Side sword? What's it doing in crpg? Why balance most other weapons, then include a lightsaber?
Remove it. Dont balance it, adjust it, reprice it. Just remove it. Or find a way to make it unuseable with medieval shields. Makes me vomit how ugly that combo is, yet how effective. Shields are still skillless, untill they have some kind of stamina limit, so sitting behind a steel shield no longer makes you invulnerable to attack from 270 degrees, occasionally spamming lightsaber leftcut, 1hit someone, and back to behind the unbreakable unshiftable bullshit.
Or, game devs, stop pandering to shielders, and reinstate a kick that actually HAS a hitbox?? As it is now, Ive not beenkicked in crpg for.....months. Its a great part of the game, yet unusable versus anyone but the lowliest noobs.
So, make shields less noob, remove sidesword, or allow kicking. And yes you can say: Kicking is STILL in the game noob L2P. But if you kick me in crpg while Im NOT afk or tunnelvisioned the other way, I will send you the entire contents of my bank balance, irl, I swear.
Or hell, if sideswords are in, why cant we have other weapons from same timeframe: Arquebus, matchlock musket, etc?? Hell, why dont we just HAVE lightsabers, flying dragon mounts, magic misiles, and healers who can ressurect. Doesnt seem any more out of place in warband to me than the side sword.