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Thread: Pistoleer to Fencer Should I do it?
Lets see I have been reading up on ithe forums for awhile now. I was reading of TKM, Fencer, and 2 Handed(The only ones that caught my eye). I am currently Doctor/Pistoleer, I am really getting sick and tired of pistols I mean EVERYONE HAS ONE! Its one of the best and easiest professions I have ever seen. But I want a challenge! I really want to have a melee weapon instead of this ranged combat. Fencer is the one that had caught my eye, Just I need a few questions answered. I do really like PvP and thats what I am sorta working up to. I have buffs and stims keep in mind!
1) Are fencers good at PvP?
2) Are fencers good at PvE?
3) Can you kill a ranged quickly in PvP?
4) Can I easily get up the fencer tree ( 2handed is the easiest tree I have ever been up in Brawler)
5) I do see you have lots of defences more then 2handed, but do they help?
6) I have a full suit of composite armor plus the defences of the Fencer Profession will that help at all?
7) Should I make the change from Pistoleer to Fencer?
8) Is fencer able to quickly kill creatures and NPCS?(I see 2handed doing a ton of damadge on PvE)
9) Is it hard to fight ranged when there running?
10) Is it easy to catch up to ranged when fighting at a distance?
11) I had currently saw a 2 handed vs a Fencer I dont know what skills they had I just saw the fencer knockdown the 2 handed about every second he tried to get up. The 2handed had buffs on so the fencer wasnt doing any damadge at all. Then the 2 handed got up and just Knocked the fencer down and incaped him in a single hit, but when he did incap him the 2 handed fell down once again. Threw this fight I seen Knocking down in Fencer is amazing and happens easily is this true?
**Please dont yell and scream and whine at me cause I haven't a clue of this profession and I want to learn!
If there is anything I missed please TELL ME!
By The Way I am keeping Doctor!
Guild: Crimson Elite
Server: Shadowfire
I suggest you keep pistoleer an with your other skill points get fencer. Both fencer an Pistoleer have major bonuses that stack with one another. An it makes you that much harder to kill in pvp. Trust me I have a fencer/pistoleer with some TKA.. I am now having fun killing torso shooting eye shooting bh's left an right. I can kill 2 or so before droping
since my defences are so high commando's have a harder time flaming me. 47range def 56melee def (still 15def points to go) not to mention the resistances to postion down an KD are awesome.. TKA's KD or low blows hardly even land on me.
1. Not to terrible IF you can catch them
2. Pretty bad if you use the right weapons for the job
3. If he's holding a pistol, its about like a melee fight.. rifle, kiss him goodbye, he's going home in a box (thats if we get to them)
4. Didn't seem to bad if you kill the right things.
5. The defenses are a joke right now, but are getting raised to a more respectable lvl this next patch (hopefully)
6. Armor always helps if you have buffs, otherwise you'll incap yourself in about 5 secs flat if you're used to a pistol 
7. In the end its up to you.. to each his own...
8. Right now the weapons all cap at 1 sec, so that 2 handed swordsman is doing 3x the damage we are at the exact same speed
9. If they dont hold still or you dont get within 15 meters to stick a lunge you'll never hit them due to server lag (even when you're 0 meters away after a knockdown it can still say your target is out of range.. wish I was joking about this)
10. Nope
11. It was most likely the infamous Dizzy/lunge combo.. the reason it appeared the target kept falling over was the dizzy knocking him back down each time he tried to stand up. Fencers dont have a real knockdown at all
If you decide to go for it.. have fun, most of us here really enjoy it because its a rare class thats definately not "uber"
