Fencer Archive
Thread: AGH THEY DID IT AGAIN!
Finally got the resolve to reactivate my account.. and when I get ingame:
I meet an NPC with a generic name heavy on the o's and k's (like every human on tatooine). They aggro on me, they con white to my curved sword. I attack, thinking it'll be as easy as the average white con NPC. It uses a dagger. It knocks me down, then hits me for 400 damage with the next two strikes. Jakkar is now dead.
I get into Mos Eisley, a friend duels me, he wears a full suit of well made composite. We fight. During the entire duel, the highest damage I do is seven. When i bring out my stun baton to counter his composite, i fight him for around... 30 seconds... the stun baton hits him once in the first 20 seconds, then CoB wears off him, and I still can't hit him, the effect was still active for the entire duel. End result, in two duels spanning about a minute, I never take more than three pixels off his health or action. He's a novice teras kasi, just trained. If this doesn't sound utterly ridiculous to you, please go and suffocate yourself with a pillow.
I duel another friend a few hours later, he wears padded/ubese mix. Same result. I could do a little more damage, but simply couldn't graze his HAM. On the other hand, he can hit me for 450 damage per shot, as a 2442 pistoleer.
This is insane, what's going on? I stop playing for a week and my character has the combat abilities of a durni! Again!
if you're knocked down, you take significantly more damage. at brawler: one-hand 3, you can knock down opponents. use this well, and you can return the favor that NPC did for you.
ALL damage, player to player, is reduced 75% in PvP.
using ANYTHING but stun damage against a target in composite armor is futile.
a TKA also has unarmed toughness, which further reduces damage (we have one-hand toughness).
TKA's have reported REPEATEDLY that CoB is NOT working for them... while this was partially fixed, it now apparently costs more HAM to use than it prevents damage. it is possible that they 'stayed center' through a bug, but not likely that this protected them.
a high skill of melee defense will also prevent you from landing blows... this is a passive defense, granted from MANY professions (fencer included), and stacks across professions. it can also be enhanced with the use of BioE tissues in clothing.
if the TKA was smart, they used a blind attack on you... which further lowers your accuracy. if they used intimidate or warcry (basic brawler skills), they could have debuffed you further.
against padded/ubese, vibros or stun baton are advised. against a pistoleer, who has 2 health bleeds, a KD attack, and a number of defensive skills... in ADDITION to a number of heavy shots... well, not knowing your fencer skills, I can only guess that they have an immediate advantage over you. also, you have not explained your own armor preference (if any).
a melee profession can not simply charge in and expect to last long... you will need tactics to win... the proper use of special attacks can make a huge difference in your survival.
just to let you know, the last duel i remember losingwas against a MBH/medic, and the only reason he beat me is cause he healed himself twice and i didn't dizzy/lunge. 
i am a 4-4-3-3 fencer, i've dueled tka (in the the 4th skill levels) commandos and bhs, and i havewonnearly every single one. i do not know what is not working for you, but i honestly believe in duels tactics are EVERYTHING (plus a little help from composite or ubese).
also, it might be because you're still low in the fencer levels. or maybe your weapons were'nt crafted well. could be alot of things.
Ooh, a correspondent reading random posts on relatedmessage boards! *appaluds Mister Heavy*
Odeeso Arnsu, Shadowfire, (on Hiatus), Fencer, CH, Medic
Ah, being talked to like a child once again. So much for the wonderful fencer community.
I am an experienced fencer. Please do not state the obvious. I have been an avid dueler against all classes for almost two months, atleast 50% of my opponents wearing composite (because atleast half the combative players wear composite..), and i've always been able to atleast come close to winning, if not utterly decimate them.
Every time a new patch comes in my character is further weakened, and after every server restart my stats are temporarily messed up. If I log in after a server restart the same NPC i'd fought two hours earlier and not lost more than 50hp to can fire three blaster pistol shots and hit me for 200-500hp a hit. Doesn't it sound like something odd is going on to you? O_o
EasyMcRhinopants wrote:
Try talking to Xendi, he beats everybody all the time.
Unfortunetly I dont exel in pvp as well as pve.But im geussing this guy is bugged or something, I noticed a drop off in my pvp dmg as well and was confounded by it..
1hHit3 only doing 250 dmg in pvp is roughly 50% of what its supposed to do, Yesterday I was cranking out 400-700 pvp dmg...
But hey, dodge makes up for it......
T-900 wrote:
and i've always been able to atleast come close to winning, if not utterly decimate them.
Well pardon our confusion, since we only hear about the times when the crazed durni kills you in two hits while your attacks only cause 4 damage each.
If you're a frequent dueler, maybe what you're noticing is... probability. You're not going to beat everybody all the time.
Try talking to Xendi, he beats everybody all the time.