Ikewe, Master Dancer Shadowfire
FILTHPIG
Mon Aug 02, 2004 1:51 pm
#5
So I'm probably screwed if I ever get in a fight with an actual person unless I have like Master swordsman, fencer defense, tka meditation and defense, pistoleer, rifleman and master bounty hunter?
There's not much point in multiple professions being allowed if only certain playstyles can gain from it only in certain instances.
The point of having enough skill points is to diversify everyone's templates, not to make them all be different in the same way for the same reason.
There's not much point in multiple professions being allowed if only certain playstyles can gain from it only in certain instances.
The point of having enough skill points is to diversify everyone's templates, not to make them all be different in the same way for the same reason.
Schardour
Mon Aug 02, 2004 1:52 pm
#6
You can actually PvP with quite a few professions. Be prepared to stock up on 90% composite armor and skill tapes to compete with pure combat templates, but TK, Rifleman, and Fencer are all great professions to combine with your Dancer character. I personally identify with the Rifleman profession, and have always found it to be strong in a fair fight.
Esharra
Mon Aug 02, 2004 1:55 pm
#7
Master Dancer/TKM with scout and medic skills thrown in. I can solo rancor and tank krayts regularly. With the exception of those with high kinetic resists, there is no pve contentout of my reach (I'm not much for pvp but that isn't due to skills but my own casual approach to combat).I can hold my own when hired to goin the field to buffhunting parties orcanrun cross-countrykilling everything in my wake.I am welcome in any hunting party as much for my ability to tank and kill stuff as my healing/buffing skills.
A few months after launch I gave up both my Dancer and Teras Kasi skills. I missed them both so much that I returned a few months later. I won't be giving either of them up again!
FILTHPIG
Mon Aug 02, 2004 1:56 pm
#8
Thanks. But what I dreaded is probably true. If I ever hunt I prefer to do it alone or in a Small group. And I do get in fights sometimes, so I need skills to back up my attitude.
I really really wanted dancing (on the same character, I only play one) but I'll have to settle for like Entertainer Dancing 2 or 3 if I'm lucky.
I really really wanted dancing (on the same character, I only play one) but I'll have to settle for like Entertainer Dancing 2 or 3 if I'm lucky.
FILTHPIG
Mon Aug 02, 2004 2:00 pm
#9
I've always had Teras kasi, and I am probably going to use it again now, though if it were more a brawling style than martial arts I wouldn't think twice about getting it.
So I think I'll master Dancer and Teras Kasi and maybe ditch Dancing for Rifles if I can't control my urges to shoot people.
So I think I'll master Dancer and Teras Kasi and maybe ditch Dancing for Rifles if I can't control my urges to shoot people.
Esharra
Mon Aug 02, 2004 2:02 pm
#10
Or do what I did and find a dance partner who is also a Master Rifleman!
*winks @ Til*
Xyrdre
Mon Aug 02, 2004 4:20 pm
#11
Dunno, I recently dropped Master Pistoleer for Master Riflegirl while awaiting the combat revamp. I can still solo a lot of stuff, and maybe a lot more now that I haven't even tried yetwith the highdamage output of rifles. Rifles also have a decent range of damage types, though not as much as Pistols. Course, rifles have AP3 on a T21... never hurts to have a heavy armor penetrating weapon...
The trick with rifles is keeping the MOB's out at your good firing range. I bought a very good BE gurreck, over 10k health, 59% kinetic resists to tank for me, and shekeeps MOB's back and out at perfect range. It works like a charm. Even better if I buy her doc buffs... with her kinetic resists andbuffed secondaries, she's in pretty good shape against most PvE. With rifles doing the sickening amount of damage they do way to quickly, she usually doesn't have to tank for long.
I think it all comes down more to what style seems the most fun for you. Pistoleer is generally considered to be a broken combat profession, yet I had a blast with it and could do all sorts of stuff in the game as a Master Pistoleer. I just wanted to give an overpowered profession a shot for a bit, to compensate. 
Drygo
Mon Aug 02, 2004 4:34 pm
#12
FILTHPIG wrote:
So I'm probably screwed if I ever get in a fight with an actual person unless I have like Master swordsman, fencer defense, tka meditation and defense, pistoleer, rifleman and master bounty hunter?
There's not much point in multiple professions being allowed if only certain playstyles can gain from it only in certain instances.
The point of having enough skill points is to diversify everyone's templates, not to make them all be different in the same way for the same reason.
Not necessarily. I guess it depends on your definition of PvP. If your goal is to take people on one on one, yes, you're going to be at a disadvantage in PvP. But, that doesn't mean you'll always lose. Heck, as TKM/Dancer, I've been known to incap a doc/pistoleer one on one. But, I admit, that's a minority of the time. 
However, if your goal in PvP'ing is to participate in group raids and group defense of bases, you will find that even having just one master elite combat profession can be extraordinarily beneficial. Of course, you have the fact that you are able to mindbuff your entire raiding/defense party which people will absolutely love you for. But, just in regards to combat, when fighting in groups you can certainly make yourself extremely useful to your group with your combat abilities. It doesn't always have to be one on one. Group fights where you're all working together, using your particular skills can help you to come out on top quite often.
SENSEI-YOSHI
Mon Aug 02, 2004 5:49 pm
#13
What do you guys think of master dancer/master swordsman/master brawler?
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