Teras Kasi Archive

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Development&message.id=394421#M394421

Read this message if you haven't already - scroll down and look at two inparticular things that are being added to squad leaders' abilities.

DefensiveStance
o Gives the group a temp bonus to defense. The bigger the group the better the bonus, lowers damage.

OffensiveStance
o Gives the group a temporary bonus to damage. The bigger the group the better the bonus, lowers defense.

As you recall, in our dev response they didn't ever give us stances because they 'treid it out in beta and couldn't balance it out enough to their liking'. It sounds like we got the shaft here. They are willing to give stances to Squad leaders (sounds great to me!), but not us? If you are letting them have it, then let us have it too!

Give us a defensive and offensive stance at Intermediate Balance Conditioning, and as we raise in the balance tree, make it so that the negative effects (penalty to damage or defense, respectively) are lowered...due to a skill called 'Stance Effectiveness' or something.

If Squad Leaders are getting it, we should get it too!!

I think they might have worded it wrong, i think they mean formation not stance.

I agree with Gurbokolok, more of just a poor choice of words than anything. Still, it would be nice since what we ask for is basically the exact same thing.

They are giving us what we wanted, just in a different form. Also in the past, I seem to remember reading something about them reworking how much exp groups get. This is an attempt to give melee a reason to group up. I guess if the Squad Leader put us in offensive mode while the mob was knocked down, then switched us to defensive mode before it could start attacking, we might actually be able to tank! *shudders*

Yeah, but how many squad leaders do you know to begin with.

Okay, if the stances are in, why not let TKA's(and the other meleeers?) select their stances independently of the SL. Thelevel of effectcould be based upon the meditation tree maybe?