Mauls with cannot block function

[Coward]

[Tears of Destiny]

Let me quote my most famous post...

No

[Herkkutatti]

Blocking with maul is already hard, because of its weight,speed,and because its unbalanced. No need to remove blocking ability.

[HUSTLER]

To the op close your thread before you get trolled to peices your making a fool out of yourself lmao

[TurmoilTom]

heh

[B3RS3RK]

Let´s take block away from everything.

Would buff agility chars for sure

[RandomDude]

Its only the overhead that is unblockable

[Ronin]

So let's remove the ability to block upwards from mauls. Everything will be fairly treated then.

[Dexxtaa]

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The idea is to take away maulers the ability to block; one point being that the weapon is probably too heavy to block with efficiently, second; they take away YOUR ability to block them so it acts as a trade off of some kind.

The main purpose of a maul as I see it is to counter shielders and I don't see maulers blocking very much, they spam most of the time.

And same could go for a pike. While pikes were used to block other pikes, they would certainly be droped if the enemy came too close. How can one block a sword with a 3m pole and then attack back...[/spolier]

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[RibaldRon]

So let's remove the ability to block upwards from mauls. Everything will be fairly treated then.

This is actually an interesting suggestion if it's  possible. 


Thinking from a practical standpoint it would be really hard to block a downswing with a maul since it would be greatly unbalanced, you would have to block with it like a polearm, or the whole  thing would just topple over as you are holding one side, and the other is much heavier.


From a balance perspective it's already fine though and I imagine removing one  direction of block from an item would be hard.

[Diomedes]

No.  Mauls are fine.  Significant changes to mechanics should be motivated by imbalanced or incongruous gameplay features, not realism.  If you've an argument demonstrating that mauls are imbalanced then go ahead with it.  Other threads have discussed similar issues which you may want to review before posting again in this thread.

[Vibe]

Oh dear, this is the third maul hating thread in like 2 weeks, who's mauling all these rookies so hard and driving them mad?

[Sagar]

NO Mauls are just fine.

[The_Bloody_Nine]

heh

haha, had to watch it four times.

[Coward]

I don't hate maulers, I use kick, plus I use pike alot too so this is not buff me up thread. It's give mauls and pikes a support role.

As I see it, it would put more emphasis on the cooperation between players, but it seems that this against the "I'm the man" mentality.

It's just a thoguht tho, don't get frightened.