Oh look it's another Leshma thread in the balance/suggestion forums that I totally disagree with!
Good to know some things never change 
It would be boring if everyone agreed on everything. We are NOT Borg! (for Borg community check any Apple oriented forum)
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Best troll on cRPG currently
I'm not even trying...
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Now, on-topic:
I'm 2H and I don't fear swordsmen not matter how good they are. Why is that?
That's because I have a lot of armor and decent HP, most swordmen need 6-7 badly placed (body) hits to kill me. If I make mistake I get hit but that's not a big deal, I still can move, can block and will be able to attack back shortly after. People using 1H straight swords will need 9-11 badly placed hits to kill me if they aren't heavily balanced strength chars. You can make plenty mistakes and still be a winner.
I fear crush-trough, I fear knockdown, I fear polearms, I fear pikes/lances. Why is that?
Crush-trough negates my blocking ability and require a lot of footwork to be compensated for blocking. Those weapons aren't really slow, can be spammed if you have enough agi and they can kill me in 2-3 hits. One mistake and you're dead.
Every weapon with knockdown is dangerous cause it has decent chance to put you on the ground which in most cases means you're toasted. Damage doesn't matter but most those weapons are blunt and they hurt more than any sword hit. One mistake and you're dead.
Polearms generally have crappier feints than swords but some of them (recently buffed GLA) have weird animations, if you don't block low you'll get hit in the legs which means in many cases polestun. What polestun does? It stuns you in place for a moment where you can only block (but not as fast as usually) and can't attack. Smart polearmer will abuse that fact to spam your ass and due to similar attack speed of both greatswords and best polearms (glaive is actually faster than greatswords, not matter what stats say) they are very very effective. Also have epic stab, poleaxes of course. Even if you block perfectly theirs a chance that you'll be polestunned because of their heavier weapon. They can kill me in 4-5 hits. One mistakes doesn't necessarily means death but can turn out to be quite nasty.
Pikes, lances and that english bill have speed of an old 2H LOLSTAB. You have to be very patient with those guys or you're dead. Even heavy lance while used on the ground will be faster than your 2H stab. They usually have 2 attack directions which is limiting but they deal great deal of damage. Most of those eats my HP in 2-3 hits. Also polestun. Two mistakes and you're dead meat.
So, swords are good but they aren't best melee weapons. They are all-rounders, jack-of-all-trades but they can't dish out epic damage if you're not aiming for the head and thus aren't really noob friendly. For noobs I would advise any spear with combination of back-peddaling/stabbing when you have opportunity to do so.
Straight 1H swords are in even worse situation because they can dish out crap damage while being easy to block. Only time when I think twice is when I meat someone good who puts shield away and try to out spam me (Siiem for example). People using shields are easy prey in most cases. Spamitar is broken since the beginning of time and I won't talk about it in here.
Partially swords suck because cut damage is actually crap damage but that's not the only reason.
They are slow, stats aren't always acurate (110 long, 90 speed shortened military scythe is way waster than any greatsword and can be spammed easily), they have neat feints but since the slow speed on servers (when raining it's slow-motion), higher blocking skills or autoblock abuse swords aren't the best melee weapon in the game.
AND I THINK THEY SHOULD BE CAUSE THEY ARE SO COOL!
Now time to mention ranged. It's everywhere and most people have something of ranged type. They don't want to fight until you get really close...
In last patch throwing got buffed, archery got buffed big time (Paul can put his statistics where sun doesn't shine), xbow stayed the same aka super OP!!!
GLA got buffed (completely unnecessary buff...), pike and cav first nerfed than reverted!
It's my duty as 2H to ask for epic buff cause we are already awesome and we should be even more awesome and OP! I want people to fear any 2H just as they fear ranged and forementioned weapons.
No smelly horse lover deserves to be stronger, no "shitting bricks for half a round" xbow retard deserved to be feared, no legolas bundle of sticks deserve to kill me in 3 hits using joke of a bow, no cowardly mounted ranged should bother me, no tossing bastard should be my main concern.
I'm swordsmen and I'm epic and I want to be on top of the food chain, not because I'm skilled but because my weapon is OP just like any other class/weapon in this game.
EoD.
