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I'm now fencer 0433 and I've been experimenting with not using armour as I've seen people talk about it.

My reasoning is that with all my new defence skills, high secondary stats and no encumbrance, my primary stats should be able to regenerate fast enough to keep up with the lower damage that's now being done to me.

I have migrated my stats so my secondaries are high, but I find that I still get killed by a piket without armour, while I don't if I wear it.

I'm not buffed & not using specials. If I use specials unbuffed, I incap myself pretty quickly.

Am I attempting to do without too soon? Why do many fencers not wear armour?

I have created a CoB macro, but I wasn't using it in the above test. Would it have made so much difference?

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dbmack wrote:

Personally, when I'm fighting, I'm always wearing armor (80% composite), buffed, and drunk on Brandy.

But I'm also Master Doc, so easy access to buffs and all my Heath and Action stats are at 400 and my mind is at 1100, so I really have no choice but to buff up.

And I always have the CoB macro going. As long as buffs are easily available and you can afford them, why wouldn't you give yourself the same advantage that everyone else has?

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I don't use CoB anymore unless I'm fighting something huge. (I am 2443 btw).

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Thanks guys, but I wasn't asking for advice on what to do when buffed. I know that when I'm buffed I can go without armour & use specials CoB etc with no real problems.

I have been fighting pikets without buffs or food. If I don't use any specials I can kill them quite easily, only having to use /healdamage self occasionally when there are more than one of them.

My questions was really to try and find out why a lot of fencers don't use armour. There must be an advantage to it in some way. Maybe, if I bump my secondary stats up even more, and I get to master fencer with all the defence skills, then I just won't need armour because my stats will regenerate fast enough? Maybe I'm better off without armour, because the encumbrance slows down regeneration so much.

I know I can get buffed etc etc, but it would be nice not to need buffs, and I'm certain that's possible.

There are plenty of fencers out there who fight without armour, and I know they have a reason.

Another reason I don't want to wear armour, is there's no armour which looks nice!

So armour increases the HAM cost of specials! I have noticed that specials bring my HAM right down. I'll have to do some experimentation with that.

What about CoB? I've found that my CoB macro brings my action bar down so fast that I might as well be getting hit. I've noticed that I am indeed better off without it. Is the action cost of CoB increased by armour too?

Thanks

I get buffs and pop a couple of brandies and I can spam any AOE attack till the cows come home while wearing 78% composite armor.

Yes

The problem with relying on buffs is that you're lost when you're in the middle of nowhere on a hunt or a quest with your mates, then you get killed & your buffs are gone.

What do you do?

Either you fight without buffs or you ask your friends to wait a possible 50 minutes while you go get buffed. I say 50 minutes because this is the length of two shuttle trips & a queue at the doctors.

If you don't develop a technique that will hold you up in combat without buffs, then you're lost when the buffs are gone.

I'm migrating my stats now to max out my secondaries, then I'll try fighting pikets without armour, buffs or spice. I was fighting sharnaffs last night without armour and only pixie & 1 brandy. I was only having to heal myself once per naff and CoB didn't bring my action down any faster than my health was going down.

I found I could even hold my own against three at once.