Mythical beast ? If you don't know how to do it or why it's so effective vs Tacticals then that's a poor reflection of your knowledge base. Worst case possible atm is you get Bashed twice and kill in 3 swings on the JPA. Power Attacks increase speed but it's not remotely necessary. Tell you what: If the attack interactions end up broken again and melee suffer I'll be the first to QQ, but no one can seriously defend melee in it's current state. Garbage. I've quit the game 3 times this week. We're better than that, come on now *tsking*.
I will defend Melee to an extent, I run towards someone, they shoot me and I die, I re-spawn and sneak around to the back and find the key's to the back door, I enter I smack them from behind. I was hoping for the ranged character to respond to appropriately. I won't defend the right mouse button spam but if you die because you got jumped from behind that's on you. I like Power Fist's better.
Not that I'm trying to encourage a herd mentality @Thraxus , but when was the last time any of your arguments got traction within the community? I honestly don't remember a time when more than a handful of people have agreed with your melee obession. And the worst part is that you often deny something is wrong when it benefits your perspective. It's not condusive to getting what you want. Melee will always be a strong component of the game, but advocating exclusively for its dominance without even acknowledging its faults will let it remain strong in the wrong, most undeserving ways.
Yeah flanks are fine but they never did that because jump packs and storm shields made you immune to small arm fire (or chaos MoN swarm you )
You have a point there, I really can't speak on behalf of Jumpacks, stormshields or MON though. I'm an old fashioned ground assault who doesn't bear the mark of any god.
Aint this thread a bit premature? Shouldn't we wait until something actually changes before we judge it?
Squats...but we are not supposed to talk about them. I miss WAR, if they had done zoned pvp servers like they figured out worked back in DAOC the game wouldn't have died.
There is no need to defend melee from me . I love melee when it (a. works and (b. is a solid all round challenge. There are other issues that make melee unnecessarily difficult too, they just aren't as bad in the scheme of things atm. It all needs balance eventually. Getting into combat is challenging still, totally (less so for JPs). But once you get into close quarters the mechanics are just skewed for Melee to the point where there's a recognizable hard cap on skill for the Tactical. Melee classes should have strategic advantage but good Tacts should be able to counter average Assault players and they can't.
