I think JA is gimped atm in a couple of ways. I want to do an unofficial "State of the Melee-ers" thread to show some of the issues that are unnecessarily strong/weak on all the classes. Just know it will devolve into a MoN vs Shieldbro thing but if @Asheru doesn't mind expelling the riff raff I might make it. I'm terrible atm, still relearning all the melle. But I mean the fundamentals are all there, the Bash is very very good against anything they can throw and you can open up a lot of distance now that the stagger has been all but removed from paper-scissor-rock mismatch. Problem today is the Bash isn't working 100%. Keep getting FA'd when I clearly have the Bash pose going on my screen. Might be server lag.
I agree with you 100%, I'm in the exact same situation. Back stab is painful, mostly gone and I appreciate that. Now if we can get that health and armor boost, and that juicy juicy directional melee life will be better.
So yeah, Raptors have an extremely low margin of error, land prematurely, use up your jump charges, engage a target for too long, etc and you're probably dead. Now from my experience this patch made this game lag to hell, so this gentleman may have been receiving the Boon of Warpy (lag immunity) because Raptors are high risk even in skilled hands.
