Why were created sword and polearm?

laisvis
laisvis Posts: 1 Arc User
edited August 2011 in General Discussion
What for were made sword and polearm masters for blademaster if is useless and fail?
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  • truekossy
    truekossy Posts: 7,021 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Poles were good for stacking DoTs (back when they meant anything) and the extra range.
    Swords were basically single target axes in terms of being able to deal moderate-high damage.

    Even nowadays, there's uses for them, though. There's a reason you pretty much suck as a BM if you don't know how to utilize all four weapon types.


    (Postin in a troll thread)
  • JanusZeal - Heavens Tear
    JanusZeal - Heavens Tear Posts: 3,852 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    MSS and GS fail? I second the troll thread part.
  • Julian - Dreamweaver
    Julian - Dreamweaver Posts: 216 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Why pointless choices, of course.

    You can tell that the game shill implements "choices" that you obviously don't have a choice in even now. Look at the EG quest reward armor options. Instead of the game giving your class armor to you automatically, they present you with the illusion of a choice. Go with the armor you can wear, or... go with something you can't even use. Why you would choose the one you can't use, no one knows. But the game obviously WANTS you to choose a certain one.

    So you have an illusion of choices with swords/poles versus fists/axes. See my point?
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  • Tricannon - Dreamweaver
    Tricannon - Dreamweaver Posts: 337 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    lunar pole+farstrike and TT90 gold sword+spirit chaser.....nuff said
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  • Deant - Raging Tide
    Deant - Raging Tide Posts: 143 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    All 4 wepons ulti skills are worth it. Including the Sword one.
  • Prey_Thief - Raging Tide
    Prey_Thief - Raging Tide Posts: 16 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    JanusZeal - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    MSS and GS fail? I second the troll thread part.

    mmmmmmmm MSS and GS

    swprd/pole BM here 95 yo (has all weps though :D)
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  • Sirrobert - Dreamweaver
    Sirrobert - Dreamweaver Posts: 3,395 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Deant - Raging Tide wrote: »
    All 4 wepons ulti skills are worth it. Including the Sword one.

    Even the fist one, now that you can't cancel cast it?
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  • _Perses_ - Lost City
    _Perses_ - Lost City Posts: 1,917 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Sirrobert - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    Even the fist one, now that you can't cancel cast it?

    Still worth it yes, but as much as with CC in place...not really.

    CC made it really nice to help DD on other HA's, but no CC...worth it still, but not as much.

    MSS and GS are seriously damn nice for those NV bosses that you can't use Heaven's Flame on.

    I really need to find a better sword and pole than the two NPC one's I get and then sell later on :/
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  • Amup - Raging Tide
    Amup - Raging Tide Posts: 58 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Most people went with the aps craze..But they are still some nice combos with all weps on a BM if u are not 4-5 aps crazy.

    Get 3 sparks, do HF, switch to fists, either cyclone or just punch your way to get a 2nd spark back...HF is cooldown ? Switch to spear, use glacial spike, better then nothing...

    A enemy getting a tad bothersome and u need a few secs to think/heal ? Stun him, switch to swords, use atmos strike to push him away followed by smack.

    There's a few others.

    My BM is 101, and uses (in correct order of preference) Gorenox +5, Calamities + 2, lvl 99 mold spear (I think Dragon bite), and a nice pruple lvl 99 sword with str +10 and hp. Sometimes use my Unicorn if I want to play archer a tad...
  • Prey_Thief - Raging Tide
    Prey_Thief - Raging Tide Posts: 16 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    also sword and pole 2 spark damage is sexy b:dirty wanna get a TT90gold sword and lunar pole for zerk crit b:cute
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  • Sarrafeline - Sanctuary
    Sarrafeline - Sanctuary Posts: 4,661 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    The ranged sword skill can be used for pulling. The range makes it iffy. Can also be used to pull **** off a cleric or other squishy if they get heal aggro and are stupid and running away from you... Though a bow works better.

    The knockback is really fun to use to **** off Sins, other BM's, Barbs, and fist Archers... b:chuckle
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  • Julian - Dreamweaver
    Julian - Dreamweaver Posts: 216 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Sarrafeline - Sanctuary wrote: »
    The ranged sword skill can be used for pulling. The range makes it iffy. Can also be used to pull **** off a cleric or other squishy if they get heal aggro and are stupid and running away from you... Though a bow works better.
    But with Spirit Chaser, you don't have to switch weapons, so it's faster and easie-

    Oh wait. The BM multi-weapon rule. Sorry, I forgot. b:chuckle
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  • MoonUsagi - Heavens Tear
    MoonUsagi - Heavens Tear Posts: 4,377 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    I seen this kind of thread on almost any mmorpg i found. b:shutup
    But the weapon in question can be 2hsword, spear, dirk, rod, etc.
    There always left over that forgotten later... bad dev, bad dev.. b:surrender
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  • Joshcja - Sanctuary
    Joshcja - Sanctuary Posts: 3,502 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Because our dev's love phalic imagery
    Gifs are hard to make work here
  • Cadeal - Dreamweaver
    Cadeal - Dreamweaver Posts: 162 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Before the aps exploit polearms were a viable secondary weapon for axe bms. They could easily stack together HF and GS to deal a respectable amount of damage. Also, swords had a use at one point too...well until Genies came out. Swords and polearms were a viable means of tenderizing a caster such as a wiz from a distance and keeping their channel time down. But that's ancient news.
  • Cytte - Harshlands
    Cytte - Harshlands Posts: 1,044 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Cadeal - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    Before the aps exploit polearms were a viable secondary weapon for axe bms. They could easily stack together HF and GS to deal a respectable amount of damage. Also, swords had a use at one point too...well until Genies came out. Swords and polearms were a viable means of tenderizing a caster such as a wiz from a distance and keeping their channel time down. But that's ancient news.

    Shhhh you cant let the new age fist/axe BM population know they can make our long cast times even longer. b:surrender
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