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Of the Top 5 Fencer Issues:

1. Restoration of the functionality of our status attacks (Blind, Dizzy, Down-Position).

Since this was requested, a minimum duration on these effects was established. It is best achieved when Dizzy is performed first, as it has a longer minimum duration than Down-Position. A change was also made to make these status effects work better on non-humanoid opponents.

2. Improved Melee/Ranged Defense and/or One-handed Toughness.

Since this was requested, Melee Defense has increased from +24 to +74, amounting to more than a 200% increase! Ranged Defense has increased from +19 to +69, amounting to more than a 260% increase! Basically this produces an additional -50% chance for us to be hit by an attack over what we had. (More if you Master Brawler.)

Of the Remaining Fencer Issues:

1. Improve the effectiveness of Dodge, or perhaps add a One-Handed Weapon Dodge/One-Handed Weapon Evasion.

Since this was requested, Dodge was found to have a calculation error in the way it was supposed to work that prevented it from functioning as often as it was supposed to. Not only was that repaired, but Dodge was boosted from +25 to +105, amounting to a 320% increase!

In addition, we have received "Center of Being" which, for a Fencer, boosts the power and effectiveness of Dodge, at the cost of some HAM. There are two parts to Center of Being, Duration and Efficacy. Duration adds to the length of time CoB lasts and is basically on a +1 second/+1 Duration basis. At Master Fencer this grants about 30 seconds worth of COB. Efficacy is the amount of boost given to Dodge. At Master Fencer the Efficacy seems to just about double the effectiveness of Dodge. (This is improved even more at Master Brawler.)

Together these are a significant boost over what we had.

2. Extend the maximum range of One-Handed weapons to at least 5m (the current range of Vibro-Knucklers.)
3. Implement a /stick command, or other viable alternative to compensate for client-vs-server synchronicity issues.

The effective range of our weapons has been increased on TC (to 10m), but it is still being discussed if it has been by enough, or if another method may work better. I’ll let you know more once something is final, and once I have the ok.

The range extension on TC was also intended to reduce our problems with this. As I mentioned, this is in discussion as to how much more range would be need, and/or if something else will still be necessary. However, the issue is being worked on.

4. Improve the usefulness of Fencer Status Defenses.

Since this was requested, our Knockdown and Posture Defenses have been boosted from +40 to +50, which amounts to a 25% boost; and our Blindness and Dizzy Defenses have been boosted from +20 to +40, which amounts to a 100% boost.

Although I'm not claiming that I am 100% sastified with the changes above to resolve the listed issues; and we still have other issues needing to be addressed, but the above does demonstrate that things are indeed progressing.

I'll be working up a current listing of our remaining issues, and post them both here, and on the Correspondent forum. I'll be including more of the original details we had worked out since that information has worked its way quite deep into past pages of the forum. I didn't want anyone to have to use the dreaded Search functions to locate them.

Although I cannot yet state what they are, there are more changes incoming that I know are going to help us alot. Some you should see fairly soon on TC, and some are still being worked out. The main issue at this point is sticking together, and helping each other out more than attacking each other. I also encourage the Fencers here to keep an eye on the Brawler forum. We are based on the Brawler format, and so the issues being raised there are typically our issues as well.

~Lyahpar~

La Femme Fencer