Fencer Archive

So, we all know fencer is an awesome profession. Just how awesome is it? Let me tell you, I have now officially tried every single profession in the game (some I only made 1/2 way to mastery before I went screaming away). Fencer is by far the best class, my only gripe? Lack of damage type (giving us an electric sword with AP1 would be perfect) and redundancy between spin attack 2 and blind 2.

For the last few weeks, I mastered swordsman, mostly because I was jealous of my friends doing more damage than me. But since mastering it, and giving up fencer to do so, I discovered I went through much more armor than I have in the last 3 months, get wicked wounds and battle fatigue, and have to feign death or rely on heals to fight. Plus the speed, my god they are slow (2 seconds to 3 seconds to hit?). So over the last few days I decided to remaster my favorite profession, the fencer. And last night I went toe to toe with a tusken Observer, it was awesome!!! I still have master swordman as it is a good profession, but fighting a Tusken Observer as a fencer and hardly getting hit is incredible. Blind, intimidate (couldn't get a dizzy or a knockdown with lunge 2), most fun I had in a long time till my buffs ran out (silly thinking I could take it in 5 minutes). But, my fencer skills kept me alive to escape.

So, lets have fun, post your most exciting times as a fencer. Whether you are new or an old master, lets here those stories!!

How did you do it so fast so many times? What did you hunt?

On the first buff session (using a dagger, then curved sword) I hunt on Corellia, dire cats, rogue bagersets, etc. and end up getting all of 1-h 1..4 and novice fencer.

On the second buff and third buff, I go to Dantooine and hunt hurtons, quenkers to get the speed tree.

On the fourth buff I go and hunt anything. Get into a large solo group and take a 15.5k quenker mission (ravaging quenkers) and you get 80k exp per lair. Grual Mualers are good, as are the Pikets. Fierce Pikets are a pain. Hurton Stalkers, Hurton Hunters. I run between missions and kill everything inbetween.

Thats all you need, depending on your weapon (I use a damage sliced gaffi once I hit the speed cap) you may need a fifth buff session. My buffs are typically 1950 for 2.5 hours, of which 20 minutes is used getting to a planet, grouping, etc.