Swordsman Archive

Not nessicarily bad...but mixing a melee and ranged profession really takes away from other benefits you could have. You no longer need both professions to get the damage mitigation skills. Therefor, by concentrating on either ranged or melee templates, you can stack more skills and abilities. Generally a completely melee char, or a completely ranged char will be 'better' in the skills and abilities....but ultimately it is up to you...hope this helped, i know i wasnt as clear as i wanted to be.

It's a thorny one at the moment - It Should be clear cut - a person who can use a gun AND a sword should be more useful all-round than a guy who can JUST use a Sword or JUST use a Gun.. But sadly, that seems not to be the case at the moment. Personally, I'd say having the ability to damage from range with the option of switching to a better defended/more accurate/equally damaging melee profession if your preygets too close would be ideal, which is why my "normal" toon is labelled as Rifles/Swords at the moment - That's what I intend for her still, I'm trying Rifles/Commando at the moment (Mainly just because I love the Assault Armour ) But I'm the kind of person to stick with something I want even if it makes my life difficult

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TenlossDisruptor wrote:
It's a thorny one at the moment - It Should be clear cut - a person who can use a gun AND a sword should be more useful all-round than a guy who can JUST use a Sword or JUST use a Gun.. But sadly, that seems not to be the case at the moment. Personally, I'd say having the ability to damage from range with the option of switching to a better defended/more accurate/equally damaging melee profession if your preygets too close would be ideal, which is why my "normal" toon is labelled as Rifles/Swords at the moment - That's what I intend for her still, I'm trying Rifles/Commando at the moment (Mainly just because I love the Assault Armour ) But I'm the kind of person to stick with something I want even if it makes my life difficult

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TenlossDisruptor wrote:
It's a thorny one at the moment - It Should be clear cut - a person who can use a gun AND a sword should be more useful all-round than a guy who can JUST use a Sword or JUST use a Gun.. But sadly, that seems not to be the case at the moment. Personally, I'd say having the ability to damage from range with the option of switching to a better defended/more accurate/equally damaging melee profession if your preygets too close would be ideal, which is why my "normal" toon is labelled as Rifles/Swords at the moment - That's what I intend for her still, I'm trying Rifles/Commando at the moment (Mainly just because I love the Assault Armour ) But I'm the kind of person to stick with something I want even if it makes my life difficult

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erm sorry bout the triple post my pc glitched

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Shojjii wrote:

I was thinking of going with this template

MRifle/MSwords/Novice BH

However, I've heard that mixing melee and ranged it stupid, and I do not know what to do now.

I've also considered (melee)

MSwords/TKM/MFencer

Or perhaps (ranged)

MRifles/MMarksman/MCommando

Please help me out here...is mixing ranged and melee profession a bad idea?

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dont got tkm/swords/fencer your healing skill will suck

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Healer4344 wrote:

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TenlossDisruptor wrote:
It's a thorny one at the moment - It Should be clear cut - a person who can use a gun AND a sword should be more useful all-round than a guy who can JUST use a Sword or JUST use a Gun.. But sadly, that seems not to be the case at the moment. Personally, I'd say having the ability to damage from range with the option of switching to a better defended/more accurate/equally damaging melee profession if your preygets too close would be ideal, which is why my "normal" toon is labelled as Rifles/Swords at the moment - That's what I intend for her still, I'm trying Rifles/Commando at the moment (Mainly just because I love the Assault Armour ) But I'm the kind of person to stick with something I want even if it makes my life difficult

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Actually no they shouldn't be more useful even IRL - because if you are trained in gun skills and trained in knife/sword skills because you would never be ableto focus on getting extremely proficient in one or the other therefore making you average in both unless you specialized in one and just learned basic use with the other - and to answer the original posters question - do not mix ranged and melee

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Fair comment that it would be difficult to focus on becoming extremely proficient in either, but the Samurai were able to train in Swordsmanship and extremely accurate use of a Bow, so to say you'd "never" be able to learn how to use both to an expert level is untrue No flaming meant by the way, just differing opinion

that sounds like a good idea to me.

pre-cu, i was a carbineer-swordsman, trying to stack the counter attack, but that didn't work out too welll for me. post cu, i have no clue, but i was considering testing out a ranged/melee build..

maybe try it out with a free re-spec, and get back to us and let us know how it worked?

I'd say stick with all melee. tkm master swords pike xx3x master brawler.

wow, i've been looking for a character builder this good for a while.

thanks for putting the link here!