Swordsman Archive

I think we all know that a large number of tkas believe they should be nearly equal to jedis in power, but thankfully, the devs haven't listened to them... yet...

I've spent the last two and a half weeks helping a friend get to TKM. After he got through the power techniques box, he was killing things faster than I could ever dream. And his HAM costs are insultingingly low compared to ours.

GAH! Meant to add this to the end.

I don't know where these other TKM's are getting "We only do 400 damage a hit to mobs, and 250 to higher level creatures." My friend was hitting for about 500 against lightly armored enemies at novice without specials. At master he can do about 2000-3000 every second vs. just about anything.

Ok, let's hope this is the last time I forget something.

That 2000-3000 damage is with specials.

whoa, and just think about their defense.

i wish we could deal that kind of damage (actually we can ruffly, but not at the same speed), get a special technique line that buffs and heals you, and have that type of defense.

o well.

sux for all other melee to see nothing happening in our cause.

I'm betting we won't get any fix next month either.

if swordsman-fencers-pikeman (wink wink bombsie) dont get fixed, or at least worked on (for the better) i think ill start workin on my carbine skills more.

if they dont, than thats just pathetic, and any dev who has ever said anything against melee needs to be fired AND shot. no exceptions.

When i was a novice tka with decent vibro knucklers with only a 20% damage slice, i was hitting for about 1000 damage per hit when hunting tuskens (no, they weren't using rifles at the time, they were meleeing me). They have about 30% kinetic resist on some of the stronger ones i think.

I do believe I'll just go with the flow, hand my hammer on the wall and pick up a vibroknuckler.

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Falator wrote:
When i was a novice tka with decent vibro knucklers with only a 20% damage slice, i was hitting for about 1000 damage per hit when hunting tuskens (no, they weren't using rifles at the time, they were meleeing me). They have about 30% kinetic resist on some of the stronger ones i think.

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At TKN with unsliced vibro knucklers, you can hit for about 1k with unarmedhit2.

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BomsieBTC wrote:

GAH! Meant to add this to the end.

I don't know where these other TKM's are getting "We only do 400 damage a hit to mobs, and 250 to higher level creatures." My friend was hitting for about 500 against lightly armored enemies at novice without specials. At master he can do about 2000-3000 every second vs. just about anything.

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Question for all the Master Swordsmenhere, can you get anywhere near2000-3000 DPS? I sure can't. I can land some big hits, but there's a healthy delay between them. I doubt I can pull off even 1500 DPS, spamming Hit3... comments?

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Falator wrote:
When i was a novice tka with decent vibro knucklers with only a 20% damage slice, i was hitting for about 1000 damage per hit when hunting tuskens (no, they weren't using rifles at the time, they were meleeing me). They have about 30% kinetic resist on some of the stronger ones i think.

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This is possible with unarmedHit2 and Vibro knucklers, not just straight attacks. There are many TKA's that are also asking for the other melee classes to get some love, so don't think we are always thinking of ourselves (there sure are a few who are...but that would be true of any class...just look at ever profession board....the majority are asking for fixes to their profession without any mention of others...no surprise). I am sure the swordsman correspondent has made the dev team aware of the swordsmand issues, it is just a matter of priorities I believe.

The fix to powerboost for TKA was part of the "fix useless skills". I certainly cannot comment on the swordsman issues because I don't have one (yet.....working on one though), but your day will come. I am sure the correspondent is aware of some changes that may be coming in the future (at least I would hope so..the TKA correspondent, while he is not allowed to share has told us that some cool things are coming eventually). AnyhowI for one have faith that the other melee classes will balance out in the near future....justhave to be patient and work through these difficult times (for those of us who choose to play melee and not some rangedprofession).

My 2cr.