Swordsman Archive

Charge: This attack allows us to burst run over a short distance of 20-25 meters and end with an attack. This new skill really helps us close the distance on those kiters in pvp.

Leap: This attack sends us leaping through the air up to 10 meters ending with an attack. During our flight we are untargeteable , and the opponent must then retarget us when we land. The devs were really working out our pvp issues here , thanks devs.

Is this true? Im at work. Someone tell me this is not a joke...

This is not a joke.

Ok, now that I've got the lying out of the way... I really wish people would clarify whether it's an idea that they are posting or it's something they've read from a dev post, and a link to said post.

sounds made up, but I hope its true.

sorry, i didnt mean for it to seem real, i thought it was obvious these were just my ideas. you like?

Nice Ideas!

However that may require a bit more animation programming than the dev's would want to do... but I really like it!!

That charge idea might be hard. Maybe make it go in a strait line and deal damage to the target. Give it like double ham cost than burst run and the melee hit 2 level damage. (Might be a nice replacement for the standard level 2 melee attacks IMO)

Those two skills in some way similar to the "Dragon Knight" in Final Fantasy (not FFXI). Anyway, they are really good idea and I love the Leap! Hoping they are true and have good animations and sound effect.

ok now the burst thing might be kinda cool, but as far as the leap thing goes my guess is that that would be more of a jedi specific skill rather than our 2h swordsman class. Not that it wouldn't be cool to have and help us out a lot but we would have to be jumping quite a bit of distance which seems only to me to be tangible by the aid of a "force" jump. just my opinion not trying to get anyone down or anything here.

I got the ideas fron Diablo 2

the paladin has a charge attack
the barbarian has a leap attack
the assasin has a teleport attack(which didnt quite fit in)

To be honest if in our sword tree we were given a faster normal run it would solve most of the issues (my opinion) as we would be able to catch kiters without burst, now im not talking about a big increase but enough that allows a kiter to deal damage and us to be able to run them down

Lymfada

It may not be worth it to you but, master brawler.... all the lunge 2 attacks do a 15m knockdown. This knockdown doesn't happen as much sence the patch but it does help those kiters. It's always funny when you're hideing behind a wall and someone trys to get an angle on you and you knock them down. It freaks them out. Can't recomend master brawler for the other skills, maybe intimidate 2 but that's about it.

-Joto'Sai

The charge or bash type idea is great. Of course, the devs here have a way of reinventing the wheel. This is why they have so many issues with the balance and mechanics of the game and the simpliest things such as this are not or will not be implemented. It's fine to develop something brand new like HAM, but that is if you have the time to actually test it......