Swordsman Archive

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haun wrote:

yes area 3 dizzies fairly well.

pluz most profession have a higher KD resist than they do a posture down resist.

so if you dizzy and then posture down you get the kd/dizzy

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I'm surprised more people don't catch on to this when they complain about a lack of KD in swordsman. Pretty much every BH knows that a dizzy/posture change (suppresion fire, action shot) works just as well as a dizzy/KD.

I used to say do area attack 3 and if their dizzy enough when getting up they will be knocked down but... no one listened.

The only problem with this is that it takes way to long to do unless you have a 1 spd sword or +100 2hspd mods, but its better than nothing

Ummm, what good is lunge 1 when you are using area 3? Area 3 does posture down anyways.

But the chances of area 3 dizzying are like 20%, which basically makes it worthless. Especially if your opponent has any dizzy defense. 2H hit 3 can also do dizzy, but the chances of it succeeding are just as crappy.

You're better off getting KD 2 from TKA line, or getting master brawler and using 1H dizzy then lunge 1 or 2 on them. But both of those suck right now, on most people, cause everyone has such high defenses, and your accuracy will suck with those moves (unless you're a master of fencer or TKA).

To be honest, you're much better off just forgetting about dizzy/KD. Warcry 2 is way better for us.

try using two hand hit 3 that dizzies more than area3

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Groid wrote:
try using two hand hit 3 that dizzies more than area3

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completely not true

Personally, I prefer to use 2h hit 3 to try to dizzy rather than area hit 3. The problem with using area hit 3 to try and dizzy (not all of us have lunge 2) is if you manage to get the posture down to stick before a dizzy lands on your target, you make them immune to further posture down attacks for the remainder of the 30 sec timer.

I usually start off with area 3 then two hand hit 3. Most times if not my opponent is dizzy and tries to runaway, thats when i use lunge one. If im close up i will just try to posture down my opponent long enough for me to get a bleed on him , then spam the mind hits.

Dizzy/KD is overrated. I can stand up from it probably 80% of the time.

You're better off using warcry and intimidate, in my opinion. Then you just smack them with mind hit until you can warcry them again, and so on.

If you lunge 2 them, they can just stand right back up before you even have the chance to dizzy them. Then you'll have wasted your KD, and if you don't dizzy them before you posture change them, you won't be able to get them dizzy/KDed at all. And then they can just use a stim and heal every bit of damage you just did to them. It's relying too much on luck for my tastes.

Dizzy/KD will definately be useful after next publish, because of the warcry nerf. But until then, it's a waste of time for a swordsman to try to pull off, IMO.

But if you do want to dizzy/KD, I'd recommend just spamming 2H hit 3 or Area 3 until they are dizzied and THEN lunge 1 or 2 them.