Swordsman Archive

I am currently going up both branches to see what suits me the best. I play PVE mainly, and was wondering what you would consider is the most worth while in putting my time into. From what I have seen at the moment I am finding the Swordsman the most powerfull, but only becuase I am about half way up the tree with that proffession. I am only a novice TK at the moment, but I am also a master Brawler. I was wondering how powerfull the TK get later on up the skill tree.

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TK are powerful but you have to think.... what do you do with a VK when what you are fighting has Medium or Heavy armor. Personally I like them both they both have some very good advantages.

Yeah, I love the bleeds Swordsmen can do with the powerhammer, and they hit for crazy damage, 2k 4k. I also like the fact that they can use weapons, and hopefully in the future we will see some cool swords available. I think the only thing thats putting me off TK at the moment is the fact that I think your going to get bored fast as there are no weapons for them to use. I guess I will carry on leveling both up then make a final decision, ....gonna take some time though.

I am a master TKA that is currently training the swordsman tree (holocron told me so!). I am currently 0303 in swordsman, and so far I think that there are some definite advantages to both professions. Swordsman takes the cake hands down on any mobs above light armor. You can tank much better with TKA, since you can blind and stun, as well as intimidate (you can only intimidate in swordsman), and there is higher unarmed toughness than swordsman toughness. I am a wookiee so I don't use armor, but power boost from TKA, and meditation wound healing is another are two other things that make TKA great, they help alot in lowering downtime. Overall, I am really liking the combination....i can put the status effects on with TKA, and knockdown, then go for the huge head hit 3s and mind hits with the power hammer. The swordsman moves definitely have a cooler "look" to them, I don't like the colored ribbons in TKA.

Burrakar

Starsider

wow...Dejavou. I am a Master TKA and my holo also told me to Master Swords. I am 1/3/0/3 right now so we are not far off in training. I think that both in combination with eachother are great but to really appreciate one or the other individually would be hard to say. I soloed an entire rancor spawn yesterday looking for teeth and plates with jsut a sludge panther to kite. I don't think as either jsut a TK or just a swordsman I would have been able to do that. And btw these were not jsut regular rancors...there were bulls and enraged as well. I am loving the combination of the two professions and unfortunatley I will have to be dropping some TKA skills in my quest to master swords. And on another note I am glad they are adding red ribbons to the swrods moves cause I happen to like those things.

lol, I still cant make up my mine.....I'm a Wook. so I wonder which would be the best class considering that.

I used to me a Teras Kasi Master as well but my holocron told me to master Swordsman.

I am currently 0-4-4-4 in Swordsman, and having second thoughts about continuing in Swordsman as I would have to drop the Meditation lineor Melee/Ranged Defense line in Teras Kasi to free up points. (My other points are tied up in Master Creature Handeler and I'd really like to keep it with the upcomming CH changes.)

I have to admit, Swordsman is a lot more fun than I had originally thought. In a good fight (assuming I don't run into a string of misses, something I noticed I rarely had as a Teras Kasi), I can do a much more considerable amount of damage. However, when I'm completely outnumbered, my chances of survival drop down and I almost certainly die. This was never a real problem as a Teras Kasi, with knockdown2, I could control half a crowd of mobs if not more. While area posture change is great with swords, I rarely use it as it rarely lands on the first attempt and mobs recover quickly from it. Additionally, I almost certainly die sooner in these situations as the special moves with Swordsman cannibalize myself much quicker than with Teras Kasi.

The Swordsman defensive mods also pale in comparrison to the Teras Kasi. A trade off I suppose for being able to do more damage with special moves. However, given the high HAM costs of Swordsmand moves, I use them sparingly just in case I find myself in a situation where I will be needing the HAM to tank. As a Teras Kasi I found I could go crazy with the moves without worrying so much not only because they cost less, but also becauseI had knockdown which would either keep the npc down or give me enough time to reposition myself with my pet closer to take the hits when the creature got back up.

And lastly, the Meditation line in Teras Kasi has to be one of the best skills in the game for melee players. I rarely find a healer to travel around with and meditation has saved me more times than I can count for its ability to meditate off bleeds/poisons/diseases. Powerboost, a skill in the second mediation box, is also a great advantage for melee players. It too has changed the tides of fights into my favor more times than I can count. Had I not the extra HAM from it, I would have surely been spending a great more amount of my time playing running back from the cloning center.

All this being said, I would suggest keeping both skills if you are partial to Swordsman. If you were 4-0-0-4 in Teras Kasi and a Master Swordsman, you'd enjoy the best of both worlds.

TKM / 0004 swordsman, I really love the bleeds on swordsman, they go well with headhit 1 in TKM, powerhammer is fun, and 2 handed cleaver is good for bleeding, 2 curved is alot like a knuckler cause its fast but also does lots of dmg.

I thought about going TK for the Defense on the 0004 Tree... Maybe next patch.. Drop Musican and try out the TK Defenses and maybe Meditation

Im a Master Heavy Swordsman who just got novice TKA, alll of you are sound in your thoughts, swordsman do crazy damage and combine the defence and KD of TKA....well you got one guy who is at home in a fight lol

Master Heavy Swordsman

Novice TKA

Ahazi