First stances En garde, Guard and Run (I know it is not stance, but many people are using it as such)...
1. En garde - gives us ability to use Parry most useless skill in game and that makes this stance useless too, my sugestions about it:
- en garde should decrease cooldown of thrust,
- after successful parry opponent should get some amount of imbalance or reeling and next thrust (for char that used parry) should be faster,
- en garde should decrease reeling penalty for each thrust (lets say that without this stance you get 10% reeling bar, then with en garde on you should get less than 10%, because you are ready to fight and your character got right position to make damage),
- you should recive more damage from other attacks like punch, uppercut or stomp, because you are not ready for hand to hand combat only for sword fight,
2. Guard
- reduce damage (as it is right now and that is good, just angle should be closer to 180 deg in front imho),
- we should be able to use parry in guard stance, but then our character should recive some amount of imbalance (even after successful parry),
- thrusts cooldown should be increased than with en garde and should fill reeling bar much faster,
- characters using guard should recive reduced imbalance from leap at or leg sweap (if made in front or left or right side), because they are expecting to get some hits, so they are standing hard on ground and it is harder to imbalance them (at least imho in RL fight it works like that),
- any skill that requires fists should have reduces cooldown while using guard (look at animation you even got your hands in right position to make punch or uppercut),
3. Run
- any combat skill should increase a lot imbalance and reeling (in case of thrusts) used by character in run mode (why? the faster you are, the easier you can make wrong steps and lose your balance),
- any combat skill used against character in run mode should also have increased penalty to running character (so leap at used on running char should fill imbalance bar much faster than on character in other stances),
- so what would be advantage of using run? imho speed is enough bonus to reward all penalties (slower fights = longer fights, so more time to know your opponent and to find some counter tactic),
Some skills:
- round house kick should make larger dmg to imbalanced target that thrust!!!
- leg sweap increase imbalance taken by target,
- we should be able to cancel skill execution, but after that char should get imbalance bar filled by some amount (depends how much time left to finish skill, more time, more imbalance recived),
Combat UI:
I was thinking about config of my combat bars and it sucks, we have few skills that are useful, but you need monkey keyboard moves to handle 1-6 and F1-F6 :/
Imho we should get toolbars changing when we change stance, so without combat I got standard bars as example: 1. lift, 2. dig, 3. destroy etc etc,
but when I switch to run I get 1.thrust, 2. leap at, bullrun etc...
guard 1. uppercut, 2. stomp, 3. punch ...
en guarde 1. thrust, 2. parry, 3. leap at...
On F-keys we could get different stances, so during fights we could just press 1-4 and F1-F4
