Fencer Archive

Erm, I may have have a lone standpoint here, but the highest level dungeons arn't supposed to be done solo, imho.
If that was the case there would be no challange for people who prefer acting together with friends (like I do).

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Doratos wrote:

our lack of AP kills us in pve. I mean theres a lotta mobs that have medium armor..and a fencer weap wont even touch that. If you want pve...yes go swordsman, if you wana solo like almost anything in the game,....swordsman is awesome. I have fencer and Swordsman, i like the stun baton for some reason....but yeah we need another rare awesome weapon like swordsman have....they have the scythe....rifleman get the disrupter rifle....pistoleer gets sonic blaster....why dont we get some kinda awesome sword WITH AP....so yes pve fencer is weak

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Unwanted wrote:

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Doratos wrote:

our lack of AP kills us in pve. I mean theres a lotta mobs that have medium armor..and a fencer weap wont even touch that. If you want pve...yes go swordsman, if you wana solo like almost anything in the game,....swordsman is awesome. I have fencer and Swordsman, i like the stun baton for some reason....but yeah we need another rare awesome weapon like swordsman have....they have the scythe....rifleman get the disrupter rifle....pistoleer gets sonic blaster....why dont we get some kinda awesome sword WITH AP....so yes pve fencer is weak

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Remember we will be getting Raphayl's blade, may she rest in peace. So it should do her honor and from what Minerunner said about how he hounded the devs about this during the summit we should all be very happy with how it turns out.

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Is that actually going to happen. Could you post the thread that he said it on so I can have a look? thanks.

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Gantories wrote:

Yes, fencer is not a PvE profession. Most people with fencer tend to PvP more, because of all the Defense bounses. Although, with those damn DoT weapons, most pvpers go pikeman, for that nice, uber, 200 str mind poison/fire. Its complete crap that the devs made crap like that...total noobs can own now....So yea, if you want a PvE template, go Teras Kasi and swordsman.

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Heard a few places (rumormill only, but maybe it'll happen) that DOT weapons will get the same 75% PVP damage reduction as normal damage in the future. If that's the case, fotm will change again. Lol, only time will tell. Kind of the beauty of a mmorpg, "gameplay subject to change."

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Akuma-enshi wrote:

Don't get me wrong, I agree with you. I also enjoy grouping and think that there are certain places that you shouldn't be able to solo. I was just wondering due to the fact that I can't play that often (usually one buff session a night 5-6 nights a week) and its hard toorganize groupstuff with that limited schedule. It would be nice to be able to due high level missions for good cash and not worry about cloning after some Janta hands me my butt though.

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Oh, no worries there. You can do any missions given by the mission terminals with master fencer with no problems at all - straight up through enraged rancors. The biggest beef with fencer at the moment is that when you get a group together to go to say the death watch bunker, you need tanks, damage dealers, healers etc. Well, you'd think that the best defense profession in the game would be your tank, but with the way fencer is currently coded, we do no better than any other melee profession against the likes of SBD's and we deal so little damage that we're not useful. So, you see ads for "Group for dwb, need riflemen, doctors, combat medics, and swordsmen." Well, fencer should be the tank that keeps the aggro from the monsters so that others can deal damage, but as things are now, we get his as much as anyone else, so we're not on the list...

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parax4477 wrote:

"..........but with the way fencer is currently coded, we do no better than any other melee profession against the likes of SBD's "

what does that mean?

I'm just about to become a master fencer , and have been looking forward to tanking some of the higher level mobs..... Not with the intention of dealing damage , but by dodging almost every hit , taunting alot , and throw a few states here and there while the damage dealers actually finish the mob off....

are you saying with our increased dodge and defensive ability's , we're still at the same level as TKA's , Swordsman , pikeman etc etc??

that's kind of a let down.....

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Yes, I am unfortunately, but saying that, it's only conditional. In regular pvp, we are dodging, tanking machines. When killing rancors, jantas, mokks, nym's, ewoks, and other normal creatures, our defenses protect us and make us thedodging, bobbing, and weavinguntouchables that we desire to be. But, the way things work right now, accuracy seems to be on a purely sliding scale with MOBs like SBD's have such high accuracy that they never miss, regardless of our dodge mods. So, we get hit the same number of times as TKA's and swordsmen, except that they negate more of the damage with toughness and deal more damage, so are much more desireable parts of the crew.