Swordsman Archive

Got Swordsman too, pretty much want to grind through it ASAP though. Any tips , other than those mentioned, for burning through this?

My first holo swordsman. Awesome, already master brawler and some tka. wanted another melee all along.

I can only wish for my holos to keep telling me to master melee prof.

I used a holo that I had purchased for 4 million credits right before the news about the xmas holos I was novice pistoleer/master artisan & architect. I dropped master archie last night.

Oh well... I was told to master Swordsman I am at 2hand 3 right now. Thanks all for the great information.

One question... What if you are a wookie? Any wookie swordsman out there? I never really worried about armor.

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If your a Wookie, do what I do and get BUFFS. Although I'm not a wookie, and have armor,I rarely use it because buffs work wonders.

Go to Dant/Naboo get piket/bolle bol missions and fight them. If you hjave someone in the group you can get around 3.5k exp per kill. I ground out half of defense 2 and all of def 3 and Half of defense 4 last night on bolle bols. GREAT EXP!

You're a fool to give up doctor for swordsman

I'm a master doc / master TKA and I can destroy things for hours without flinching,
I'm dropping TKA for swordsman and keeping Doc.

I'm up to two-handed IV already, prolly could have done novice if I didn't pick up a few noobies along the way and teach them some stuff.

There's nothing more fun than watching noobies with Enhance D's running around and attacking things. They get very excited.

Seeing as how my third holo (used yesterday) also said master swordsman (of which I'm rather excited - my previous two were pistoleer and .. musician), I figured I'll post in this thread. One thing though, I'm a wookiee so I can't use any armor at all (shieldgens don't count because I have yet to find a reliable source with pricing that makes sense). I am also a master doctor though, so that's helpful...

Anyhow, I was going to do swordman with a second account - I figure now I'll skip that with him for the time being (he's currently working on rifleman, for the fun of it).

Overall holocrons are good for me. Gives me new and interesting things to do.

Master Doctor == very good combined with a melee profession. I'll be dropping, let me thing, MUSICIAN and will be keeping DOCTOR. Big surprise there. :-)

Actually, musician was quite fun and a different pace. I don't think I'll go for dancer and image design now though - I wouldn't gain all that much on doing it (I have 600k musician xp - wonder what I'll do with that :-)

Oh, I just noticed you saying you're giving up doctor skills - don't do it!

Pistoleer is NOT a very good profession (trust me, I played it and I enjoyed it and then I realized how bad it is compared to say rifleman). It's the best initial choice for a doctor, for sure (speed is good for healing), but a master pistoleer is a wuss in terms of damage dealing. Also don't get me started on dodge, which currently is more of a drawback than a feature (if you have multiple enemies targetting you, you might never hit).


My advice is to keep the doctor - it will serve you better than pistoleer in your swordsman quest. I fear the day when I have to actually give up master doctor (i.e if I get commando as my 4th or if I in my random-profession-grinding-post-silent-holo quest need to do it).

Buy advanced ubese armor with 67% or higher kinetic resists. It works wonders if you're a melee profession. Buy fishak and ryshaq and get melee powerups that reduce your health costs.

Yeah you'd be insane to give up doctor if you're taking up sword. Sword is much better than any pistol in the game. Pistol is only good if you're a white mage type and need defense because you're not concentrating on killing. Pistols are jokes beyond jokes compared to what your sword will do. If you are buffed and armored with sword you are simply a harbinger of death.

Hey, our areaattack3 is called 'domination' in the combat box. How awesome is that?

-- Ypi

Yes, the advice to not drop master doc was good. Too bad I already did it. I had no idea what I was in for. I already had a nice set of Ubese. I bought a nice sword, and got a 31% damage slice. Now, in order to get decent missions on Corellia I have to use my pistol then switch to my sword. I am doing missions at 0,0,0,3 that I couldn't do until I was well up the pistoleer tree. And I do them with ease! I do wrix lairs with essentially no damage done to me. I'm having a blast!

Anyway, it makes me realize I shouldn't have given up doc. The only good news is that I still have the med knowledge line, so I can use enhance packs if I don't surrender anymore. I'm looking forward to going to Dant and taking on some pickets and trackers.

Thanks to everyone who gave me advice. I appreciate it.

-Smerdy

Novice Swordsman 0,0,0,3

Master pistoleer/Novice doc 0,0,4,0