Fencer Archive

I really should read all these posts as what I'm saying has probably been said. If I repeat anything consider it my vote towards that change.

AP:

As mentioned before RL fencing is about piercing and parry and a little slash, granted beating someone over the head with a stick is great fun, but it fits the brawler definition more than it does fencer. Fencer should by definition be a specialty of armor piercing and parry (blocks and dodge)

Speed:

Again it might have already been suggested but instead of armor encumbering ham stats it should be the factor in speed and defense moves. If a player is fully armored this should reduce his attack speed and his ability to dodge letting the armor compensate for damage. So for example a fencer could go no armor or pieces and be able to dodge at a better rate and be harder to hit, but if armored dodge reduced but can take the damage sustained by armor. Same time unarmored his strikes are faster allowing him to hit more often with the low damage weapons we have. Go to the normal weight determines weapon speed, a heavy sword should just be slower across the board than lets say a rapier type weapon for fencers. So many games use this method and it works, why SWG doesnt use it I don't know. This would be the proper balance for Fencers to be quick and light and swordsman to be heavy and slow but more damaging and pikeman to be a combination of both.

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Jnani Morieth - Valcyn - Once Master Dancer then Master Brawler/Master TKA/ Master Pikewoman. Now a Post-NGE Jedi
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Issue: Individuality

As I think this should be with all the different profs, melee and ranged(as far as combat goes). With all the melee combat profs it is all a hack and slash game. Get the best buffs you can. Run in spamming specials( for high end enemies). I would like to see a bit more strategy put into this game. As for the fencer being able to be speedy, percise, and highly agile. Instead of spamming specials (which I believe was not intended) to getting mild buffs, but not so much to HAM but to abilities. Enhanced abilities. A higher dodge buff, speed buff, accuracy buff. Those kinds of things. Each prof with the different abilities. I'm not going to go into them, you can figure that out on your own. But with all this, let the different abilities (dodge, speed, accuracy) acturally affect high end enemies. Drop all the resists. Give them special abilities as well. Make it a thinking game, out stratagize oponents.

Issue: Composite armor

This to me is rediculas. For such classes as fencer and TK. If they wear armor they should see speed encumberances, lower dodge mods. Fencers should wear light armor. Swords med armor, Pike heavy armor. TK none, I'm not trying to get TK killed but give them a unnatural toughness bonus or something (how many monks have you seen wear armor?)

Issue: Weapons

I know this has been said many times in this post, but some nice bladed weapons would be good. It doesn't bother me that we (fencers) us some batons, we did start out as 1-handed after all, but the fact that the batons are the be all and end all of the fencer weapons is dumb. The vibro sword idea is a good one.

Issue: Hammer vs Stun baton

Ok, the hammer is the highest damage melee weapon in the game and most of the high end enemies in the game have low resists to it. The fact that it is supposed to be a slow weapon (which it is) still doesn't make up for it, when I have seen a hammer with 856 max damage compared to that of the best stun baton I have seen is about 200. One that I own.

The stun, one of the lowest damage melee weapons in the game, almost all of the enemies with the low resists to it are low end enemies. Which almost renders the stun baton obsolete when trying to attack some Night Sisters or that variety of enemy.

My solution to the hammer vs stun baton: drop the stats of the hammer to that of a cleaver or so. Keep the blast damage, drop to AP1. Give the stun baton AP1, and drop some of the resists of the high end mobs to close to the same as the resists to blast, as both damages are rare types.

I know that in a way some of these ideas contridict each other, but that is because they are theoretical ideas. And that doesn't mean that all the ideas are meant to be implemented all together. Some are new ideas, others are trying to improve with what we have to work with.

Thanks for listening

Krondore

"what is that I hear??? Birds chirping in the middle of the night? Oh, nope.... Pulled another all-nighter on SWG again."

And to all a good night.. errr.... day???!!!

Issue: Duelweild

I honetsly think a way to make us fencers stronger would be to let us duelweild wepons. It would be twice the damage and they would'nt have to make any new types of weponst.... though new wepons would be nice since I'm sick of the graphy (can't spell it) stick that the tuskins use ack... boring! Thanks for letting me get my two cents in.

Tasha

*Master Fencer*

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*IMP POWER!*

Sorry I f someone else might had post this but, How come Scatter Hit 2 looks like a Swordman Attack.

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