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I'm trying master pikeman/masterbrawler (big maybe)/ fencer(grips only) / tka 0-3-1-0/ and something in swordsman. just looking for as much melee and ranged defense or kd defense whatever I can get out of it.

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asgoia wrote:
I'm trying master pikeman/masterbrawler (big maybe)/ fencer(grips only) / tka 0-3-1-0/ and something in swordsman. just looking for as much melee and ranged defense or kd defense whatever I can get out of it.

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Just to say. I am a Master pike/doctor and I rock in pve and pvp. given I do have a mind fire lance that rocks.

But if your gonna stack. Master Pikeman, Brawler, and Tka 4-0-0-4 and whatever you can get is fencer would be my way to go.

I dunno... goes both ways. As a doc, you can heal your wounds. But you can't heal your mind pool, which you'll be draining as you heal yourself... doesn't help when they hit your mind, either.

Other hand, stacking defense makes you harder to hit, thus leaving less to heal. Getting yourself medic with the first two first aid boxes will do a good enough job healing you, and you won't have to worry about your mind -quite- so much, because, well... you won't get hit as much.

At least, that's the idea.

My thoughts behind each, as mentioned, were to get hit less and knocked down/dizzied lessas a defense stacker or to cure poison or diseases that the nice combat medics love to throw (self-buffing and rez are added benefits).

The other reasons would be defense stack to go find some nice NS pikes and tapes/armor attachments or go doctor to be able to buy the equipment.

Thanks for the input all.

Regards,

Gava Maka

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DrewinNC wrote:

I'm also having a lot of fun with lunge 2 and intimidate 2 as I grind up pikeman. Can someone tell me what the range is on Area Sweep? Is it a good substitute for lunge2, which can reach out 20 meters (further than any of my old commando specials )?

Thanks,
Gava

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Thats what you meant right? And do you mean the area sweep you get in defenses 3? If you do, its range is the range of your weapon.

I originally migrated to master pike/master doc out of necessity. No amount of defense stacking could make up for not having armor.

But having done some defense stacking on a swordsman alt, I find myself wishing I had doc fairly often. Not for the ability to buff myself, but for the ability to heal myself of anything they can throw at me while in battle.

Got my swordsman killed in a starport yesterday by a mind-poison throwing ion rifle headshotting kiter cm/rifleman. All he had to do was keep running enough that I couldn't kill him before my mind (which was around 3k at the time) went out from the poison. On the other hand, with the pike/doc I could have just healed the poison and attacked his mind with my own poison and fire lances. Who knows if I would have won, but I'd have at least had a chance.

It's really a trade off between avoiding getting hit in the first place and dealing with the damage effectively after you do get hit. I find healing the damage more effective, since I'm going to get hit no matter what.