Swords vs Fencing

[spevin]

What is the better route to go? Fencing items seem to be cheaper, not sure that's a good thing.

I am trying recreating my old thief/fighter just don't know which is the better route all these years later. After doing some googling, it looks like both of changed a bit.

 

[Dewderonomy]

As a thief fighter, I'd go with fencing for the para blow to help you get away as well as stalling your targets. I'm sure with the appropriate macro, you can para blow, disarm, peek and steal before reequipping. That'd be kinda' neat. Swords has concussion blow, but without lumberjacking you really don't have heavy hitters outside of the polearms (which are super slow and only really good for burst damage every so often).

Fencing weapons are often more expensive however; fewer weapons (spear, short spear, war fork, kryss, dagger, pitchfork - of which two aren't useful) versus the roughly 18 different Sword weapons (meaning you have more opportunities to get a comparable weapon that you need).

While I don't really like Stealing on this server (way too easy compared to how it used to be), a rogue-fighter sounds neat. Good luck with that.

 

[spevin]

thanks for the input. yeah rogue fighter is actually really fun.

no one expects a thief to be able to put up a fight. catches people off guard. it was my main character on baja like 12 yrs ago. found myself using him over my mage 9 times out of 10.