1) Leshma no offense but you are not exactly fun to play against either, with your 8 athletics. I like you as a person, but can't say the same about your playstyle.
2) Truth be told, the only person I ever enjoyed fighting with was Phyrex. Now I don't fight people because I enjoy to, I enjoy to fight the challenge of their playstyle because I know there are always other people like them in battle. So better deal with it and suck it up. Phyrex doesn't even play cRPG but very seldomly, a shame really. And even if we duel, it's ruined by armour and slowness of combat and blocking till the other guy gets bored. Why do you think he switched to highly inferior katana? Range is everything when speed is nothing.
1) I do agree Bjord. Fighting agi whores is annoying. However it's not that hard. You see Bjord, I don't know how to spam attacks, that's why I hold attacks all the time. All you have to do is, when I'm trying to get behind you, just do a dance move (180 spin) and overhead swing at me and I'm dead. Athletics isn't useful when I'm facehugging someone because even if you get behind it's not auto win situation. People with lower pings usually block me from behind, that's why I don't like fighting them.
2) Well, the man is here but I'll still semi-quote him, after he picked katana after being annoyed by slowness of greatsword:
Ninjas say how mind is the armor lol, their only armor is spam.
Something along those lines.
Katana is inferior in large battles, however in duels isn't always inferior weapon. If you're not facing someone who's really good at chambering or who's staying at distance all the time katana can be very good weapon.
I can't kill Phyrex in duel. However I can annoy him a bit with my holds and hit him a few times (although he always chambers my overhead and thrust attack). But I can't do shit against Phyrex the Ninja, simply because I can't block him.
And thanks to speed bonus and semi-random damage Katana can slice up even plated knights in few slashes. Katana buff was a mistake, that's all I have to say.