Getting Reach

[Zacarus]

My new pvp swash is spec'ing for reach.  I noticed two bubbles on the reach tree are level 52 (hurricane) and level 55 (Hail of Metal or something like that).  Toon is level 16 atm...  does this mean the 5 points in either the 52 or 55 skill are basically, "investments," in order to get reach?

[Serenade]

Yep.and you're most likely going to want to put the points into Hurricane as Hail isn't as useful, but I don't pvp so...

[Errolflynn]

<cite>Serenade wrote:</cite><blockquote>Yep.and you're most likely going to want to put the points into Hurricane as Hail isn't as useful, but I don't pvp so...</blockquote>Yep, I agree.Hurricane is useful, Hail is a waste of space.

[Zacarus]

K, thanx.  Is reach worth it?  In other words, is it worth spending 5 aa's as investments to get reach?  Maybe I should ask it this way, has anyone < 52 spec'd for reach and regretted it?

[Errolflynn]

I have reach and love it, but I did fill out the Rouge tree first.

[Katanalla]

we have an ability named hait?

[ntommyb]

Reach is absolutely necessary if you're going to compete on any level in pvp.  Tbh it raised my overall dps when I first got it

[OutcastBlade]

Hail of Steel is most definitely not a waste. On a raid while jousting I use Hail until the RL says we can head back in.Every 2 secs I do 800 to 2500 damage(observations). Granted between Hurricane and Hail of Steel, focus on maxing out the Hurricane spec first.I dont pvp a swashy, but I duel a ton, and in duels Reach makes me win more. Against the guild bruiser I got him down to 30% health before he could do anything, and then he [Removed for Content] me... but ya know. I got him down to 30% lol. My point is against any kind of melee, reach wins your duels for you. :p I can imagine this translates well to pvp.

[Zacarus]

I lost to a yellow bruiser and a yellow brig, and *I think* I would have won both fights if I had reach.  So I'm spec'ing for reach asap!If all goes according to plan at level 36 I'll have 4 points in Torporous Strike, Sailwind and Reach.

[NiteWolfe]

<cite>Kanolth@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Hail of Steel is most definitely not a waste. On a raid while jousting I use Hail until the RL says we can head back in.Every 2 secs I do 800 to 2500 damage(observations). </b></span>Granted between Hurricane and Hail of Steel, focus on maxing out the Hurricane spec first.I dont pvp a swashy, but I duel a ton, and in duels Reach makes me win more. Against the guild bruiser I got him down to 30% health before he could do anything, and then he [I cannot control my vocabulary] me... but ya know. I got him down to 30% lol. My point is against any kind of melee, reach wins your duels for you. :p I can imagine this translates well to pvp.</blockquote>If you had been using a decent bow and just let it AA during that hail cast you would had tripled that damage. Volraft<sp> hits for about 5k a hit during joust and i have see it crit for 10k or more (dont feel like digging logs out) Hail of steel  is worthless jsut get a good bow.