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Hey you guys its me again. Let me set up the scene for you

my friend has a master doc + master tka

myself Im a master doc + 3 4 2 3 fencer

He and I dueled last night. we had full buffs from the master doc plus fishak (+600 mind) and ryshcate (+481 focus eaten twice for double the bonus) He used power boost, giving himself another +500 or 550 HAM, and I injected a Muon Gold (+600 to all my blue bars)

he wore composite armor, as did I. He used a Vibro Knuckle, I used a powered up gaffi for my bleeds/ and a super sliced stun baton.

On with the show.

KD+Dizzy (1 attack from TKA 0 4 0 0i believe) im on the ground, I get up after 3 attempts

while on the ground, hes attacking my brain, pummeling me to death with his deadly fists of vibro enhanced steel.

I get up with moderate damage, but still kicking, my attacks barely land, yet all his do, I COB, slows down his fury of mind boggling blows yet still connecting considerably with ample damage to back it up. I nickle dime, nickle dime at him. Missing quite frequently with my feather..i mean stun baton. Again I go down KD+Dizzy

And thats all she wrote.

We dueled 4 times, in consecutive order, one right after the other, as I healed up fully and so forth, we didnt DB each other, thank god or else I would be buying a new suit. Each time we fought, I would use a different tactic, bleeds dont affect him since hes got doctor and he can easly wash away the bleeding and suture himself with /firstaid. COB worked in instances of my dazed and blinded state, allowing me to dodge every 4th or 5th blow. Our last fight I almost won because he forgot to replenish his fishak, but I still almost dropped him, since he was using up his mind faster than he could replenish it, and unfortunatly my scattershot 1 doesnt do all that much damage to his mind, but it was at least landing...albeit not often enough.

am I doing something wrong? I hear all over the boards fencers take out mtka's like no tomorrow, yet myself, Im at a 50/50

just thought Id share, and hope for some feedback =)

#1 if he is using composite, use a stun baton

#2 reach master fencer

#3 get master brawler as well

#4 use blind/intimidate/CoB (makes you a lot harder to hit)

most of these work for me. i haven't lost to a pure tkm for a while with these tactics.

unless i used bleed, which after the first set I laid on him was removed rather quickly, i didnt use the gaffi anymore and picked up the stun baton so i was using the proper weapon vs his armor type

i dont think i wanna get rid of master doc

heres my reasons for it

first and formost my buffs

second comes into play in regards to mass pvp where I persue either a roll of first doctor and rarely fighting, or secondary medic and full fighting.

the poison/disease/and other debuff removers are an essential part of my play as a combatant in the GCW.

will the remaining 1 0 2 1 give me alot more effectiveness against the mtka+mdoc?

I mean i LOVE being a fencer, I can unleash hell in mass pvp because people dont expect me to be anything but weak, since I play the role of medic, and target me thinking easy prey, they get pwnd.

any other options other than getting master brawl?

some tactics: 2/2/0/2 right now w/master brawler

use a vibroblade for specials & state changes (low ham cost)

intimidate2

dizzy/lunge2/warcry2 - switch over to gaffi for bleeds

switch to stun and 1hand hit 2

that's the best i can do right now, and i get beat by TKs, but not by much most times

Why do you expect to beat a Teras Kasi Master not being a Master Fencer yourself? Just wondering...

To take out a TKM you can't just be a partial fencer. You won't have enough of anything to do much but get beat pretty quickly. A TKM has massive accuracy modifiers so unless you COB off the bat (even if) they'll beat the tar out of you if you're only part fencer. Plus their weapon is AP1, and your gad stick is AP0.

I'd suggest mastering out fencer and then seeing what else you can fit into your template. Focus on melee defense (0004 in TKA or 0004 in pistol gives a good chunk) to improve your chances of being missed.

Use a stun baton on composite wearers if they have no stun layers (there are few if any stun composite suits on my server, one or more of the resources is nonexistant or hasn't spawned in some time) and focus either on bleeds and health hits to knock out that health pool or spam scatter to knock out that mind pool.

I think the most important thing to any fight is to keep COB up as much as possible. This will save your life more than any other single skill. Warcry can help a ton if you can pull it off (even warcry1 buys you a good deal of time, warcry2 buys you a TON of time) and if you remember to drop an intimidate on them (lessens their chance to hit and damage done).

-Shi

without master barwler dont expect it to happen yet.Two learn your weapons.For example unless mind buffed stun baton is a very bad weapon to spam. Learn your specials and when to use. For example the normally useless scatterhit is great againist enemy who lose alot of mind or actionto ham cost. know your weakness. Fencer alone is powerful but the stories you of on the boards are combinations that included fencer.

Cob. Dizzy. Lunge. TKM lies on the ground for a minute. TKM dies.

Speaking as a TKM our state defenses are some of the worst in the game. Any state you use will pretty much stick on the first hit.

In an open fight dizzy and lunge are fine but if your looking to perfect your dueling skills using such moves is a waste of time as you will learn nothing but how not to duel effectivly well in my humble opionion anyway

thanks you guys

He's admitted that since Im not a master fencer, its hard to determine who would of won.

And when I saw his mind bar dieing due to him spamming his specials, scatterhit 1 was the choice of moves.

as for other professions, I dont think I am going to get rid of master doctor, so that leaves me with very little in regards to use elsewhere after I hit master fencer =) which ..... should be soon....mwahahaha

on a side note, i dont want you all to think im complaining. I just want feedback and tips is all.

I can careless if they do more damage or that I get beat more often by them or anyone, I just wanted information on what I can do to help me be a better PVP.

so dont take this post as such please, i respect the TKA's the Swordsman's and the Pikeman's, each have their roles alongside the Fencers

try taking off the armour buffs and food and spice and even healing and kd and warcry. Then you can have a duel to find out who is better. Did i mention from two people dueling you cannot find out if one prof is better than another as player a could be better pvp than player b.