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BS sounds cool. If we get to keep Head Splitter. Always knowing I get a crit shot from hide would make me smile. It'll probably be one of the powers that gets replaced, though.

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What's so great about Head Splitter over Golden Dragonfly?

It'll probably have only slightly more damage than Midnight Grasp but less than Total Focus.

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What's so great about Head Splitter over Golden Dragonfly?

It'll probably have only slightly more damage than Midnight Grasp but less than Total Focus.

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It's not just about Head Splitter. Parry adds some monster defense to melee and lethal damage. Disembowel and HS have some nice migation via KD and KU.

Sure it probably won't out damage EM in ST burst, but alot of sets don't. It will be much more survivable while still being able to deal out impressive orange numbers.

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What's so great about Head Splitter over Golden Dragonfly?

It'll probably have only slightly more damage than Midnight Grasp but less than Total Focus.

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It's not just about Head Splitter. Parry adds some monster defense to melee and lethal damage. Disembowel and HS have some nice migation via KD and KU.

Sure it probably won't out damage EM in ST burst, but alot of sets don't. It will be much more survivable while still being able to deal out impressive orange numbers.

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So in other words, it's not really offering much over Ninja Blade? Wonderful. And it only cost us 14+ months to wait for another set to come our way. That's totally worth it...

Broadsword has better burst damage from my understanding.

More burst than Fire Melee would have been?

Or more mitigation than Ice Melee could provide?

Like I said, wonderful. Oh, and the animations in the set are just dandy too...

...yeah, I'm bitter. So what?

I think it is worth it. More options=better. And stalkers do burst damage. BS>Katana/NB at burst.

We will get FM eventually, right after they figure out what to do about Fiery Embrace.

FE+Bu+AS=OMGWTFBBQ!

I just feel broadsword is only .25 on the options meter while another set like Super Strength, Fire Melee or Mace would have been 1-1.5 because it'd offer more to propagate more concepts and playstyles.

It doesn't help to think we still have to go into close and open beta for this prolif and THEN wait up to another 14 months for another chance at a DIFFERENT set.

And in the meantime, Scrappers will be waggling their superior Lightning Rod in our faces...GAH! The injustice!! Am I the only one that sees it!!!

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I just feel broadsword is only .25 on the options meter while another set like Super Strength, Fire Melee or Mace would have been 1-1.5 because it'd offer more to propagate more concepts and playstyles.

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That's YOUR opinion. I'd rate it as high as SS or FM. Thats MY opinion.

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It doesn't help to think we still have to go into close and open beta for this prolif and THEN wait up to another 14 months for another chance at a DIFFERENT set.

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It will go by fast. I'll be playing the new proliferated sets and difficulty scaler most of the time, so its cool

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And in the meantime, Scrappers will be waggling their superior Lightning Rod in our faces...GAH! The injustice!! Am I the only one that sees it!!!

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Ha! Let them wag it! Ours is better! Doesn't break hide making it easy to line up a criting TS, does the same damage on Stalkers and Scrappers(not including BU), and cmon, a giant bolt of lighting coming outta nowhere?? And we get a cooler animation.(Assassins Shock).

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That's YOUR opinion. I'd rate it as high as SS or FM. Thats MY opinion.

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Okay, then make a list. What can you do with Broadsword that you couldn't do with Ninja Blade. Include customizing weapons.

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It will go by fast. I'll be playing the new proliferated sets and difficulty scaler most of the time, so its cool

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I'll probably be playing with power colors more than anything...but still, I've been waiting for Ice Melee ever since I started playing stalkers and I'm still waiting. It doesn't help that I seriously dislike the weak animations of BS.

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Ha! Let them wag it! Ours is better! Doesn't break hide making it easy to line up a criting TS, does the same damage on Stalkers and Scrappers(not including BU), and cmon, a giant bolt of lighting coming outta nowhere?? And we get a cooler animation.(Assassins Shock).

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Scrappers will be getting, arguably, one of our best sets (for AoE) and we'll get one of their so-so sets. They get the awsomeness of LR and Thunderstrike to wag around and we get...a metal stick. Also:

-Build up being +100% dmg instead of +80%
-Fiery embrace
-Saturated Against All Odds
Ontop of Lightning Rod

That is all...

Broadsword has never been a "so-so" set.

Well Leo_G, that's why my thread's title is 'Lolz'. Getting a carbon copy with lower recharge and a bit more damage instead of Fire Melee or hell, even Ice Melee.

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Broadsword has never been a "so-so" set.

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Common opinion says Katana is better on a Scrapper because the animation times and recharge are better along with less endurance and possibly outweigh the damage lead that Broadsword has.

In essence, Katana and Broadsword are about the same. And further in essence, Stalkers are getting something that's about the same as we have.

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Well Leo_G, that's why my thread's title is 'Lolz'. Getting a carbon copy with lower recharge and a bit more damage instead of Fire Melee or hell, even Ice Melee.

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[censored], EVEN MACE! Then we'd have a set that does AoE smashing damage along with decent controls. GAH!

I still don't get why FM would be so good on Stalkers.

Concept aside of course.

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Common opinion says Katana is better on a Scrapper because the animation times and recharge are better along with less endurance and possibly outweigh the damage lead that Broadsword has.

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Thats just on fighting a AV or Pylon soloing. In regular gaming and misisons they are about the same.

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[censored], EVEN MACE! Then we'd have a set that does AoE smashing damage along with decent controls. GAH!

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I use to think we would never get Mace, but now that we have Broadsword...

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Okay, then make a list. What can you do with Broadsword that you couldn't do with Ninja Blade. Include customizing weapons.

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By that logic, what can you do with Fire Melee that you couldn't with with Broad Sword?


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Scrappers will be getting, arguably, one of our best sets (for AoE) and we'll get one of their so-so sets. They get the awsomeness of LR and Thunderstrike to wag around and we get...a metal stick. Also:

-Build up being +100% dmg instead of +80%
-Fiery embrace
-Saturated Against All Odds
Ontop of Lightning Rod

That is all...

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I could agree with that I suppose(except the metal stick bit, its a metal sword. A DEADLY metal sword at that.) Scrappers do more AoE damage anyways.

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Scrappers will be getting, arguably, [u]one of our best sets (for AoE)[u] and we'll get one of their so-so sets. They get the awsomeness of LR and Thunderstrike to wag around and we get...a metal stick.

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But no where near one of Scrappers. Electric Melee will be very....OK for Scrappers. Nothing more.

The "devs screwed villains" thing gets old. Especially when heroes get a whack set like Electric Armor.

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By that logic, what can you do with Fire Melee that you couldn't with with Broad Sword?

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-Blow people up...with fire!
-Burn people to death...with fire!
-Spit FIRE! at people
-Cut people with a sword...made of FIRE!
-All of the above....with BLUE FIRE!
-All of the above....with [censored!] BLACK FIRE!!1!!

...and that's just the mechanics, not the concepts.

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I could agree with that I suppose(except the metal stick bit, its a metal sword. A DEADLY metal sword at that.) Scrappers do more AoE damage anyways.

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Well I was trying to make a point. Sue me

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The "devs screwed villains" thing gets old. Especially when heroes get a whack set like Electric Armor.

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I abhor the posters that try to make side separations like heroes and villains. I'm in no way doing that. I'm just saying this prolif sux....for stalkers. Of all the sets being shifted, Stalkers probably got the least interesting (like OMG! Brutes are getting claws!....MOTHER [censored!] CLAWS!!! Even I know it's going to be SICK for them).

As for Electric Armor being whack, at least Tankers were asking for it probably as much as Scrappers were asking for Electric Melee. I don't recall much interest in Stalker Broadsword prolif in the past...

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I don't recall much interest in Stalker Broadsword prolif in the past...

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Thats because it wasn't really considered a stalkery set. I really expected Fire/Ice before anything else.

meh for how similar BS and Kat are in pretty much every regard they should have just given a BS weapon customization option to Kat (even if you hold it with two hands). It is that similar.

BS was my last choice for proliferation to stalkers out of the remaining melee sets.

It isn't a bad set (I like my bs/shield), but it is just so similar to kat/ninja blade.

Wait, I got it! Clearly one of the Devs have been playing their 4E (D&D) Avenger too much, and wanted to remake that character (as best they could) in CoX!














Yeah, I got nothing. Still looking forward to it though.

After this round of proliferation... PP is just another excuse for villains to get shafted...

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Damn what about my Energy Melee AS? I hate it

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Don't touch my EM AS. Pom poms o'doom is a wronged cheerleader whose height is adjusted so she walks up to men and punches them in the groin. It's just perfect for me.

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The "devs screwed villains" thing gets old. Especially when heroes get a whack set like Electric Armor.

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Hey... .....you make a good point.

I love the fact that stalkers are getting Broadsword.

I can finally make my "slasher flick villain" stalker.

Huge guy comes out of nowhere and hacks you with a big chunk of steel?

Sounds like a slasher flick to me

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All the Stalker primaries have the scrapper and Brutes tier 9s (M. Grasp, Energy Transfer, Eagle's Claw, Throw Spines, Shockwave, 1k Cuts, Golden Dragonfly, Lightining Rod...).

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Nit-pick: Total Focus is the tier 9 for EM instead of Energy Transfer; it's using the Tanker order. Although they did also keep the Brute tier 9, it's the tier 8 for them.

Oh, and one thing you can do with Broadsword you can't do with Katana/Ninja Blade? Fight right-handed. (everything else is pretty much a wash)

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