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What do I need to know? .. What weapons are good, and which ones are just so-so? .. What about special moves? What do each of them do and how effective do you find them? Thanks in advance for any response

For me, the best weapon that I have is the curved sword. It's super fast, plus it does good damage. The vibroblade is good in PvP because it has low special action cost...so u can dizzy attack someone thenkeep doing one-handed lunges until they fall, switch back to ur fast curved sword and give them a beating they wont forget

- Fencer of Tarquinas

The key is speed!! One hand weapons don't have the damage potential of the other melee classes, whether pikeman or 2 hand....so you need to make up for that with raw speed. Once you reach fencer, you speed mod's will allow you to wield any fencer weapon regardless of its raw speed, but up to that point, look for good swords with speeds around 2. On Wanderhome, i've been able to find rykk blades with 1.9 speed on em and damage up to bout 170....it carried me all the way to novice fencer without any problem.

In terms of specials, the only ones you need to worry about at lower levels are dizzy and lunge....i've read alot of posts ripping them, but frankly, they still work. Against npc humans, its still devastating and lets you take down mobs above your skill level. Especially if you've got a weapon with great speed (1.9 for ex.), the dizzy/lunge allows you to get quite a few hits in before they can respond.

when you become novice fencer... get intermediate than advanced footwork. then get intermediate and advanced stances and grips. this way you got the great speed of footwork and the great defenses of stances and grips. you can take more hits and be really fast. once you have those 4 your finesse should be at intermediate. then go from there, while keeping in mind what bonuses each skills give. dont just look at the specials.

get a nice curved sword. mine is 90-209 2.3 speed. Gaderffi sticks i hear are really good now, if you have Advanced Footwork. the damage is 200-270, and with adv footwork your speed will be 1.0. ryyk blades are good for starters. DO NOT spam specials. specials have a time delay, if you just attack it will be faster, use a special here and there. use berserk also, if you feel your fighting a tough NPC. get Master Brawler too. Lunge 2 and Berserk 2 help ALOT
find a Master Fencer on your server, ask to be his apprentice, and you're set. this is how i did it, and i am so greatful for it.

good luck with the best melee class..

(i took out a master TKA today )

AS it stand right now we hit speed cap pretty early on. Starting off we do really good compared to other melees but as they also approach the cap we do half damage due to nature of our weapon. This is planned on being fixed. AS for weapon there are several choices

gaffi stick heavy min and max damage added to fact that it is our slowest weapon but it still reaches speed cap make it very useful. Most damage per speed cap here. Be careful with special.

stun baton good max min stun dam.Breaks through what most other weapons cannot. Be careful with specials.

curved sword great speed starting but with cap does it really matter. good damage just watch mind when doing specials.

Vibroknife(aka The butter knife) stats slightly lower than the curved but it low HAM and AP 1 make it it extremely powerful. If you are going to use special this is your weapon of choice.

Ryyk blade good dps but it hits spped cap almost same time as curved. DONT i repeat DONT use specials with it.

Thanks guys .. a couple more questions.

What is the initial 1h melee weapon? What are the titles for each of the weapon lines? If you only had two lines to fill, which two would you pick? How fast does fencer come on average? .. Consider I'm already an MCH and carbineer

Thanks again!