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Im currently a Master Rifleman and was wondering how Swordsman would compliment it?

Thanks for your experience in advance.

its pretty good, not as good as pistol/fencer though =/

if u wanna be good go fencer or tka for defense stacks, swordsman < fencer or tka

Im Master Sword and master brawler with 2001 in Rifle.

In PVE, this allows me to bleed twice with the rifle before they even aggro then bleed twice more with the 2h and then just headhit3, warcry and watch your stats.

I find it very effective. I'm sure it would be as well in PVP if you could get your bleeds in or at least one good Rifle Headshot.

For the stackable bleeds I am sure its great, and both have AOE attacks.

I tried master rifle and tka, not that enjoyable....

i started out sword/rifle but eventually i stoped using rifle completely, the mind cost where just to high. i would usually run out of mind before i could kill a red con criter if i used rifle first

It was awsome because I would shoot the creature and then when they came over close i would change to sword

i was constantly damaging blue ham so i would split the points between each.

I also went up the doctor tree.

Now that I want to get serious about mastering differnt profesions I wated till i got high enough in rifle where i could kite and put away the sword.

As I was dropping rifle i kept the mind bleed two as long as I could because I would put 2 mind bleeds to draw on creature away from the pack then put the third bleed on with the pwr hammer then take out the sword and do head hit three and two.

Now that I had to drop all my rifle I am waiting for the second mind bleed skill with sword so i can put two on again.

Now if I had not done doctor and had done rifle and sword together it would have been awsome to be able to put 4 mindbleeds on somthing like a kimo.

I mastered Rifle, and decided to go for Master Swordsman for the melee damage mitigation and the mind attacks, including the ability to stack 4 mind bleeds. Because I could put two mind bleeds with the rifle and single pull critters switch to sword and continue to attack mind (including2 more bleeds when I got them), leveling Swordsman was much faster than Rifle.

For PvE, Master Rifleman/Master Swordsman is awesome. I can sit back and kill most stuff with my rifle, or I can run in and beat it to death with 2H weapons. Or I can start something off with mind damage, and if it gets to me, Ican finish it off with the Sword.Of course, I can start off with Random pool damage and end with Random pool damage, too, but the point is that Sword specializes in Mind as does Rifle. That gives me plenty ofoptions. And the specials and tactics are similar enough to Rifle that 2H Sword feels like an extension of my Rifle (and vice-versa), so it feels right.

As others have said, there are better defensive template, but then both Rifle and 2H Sword are the damage dealers of their class, so the template is real geared more for offense than tanking. That is, get in and finish something off quickly rather than stand there taking a beating and avoiding hits. This is not to say that Swordsmen cannot tank, but the stat migration to account for Rifle makes it less of an option unless buffed.

If I had known how much I would have enjoyed 2H Sword, I would not have spent all that time leveling Pistol to IV and struggled leveling Rifle because I started out with mind damage with the rifle, but had to switch to health or random pool damage when they got in on me because I had to switch to pistol. 2H Sword just makes more sense.