Swordsman Archive
Thread: A New Swordsman's Thoughts on the Profession
Page 1 of 1
DHUScreed
Fri Feb 27, 2004 6:24 pm
#1
I came into swordsman knowing absolutely nothing about it. I saw a couple of really sweet looking animations by a couple players, and my own personal fascination with sword fighting made me decide to give it a shot.
So far im 3,4,3,3 and im quite happy with the profession so far, but I have a few small "gripes" and thought I should just state them here and see what your ideas on them are.
1.) Diversity in our skills (I read the top 5 Q&A's and see this was in there and its being looked into), we have 3 different skills that basically all do the same thing, Two Hand Area, Two Hand Sweep, and Two Hand Spin Attack.
2.) A small gripe but valid one if you consider content and in depth roleplaying; Animations and affects they do. If you watch some of the animations you start to think to yourself, "What kind of affect would a move like this do?"
2a.)One of the coolest animations I have seen thus far; Two Hand Area 1. You would expect to see this kind of move as a stunning almost finishing move. You start off by swinging your weapon twice, following into a round house kick and ending into a backwards thrust of your weapon. In your mind you would thing that this move would rather be a single target attack that has high damage along with a stunning and/or dizzying affect due to the rapid succession of hits followed by a peircing back stab. My idea behind this is making it into a kind of last ditch move like smuggler has,a devestatingly powerful attack that leaves you open for the next round. Your back is facing your target after all at the end of the move.
2b.)Two Hand Area 2, a single swing followed by a leg sweep should yield a knock down not a posture change.
2c.) 2 hand head hit, needless to say if you get hit with a sword or hammer in the head your gonna be stunned/blinded/and or dizzied. I watch my character lay into an opponant with a Head Hit 3 using a Power Hammer and always find myself saying, "His skull should have been crushed."
So far im loving this profession but find myself doing some of the lower damaged moves just to look cool in a battle.
Hoko
Fri Feb 27, 2004 9:27 pm
#2
sad part is, before they nerfed us (dots etc...) no one complained about our lack of diversity, we only used bleed, bleed, headhit3 and that's it. but now that we are nerfed it is kinda annoying that we have 6 moves that do the exact same thing and none of them are more powerful than the other... and area 3 doesn't even blind!!! they need to fix us and give us a dizzy, stun, blind, and a knockdown or else i'll be switching back to tka very soon. and i just love swords!!!
Gimperial666
Fri Feb 27, 2004 11:39 pm
#3
AMEN on point 2!!!
Ive been sword fighting since i was a kid with sticks... even S.C.A & shukendo/aikido and other fun stuff later (still learnin fun stuff)...the most realistic moves we have are LUNGE1, HEADHIT1, & HEADHIT3.... I double dog dare you to try any of that fancy-shmancy garbage on anyone who knows what theyre doing in a swordfight...I betcha 5gazillion bucks you get killed REAL QUICK.
Ive been sword fighting since i was a kid with sticks... even S.C.A & shukendo/aikido and other fun stuff later (still learnin fun stuff)...the most realistic moves we have are LUNGE1, HEADHIT1, & HEADHIT3.... I double dog dare you to try any of that fancy-shmancy garbage on anyone who knows what theyre doing in a swordfight...I betcha 5gazillion bucks you get killed REAL QUICK.
FtB
Sat Feb 28, 2004 4:59 am
#4
Gimperial666 wrote:
AMEN on point 2!!!
Ive been sword fighting since i was a kid with sticks... even S.C.A & shukendo/aikido and other fun stuff later (still learnin fun stuff)...the most realistic moves we have are LUNGE1, HEADHIT1, & HEADHIT3.... I double dog dare you to try any of that fancy-shmancy garbage on anyone who knows what theyre doing in a swordfight...I betcha 5gazillion bucks you get killed REAL QUICK.
LoL, relax, StarWars isn't real, so there's no reason why there can't be "fancy-shmancy" stuff.
twoheadstalkin
Sat Feb 28, 2004 5:21 am
#5
FtB wrote:
Gimperial666 wrote:
AMEN on point 2!!!
Ive been sword fighting since i was a kid with sticks... even S.C.A & shukendo/aikido and other fun stuff later (still learnin fun stuff)...the most realistic moves we have are LUNGE1, HEADHIT1, & HEADHIT3.... I double dog dare you to try any of that fancy-shmancy garbage on anyone who knows what theyre doing in a swordfight...I betcha 5gazillion bucks you get killed REAL QUICK.
LoL, relax, StarWars isn't real, so there's no reason why there can't be "fancy-shmancy" stuff.
hes making a point and i agree area attack 1 is also nice i like the ending with a two handed curved
Page 1 of 1