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hey guys i just got 1 handed 3 last night and im not very familiar with the weapons for this class yet. What are some good base stats on weapons such as the vibroblade, Ganderifii baton, sword and such. I need toknow a good starting point as far as stats on these, whats good dmg spd etc,I do plan on taking it to master btw, so think long term. If someone could explain the speed modifier in simple terms id appreciate it.

the vibroblade i have atm is: 143dmg, 2.0 spd , and i have a sword that is 201dmg, 2.8 spd , i want better weapons. thanks

try looting a gaffi stick, mostly dropped by tuskan raiders, you can get good ones made by weaponsmiths that top off around 260 damage, and with a good slice can go up pretty nicely. I looted a stick a while back that after slice had max damage of 340 but I've heard of people having much better. As for speed, you will find as you climb the trees you don't need that as much since you'll get bonuses anyway. So I'm only interested in max damage when I look at something now.

For my arsenal I keep a rykk blade, max at 234, stun baton, max at 180 (am looking for better, this was a cheap bazaar find) and 2 gaffi sticks (main weapon, close stats).

There was a whole post on these boards about weapons, many fencers prefer blades but for some odd reason I've really grown to like the gaffi stick and a couple pieces of good composite armor. I used to wear only ubese but after a bad night of cloning and decay I was left without armor and the closest, decent armor i reached was composite. So I spent 80k (about 70k more than I usually do) and got a chest plate, left bracer and boots and noticed i get incapped a lot less (most stats are above 60% kinetic on all 3).

I suggest you go for the footwork column first to get bleed, this helps a ton. I climbed the tree as equally as I could, right tree is long no matter what but i came in with a lot of combat xp I didn't use in pistoleer so I was lucky. I'm at 3/4/2/3 and from what I can tell from reading here, I won't see huge differences at master but I can't wait to have the title

Well for my conntribution I would have to say this about special HAM costs and armor piercing. The only weapon that has armor piercing the the fencer arsenal is the vibroblade. Also the VB happens to have the least HAM costs. Gaffi sticks do a lot of damage however when attacking any mob with armor you will find that you will not be enjoying the damgae bonus and will also be chewing up your HAM about 3 times faster. IMO I use a VB for all attacks on MOBS and my Gaffi stick to attack lairs, I use it to attack low ham non armor mobs as well.

Build an armor macro to change cloths with the click of a button. That way you only wear armor when you are being directly attacked...and enjoy the regen when you are not being attacked.

As for the tree and what to go upI would suggest the 1st tree to at least the second box asit will increase your melee resistances. Then get the third tree 1st box for the damage attack then go up the second tree two boxes for the speed bonus. From there continue to the third box on the third tree for the melee3 atttack. Up to you after that.

Donno if this helps but this is what I would suggest.