Due to this tendency amongst most better players, I change my outfit constantly to appear as generic randoms.
Didnt even read past this.....I make my faces nondescript, neither nice nor freakfaces, and change my gear often. I have many "favorite" gears and weapons so I would do this anyway, but the added incognito abilities make it good.
at OP: LOL. Blocking is single most essential skill, of course we can all concentrate and do it really well when pushed, we just stroll into most fights swinging at right time to catch the enemy, if he gets pushed by this but defends and shows skill, then you get into fighting rythm with him, if when you engage he Preempts you, either attempting or succeding to hit you first, you must very quickly turn that around so the enemy cannot make his advantage a kill, so you pull the stops out.
So: learn this OP, directly after being wounded is when an animal is at BOTH its weakest and its strongest: Succeed in pushing on and turn the wound to a fatality, the momentary stuns into a nice stunlock, but give a good player a milisecond to recoup and they will turn on you, snarling fury and flashing steel blades....and again into a combat rythm, but breaking thru a defense is much harder than pushing an attack, just as breaking thru a defense is also much harder than countering an enemies overextended attack.