Swordsman Archive
Thread: Why didn't someone tell me?
lol yup. Swordsman has been great in pvp for a LONG time, since the acklay cave was introduced really. before then it was still great if ya knew how to use it, but it took a lot more effort to be good with it.
but yea i know your a WS (on your alt) and a mainly PvE swordsman, but still shouldnt you have seen some random pvp/dueling going on while youve been travelling the galaxy??? hehe you shoulda kept tabs on all the swordsman whippin a**!
have fun
-apeist
Not really. Up until a couple of weeks ago I barely logged in my combat toon. And when I did it was with a specific purpose in mind (like go to the Geo caves and find a -14 SAC cube). The rest of the time I was really focused on crafting and never really paid attention to dueling (I mean, who cares about dueling when there are great berries on Talus?) or PvP. And at least on my server, most of the dueling seems to be ranged vs ranged or ranged vs Jedi or Jedi vs Jedi. Not too many standard (non-Jedi) melee players.
Whenever I made a great power hammer, there were just the usualy 5-6 people interested in it. Every time I made a better one, the same people would bid on it. So there don't seem to be too many Swordsman on my server. Though with that said, the few melee players I've fought have been the toughest opponents. I fought a Swordsman the other day (he seemed to have at least some Doc and some Pikeman...and was lvl 80...oh, and Imp. CoB) and it went on for 40 minutes before he did a knockdown when I wasn't prepared and instead of clicking Knockdown recovery, I swapped that button with Burst Run. At that point he did 2-3 specials and finished me off. But until that point, we both had full mind, decent action and health and there was no end in sight. I joked that I had intended to duel until the CU2 hit, but that wasn't what I meant.
WineGuyJr wrote:
Yes you did. I think if I hadn't of swapped my knockdown recovery with another button I could have held out another hour at least. But there was no way I could have beat you (unless you had messed up, of course). I know my plan was to duel until the new system went into effect, but I didn't mean it quite so literally.
After our duel (for that matter, during the duel) I realized what people said about duels that can take forever. Oh well, it was fun.
thats because as master doc/master swords you dont have enough offesive goodies to help put them down.
if you have only mswords, /doc 4004 and put the rest into other abilities then you can more effectively end the fight.
-apeist
Only problem with being Doc/anything is that as soon as you get picked out as being a Doc youll ahve 5 jedi beating on you... or that is my experience anyway.
Been Doc/swords since beta, we have always been great... i still remember oneshoting people with head hit 1 before they reduced player damage in PvP... ahh many Imps/Dulers yelld exploit when that happend 