I heard you wind up for two seconds and then "stab" your target. 
I'm guessing it won't be super amazing compared to the existing AS animations.
I actually wouldn't mind something like the golden dragonfly animation used for the broadsword AS. Slowed down of course to match the time frame of other AS's. Add more crouch to it first or something.
I've always felt the GD animation is like a super headsplitter.
I just feel like jumping up in the air and bring down a 50lb sword on someones head would be more of a death strike than trying to ram it through them. Cleaved in two or poked in the stomach...
Personaly, I'll be making a bs stalker as soon as it gets here. Plain and simple it has better burst damage then katana anyway you look at it.
As said before, dps is not what stalkers are designed for the majority of the time. Hopefully it wont be nerfed to hell in pvp thats all I care about.
probably work how it does for Scrappers, just a bit less damage.
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I'll place my money on it looking just like Katana's AS....only with a Broadsword
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As said before, dps is not what stalkers are designed for the majority of the time. Hopefully it wont be nerfed to hell in pvp thats all I care about.
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I hope not as well.
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Assassin's Oh God It's Late I Can't Think Of Anything Witty
Raise big sword above your head
Bring big sword down on enemy, full power
Ground shakes
Rocks/shrapnel go flying
Enemy falls over dead
Dislodge sword from ground and enter fighting stance
I kinda wish they would go outside the box for broadsword's AS. Instead of a stab I'd rather have the slice animation and, this is really wishful thinking, the slice cone. Call it Assassin's Slice. Broadswords to me seem to lend themselves to broad, sweeping movements and are unweildy in tight situations. Rather than be a precision based assassin Id rather they be the one who will cut through the crowd to hit their target. I know that because its a cone it would do less damage than the other strikes as long as it doesnt have a chance to not crit I'm okay with a slightly lower dmg AOE AS. Again only wishful thinking but this is the power line up I'd like to see:
Hack
Slash
Parry
Assassin's Slice
Build Up
Placate
Whirling Sword
Disembowel
Headsplitter (single target version)
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Its been 24 hours and no one has shot down my idea or suggested the suggestions forum. There is something wrong here.
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Unlike most of the sheep on here, I have to disagree, I thought being a Stalker was about speed, go in, step out. They literally gave us a slow scrapper AT, which happens to albeit strong, but also the slowest. This doesn't bother me nearly as much as people posting "hey the Knives of Artemis have it!", trying to make it viable for us. Secondly, KoA are practically never ran into during normal play (AE excluded). Even during the old days of Ninja farms, people farmed Drek. They're just not that common.
Believing an AT is viable because a certain enemy type has it is circular logic. Especially when the AT contradicts that which what you do with a stalker. By that logic we should all get Sapping guns and Quantum rifle blasting...somethings are just too silly.
"If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything"
"You're like Giraffe's, the way you look down on me, with your vegetarian scorn."
People don't agree with you, and are therefore sheep.
Says the man with a naked, streaking Batman for an icon..
I'm only ladylike when compared to my sister.
I'm sure he has a point some were in there....>_>
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For the people wanting ice/ice armor, what would they do with hibernoob seeing as it is available in the apps now?
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People don't agree with you, and are therefore sheep.
Says the man with a naked, streaking Batman for an icon..
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As opposed to what?, next time use some logic, I know your wanting to attack me through your keyboard fills your ego balloon but honestly mindless followers have existed for decades. I'm sorry, no cyanide flavored kool aid for me, thank you. Then again your from Oaklahoma...I know CoH and the forums life is pretty much your "grand Ball", or even the ritz.
Then again we should all have Rydia on our Icon...yeah you have such taste... for great games. See I picked the icon knowing it was funny, its a joke, but you actually believe your "cool" or unique because you put an videogame character as your icon. Your not sheek for selecting an Icon of one of the bad games in the FF seires.
"If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything"
"You're like Giraffe's, the way you look down on me, with your vegetarian scorn."
...I still don't see your point.
You don't want Stalkers to have this set, because...?
Does it matter at this point?, I mean they're implementing them regardless. I just had an opinion on how laughable it was in doing so. We all know the devs make mistakes, this would be one of them. Of course the unrequitted dev love will prove otherwise. Are you asking me that question in looking for my opinion or out of defense?
"If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything"
"You're like Giraffe's, the way you look down on me, with your vegetarian scorn."
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I thought being a Stalker was about speed, go in, step out.
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Actually broad sword would support this. You go in make a couple of quick high damage attacks and step out while they recharge.
Then again there is no need for a stalker to do this, scrap it out instead of retreating and our damage is better. I also don't see broadsword as that slow of a set, after all we have energy which is slower.
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Lacrymosa it may too late to change what they're implmenting but it may not be too late to change how.
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Crim, I completely agree with that statement. Completely objective, and sound. But your also giving the devs too much credit. It's not like they make certain moves faster, they just take away said AoE in the AT and thats pretty much it. I understand the need to have "more" power sets but adding broadsword to what is basically a ninja class, is truly erroneous.
"If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything"
"You're like Giraffe's, the way you look down on me, with your vegetarian scorn."
I think Bs will either be OP or completely fail for stalkers. I would have definately gone with Fiery Melee > Bs for stalkers, but I'm still kind of excited to see how Bs will turn out.
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As said before, dps is not what stalkers are designed for the majority of the time. Hopefully it wont be nerfed to hell in pvp thats all I care about.
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Indeed.
I just hope that Broad Sword isn't epic fail for stalkers. I wouldn't mind it being a middle of the road set. Not as much damage as EM, but more than NB.
Honestly, I can't see broadsword being fail in anyway for stalkers as it should play exactly like ninja blade. You get slightly harder hitting attacks in exchange for slightly higher recharge - nothing more, nothing less.
On the other hand I see that as being exactly the reason NOT to port BS over - or at least port it over last, as it is yet ANOTHER lethal damaging set that will basically perform almost the same as ninja blade with different animations and weapons. So if all you care about is getting the different animations/weapons (which IS sometimes a big deal) then this set is win - on the other hand if you where looking for something that would add some serious variety to stalkers you are not going to get much out of BS.
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I hope that Parry is the power that gets replaced by Assassin strike, and Whirling Sword stays in the set. That would make the two sets different enough to justify porting Broadsword, IMO.
Then we would have Ninja Blade as the defensive sword set, and Broadsword as the offensive sword set.
In retrospect yes it's a fairly silly statement, but somehow it still conveyed my intended meaning.
So with that in mind lets look at the set in full next to NB
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Hack Gambler's Cut
Slash Sting of the Wasp
Slice(cone) Flashing Steel(cone)
AS AS
BU BU
Placate Placate
Parry(+def) Divine Avalanche(+def)
Disembowel(KU) Soaring Dragon(KU)
Headsplitter(KD Cone) Golden Dragonfly(KD Cone)
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I don't feel that the numerical differences between these sets is enough to create a different play experience.
Even worse I think Ninja Blade is superior animation wise. Although the AS animation is still an unknown factor.