Swordsman Archive

HEres what i read is going into publis 8....

The second aspect of the Combat balance will be the HAM redesign. A very critical part of the overall combat rebalance is the change to the functionality of the HAM system. This change will allow a greater ease in balancing overall HAM costs for weapons and special moves. It will also allow Mind to be removed as a special damage type and place equal emphasis on Health, Action and Mind pools for both abilities and damage.

Ok for those of you who dont know what that means lets show you the scary part alone:

It will also allow Mind to be removed as a special damage type and place equal emphasis on Health, Action and Mind pools for both abilities and damage.

Ok there goes what made our class unique among the brawlers...Right out the door

So were geting gimped like ive never seen before, and rifflemen too... The thing that REALLy burns me is that theyre not looking at the classes for another month.
So were going to be down to 2 count em 2 useful moves at master level for a while........ Hit3 and aoe3

...anyone else woried by this?

While I must admit that this sucks, in a way I'm happy.

Hopefully all the FoTM swordsmen will finally LEAVE!!

I dont think im understanding this, are they saying we will not be able to do mind damage or specials will not cost mind ?

It says for both speacials and damage.... Im really not sure what theyre going to do with us now.

Maybe they've just worded it badly and what they mean by "removing it as a special damage type" is that mind heals are in the game in pub 8 so it's no longer an attack on an unhealable pool.

Ok, I'm probably deluding myself here but I hope they won't do this - I'm making a swordsman at the moment and having lots of fun doing so.

I dont know why they would do this. The mind pool is VERY healable. I sell Blue Milk that heals for +533 points. Not to mention Vesarian Brandy that does the same thing along with buffing all the mind stats.

Dumbass Devs.

Let's not cry about it until we actually see how the changes affect us.

i agree. Even though that would stink if we couldnt attack the mind.

Im just woried its gonna really affect us negatively... That was our best perk (i think) being able to hit the pool that cant be healed... So now its going to be a status effect driven battle in PvP... witch we just cant compete in.

BUT i was doing more reserch on the boards and TH stated that they hope to do the HAM changes,the weapon changes, and the class revamps ALL TOGETHER IN PUB-8. So lets see what happens. HOPEFULLY this wont be as much gloom and doom as i thought...I thought they are gonna change mind damage and leave us with usless moves. But thats probably not the case.

If the class tweaks end up in there with the whole thing, im HOPING its not gonna be as bad.

Then the hotfixes ensue (we all know they wont test all this as well as they should...Thats our job ;p)

Even if mind becomes a healable pool it there is no advantage to hitting it above health and action we still do more damage faster than other classes. I don't think it'll hurt so much, but we'll see, we'll see.