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Just wondering if anybody has any tactics or stratagies to be effective in PvP? Do i need to be a master to be effective? It seems every time i hit someone they start running, lunge barely works and even when it does they end up sliding an extra 20 meters. Even when i'm within 5 meters on auto follow i stll cant hit my target. Says target is out of range. and the worst part is if i dont use auto follow i have no chance at all of getting more than 1 hit in on someone.

So any reccomendations on armor, foods or spices and some tactics would be great, kinda frustrating trying to raid with my guild and feeling worthless.

Always go covert and group with overts. This way you can target others and get nice and close and get the first hit in.

Always bleed first in case they run and then use whatever attack next. With a good hammer you can hit them twice in the mind and kill them.

When you lunge them, lead them a bit. Works well for me.

Another tactic is, when your target is firing at someone, approach from a different angle, they rarely see you until you're right on top of them. Bleed, sweep, head hit.

Suprisingly, I'm actually enjoying pvp with my swordsman.

Well my brother is sort of a weird mix of professions, hes a swordman (just 3 lines) and a master combat medic, so he uses his poisons/ diseases as his ranged attack when there run away from him, or when hes running torwards them, then when he gets up close he just does a mindhit 2, and thats all he needs to do with the mind poison and the mind bleed no one lasts long

well im a carbineer too, so i against ranged of any kind, and sometimes melee, i use my ranged knockdown while im charging them, action bleed if i have time, take out my power hammer, mind bleed, head hits until they start to get up, then area attack or lunge, im 2-2-2-2 right now, so when i get area 3 and the dizzy ill c if thats effective or not.

with that combo, ive foughten and beaten bh's, plenty a time, and most of the time.

but with just swordsman i dont know how u would catch up with some1 without leadin them and usin area attack, but then they slide, so i guess u just gotta get a mind bleed on em, and make sure u do the bleed with a power hammer, itll b an awesome bleed, but after that unless ur very high switch back to curved or cleaver or whatever.

i take out lots at a time heh people call me a cheater infact its very amusing theyll never learn you wont beat me inside heh

The secret to being a melee class in this game, or any other class is to know your role, and group with inteligent people.

You will never be the 1v1 class. you will have some situations where you will shine 1v1, but our place is fighting in a group, and causing panic.

Get doctor buffs (health especially) wade into the middle of whomever your group is fighting and use your power hammer to area attack 3. You will kill everything in sight.

Don't try to solo this game, you are far far weaker. Find a good guild or group, and learn your role in that group.

your wrong out in the opne you will get owned but around a city or in a place with trees/rocks/ruins you CAn beat ranged specially if you can heal some guy was blowing his action on me earlier today i came across some pillars hide behind onewait for him to come close hitlunge then hit 3it hit his action pool .... then got tells omg ive never died to a **edit** swordsmen before .... what a moron =p i wasnt even buffed i might add i kinda like being unbuffed cuz they people dont go for your mind /shrug

Learn where and when to attack and when to hide. Always let your enemy come to you, if they really want to kill you they'll come to you. If htey get close enough you can usually get in a mind bleed and then go back to hiding. If you mind bleed someone, they'll usually become more reckless because they're gonna be capped anyways, unless they're a Medic (of course if you factor in the cost of FA, and how much it sucks they have a better chance launching a head on attack).

thats why you mind head 2 with a power hammer hell drain his mind trying to first aide it down heh