Swordsman Archive

I have recently become a Master Swordsmen (as well as Master Brawler Master CH) and i thought i would list some of the current issues that i have felt are limiting for the profession.

My first problem is with the power hammer/2h curved sword issue. As it stands the curved sword is always going to be the better weapon. I thought the sword was supposed to be AP0 but it nearly always acts like an AP2 weapon and this combined with the worse stats of the power hammer means we never will use our top weapon. The rare case of needing to do blast damage never really comes up.

Another problem is that our skills and skill mods don't seem in line with other professions in some cases. We are the only profession that has a skill where nothing is recieved (Finesse 3) and it seems like our skill mods are less then comparable with other combat classes. This also goes along with Counterattack never working for me on my entire road to master swordsmen. I have never seen myself ever do a counterattack let alone do damage when a counterattack should happen, which also seems to be broken. Our skill trees are much too similar, we basically only get four attacks, head hit, 2h hit, head bleed, and area attacks. Sure some of the area attacks have unique components like dizzy posture down, but the trees overlap and our much too similar. There is no diversity and this makes our skill trees boring.