Fencer Archive
Thread: HAM Decrease/AP for Baton
Have two issues with possible ways of modifying them..
1) HAM cost.
HAM cost on fencer weapons ,with the exception of vibro blade, can kill you faster than the enemy can. Most, if not all of you fencer, hell any mellee class, know of this. I reapetedly come out of a fight with less than half my health and action and havent been hit once.
So i have a couple possible solutions: 1) decrease the overall HAM cost of the melee weapons, and 2) (which i would rather see) is have the HAM cost decrease on the level of your melee class. For instance, a novice fencer should have full HAM cost. But once he/she climbs the trees on the way to master, the HAM cost should decrease. Reason.. Master Fencers are masters of one-handed weapons. Thier ability to fight with a 1h weapon is now without thought, more like a reflex, hence it should not be as difficult.
This can apply to other melee classes.
2) Gaphi Stick/Baton
I personally think that the gaphi stick (old man Jenkins cane with a spike on the end.. mhe speel good nun) should have some AP. Reason: I look back to medival days of full plate armor. In order to peirce the armor a spike was used in one shape or the other. A swift hit with a sharp spike would pierce most all armor where swords and maces could not. So since the Gaphi baton is or has a spike on the end, which would imply piercing of some sort or another, i personaly think that an AP rateing is not out of the question.
So the next question is how to get SOE to concider this..Pleaze post. Im interested to hear some feed back.
Xanadun
Fencer 0\1\1\1 Master Brawler
Raphayl wrote:
Perhaps we could include them in our Top 5 Issues the Correspondent relays to the Developers. But good luck getting her attention. All she seems to do is sit in front of the TV eatting BonBons.
For sure.
Worst. Correpondent. Evar.
And that's including the guys that went missing for 2 months. 
i like the idea of HAM reductions the further you go up a tree, the explanation for it was good too.
however, if fencers got this reduction, it would only be fair that all other professionsgot it to.
good post
i appreciate the feed back.. looking around in the fencer forums with the, im guessing the corrispondant, Raphayll, i found a list of immediate problems/issues to be fixed in the future. Both HAM and AP seem to be a pressing issues.
look here for more info: http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=fencer&message.id=8869
Just look at the two-handed curved sword. It has AP medium. That should indicate that the onehanded curved sword at the very least has AP light.
Oh, and more Fencer like weapons. It's a bit sad that the strongest weapon is a junk yard stick wielded by hooded savages, and that the Fencer weapon is a police stick. Give us rapiers and sabers.
If you share the bon-bons I'll take back every mean thing I said, baby.
I could be mistaken on this... but not to long ago every melee profession but the fencer recieved a HAM reduction.
Idioteque wrote:
i like the idea of HAM reductions the further you go up a tree, the explanation for it was good too.
however, if fencers got this reduction, it would only be fair that all other professionsgot it to.
good post
Raphayl wrote:
Perhaps we could include them in our Top 5 Issues the Correspondent relays to the Developers. But good luck getting her attention. All she seems to do is sit in front of the TV eatting BonBons.
so how do we do this.. id like to move this along past just a suggestions. Who do i need to contact to maybe push this a bit faster. Looking around i found a link (wish i saved it) but it basically said that the patches and modifying proffession are on a popular bases... and since fencer is not that popular look like it might be a while to see improvements on our class. So who/where is a good place to make contact.
BTW Raphayl... /stand /applause. I really appreciteall theinfo that you have aquired on the fencer skillz... thank you.
Xanadun
Master Brawler Fencer 0111