Swordsman Archive
Thread: Speed vs COB?
Herque wrote:
listen to the masters please, techniques -->defense--> offense . stack your bleeds and headhit3 your way to master.
bleeds are stackable??!?!? **edit**!!! LOL!! Did not know that...btw...don't use your hammer until you have mastered Techniques and Finesse...you will hit hard...but miss more. 2 h curved sword will make you a grind machine!!! I will test out the cleaver if I can get a speed slice.
BTW, I listened to the masters...and it made my hunting experience a lot more fun.......Techniques has to come first...your speed mods will change the way you play
techniques first. Very simple reason. Kill them faster they have less time to hit you. You get the strongest attacks+the speed mods in techniques. After you kill fast, oh my, xp comes faster. With more xp coming in defense is quick to master, after you can hela tank and n deal mass dmg then you can finish offence and finesse easy and quickly.
i agree with the AoE the Lair trick. I used that ALLOT until i moved up to harder mobs.. now i kill faster targetting mind with nice 3.5k dmg hits. AoE is still good on the weaker mobs though with less then maybe 10k HAM.
All the reasons Ive heard so far are pretty bad reasoning and are NOT valid. Do what you think. personally im 2-2-3-3. Im having a blast leveling..running in AEing.. with some muon and buffs. You NON - STOP fight.
Mitigation 2 is awesome, no doubt. I can't honestly tell the difference between 1 and 2. My speed is fine.. im using a 200-591 4.5 hammer. If you're not gonna tank.. thats fine, id still recommend mitigation 2, because if you do get hit, you'll be fine.
Still, the new mitigation line is awesome IMO. I tanked a Krayt for far longer than I ever could before, and now they have 400k hams, so I tanked for 1-2 mins while my group got bleeds and burns on.
Jabjowie,
Just like with Rifles, Head = mind damage, Mind = mind bleeds.
Sotaudi wrote:
Jabjowie,
Just like with Rifles, Head = mind damage, Mind = mind bleeds.
thanks a lot! i am coming from carbineer so i have zero mind shots...i am excited to work on swordsman though...i have been ranged my entire time (and actually carbine only also) in this game and being able to switch to a sword and back is much fun!
Should have stated that I am a wookie. Speed is not a problem with my 1.8 speed 2h curved sword. I needed the defense first. I am now 3/3/4/3 swordsman, I went up the defense tree first and never looked back.
-- Groz