Swordsman Archive

My 2nd holo told me to do swordsman. At first I was kinda excited to be changing from a melee profession to a melee class. Well im now 0/2/1/2 and have a power Hammer, which if I use, i miss about 70% of the time and drain all my health in the meantime, a Curved sword which is actualy somewhat accurate, but it drains my action in like 7 attacks, and a Cleaver, which doesnt drain my HAM as bad, but misses 60% of the time and hits pretty weak. Can anyone tell me what i should do to lower the chances of missing, cuz at the moment, Im considering just giving up.

I guess what I would like to see is something that takes the size of the creature, and puts that into effect of increasing or decreasing ur chances of missing. I dont see how i miss a tortur bull, the biggest creature ive seen in this game, 60% of the time.

Also, any tips on where i should hunt would be appreciated as well. Right now im doing lots of tortur missions on talus.

PH's shouldnt be used without master tech as they have a nice negative to hit modifier

those range mods they put on weapons ar ethere for a reason

I didn't really use PH a lot till I mastered heavy sword. Until then it was a 1 or 2 swing big damage move, then switch to 2 h curved, 2 h axe, or cleaver. But as a trandoshan, the PH was perfect for me at master. I had stength 800, const 800, but the 2 h curved still eats a lot of ham. Twords the end I became a big time doc buff, or Tat sunburn, muon gold guy. I can swing all day with those. You can get a PH with a ranged mod of -9, but you have to find a weaponsmith to make it for you, and it has less max damage.

What profession do you come from scobra ?I see no big issue if you can solo tortur missions at 0/2/1/2, you can maybe do better but it's already pretty good.

Maybe try the lowest huurton missions on Dantooine ?Mamiens on Yavin ?

As for your weapon choice, yeah, all have drawbacks and they workmore or less as you describe. There is no FWG5 for swordsmen, I am afreaid. Yes, at this level PH's miss too much to be relied upon, cleaver have reasonable HAM costs but the weakest weapon,curved swords are probably your best bet but they eat action a lot.

Suggestions : purchase doc buffs whenever possible. Consider taking either or all of : master brawler, medic (at least novice and stims B, stims C and first aid if you can), creature handler to complement your skills - even if it is only temporary and you'll end up unlearning as you finish your swordsman tree.

Even at Master Swordsman, I prefer not to use the PH as the kill weapon. I only use it until I stick a bleed over 2.5k then I switch to a 2.5 spd -5 to hit 2H Cleaver with a dmg slice. This low HAM jewel puts a reasonable smackdown on the bleeding MOB.

I would recommend piket missions on Dantooine for quick good Swordsman exp. They range in the 3K to 4K exp per kill and are very manageable solo.

-Crazy'Horse

Well Im buffed all the time so I use my PH, land bleed then switch to my 1.6 spd 251 dmg 2H curved sword for mind hit. I drop reds in no time

Lol, with a 1.6 speed 2H Curved, I bet you look like a helicoptor rotor out there chopping it up!

-Crazy'Horse

Heh, 1.6 speed, sheesh. I'm only 0/3/2/2 right now. I use a 2h Cleaver I made, works well. It's 3.8 114-300 (114-259 sliced w/o powerup) HAM 46/30/21. When I made it I went for mostly damage, and some HAM costs. I need to go make some advanced sword cores with some new metal I got (SR of 1000) and see how it turns out.

With Mindhit 1 and Headhit 3 I can take down force mystics with no problems (as long as I have my pet out).

As a wookiee I've got tons of HAM, so I've set my stats so that I can regen the HAM from a special before the next special activates....works pretty well.