Though saying that, I still won the Crusader Commendation on two of my three matches as Chaos last night, exclusively playing Aspiring Sorcerer, with 8 and 11 melee kills respectively in each match. Not exactly massive amounts of kills. It suggests most people are not playing melee. My Chaos toon is only Rank 3 too, so it's not like I have all the toys. I only just finished unlocking the 500AP boxes last night.
I don't believe melee is doing that bad; that said, i play melee exclusively. Though my opinion on the 'new' JPA still stands, same as the Supports. Sure give them less basic armor and less options to increase said armor, but hell don't murder the fucking class, JPA is suuuuch a free kill right now its not even funny. Sorcs are paper too but they're gonna be around one way or another cus, well, who's gonna heal otherwise? Raptors though, those guys you barely ever see anymore cus the level of useless to which they have been brought is so high its retarted. Once the Big Patch was out i took a break for a month or so to see if the JPA/Support situation was gonna be fixed in any way, started playin again a couple days ago and well, evidently both of those classes are still in a pretty horrid place.
JPAs got their 50 hp back, they're now only 25 armour squishier than they were before the toughness re-balance.
I'll try doing more runs with those two i guess...JPA still feels super squishy though. Are the JPA toughness values the same as GA? Maybe its the fact that normally i'd equip good armor as GA whereas as JPA its more sensible to put the points into mobility but hell those guys kinda lack the 'cannon' to their 'glass'. GA still does pretty good against 2-3 enemies in melee, while JPA stands almost no chance of taking on more than one foe at a time, unless they're super nooby...
True Grit would actually be pretty cool; not sure about JPAs, but Tacs could really benefit from having a legit melee weapon at an additional cost. Probably too expensive for regular infantry, but allright for Vets.
