Combat mastery or Smash?

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MrpewX2 wrote on 2010-11-18 13:19

Yellow! I'm stuck one which of the two skills I should train Combat mastery or Smash... I have rank 1 Windmill and rank 3 Critical hit, with the Ap for Rank 1 waiting in a pool. I loved to get more smash damage, but maybe that can wait, because I need regular damage too...
I'm not that in to hybiding skills, mainly because I suck as it (I really do, trust me.), also in my mind, two crappy skills don't make one awesome killing force skill, but then again, I'm not going to say no if everyone says its a good idea.
Knightmehre wrote on 2010-11-18 13:25

CM, Smash is not CP sensitive so it can be ranked any time.

Even if you get to total 400000million and you are still rank F it won't be hard at all.
Shirayuki wrote on 2010-11-18 13:27

CM will help your WM a lot too, so raising it before Smash might be a good idea :U
Chinaboy475 wrote on 2010-11-18 13:31

I would do 2 combat masteries 1 crit rank and so on till crit is rank 1 and then rank combat to rk 5 or 1 if you want then start smash
MrpewX2 wrote on 2010-11-18 13:32

Quote from Knightmehre;220177:
CM, Smash is not CP sensitive so it can be ranked any time.

Even if you get to total 400000million and you are still rank F it won't be hard at all.

Yea, but CM not that hard to rank even at 2k CP...
krpr wrote on 2010-11-18 13:47

smash, CM can be ranked as you fight. Thats what i did, i ranked my CM when i had r5 crit, r1 wm and r1 smash and honestly had no problem with CP.

Plus with that crit and wm rank, you'll find r1 smash goes pretty well with r1 wm mainly in taill shadow missions (smashmill ftw :D)
EndlessDreams wrote on 2010-11-18 16:14

If you WM alot, rank Combat Mastery first. If you do quite a bit of smashes, just rank smash. With r1 smash, you can OHKO a lot of "early" game monsters.
Archibald wrote on 2010-11-18 16:21

Lol ya my cp gets around 2k and my CM is rank 6 :P. I would recommend smash because its one of the best leveling skills.
Okami wrote on 2010-11-18 16:23

Quote from EndlessDreams;220232:
If you WM alot, rank Combat Mastery first. If you do quite a bit of smashes, just rank smash. With r1 smash, you can OHKO a lot of "early" game monsters.

I'm going to have to agree with this. It does depend on your play style..
Zid wrote on 2010-11-18 16:25

Smash. Honestly, even with 1k CP, you can rank Combat Mastery from Novice to r1 in a day or two without any real effort.

Unless you value your Windmill dmg and Melee Balance more, I'd say Smash. No Windmill will ever beat a two-handed Smash dmg in sheer power (besides Critical).
Bayushi wrote on 2010-11-18 18:51

i would rank smash up before CM, due to that CM can be trained with any combat skill
jking012 wrote on 2010-11-18 19:11

WINDMILL.... if you got it rank 1 then it doesnt really matter which you do first..
Bayushi wrote on 2010-11-18 20:25

yes it is reconmeded that you rank WM first on any char
pkMaster wrote on 2010-11-18 20:43

You guys should pay more attention to the OP. He's already said that he got r1 windmill, so training it further would be a waist of time (unless your going for the Master title which isn't that great IMO). I'd say ranking smash would probably be better for now since combat mastery can easily be trained over time and smash gives you access to a skill that can easily take out a decent amount of HP.
Bankai231 wrote on 2010-11-18 20:50

Both. They are both low in ap costs. rank them both to 5 or something so you have decent in both and than go rank 1 in either one. CM isnt hard to train unless you have 2k cp.

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