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So in my pursuit to become more of a combat machine I've taken some drastic steps.

First I've mastered brawler and am attempting to work my way up the trees of the other 3 melee elite professions. I've also decided to be less frugal (read: cheap) and actually spend some of my hard earnedcash. I purchased a set of 75% kinetic resist Advanced Ubese for about 175k (don't know if this is good or not but it was the going price). I bought a couple crates of muon gold and some fishak to take the edge off.

So heres my thoughts so far;

If you have any skill points left master brawler. The benefits are immense. Warcry 2 is in a word awesome, a 20 second delay on a mob is a godsend. Intimidate 2 is good as well and lunge 2 in all melee professions means kd with all weapons. As well as a couple of mods for my pikeman skills too.

I've never used armor before except for a brief experiment with composite that didn't work out to well. If you can find an armorsmith who makes this armor BUY SOME! You will have to buff yourself to really be effective in the armor but unlike composite you dont have to buff yourself to put a full set on.

The results of all this;

Went with a few friends (2 novice carbineers and 1 novice pikeman, talk about a group of the damned) to the squill caves. We had full buffs and I had my armor on as well as my spice and food. I started off using my tusken baton (whatever the name is I can't remember) for some fencer xp.

We ran through the squill cave like a hot knife through butter. At one point I had three squill guardians and one squill hunter all on me while my party was down and I swear, I don't think I took a solid hit from any of them. Without using specials I could've stood there all day. We cleaned out the cave and headed over to the tusken bunker about 1400m away from the squill cave. Same story there. Tusken warriors and snipers all fell as we cleaned out that bunker including the fun room at bottom with a bunch of elite tusken guards and the tusken king. After we finished that off we headed back to the squill cave which had respawned and cleaned that out a second time.

I made mass amounts of xp and even though I took mass wounds and battle fatigue, I don't think I was ever really in any danger.

In the end I have to say that master brawler is awesome. The armor I bought is working out great. If you got the money and you have the skill points invest in both, it's well worth it.

Aye...Master Brawler > all

I fear theat War Cry and Intimidate might get a nerf they are that good, and yes Lunge2 is a god send as well...

Just bought some light armor my self....havent tested it yet but am anxious....plus I look cool now..

My original templet was going to be

Master Brawler

Master Pikeman

Master Medic

and Doctor 0-4-3-0

to my dismay I added wrong and am short like 1 skill point..curse you math!!!

So untill me and my brother get are third guy in the group and he levels to Doc Ill keep what I can...after that Ill branch out in to some of the other Melee Profs...

I was master pikeman and a couple boxes away from master doctor. I hated like hell to give up doctor but I really couldn't hold my own in any kind of pvp fight or duel. I was relying way to much on healing myself and had migrated my stats to accomodate this.

I gave it up and am on my way to some greener combat pastures.

Oh, and btw, bite your tongue about nerfs for warcry!!

I just got the d@mn skill and you're trying to nerf it already. For shame.

hey now, I don't want it nerfed, but its one hella a move, ...I could see it being nerfed thats all...

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CLab2021 wrote:
hey now, I don't want it nerfed, but its one hella a move, ...I could see it being nerfed thats all...

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I'm not saying you want them nerfed ... but if you speak such things out loud they may go from your lips to devs ears.

They will nerf warcry around the time that they nerf the ability to run backwards at the same speed as running forwards and spamming overpowered specials from 64 meters away. Warcry 2 works 1 out of every 3 times I use it. I wear Bioengineered clothing. In PvP panic shot is much better. It works nearly all the time and from 64 m away I like making my opponents duck their heads from wild shooting more thanthan freezing them with my ferocious warcry.

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CLab2021 wrote:

Master Brawler 77 skillpoints

Master Pikeman 66 skillpoints

Master Medic 77 skillpoints

and Doctor 0-2-4-0 29 skillpoints

to my dismay I added wrong and am short like 1 skill point..curse you math!!!

...adds up to 249 skillpoints.

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I got a char like this on Ahazi server, except he's master TKA and not pikeMan. Works like a charm; you just need to buy the doctor buffs

Why waste skill points on master medic...all you need is pharm 4 and some good stim D's and you can heal over 800 points a shot....gives you alot of skill points to do other things...unless i guess if you like making stimpack (puke!)

I am novice pike and master doc, going master brawler

i hate to give up doc, but really the only thing i think ill use is revive because i making buffs are a pain, and no one sells goo complete sets

so i hope to go...

Master Brawler

Master Medic (mabyedoc 0-4-0-0)

Pikeman

Once i master pikeman or get high in it, i will drop brawler to just 0-0-0-4

And thats my plan

Yessss. Master Brawler is well worth it. Loads of great specials and extra defenses to boot!

antares
master pikeman

I am uber now. I can not be killed.

No seriously, I can't believe what a little jump in skill and a good set of armor can do for you. I mean in one trip to dath I killed about 4 nightsissies and some of those singing mountain clan witches or whatever they are called. As well as an entire population of rancor (please refer to my other post about killing them all as well as the post with the actual screenshots). All without ever being in trouble or risk of death. I am just taken aback how easy this game can be with the right tools.

Hold on.. what kind of armor again? Composite?