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saladin123

Sun Apr 25, 2004 11:10 am

I have fencer right now, and I'm looking for a good krayt hunting compliment. Im thinking between swordsman and pikeman since they both have ap2 weapons. So are pikes any good for soloing krayts?

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JLG88

Sun Apr 25, 2004 11:16 am

#2

pike can do it, but swordsman is better.

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ScDarkKnight

Sun Apr 25, 2004 3:51 pm

#3

JLG88 wrote:

pike can do it, but swordsman is better.

Exactly

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Cakins7005

Mon Apr 26, 2004 3:53 am

#4

"pike can do it, but swordsman is better."

and

swordsman can do it, but rifleman is WAY better.

If you are serious about hunting krayts, forget about melee and pick up master rifleman. With the AP 3 T-21 rifle you will not take the 50% penalty against heavy armor associated with the long vibro axe, the scythe, and the powerhammer. Speed is everything in this game and with rifle speed tapes you can fire the most powerful shot (5X damage multiplier) at once per second.You canoutdamage entire guilds of Pikemen and Swordsmen if you have rifle speed tapes and use damaged sliced

T-21's.

Message Edited by Cakins7005 on 04-26-2004 04:01 AM

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Locky-1138

Mon Apr 26, 2004 9:57 am

#5

but a rifleman cannot tank a krayt. equip a rifle and you will be hit, and hit hard mele (as it should be). best combo would be 1 swordsman and 1 rifleman. sword tanks, stack up your mind bleeds and head hits and you will make an excellent team...

for soloing, swordsman is at a huge advantage, as counter attack stops ALL damage, and block only stops 50%. so i would say Master Swordsman, Master Rifle. tank if your solo, switch to rifle if some one tries to KS so you can compete for damage.

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emo-kor

Mon Apr 26, 2004 5:58 pm

#6

I like Eti's kryat killing template, problly works great.

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Cakins7005

Tue Apr 27, 2004 12:34 am

#7

"but a rifleman cannot tank a krayt. equip a rifle and you will be hit, and hit hard mele (as it should be). best combo would be 1 swordsman and 1 rifleman. sword tanks, stack up your mind bleeds and head hits and you will make an excellent team... "

Melee and ranged damage mitigation are not weapon dependent. They will BOTH work at the same time no matter what weapon you have. This was stated by the former Teras Kasi correspondent back in December melee damage mitigation first came out. I have tested thison my maincharacter with both forms of mitigation and my alt with no mitigation and there is a huge difference. You will take more damage holding a rifle than if you were holding a melee weapon simply because you will not be able to have melee toughness associated with a melee weapon. However, if you have melee damage mitigation 3 and 80% kinetic armor, you can consistanly resist hits fromkrayt dragons and do much much more damage holding a rifle.

There are actually advantages holding a rifle over using a melee weapon from a defensive point of view. You can run while holding a ranged weapon. If you stay still, the Krayt will hit you with 100% accuracy everytime, even if you have center of being on. However, it can miss you a lot if you are running. If you can kite it and hold the distance at 35 m and continue to run, it will miss you about 75% of the time....

To the original poster: You can pick up any melee as long as you master it and pair it with rifleman. You will be able to solo almost everything in the game. The only time you will use melee in PvE is against mid level Nightsisters with 100% energy resists.

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