Swordsman Archive

Hello all,

I am currently new to the swordsman profession. I had a master rifleman/master doctor that seemed to work very well. The rifle is a very powerful weapon with some serious drawbacks. I had master doctor to buff myself so I had 400 for everything except the mind stats. It worked well, but I wanted some tanking ability rather than having to run from everything when it got close. After looking around and going up all the brawler trees I chose master swordsman due to the obvious benefit of being able to target mind with my rifle and target mind with my sword. (I'm currently 0/1/0/3 sword master rifleman) Yay for me!

I usually hunt pikets, huurtons, etc on Dant since I'm an imperial and I can have an AT-ST for backup. So far since I'm new to the swordsman profession I've been dropping mind bleeds with my rifle and then hitting peace till one comes over for me to fight hand to hand. Once it aggros me I take a couple headshots and then switch over to the curved sword. I seem to take a ton of damage from a piket once it gets in close. If I haven't landed some nice bleeds I'm forced to get my AT ST involved to save my butt. I eat action like crazy trying to land enough head hits to kill the piket, if I wear armor to decrease the damage I take then it's only worse. I seem to kill myself quicker than the piket can kill me when I'm wearing armor. If I can scrounge some doctor buffs I'm golden, I can handle it. Without doctor buffs I might as well be using my rifle against a single piket.

Now before everyone flames me stating that since I'm only 0/1/0/3 let me get a few questions out. I see some addition to counterattack, melee defense, and COB as I go up the profession. Does that addition to melee defenseand counterattack make a big difference? It doesn't seem like a lot, but maybe it doesn't take much. I'm just not sure what else I need to do to make myself hang in a fight better. Do I have to get doctor buffs to handle the higher level content? I have some leftover medic from slowly dropping doctor, but all that realy allows me to do is heal myself until I run out of mind. How do all you other swordsmen sustain yourself in a fight for more than 6 blows?

I rely on Doc buffs, warcry/intimidate, health/dmg powerups. Get some good +Warcry and +intimidate clothes from a Tailor/BE and use them. Your right on the armor being your worst enemy, ironically I cant wear my composite without doc buffs, but with buffs I dont need it.

Honestly I will planet hop as long as it takes to get doc buffs. For me swordsman sucks without them. At master I drain my entire health or action pool in about 10 seconds.