Swordsman Archive

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Harmonius wrote:
We shouldn't be able to solo elders at all. There's your justification.

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Agreed.

If we get an AP3 sword it needs to be quite slow. I don't think we need any new damage types personally. If I run into something that has high kinetic and blast damage then I call up a few friends with different professions.

No ranged profs don't get ackley bones, they get gorax bones and kryat tissue. I fall back on what I said forever ago. they need to revamp WS. They need to give WS the ability to build damage modules that determine the type of damae a weapon does (just like AS can build layers that determine the special protection type of an armor). That would give everyone every type of damage. Then they give WS the chance to experiment on AP to give them the chance to raise the natural AP of teh weapon by one, capping out at AP3. Yes Rifles would complain because thier precious T21 is already AP3, but it would give every other combat prof a chance to have a little bit better AP. Just make it hard for the WS to do and viola, the whining that exist on every combat prof board are solved. The only exception to this would, of coarse, be jedi and LS damage. Because an LS is an LS and no other weapon does LS damage.

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damonbrinkley wrote:

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Harmonius wrote:
We shouldn't be able to solo elders at all. There's your justification.

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Agreed.

If we get an AP3 sword it needs to be quite slow. I don't think we need any new damage types personally. If I run into something that has high kinetic and blast damage then I call up a few friends with different professions.

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/agree

no profession should be able to solo everything, rifleman can sorta do it if they wanna stay there for a day conceal shooting it which annoys me they can just set a macro and come back later......

we do not need AP3 weapons, imagine us with AP3 weapon when mitigation is removed thats 50% more damage please dont tell me that is in any way shape or form that this would be balanced. You get out damage my a rifleman then dont tank it for them, simple as that, they dont live love if something agrro it so let them die then pick up where you left off i know i do

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IthArReLLe wrote:

I think its time for us to ask for an AR3 sword, ive had enough of riflemen with +5 speed outdamageing me at +20

I really think that in order to fulfil our "vision" of being the shocktrooper of the melee professions, we need a weopon of this calibur,

I really think we should ask for an ice sword, since nobody has a good ice weopon anyway. It wouldnt be like asking for a AR3 stun weopon, and we may even get the devs to take us seriously

I just know we dont need another kinetic sword.

Anybody that wants to chime in can, just trying to drumm up support for something in the community and get away from the "omfg i just killed a gnort" posts

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This is all fine and good. Sure i would love an ar3 sword that did cold damage. But last month when i was master swords/master pistol i would have loved an ar2 pistol that did cold damage. Bottom line is we need to wait until the combat rebalance before we ask for stuff. Yes the combat balance is forever away but think of how much longer it would take if they stopped to give every prof a new weapon. On top of all this swordsman have gotten 2 new weapons since launch, while other profs skills/specials still remain broken. Swordsman is fine, i can kill anything in the game solo. Yes elders take a long time, but i team up with another swordsman and we take them out in 5 or less minutes. Add in the rifleman that joined us the other day and it is like 3 minutes an elder. Do the math. 2 swordsman 5 minutes an elder, that is 9 elders in 45 minutes, which means you get 4-5 loots because you teamed up with someone, versus the 1 loot in 45 minutes you get by yourself. Adapt and overcome is something that you all need to try. OH and as far as pvp goes, i killed a jedi solo today (he was low level though), and last week I killed a jedi knight that was unbuffed as i was unbuffed too. So we are not in bad shape.

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2-DIMENTIONALGUY wrote:
No ranged profs don't get ackley bones, they get gorax bones(rather rare though wouldn'tyou say)and kryat tissue. I fall back on what I said forever ago. they need to revamp WS. They need to give WS the ability to build damage modules that determine the type of damae a weapon does (just like AS can build layers that determine the special protection type of an armor). That would give everyone every type of damage. Then they give WS the chance to experiment on AP to give them the chance to raise the natural AP of teh weapon by one, capping out at AP3. Yes Rifles would complain because thier precious T21 is already AP3, but it would give every other combat prof a chance to have a little bit better AP. Just make it hard for the WS to do and viola, the whining that exist on every combat prof board are solved. The only exception to this would, of coarse, be jedi and LS damage. Because an LS is an LS and no other weapon does LS damage.

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IthArReLLe wrote:

ive done the math, at plain master sword its 45 minutes to solo an elder.

The line that "we shouldnt be able to solo elders at all" is complete bull, why at the top of a profession, with the best gear, and having monhts of practice witha profession *currently about what it takes to solo one* cant a player have a decent chance of soloing an elder. I for one am sick and tired of getting KSed on things like krayts by speed capped riflemen.

And of course, if it was an ar3 sword, the thing woul dhave a speed of around 9, meaning you would either have to spend 50-60mil on tapes or do fs melee speed and still buy like 25 mil worth of tapes to cap

but i refer back to the vision document, what we are all supposed to be working towards as the definition of our profession, we need an AR3 weopon to do that. It astounds me to see how everybody is so reluctant to ask for a new weopon, we have been begging for a new sword forever, why cant it be ar3, like our vision document states

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What I'm getting here, and this may just be the drift I get but just about all I see is "wahhhhhhhh i want to be the powerfullest profession in the game, balance is like French...we don't need it!!! and oh ya, devs, if you could make swordsman have an AP4 weapon like super heavy armor piercing that would be ub3r."

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IthArReLLe wrote:

I think its time for us to ask for an AR3 sword, ive had enough of riflemen with +5 speed outdamageing me at +20

I really think that in order to fulfil our "vision" of being the shocktrooper of the melee professions, we need a weopon of this calibur,

I really think we should ask for an ice sword, since nobody has a good ice weopon anyway. It wouldnt be like asking for a AR3 stun weopon, and we may even get the devs to take us seriously

I just know we dont need another kinetic sword.

Anybody that wants to chime in can, just trying to drumm up support for something in the community and get away from the "omfg i just killed a gnort" posts

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