Swordsman Archive

If you're truly looking for a ranged profession do rifleman. Most commando specials only work at 16m.

Ragen Sands

Rifleman cause you have more mind attacks

Kamy Kamy
~ Master Swordsman ~
~ Stop...HAMMERTIME ~
"Knockdown, Dizzy, a Swordsman craves these things not."

Nash Darksabre --- Swordsman since beta, swordsman for life.

"We like our women like our enemies, hammered."

I thought that they were actually fixing carbineer with the next patch...I'm gonna pick up rifleman though. Gives a bit of variety and does insane amounts of damage on both ends

Romero Zombie
IO

-You can kill a man, but you can't kill what he stands for-

Rifleman/Swordsman gives you the ability to attack mind from range, and, when they get on you, switch to hammer or sword and continue turn the rest of their mind to mush up close. Conversely, you can start attacking mind with melee, then when they run, switch to rifle to continue attacking mindand deal with kiting that way.

Of course the same can be said of the random pool attacks, but any ranged/melee profession combo can attack random pools. The strength of this combo is that it attacks mind and has the highest AP weapons in the game. And, frankly, the strategies between the two professions are not all that different.

Commando, as someone else mentioned, is best within 16m, so you are not gaining that much extra range going Commando.

Also as mentioned elsewhere, Carbineer is another option. Swordsman and Carbineer both use Counterattack, so that combination will counterattack more than either one by themselves. However, Carbineer specializes in attacking Action, rather than Mind, so if you start attacking Action, and they get close to you and you switch to Sword, you are only able to hit random pool or mind. You cannot continue totarget Action without a Carbine in hand.

Also, the defensive stacking will be capped with the next publish, so while Swordmen/Carbineers will still likely have a Counterattack bonus over either profession by itself, it will not be nearly as useful as it is now. On the upside, however, they are fixing a lot of broken Carbineer specials, so that is good for them.

Still, I prefer Rifle with Swordsman. It is more offensively oriented than defensively, but I love the combo enough that I have yet to open a holo because I have no intention of giving either one up.

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