Cutter-DB4

120 swords (or mace fighting...)
120 magery
120 ninjitsu
120 anatomy
120 healing
120 resist

picture this...
main weap armed usually would be a disarm weapon, preferably with hit lower defence on it.
Lead off with that, and once disarmed, hit equip last switching to you'er balanced, mage weapon bow (something w/ high base damage...), and use deathstrikes (yes, it works)
the bow could even be spell chanelling...although the more mods added to a balanced bow the harder it gets to find...
wear ep of course as allways...and carry every type of pot you need (including dex pots, to get to 140, and still ahve large mana pool)

One thing people might bring up is the mage weapon will lower magery skill. However, the fact that you're only going to be using the bow once a person is disarmed (except for vs wrestlers... =\) means you are not going to miss regardless at that point...
Plus with the magery you can do alot of other things...including cast poison, teleport (very handy for yew pvping), res, etc etc etc.

Another plus i think is you wouldnt have to worry bout casting on this template.
It wouldnt matter to cast an occasional teleport...and the only time you would be going into form would be if YOU got dismounted...so casting is not a issue.
This means you can stack tons of hci/dci on yer stuff (dont forget the ep tho) which is much easier if you dont need to worry bout fc/fcr.

Would mainly be a yew pvp char ...not so much for spawns or choke point obviously...

Bo

could be a good damaging template, but it would be awesome to get bushido on there and ride a hiryu for dismounting. but yes, I could see this as only effective in yew.

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Cutter-DB4

id only put bush on a char ever if it was a PVM archer (i dont pvm) for the honor/max damage stuff...along w/ tactics anat and prolly spellweave or w/e./..dunno

or a pvp char that also had parry to go w/ bush. Bush is useless w/o parry...and frankly w/o swords, as the 2 most powerful things from bush are nerve strike (swords only) and evade (parry only)

Mercenary

Having to rely on disarming your opponent will really hurt you. I only see this template being able to kill weapon mages. It won't hurt dexxers with high parry at all, and a wrestle mage will be disarmed anyway.

Cutter-DB4

i bet i could kill most dexers actually.

between the disarm and hit lower defence...
dexers that use chiv and a shield (still parry after disarmed.) might pose some trouble...but not as long as you use hld.
Same holds true w/ the few wrestle mages out there. HLD makes short work of them in most cases.
I dunno...some guy on our shard used to play with templates like this, and I was thinking it might be fun for mindless yew gate pvp...
also dexies chasing you around would be like wtf when u are teleporting, casting greater heals on people, invising yourself, etc
lol

Mercenary

There is no question you'd be hard to kill, but as for actually killing anyone who is skilled, that would be tough. I predict a lot of stalemate battles. I have yet to meet an archer that can kill my 4/6 guy, but then again, not many people can. And you know any decent pvper is either running a 4/6, pot chugger, or a max DCI mage/necro, so it'll be really tough to get kills. That's just my opinion of course. You should try it on test center and see if it works.

Cutter-DB4

yea u might be right
same problem i have on my wrestle/ninja eval/scribe mage actually.
he can stay alive just fine...between dog form, ep+pots, apples, etc...but when it comes to actually killing ...
He gets kills but most of em come from stun punch w/ a precasted efield...
or in ganks w/ my guildies.
Problem is really no way to fit hci on that temp...and relying on disarm/stun off a no-dex mage w/o hci can be tricky...lol.

why im usually on my gimp dexer...or my wrestle/ep nox/necro for chokes.

Mercenary

Yea, I know it gets boring sometimes, but why mess with a good thing! Most of the templates I try just end up blowing up in my face. Try a SW dexxer, or SW necro, I hear those are fun. Plus it's a requirement now to be a SW necro in VIP. Goose is a moron and will boot you if you dont have something along those lines, lol.

Cutter-DB4

well...sw is extremely effective but only in those choke point fights that vip, lnr, and the like thrive off of.
Not really much use for it if yer main "gig" is pvping in yew or other open terrain areas.
But yeah...for a harry battle, or holding any choke point...get 3-5 guys casting essence, thunderstorm (this casts @ 4/6 btw) and wildfire...and noone else within like ten or so tiles can cast a damn thing...including enemy 4/6 chivvers

Unsupportable

I know someone that runs that template. Its all good until you get to the bow. You won't be able to hit diddly squat without 115+ archery.
And the -buff on the weapon will def make it lower than that.

Its an awful template, my crafter could take him out with his lumberjacking skill!!!!!!!!

Cutter-DB4

lol dude.
you are funny.

I bet I could beat your best pvp char you have w/ my worst.

Care to meet up on test center for a duel? (since I know you won't xfer)

Oh Maja!

Yea other than GOL, GOR, Attunement and the Summons SW is kinda useless at the gate... and even so those spells don't help offensively at all, and can't really rely on them defensively either.

But raids man... SW owns hands down. LVL6 circle, umpteen SWers...their necros can't wither for crap and a single wildfire can just bust up their choke point.

I'm afraid to make a Sammy. I really want to, I haven't tried that template yet... but I dunno. If I make one, I wanna make one with Lumberjacking just for giggles... too much thinking involved in it IMO. (making chars)