Swordsman Archive

Do swordsman get a knockdown attack? and how does the swordsman compare to the tka for damage over time?

no knockdown, We get sweep attacks witch lower posture, and in my experience it seems that I get attacked roughly half as much as i normally do when I use this skill. But dmg is lower. But i do find it funny that pistoleers get a pistol whip attack that is a knockdown and the guy weilding the big sword doesn't. Hhhmmmm . . .

Yeah that is kind of strange. A pistol can knock you down, but the big ass axe/sword can't?

weird doesn't describe it, ass backwards does. dont forget that we have 2 branches that do the exact same thing, the sweep and area attack i think it is. we have a lot of wasted skills/ineffective skills

^_^x KD

Indeed...it's absolutely retarded that a pistoleer has a melee special which is better than most specials a Master Swordsman has at his disposal.

The easiest way to nerf/resolve this would be to make the pistoleer knockdown work only against enemies with a ranged weapon. You could still pistol whip melee enemies, but you wouldn't be able to affect their status or knock them down. Then...we need some sort of knockdown special or a way to make the sweep attacks more worthwhile. Maybe sweeps can target action and area attacks target health?

Tox, i like targeting mind, I think we need a knockdown though, its kinda sad that we dont. It would certainly make me useful in pvp if i ever get close enough.

You'd think someone hitting something with a sword would knock them down. But a little laser gun or whatever does it like cake.

aye, its really annoying how underdeveloped this class is.. we get barely any weapon (though i love my katana), one of our box (expert on the right side) doesn't give anything at all.. , lots of skill that does the same thing... no knockdown...

and our skill takes off 10-15% of our hp everytime we perform them (or at least action.. assuming that we all use katana)

i used to be a rifleman, and i can do around 15-20 shots with headshot 2 safely from afar (mainly cause it only drains from mind.. and i have full bar on all 3 mind stuff

with swordsman i can't afford that luxury and all i can do is use regular attack.. and maybe some posture down =/ though that kills me too.. ouch.

another thing...

you guys realize that unarmed gets another love in the upcoming patch? increased damage overall and increased damage on their skills...

and 1h special moves damage increase.. and bounty hunter power increase... (commando deserves it, but BH??)

while here's what we get:

fixed melee2hlunge not having animation...

and of course berserk is now pure crap. thought that affects everyone.

http://vnboards.ign.com/message.asp?topic=53941412&reply=13

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pistol whip attack is BS, there's noway a swordsman can take down a pistoleer if they have that attack and it's one of the first skills they can get but us swordsmen get no defense against it until the 4th level of sword defense. WTH is that?