Swordsman Archive

1. Center of Being... it's a skill from the Brawler Tree.

2. Before the last patch, if you hit with a mind bleed, it did no initial damage, but would do "bleed" damage to the mind pool on regular intervals (20 seconds, I believe). Now using the mind bleed does damage on the initial hit, and does much less bleed damage at an interval.

3. Until you get to master, you really need all the help you can get with the speed on Power Hammers. After that, you can use the damage sliced one with very little difference.

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Saarkai wrote:

OK, so my wife's char is a Master Swords / Master Doc. I have a few questions for you all.

1: what is a CoB?

Center of Being. It is a skill you get asa novice brawler that increases as you become more skillful. It basically increases the chances that you will counter attack or be missed by an attacker. The higher the skill level the more effective and the longer it lasts.

2: I've heard of you all talking about a nerf to bleeds, what was the nerf and how does this effect the utility of 2 hand mind hit 2?

Originally a number of professions had skills that allowed them to "bleed" a target. This skill\attack would essentially allow a swordsman, for example. to use the mind strike skill to land a DoT (damage over time) mind bleed, that would drain the amount of damage done during the initial strike ever 15 or 20 seconds. For swordsman this was a very powerful skill that could, at times produce mind bleeds that did well over 3000 points a tick. This has now been reduced to a very small amount of damage (100-300 points). This "nerf" was for all professions, not just swordsman though. They basically nerfed bleeds in general. The idea was that they (development) wanted the success or failure of a battle to be determined by "active" attacks, not DoT's. People would apply a bleed and then run away and let the target bleed. Of course the target would chase after them...but in the end they would just get killed once the bleed had reduced them to 1 mind. This also allowed people to solo some very tough creatures\NPCs that people are not supposed to be able to solo.

3: Speed slice or damage slice on a powerhammer?

The problem with power hammers is they are extremely inaccurate. Most servers have hammers that have -31 to all ranges. Some servers, like mine, have weaponsmiths who make hammers with range mods of only -16 (I have heard of -10 on other servers..but that is the lowest i have heard of). What I would recommend is to have a speed sliced power hammer ready, but until you get more accuracy...use a 2h curved sword. They are much more accurate and do decent damage. The reason to keep the PH handy is when you are fighting something that has a high resistance to kinetic, but a low resistance to blast damage. Anything that is resistant to blastdamage generally is a good candidate for the PH.

TIA

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