A newbie question about skills...

[wooden7]

Hi.

I'm LOVING the game and finding it easy to roleplay in. I am just enjoying playing a swordsman right now and I was going to stick with that for a while but then I started to worry. Everyone seems to pick skills in everything, I was RPing a swordsman so thats what I started work on and I'm worried that when I reach as far as I can go with it am I going to be useless without magic or even a ranged weapon?

I know I can start new skills if this was the case but I wanted to know if I'm just dreaming if I think I can just stick with melee and only melee for this character?

Thanks

[madnak]

You will be severely handicapped as a melee-and-only-melee. It will be slow going, you won't be very flexible, and it will be relatively hard to make money.

But you won't be useless - you'll be able to stand up to damage, and use taunt to get aggro. If you find a solid guild everything should be fine, but if you're RPing a loner you might want at least some heal magic and some harvest.

[akm72]

Definatly get some heal skills, in addition to your sword skills. It's embarrasing to be unable to rez a healer who's just been eaten by the mob you've pulled, after they've been healing you for the past 2 hours

[katriell]

and it will be relatively hard to make money.

No, it won't. I've been able to make plenty of dappers purely from quarterings.

But you really should have Heal Life. The ability to rez is extremely good to have; you'd feel terrible if you walked past a dead player and couldn't do anything about it.

[sylvanos]

Definatly get some heal skills, in addition to your sword skills. It's embarrasing to be unable to rez a healer who's just been eaten by the mob you've pulled, after they've been healing you for the past 2 hours

Been there =) ...

like has been suggested, would be better to branch out a bit, even if your sole passion is to be a master swordsman. At lower levels, at least, you'll get more skill points to spend on overlapping skills, which imo translates to faster levelling and a better, more diversified role-play experience.

and wrt accumulating dappers, unless ur hunting carnivores mainly. herbies don't drop alot of mats.

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[wooden7]

Thanks for the posts guys

Well I can be flexable. A lot of easten fighters in the past spent time as healers as well and it wouldnt be that hard to work some crafting skills in there, even to just make stuff for myself.