Fencer Archive

Hey everyone. I'm rather new to this profession. I got sick of bounty hunter and dropped it, and took up and mastered TKA. Now I'm aiming to master fencer and brawler (when I get enough apprentice xp, anyway)...

What I am confused about here is that there's a lot of weapons, hmm.. let me think. Survival knife, dagger, stone dagger, sword, vibroblade, curved sword, gaffi stick, rykk blade, rantok blade and stun baton. All of these do kinetic damage except for the stun baton, which of course does stun damage. I could be wrong here, I dunno... but anyway, I can't see any reason to use anything except the curved sword (fastest I've used thus far) and the stun baton (for stun damage). Why does the fencer profession have so many useless weapons, or am I missing something?

"Anyone who does not agree with me is mentally sick and should be shot, I'm afraid to say." --Pastor Richards, Vice City (Pressing Issues w/ Maurice Chavez, VCPR)

Curved Sword is good for when you begin the proffesion, once you get enough speed you want a gaffi stick because it is the highest damage.

Stun baton is obviously useful for stun. And the vibroblade is actually useful sometimes, it is our only AP1 weapon and it has really low ham costs, good for fighting unbuffed.

Everything else i have found useless...

curved sword in the beginning.atnov fencerswitch to speed sliced gaffi until you get the footwork tree. then switch to dmg sliced gaffi. unless you have an acklay baton... then use that if you want.

ive been a fencer since launch and im pretty sick of our weapon selection. apparently we are supposed to get some love in the near future. i never use the vibro blade. its damg is pitiful and i cant find a weaponsmith that will take the time to craft me an above avg one to make it useful.

Galactic Merc: Einar "Dozen Fingers" Leehi
Bounty Hunter for Hire Scourge of the Mittens
Specializing in choking the life from Marks

lol get some 'love'

we smugglers have been waiting for 9 months on our 'love' now, and the revamp has been delayed *AGAIN*

dont hate me becuase of a dev screwup. i know the smugglers need some too. it doesnt take a genius to question the entire underworld tree...

but on the subject of combat, which is the primary function of a fencer, giving us one additional dmg type would appease the majority of fencers out there. fencer has been toted as the one profession that is working the way it is supposed to. cant beat that.

Galactic Merc: Einar "Dozen Fingers" Leehi
Bounty Hunter for Hire Scourge of the Mittens
Specializing in choking the life from Marks

lol, I didn't say i hate fencers and smugglers should get revamped first. I'm a fencer myself, so why wouldn't i like a revamp,

I just wanted to point out that no need to hope for 'love' in the near future, coz the devs are too busy making everyone Jedi...