Teras Kasi Archive

Okay, here is my second installment of my 'state of the nation' posts to let us know how we are faring post-patch compared to our melee brothers and sisters. My first one featuring snippets from the pikemen themselves got me some flak saying I wasonly tryingto fan the flames of melee class jealousy. Well, sorry folks, that's not my intention. My intention is to show folks what's going on in the other message forums so they can see whether things have gotten better or worse for others after this last patch. It got worse for us, that's for sure. This also gives us ammunition to use in asking for a good de-nerfing for us. By popular demand I am including some CON side articles to peruse as well as PRO side.

PRO SIDE

I singlehandedly incapped 11 people =)! (one happy 2h swordswoman, hehe)

"she's talking about area attack 3. it lowers posture and dizzies so when they get back up it has a chance to knockdown"
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=swordsman&message.id=2443

"area3 has dizzy now. The devs fixed it with one of the previous patches. The only problem is that it doesn't have a new animation, and the damage is the same as area2. It has a slower attack speed as well. But, it does dizzy+posturedown. 2handhit3 also does dizzy as well. Not like the description says, it does dizzy not blind. "
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=swordsman&message.id=2635

Ham for Sepcials (ham specials seem to have been lowered with the patch)

"Did they lower them today? Area3 cost me about 200action with a 2h curved sword, but today it was costing me 144 I think. 2hit2 is about 90 now, 2hmindhit1 is about 60 now. Same weapon." Anyone else notice this?"

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=swordsman&message.id=2663

HOLY **edit**, PH with 420 max!! (powerhammers are being made with huge damage + huge HAM)

"i have been using a 95-425 4.5 PH and i have no complaints what so ever."

"Bleed. Imagine the 1k bleed u get with your sword?... well the hammer has a max damage 90% higher than your sword... imagine the bleed u get with that =)... Nowadays in PvP, we lost our chance of one-shotting.. bleed is our best weapon.. (mind bleed.. unhealable)... and lunge that is.."

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=swordsman&message.id=2560

CON SIDE

Melee has now been officially gimped... (complaints of melee vs ranged from the 2h pov)

"Heh, I guess the only way we can win is to fight dirty with stupid knockdown and bleed. But I guess the bastards deserve it for all the times they do it to us."

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=swordsman&message.id=2604

Dropped master pistoleer for swordsman... (pistoleer trades gun for big sword)

"Uh...where have you been? Our ham costs have always been through the roof, and we never did that much more damage than pistols. Only with good specials do we do the damage."

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=swordsman&message.id=2475

Hopefully you folks like this format better. I'd add some con posts the the state of the pikemen but I think the pikeman who responded did a good job of covering their concerns.