Pole VS Sword Blademaster

AdvanceZero - Heavens Tear

Drunken_Chu - Dreamweaver wrote: »

if you have full chi you can do a glacial spike drakes ray hf combo on bosses, I do it all the time in FCs, they go down fast. I use farstrike against harpies, it does almost 4X as much as my unicorn, and I've killed PLENTY of ppl who run away at 10% hp with a farstrike. I've used meteor rush plenty of times on mobs that are just outside of a zhen.

MSS is nice, but if you're in a party where MSS is required, you need a new party.

Axe/fist/pole > Axe/fist/sword

Actually, Axe/Pole/Sword/Fist is greater.


Whenever you are using a multi path build spirit needs consideration. If you already are satisfied with your general skill list. And in OP case Axes. And of course fist. (Which i'm assuming the OP is) I would suggest doing something similar to what i did.

Get a sword.
Learn MSS.
maybe spirit chaser(it's a faster skill then farstrike I suggest player discretion)

Get Spear
Learn farstrike (level as you see fit player discretion)
Learn meteor rush (for the linear aoe)
(Yes Eventually Glacial Spike but I would wait and level MSS)
Level appropriate skills in each tree.

This works very easily. Its how i decided what to keep leveling and what not too.

As to the part get a different party. I don't know about you but through out playing the game. (and perhaps bh ruined this a bit) You play with your friends (they may be lower level and are trying to gain there gear) . And help your friends friends sometimes. Faction members. MSS makes things a lot smoother in many, many instances.

When you reach 90+ go ahead and max any skill you want...till then I believe you pick the best skills to make yourself a great asset to a party.

If you PvP a lot. Make adjustment to aid you in that area.

I know people like advice...but there comes a time when you have to do what you think is best.....

With that all being said. I think I'm done with this thread.

Most important of all remember to just have some fun!!b:victory

ICEsmoke - Harshlands

Poleblade pwns sword , go demon with pole for metoRrush for 5sec stun and Gspike for 100% crit chance for 5 secs plus once u pick up a pole and learn all the skills behind this wep u will have sum real fun in PK and in duel if u can master leap skills, pole can own even own 2.5+ atck rate fists lolz looks so pro kiting every atack then zaping them wit range arahah and dont forget the added bleed funny to slap a few on and yea it does add up xD

Frijolero - Sanctuary

Kristoph - Lost City wrote: »

Not really... you can use tomes and other things to make up for the loss of stat points.


My BM is lv85 with 45 base vit, can wear Frost fists (168 dex req) and HH80 Axes (242 str req). It can't wear Frost Hammers (261 str req), but only barely... it has 255 str. And no I'm not counting the +str on frost fists here, it has 262 str with that. At lv90 I'll be able to wear GX and frost fists... at 95 I'll be able to wear Lunar claw and GX. It's not hard to get extra stat points.

As personal preference, I better choose to put stats on Dex and Str instead on Vit and use gear and Tomes for +Vit or +HP.

Its kind of annoying when you find out you can't switch your old gear for a new one cause your current gives the +Str/+Dex you need to use the new you got/crafted till you go up a level or two >.<.

Happened to me before b:surrender

That's why I always recommend focus on Str and Dex when allocating stat points, and get +Vit and +HP from gear/equipment/tome bonus.

VerenKaunis - Dreamweaver

Frijolero - Sanctuary wrote: »

As personal preference, I better choose put stats on Dex and Str instead on Vit and use gear and Tomes for +Vit or +HP.

Its kind of annoying when you find out you can't switch your old gear for a new one cause your current gives the +Str/+Dex you need to use the new you got/crafted till you go up a level or two >.<.

Happened to me before b:surrender

That's why I always recommend focus on Str and Dex when allocating stat points, and get +Vit and +HP from gear/equipment/tome bonus.

At lower levels when +vit and +HP aren't really 'common' on equipment, adding a bit of vit is really nice. I went 3 str, 2 dex per level from the start on my BM but there were a lot of times when I wished I had a bit more in vit for the HP. I wouldn't recommend getting more than 30 base vit though.

ICEsmoke - Harshlands

I wouldn't recommend getting more than 30 base vit though.

lolz u insane 30 bace vit wow now thats gunna suck, u do know vit gives phy and mag resisints too and str on a bm is usless get enuff for ya weps and thats it pump rest on dex and vit

VerenKaunis - Dreamweaver

ICEsmoke - Harshlands wrote: »

lolz u insane 30 bace vit wow now thats gunna suck, u do know vit gives phy and mag resisints too and str on a bm is usless get enuff for ya weps and thats it pump rest on dex and vit

The amount of p.def and m.def given by vit is negligible unless you pour a lot of points into vit. The p.def from your armor would be far more than what you'd gain from vit and likewise, the m.def from ornaments you have would be greater than the m.def from vit. HP isn't really an issue since much of your equipment would have +vit and +HP at higher levels and HA has the highest HP gain from refining.

My BM's doing fine at 66 with only 5 vit (3 str and 2 dex per level for fists and axes = 0 points for vit). If I had a few points in vit then I'd have to shop around for equipment with +str or +dex so I could use weapons for my level. Not that hard to do but it'd take up time that I could be playing and would probably be worse than what I normally run around with (3* and/or molds). Sure, once I had enough str and dex for my weapons then I'd throw a few into vit for a bit more survivability but until then keeping my vit low means I can use the best weapons for my level (letting me kill faster and thus take less damage) and use armor that can have whatever bonuses I want from them (instead of limiting myself to armor with +str or +dex).

ICEsmoke - Harshlands

im not gunna flame but you said lvl 66 bm shet changes 90+ and i know cus ive rolled 2 bms both 9x +

VerenKaunis - Dreamweaver

ICEsmoke - Harshlands wrote: »

im not gunna flame but you said lvl 66 bm shet changes 90+ and i know cus ive rolled 2 bms both 9x +

Yeah, after reading my post I noticed I forgot to mention that I was talking about lower levels (which I consider anything below level 80). Before 80, finding enough extra stats on equipment to make up for more than 30 points in vit is difficult unless you can afford one of those higher level tomes.

Basically, at lower levels str and dex are (in my opinion) more important than vit. I'm not sure whether they'd take precedence over vit at higher levels but I'll probably pump vit anyway just because I really wanted to before level 29 (and diamond sutra).

Oh, and to clarify, I'm speaking from the standpoint of an idiot who went fist/sword/pole/axe from level 1 (it was a *****).

And wow, we got off-topic. O_o

Divine_Death - Dreamweaver

ICEsmoke - Harshlands wrote: »

lolz u insane 30 bace vit wow now thats gunna suck, u do know vit gives phy and mag resisints too and str on a bm is usless get enuff for ya weps and thats it pump rest on dex and vit

ICEsmoke - Harshlands wrote: »

im not gunna flame but you said lvl 66 bm shet changes 90+ and i know cus ive rolled 2 bms both 9x +

Many BM's actually restats at 90 and take VIT out completely. It really depends on your style. Unless you are building a VIT BM for tanking and taking out casters, HP can be made up by sharding and refining.

Errr, what was OP asking again?

Granrey - Sanctuary

Yulk - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Hercule trioc, Kashu, drake, Kirixx, Qingzi, The drum boss in TT1-1 and 1-2, Mori, I can go on, I encountered a LOT of bosses and I noticed a BM using a sword used it and one of thoses bosses was casting a lot slower. And beginning of 59 you get 2 sparks and 99 chi no? b:cute

Well, well well.

This is a big claim, I wish it is true but I remember me asking this question several times and I was told mage bane does not work on bosses.

I think Lyndura even told me one time that the skill does not work on bosses.

Anyways, I can imagine this skill combined with shadowless kick as boss/mobs attack cycle is couple seconds longer than the cooldown of shadowless kick.

if we can increase the cycle by using mage bane, then we can give more time to shawdowless kick to be ready for use.