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Here is the link to Holo's post:

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Development&message.id=544006#M544006

And here is what he says specifically:

"FWIW, the designer in charge of combat balance feels that commandos are correct right now. He feels that the melee guys are the ones at disadvantage. That seems to accord with what we are seeing on the replies here."

Love is on the way, fear not. Whether or not that love will satisfy everyone, we'll see.

Am I the only one concerned that someone who thinks that commandos are currently balanced is also in charge of balancing us???

I'm sorry but the idea that you can balance sick DPS with charges on weapons is perhaps the worst that SWG has had thus far.

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StGabriel.

The main thing is that he feels sorry for us

Yes we need love.

Everybody gather 'round for a group hug

Awwww....

Ryoko

heheeheheh we Fencers are tho thenthetive.......

Seena

Actually his quote effects me in the opposite way...it makes me doubt that this profession will ever be fixed. The difficulty is that our problems are shared in part by other melee users bit are also unique in that our class-definiing skills do not work. The one-second cap seems to make a speed advantage largely meaningless (cannot tell what effect it has on the delay in queued specials) and defense either does not work at all or has so negligible an effect that it does not justify the severe curtailment of fencer damage. If accross the board changes are made in melee without seriously upgrading benefits derived from speed and defense, the result may be that all melee are better but fencers will remain a weak sister because it is impossible to generate competitive damage and nothing in the profession compensates for that lack.

And here I was thinking that Fencers were just SWG's red-headed stepchildren.

What this quote says to me is that the designers are trying to find ways to increase the effectiveness of professions where they are weak, rather than just nerfing the strong professions down. Since we have been identified as a weak profession, I think this bodes well.

"Difficult to see, the future is."