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  1. #1

    Highlander is still broken, only now worse

    1.) I still get thrown out of OF stance when switching light direction

    2.) OMG I can't cancel to counter GB now? What the hell? You realize this makes every move punishable by a dodge GB right? And you can react dodge roll from a caber or soft feinted caber...

    Doesn't delaying entering OF from holding heavy eliminate the option select?

    I feel like you guys were over thinking this... or just not considering the "butterfly effect" GB vulnerability means to his every move in OF. Understanding counter GB was part of the option select, the lazy solution you just patched really busted Highlander into quite the impotent meme. I feel like the GB vulnerability was this superfluous thing added on because "wasn't counter GB part of the options select", but the vulnerability change was not needed to actually fix the option select.
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    Originally Posted by AmonDarkGod Go to original post
    His main and the most serious problem still remains. Roll nullifies all his offence...
    I don't think you understand what I'm saying here lol. You DON'T need to roll anymore, only roll if you react to a caber toss. EVERYTHING else is punishable on reaction by a dodge GB now. Even if you have a dodge attack that's not gonna be as good as a dodge GB. It went from the Wu-lin and assassins being a win-all to the entire cast.

    That's like, fundamentally broken.

    I feel like they tagged on GB vulnerability just because counter GB was a word in his "option select" description, but it wasn't necessary to throw that vulnerability in the changes to actually fix the option select in the first place.

    This is actually worse than the free GB on a confirmed hit from Raider's chain bug. At least that was a friggin' trade lmao. This is a straight up lose/lose mixup for Highlander it doesn't make any sense. I really don't think they understand what happened here and simply don't play the class...
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    Originally Posted by AmonDarkGod Go to original post
    WThis has always been the case no?
    No. You could kick, have it be dodged, and cancel OF stance to deal with post recovery actions same as any other bash. Now you get GB'd for free. You could technically GB a HL on dodged kick or balor before, but the timing was super precise, you basically had to rely on the HL being slow or not planning on canceling OF. Counter GB'ing from OF took two button presses, a cancel followed by the GB, which already made his CGB window essentially halved. So in other words, it wasn't easy or OP in the first place.

    Yes, before you could roll away from everything and shut down OF moves, but this was a zero gain strategy. Merely stalling fights. And you can still do this, but why would you, when NOW you only need to roll from caber or soft feint caber, everything else is an easy dodge on reaction, NOT a prediction, and results in a free GB and punish. They've made it to where the ENTIRE CAST punishes HL's OF kit on reaction instead of just those with dodge attacks.

    Literally OF is good for nothing but "simulated Warlord enhanced lights that consume 10x the stamina" or "caber tossing unsuspecting opponents not paying attention in a gank." Not kidding...

    Like I said, this is more laughable than the Raider free GB bug, because at least that was a trade of sorts. The Highlander situation is a straight one sided stomp. This has to have been something they overlooked and didn't realize would be a side effect of their botched option select fix, because it's really absurd.
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