Swordsman Archive

Aye, I think alot of people have been noticing this change.

I used to one-hit *every* ST I came up against, getting hits of 16-23k.

Now i'm VERY lucky if I hit for even 10k.

Yes, exactly. Something (may) have changed. If my HAM, weapon quality, sliced armor encumbrance, moves/styles and mob /con hasn't changed, how come I can barely solo something 24 and 48 hrs I had no problem with? Again, anyone else notice anything weird? Did they level-up ALL mobs with CH changes?

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I haven't noticed any problems with damage consistancy lately -just my experience.

As for the 2h cleaver, I like it alot morethan the 2h curved. Put an action cost powerup on the cleaver, and its HAM usageis proportioned much like a powerhammer with a health cost powerup, ie, heavier on health than action. So you can migrate to make your health about 1.3 times what your action is, and chainspecials with either weaponequally well.

It wasn't recently, Raider. I noticed this damage decrease many weeks ago. I hit Master in the first couple weeks after launch, and my damage was amazing until a couple of weeks ago.

Perhaps they just beefed up ST's a bit. They're pretty much the only thing i've fought often and consistantly enough to notice (as there isn't much else in this game that interests me, so its just grind grind grind fp for my guild.. exciting..)

i ran across a random storm trooper camp yesterday and i popped a neutron pixie and killed all three troopers without over much worries, i was at about 25% health after the fight, but i won, and thus destroyed the camp. now today i go and take a couple of missions, both were storm trooper camps, one had three troopers, the other had one trooper and a medic. i came up to the one with the medic and single trooper, and i attacked the trooper and was killed in about 15 seconds. on my way back i decided to go to the one with the three troopers (as it warped closer to where i was) and i took a pixie, and killed one trooper, came up behind the second one at full health, and attacked it before it noticed me, i was incaped and thus killed by two troopers, when i killed three the day before. i was also getting out of range messages, and when i was in range i missed half the time, but normally i can two hit kill the troopers, but today i was hitting them 3 to 5 times to kill one, using head hit 3.

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Development&message.id=735549

check this thread out, it confirms our fears.

Methinks it would be just as good.

Has anyone tried tracking damage from their logs recently? Am I nuts to think it's *not* been consistent? That SOE has been tweaking our styles without acknowledging it? I've been trying to solo the same dungeon recently with a pet, and the numbers seem way off on the same mobs on different nights. Just looking for a reality check. Thanks.

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I think you might be right. I know that I can always jump into a pack of 4, maybe even 5 white aggro mobs, and can spam 2handedspin and take them all down with my powerhammer. I usually walk away with 50-75% health. But in this one cave on Tatooine, 1 white aggro beatle can take me to 50% health. Is that what you mean?