Swordsman Archive
Thread: Your Swordsman story.
Ill post my story later and see if i can get gabe and gore to comment also.
Go ahead and tell us how you became a swordsman, how fast you could kill a NS elder, or whatever else you want.
Swordsman in the beginning meant strategy and knowledge to me. It meant adventure and freedom since i could travel anywhere under the protection of my blades and hammers. It meant excitemeny since it was a high damage/low defense profession.
Then, when it became popular and flooded, it meant mastery. Most all other professions were cinches in combat, but another good swordsman was always the best challenge. Through true mastery of Swordsman and melee... im not talking about template master here... i kept on top of the rest in pvp.
Interesting (to me lol)fact about APEist- never had more than +80 speed pre-cu, and that was because i had mbrawler lol, and i used a 400 dmg scythe. that didnt keep me from ruining all the other swordsman pvprs with capped speed lol and uber phs. Also, never used a dot weapon unless i was dotted first, and then all i had was one of those 110 mind poison janta knives lol. before i picked up doc i didnt even count losses vs. dot **edit**. it wasnt anything related to knowledge/skill that killed me, it was their weapon.
post cu it represented pretty much the same things. loved every bit of swordsman, precu to postcu.
-apeist
Prior to the CU, I must admit I was only a swordsman for holo mastery and for a short period time afterwards as I found it very fun. But unfortunatly, I was not near as rich as I am now, so the +25 in speed tapes and acklay bones to make a very nice PH was out of my reach. This was prior to scythes being put in game as well.
I quit with the CU but returned to see how it had changed in a few months. I mastered swordsman with my first respec on some advice from a friend who said Swordsman was now an amazing tank in PvP when teamed up with doctor. I fell in love with this profession instantly. I bought some energy rebel battle armor, put +50 in acc and spd, +25 in defense, and +25 in healing efficeny in it. I adk'd it as well. I also spent 4 days down in the geo cave and came out with some -13 red cubes and some +26 geo agents. Which made me one of the nicest hammers I have seen on my server (it also helps that I have only ever seen 2 other master swordsmen in PvP 
). Ranged fell to me with very little problems, othermelee characters were just as easy to take down I found. Jedi were the only thing I had trouble with, and only then the ones who had invested years and millions. Pretty good for a respeced character who never even had to grind i think 
.
Although rifleman was my first profession mastered and will always be my favorite profession. Swordsman is #2, and if I had spent more time on it pre-CU it would probably have replaced rifleman.
EDIT:: BTW, some may call me a fotm... but w/e. You can say it if you like, but even if swordsman was nerfed to hell, I would find a way to use it in my template. Which is more than many hardcore PvPers would do.
Message Edited by godares79 on 11-02-2005 10:25 PM
I respec'd to Bh/rifles, but it wasn't the same.
I hopped onto swordsman just slightly before the melee craze. About 2-3 monthes I believe. Spent a good month or two learing my template and figuring out what I to do to win. Seeing a lev 75 drop a full template jedi will always make me hot.
Swordsman was the engine on the pain train. I show up, people died. Seeing 1500+ fly up over someone's head still makes me smile after many months of being a hammer man.
I was a swordsman from day one (which was just a little over a year ago). No one in our guild was this prof, so I was guided to take it. I fell in love with 2H Headhit 3, and many more moves. I also picked up Master Brawler and Master Pike with some fencing boxes. I dominated alot of duels back then. Anyone who get kill your mind in 3 shots usually one a duel anyways. My defense was stacked and it rawked.
Then came the CU.
I didn't change my template too much, I exchanged some pike for fencer skills. Then I met Mallichea one fateful night and everything changed from there. I knew I would never pick up a glowstick, but the thought of being able to have force speed and cloak and MORE melee def was irresistable. So now I am a hybrid. I love my template now. It is amusing when BH's come for me, I guess they expect to see the famous glowstick, instead they feel the power of the hammer killing them in a few shots now.My current template is awesome in 3 vs 3 or more. I am not a huge PvPer but I still like what I can do as damage.
I have recently purchased 2 amazing hammers for quite a bit of cash, and now it seems it was all for nothing. I still don't want to pick up a glowstick and I refuse to carry a gun, so I'm not sure what I am left with.
Of course that dream was shortly lived when i saw that you could tame creatures... So i picked up scout and got to CH. now my goal was To become CH/Swordsmen and now being a novice Musican i gave it up to presure this goal. About a month or so later i mastered swords then a few days after that i mastered CH.
Now this was probably my favorite time in the game. I could solo everything in sight. This was the best time of the game for me. And then came the holo grind. PvP went down and no one played with meh any more... I got my first cron liek the first day it went live and i got Musican... Oh how fate comes back on us. So i started to grind it after i had dropped Master CH and 10minutes later i drop it and repick up master CH. I swore from that moment on i would Never drop CH.
And then came the CH nerf. then the other nerf. Then the patch that took CH and destroyed it. So i dropped CH and started to dabble don't remeber what i Dabbled in but i know it was good.
The next template was Master Swords/Brawler and dabbed in rifles. Now this temp was probably the most unique out of them all since this was the only time i had ever had a rifle in my hand. I had swore that i would never pick up a gun but i did. And this was probably my best temp in PvP i had ever had. People hated it, and i Loved it. Was also really good in PvE. This of course went by the way side and i dont remeber now what i was but it was i think part scout and some of TKA/fencer. cant remeber right now though.
Anouther Template that i really liked. With it i was able to take out normal Night Sisters without Armor/buffs Loved every minute of it. Warcry nerf and i was still living it up. I had a messed up temp with no other master except for Swords/Brawler for a Long Long time. I think i also had Medic which i had refused tom get before that. I hated skills that everyone else had. and still do to this day.
And then the CU was aproching and i heard that in order to get the full effect of the respect i would have to have a dual mastery. So i Mastered Pike. Nothing really to it but just had to do it. was on CU beta for a long long time testing and trying out all diffrent temps and even found one which just dominated. Master Swords/Pike with a nice crafted Power hammer. Of course i only did think for Test because i didn't have to pay for armor. So on live i got Master Swords/TKA/Brawler and dabbled like crazy in Pike/Fencer and no medic. And this is my temp right now. Never changed it since then. And i am living proof that you do not need medic in your temp to be able to solo high lvl mobs. It isn't easy without medic but i still am able to do it.
And now after being a Swordsmen for over 2 years and lovign being able to fight without armor because of the CU i now fear what is going to happen post CU2. i heard that this is the best thing that could happen to the game but. I dont know. I have been the same profession since the beging and i have never droped master Swords since then.
Master Swords was more then just a Profession. It was a Lifestyle. I will hate being forced to pick up a gun to be good in this game. I much rather go jedi on Dark then going Range again. My character Dark could never be fully successful as a range user. It is just not his style of fighting. He is a True Berserker and nothing can change that. And the sad thing is. since there is probably nto going to be a profession that focuses on Melee except jedi then i am afraid that all current melee users will go Jedi. and that will mean there will be s **edit** load of jedi running around. But i for one will not pick up a gun again. it just isnt' fun for me.
Master Swordman Forever ~ Pve wh0r3 
my other sig is a Corovette. 
My story...My story is ironic honestly. My story on how I became swordsman was exceptional. I went Swordsman as soon as the CU hit. When everyone was going Ranged...I was one of the few standing in MO with swords/doc. I am not a Pre-cu swordsman forever like some of you hardcore swordsman are. But I have become one onceI turned into swordsman, I started to live off it. My power hammer was weak, but my tanking/overall dmg was incredible. I realized I could go alot of places with this temp...
So I like to test my templete out thourghly before I make a final decision and figured I would do PvE...Man did I do some crazy things, Soloing Avatar, Geo cave, Krayts, Acklays, Gorax's, Nightsister Cave's, DJK's, hell even once in a while Level 111's. this was all happening when people were just learning the CU. When everyone was just realized melee was the true power flowing temp. By this time i realized I was ready for PvP...My god did people get suprised. I had a sucky hammer with some 1084 max dmg 104 sac. But man..Did I know my temp. I was owning or fighting for a good 1 hr fight, at one time a fight lasted over 2.45 hrs...That opponent got the most respect ever out of me.
My favorite time was when Melee was already discovered, and peeps were doing the CM/Rifleman thing wiht some Bh. I remeber I was in the Imperial Outpost on Dantooine. Three rebel Combat Medics faced me. By myself, I figured what the hell. It's worth giving them a fight. So i begin the fighitng by going overt then running inside one of the buildings to the small rooms. Then threw on cob, and infusion and went beserk. I incaped all three of em not at the same time but one would run in get incaped, drag back, an two would run in. So I kept at it andfinally ran between the three rooms inside the building to keep them from able to "see target" so I could regen health. by this time some 30 minutes has gone by and I've incaped all three of em numerous times. Finally lag hits me and they got luck and killed me.
The fight wasn't what impressed me, it was the name "swordsman" made these man run in fear on the battlefield every moment on. Everytime they saw me or another swordsman was on the field they would ask for help. I took great pride in my temp once that day occured. Now I have a above average hammer 1199 dmg, now Most jedi Fear me. to see these Jedi work so hard supposedly for there templete. My opioion Jedi is a baby grind compared to Holo grind. Then just get oblitered by me and my hammer. My hammer is my thunder. I realized why "Thor" the mighty god of thunder, used a Hammer that was as infamous as the charcter himself...
My point is, With swordsman it changed my gameplay, taught me how to respect, and value certain things in this game. Now I'm just one happy swordsman, I could have unlocked Jedi some month and a half ago if I wanted but I won't be leaving except this new CU. Most of my friends said I should go Jedi, that "I would make an awesome Jedi" the sad thing is...Why do that when I'm in love with this profession? But my story isn't irrelvant, I'm just damn proud to be on the same server as the Swordsman correspondent himself. Seriously guys, Cos you have done a Suburb job and I will never accept anyone else as the correspondent. You will always be my Swordsman Correspondent even if we don't have the profession...
excellent post dark.
remember when we were "master heavy swordsman"? hehe, oh and when we didnt have the 2-handed curved sword cert till the 4th two-handed box in brawler? yea i believe it took me a lil over a month to get master too. i think you mastered before me. oh well no matter.
also remember the mind bleeds? ahhh, oh and when you could hit amelee with lunge 1 before they got into your range and thenspam areaattack 3 ftwcuz of the infinite posture down? lol...
warcry really was too powerful at one point... way too powerful. delay them for 20 seconds and keep attacking them the entire time rofl, so unfair. good times though.
any yea i felt the same way about the flooding of our profession. i went swordsman because i thought it was going to be unique, and i was right at first. pretty much my first real pvp template was carbs with charge shot, mswords, mbrawler, doc something. i would kd them with carbs, get on top of them with my hammer and bleed em, and then continue to whack the hell out of em with my cleaver lol... and i had to be careful since both carbs and swords h/a/m cost were crazy... that was all pre the mass usage of buffs really. i remember fighting 20tolife, one of the first fights i had ever had vs. someone who was buffed, it was a duel and i tore him up lol, he was mcarbs/something else at the time. and jagermeister was another one, mpistols/mdoc, i wasnt even master swords and i took him down.
then the profession became popular not to long after the geo cave was introduced. that pissed me off, but i focused on being able to beat any of these new swordsman who decided to pvp, to show em that the old school swords is the only school
so in a way i preserved our image when it comes to pvp... swordsman werent by any means rare in the year preceding the cu, but the ones using a sword (though admittedly a scythe blade) and no speed ca's, but knew every nook and crannie of the profession were.
-apeist
-apeist
I took one of the most underrated PvP professions in the game and turned it into a profession that was feared by everyone. I may sound a little arrogant when I say this, but I was a PvP GOD. I was one of the few non-Jedi on my server to break 1800 rating, and I was such a force in PvP that the opposite faction would literally target me first out of everyone.
And now I'm being **edit**ed over by SOE. How **edit**ing incredible is this. I've been playing this game since launch, and all they care about is more money. More more more more more money.
Well, my swordsman is gone, my Jedi is worthless, and my Mandalorian wearing BH is probably gonna be run of the mill. I should sell my accounts and get out before its too late.
Akuma-Paragon wrote:excellent post dark.
remember when we were "master heavy swordsman"? hehe, oh and when we didnt have the 2-handed curved sword cert till the 4th two-handed box in brawler? yea i believe it took me a lil over a month to get master too. i think you mastered before me. oh well no matter.
also remember the mind bleeds? ahhh, oh and when you could hit a melee with lunge 1 before they got into your range and then spam areaattack 3 ftw cuz of the infinite posture down? lol...
warcry really was too powerful at one point... way too powerful. delay them for 20 seconds and keep attacking them the entire time rofl, so unfair. good times though.
any yea i felt the same way about the flooding of our profession. i went swordsman because i thought it was going to be unique, and i was right at first. pretty much my first real pvp template was carbs with charge shot, mswords, mbrawler, doc something. i would kd them with carbs, get on top of them with my hammer and bleed em, and then continue to whack the hell out of em with my cleaver lol... and i had to be careful since both carbs and swords h/a/m cost were crazy... that was all pre the mass usage of buffs really. i remember fighting 20tolife, one of the first fights i had ever had vs. someone who was buffed, it was a duel and i tore him up lol, he was mcarbs/something else at the time. and jagermeister was another one, mpistols/mdoc, i wasnt even master swords and i took him down.
then the profession became popular not to long after the geo cave was introduced. that pissed me off, but i focused on being able to beat any of these new swordsman who decided to pvp, to show em that the old school swords is the only school
-apeist
-apeist
HAHA mind bleeds... ahh so over powering... and ya prema posture change. i rember the day they nerfed that... i was so pissed cuz i would not longer be able to help kill high lvl creatures after that day lol. cuz i remeber patch day i was on dath and had to take out this weapon reward pistol to help take down this Dark Jedi NPC cuz if i had got to close to it i would have died.
I also remeber when i refused to put on armor and get buffs for that matter. I thought Compo looked like crap... Cuz well it does. It also took up to much ham to use. Back in the day if you were melee you would much rather use food and spice to kill something rather then have armor. Armor was just death to use for me. i would kill myself faster then i could damage the creature i was trying to kill lol.
Then buffs came about and just became way to over powering and because of buffs out came the 90% resist armor. Then brought about the fencer/Rifle profession to become FOTM because of stun damage being vuln. And then eventually made pistol when they got the geono pistol... Man Post CU went trough tons of stages now that i think about it. Seems so long ago since i played that game. And man that system was so unbalanced now that i think about it that it wasn't even funny.
DarkBShadow wrote:
Akuma-Paragon wrote:
excellent post dark.
remember when we were "master heavy swordsman"? hehe, oh and when we didnt have the 2-handed curved sword cert till the 4th two-handed box in brawler? yea i believe it took me a lil over a month to get master too. i think you mastered before me. oh well no matter.
also remember the mind bleeds? ahhh, oh and when you could hit a melee with lunge 1 before they got into your range and then spam areaattack 3 ftw cuz of the infinite posture down? lol...
warcry really was too powerful at one point... way too powerful. delay them for 20 seconds and keep attacking them the entire time rofl, so unfair. good times though.
any yea i felt the same way about the flooding of our profession. i went swordsman because i thought it was going to be unique, and i was right at first. pretty much my first real pvp template was carbs with charge shot, mswords, mbrawler, doc something. i would kd them with carbs, get on top of them with my hammer and bleed em, and then continue to whack the hell out of em with my cleaver lol... and i had to be careful since both carbs and swords h/a/m cost were crazy... that was all pre the mass usage of buffs really. i remember fighting 20tolife, one of the first fights i had ever had vs. someone who was buffed, it was a duel and i tore him up lol, he was mcarbs/something else at the time. and jagermeister was another one, mpistols/mdoc, i wasnt even master swords and i took him down.
then the profession became popular not to long after the geo cave was introduced. that pissed me off, but i focused on being able to beat any of these new swordsman who decided to pvp, to show em that the old school swords is the only school
-apeist
-apeist
HAHA mind bleeds... ahh so over powering... and ya prema posture change. i rember the day they nerfed that... i was so pissed cuz i would not longer be able to help kill high lvl creatures after that day lol. cuz i remeber patch day i was on dath and had to take out this weapon reward pistol to help take down this Dark Jedi NPC cuz if i had got to close to it i would have died.
I also remeber when i refused to put on armor and get buffs for that matter. I thought Compo looked like crap... Cuz well it does. It also took up to much ham to use. Back in the day if you were melee you would much rather use food and spice to kill something rather then have armor. Armor was just death to use for me. i would kill myself faster then i could damage the creature i was trying to kill lol.
Then buffs came about and just became way to over powering and because of buffs out came the 90% resist armor. Then brought about the fencer/Rifle profession to become FOTM because of stun damage being vuln. And then eventually made pistol when they got the geono pistol... Man Post CU went trough tons of stages now that i think about it. Seems so long ago since i played that game. And man that system was so unbalanced now that i think about it that it wasn't even funny.
yea, cms were the all time worst though, and they lasted the longest w/o being nerfed really.
-apeist
Akuma-Paragon wrote:
DarkBShadow wrote:
Akuma-Paragon wrote:
excellent post dark.
remember when we were "master heavy swordsman"? hehe, oh and when we didnt have the 2-handed curved sword cert till the 4th two-handed box in brawler? yea i believe it took me a lil over a month to get master too. i think you mastered before me. oh well no matter.
also remember the mind bleeds? ahhh, oh and when you could hit a melee with lunge 1 before they got into your range and then spam areaattack 3 ftw cuz of the infinite posture down? lol...
warcry really was too powerful at one point... way too powerful. delay them for 20 seconds and keep attacking them the entire time rofl, so unfair. good times though.
any yea i felt the same way about the flooding of our profession. i went swordsman because i thought it was going to be unique, and i was right at first. pretty much my first real pvp template was carbs with charge shot, mswords, mbrawler, doc something. i would kd them with carbs, get on top of them with my hammer and bleed em, and then continue to whack the hell out of em with my cleaver lol... and i had to be careful since both carbs and swords h/a/m cost were crazy... that was all pre the mass usage of buffs really. i remember fighting 20tolife, one of the first fights i had ever had vs. someone who was buffed, it was a duel and i tore him up lol, he was mcarbs/something else at the time. and jagermeister was another one, mpistols/mdoc, i wasnt even master swords and i took him down.
then the profession became popular not to long after the geo cave was introduced. that pissed me off, but i focused on being able to beat any of these new swordsman who decided to pvp, to show em that the old school swords is the only school
-apeist
-apeist
HAHA mind bleeds... ahh so over powering... and ya prema posture change. i rember the day they nerfed that... i was so pissed cuz i would not longer be able to help kill high lvl creatures after that day lol. cuz i remeber patch day i was on dath and had to take out this weapon reward pistol to help take down this Dark Jedi NPC cuz if i had got to close to it i would have died.
I also remeber when i refused to put on armor and get buffs for that matter. I thought Compo looked like crap... Cuz well it does. It also took up to much ham to use. Back in the day if you were melee you would much rather use food and spice to kill something rather then have armor. Armor was just death to use for me. i would kill myself faster then i could damage the creature i was trying to kill lol.
Then buffs came about and just became way to over powering and because of buffs out came the 90% resist armor. Then brought about the fencer/Rifle profession to become FOTM because of stun damage being vuln. And then eventually made pistol when they got the geono pistol... Man Post CU went trough tons of stages now that i think about it. Seems so long ago since i played that game. And man that system was so unbalanced now that i think about it that it wasn't even funny.
yea, cms were the all time worst though, and they lasted the longest w/o being nerfed really.-apeist
yup and it took the CU to nerf them... Ruined PvP Cm's did. Along with jedi. But CM's imo were worse. i coudl kill a CM before the dots incapped me but it wouldn't matter. If i faced a CM i was doomed to die. Nothing you cna do to stop death unless you are lucky and had a Doc close by.