Fencer Archive

Hi, i've been reading thru the different professions, and noticed that swordsman, and pikeman, are the only ones mention to be able to attack more than one opponent at a time, out of the brawler profession. Is this true? Can fencers make multi-opponent attacks?

Also, i'm debating on rather or not to be just a marksman, and taking rifle and pistol, the pistol for up close combat. What advantages does fencing have over someone equally skilled with a pistol? Thanks.

Taking on someone with equal skill that has a pistol can be quite a learning experience. They will kite you. They will outlast you. When you have only a sword in your hand, you have to immediately come up with tactics.

The most obvious, lunge+dizzy them if you can. They will fall to the floor for you to hit. The other, to hide around walls and indoor arenas and force them to your court.

I noticed that spin attack is quite good, but it has serious trade-offs as well. I've only seen spin attack hit 3 opponents at once (doing 150-300 per hit per opponent, no less). However it has a bit of a slow cooldown and could eat up your HAM pretty quickly.

I'm not a fencer yet, only apprentice swordsman.

I'm not sure if this counts, but when I am mobbed by multiple opponents, I turn on the Berserk skill. When I do, I notice my character seems to randomly pick opponents and target them with his attacks.

I love the spin attack. One search/destory missions, i used to pick off enemies with my rfile first and stand far away and overcharge shot the structure. now i just run up to the structure and keep doing spin cut. constantly dmgs the structure while killing new spawns. a lot quicker and more xp.

I'm a fencer with a vibroblade, and just today i got mauled by 20-30 selonians on corellia. Obviously i died, but before doing so i used spin attack and hit about 15 of them that were actually in range of it, i hit around 15 selonians all for over 800 damage, one for 1242 damage. i killed many of them before i died.. and yes, i love spin attack. it's absolutely vital it is a bit slow to recover and takes more from HAM then usual but it is very much worth it for hitting everything around you for massive damage.

Ogion Lor'ien Novice Fencer

Kettemoor

I'm a novice swordsman and I use a sliced ryyk blade 56-169 dmg 2.7 speed 36.66 wound chance. I have used slash spin on lairs (doing missions) when the creatures rush me. There have been several instances when I hit up to but no more than 5 creatures at once. If I recall corrdctly the least amount of dmg done when hitting 5 targets was about 350, the most being 550-600. It's not effective when fighting a single opponent. But comes in handy when attacking a lair such as gnort, kreetle, ikopi, rill, etc.. I am currenyly using cho sun (one hand hit 2) attack and avg around 1000 dmg. I've done as high as and only once to a gungan warrior 2402, and yes I do have the ss for it. I was amazed, but never have I seen that dmg again and I've tried the same tactic again and again.

spin attack is the most useful thing for lvling as a fencer i mean with my weapon of 210 dmg and 2.4 speed sliced i did about 1700+ to about 7 proned tusken snipers in tusken fort i about about 1100 xp for each kill and all i did was one spin attack. i was amazed