This limit is well-intended but too strict. I just posted an appeal for a reformation of this limitation.

I'm impressed with the realistic power of the staff proposed here. I would definitely like to see this implemented.

Actually, I would argue that the sword special is objectively better than the bow special. When you activate the sword special, you travel at extreme speeds over significant distance, you get a kill aura that cannot be countered, and you get invincibility against everything except bomb or bear. Sword special is an instant cast and is impossible to react to, so your only chance is to predict it, which you can also do with the bow. At maximum range, sword special still hits you faster than bow special at edge-of-screen range.

The worst part of the sword special is the invincibility: I have landed a perfect Piercing Arrow, Freeze Shard, Charge Attack, Knife, etc. and it goes to complete waste because they pop the special, which shouldn't be a feature. Furthermore, you can block the special, but you can't counterattack, so the sword special is basically free damage and 1.5 seconds of invincibility.

But the sword special isn't the point of the article, so why not read the rest of it?

well yeah, I did collect them.

But you gave me shit. It has nothing to do with you being polite or not. You pretended like you knew what you were talking about, you told me that axe, staff, and bow specials grant invincibility, when they don't, and you just thought you could get away with it.

Nor can I pretend that I remain stoic and dispassionate for the duration of the discussion on the forum. If someone gives me shit, I get mad. That's the way I work. And if i'm mad going in due to others in the community, previous experiences with the individual in question, or just bad changes coming up on the changelog, then they're going to have to deal with the shit that I give them, either by being a gentleman until I can act reasonably again or by giving me shit back, in which case the process will rinse and repeat until someone inevitably yields, and I am a pretty goddamn determined person when i'm mad, so it's likely that won't be me.

Actually, i'm glad you contributed, Saii. Here's an excerpt written by me from the tread above:

"Personally, I don't see my attitude as that much of a problem. When people approach me with arguments that make sense, and they support such with logical reasons, and they do so properly, and they don't make shit up *cough cough* I tend to be very reasonable. However, when people think they can get away with taking shortcuts, not bothering to do their research, when people are hypocrites, when they just pull unrelated responses out of their unrelated response bag instead of systematically addressing the opposition, I adopt an attitude that fits the situation that they present. You can observe this when you asked me a genuine question and I gave you a genuine response."

As you can see, I do very much agree with you here. I respect the comments section as a formal space to properly discuss changes, and disagree when necessary, as long as I observe similar respects being extended to me. However, I don't feel the need to keep the forum necessarily positive, I intend to keep it realistic. If others treat the forum with respect, so will I.

Personally, I don't see my attitude as that much of a problem. When people approach me with arguments that make sense, and they support such with logical reasons, and they do so properly, and they don't make shit up *cough cough* I tend to be very reasonable. However, when people think they can get away with taking shortcuts, not bothering to do their research, when people are hypocrites, when they just pull unrelated responses out of their unrelated response bag instead of systematically addressing the opposition, I adopt an attitude that fits the situation that they present. You can observe this when you asked me a genuine question and I gave you a genuine response.

I realize that people will complain, but I don't think it would be that bad. I bet a lot of them wouldn't even notice the change. And I've seen few players as vocal and firey as The E%patriate and me, with the exception of Saii, maybe, so there wouldn't be as much complaining.

Be prepared to be bathed in my light, then.

In case you didn't quite grasp the whole hypocrisy thing, it's listed there because you told me to watch my words, without doing so yourself, lest you may have refrained from that post.

The solution to being teamed up on? Don't. In order to be a successful player, you need to know when to engage and disengage from combat. If you are traveling through Ruins by yourself (which you already shouldn't be doing -common sense) and you come across a group of enemies, run. It's that simple. Being teamed up on should result in death, pretty much every time, and the fact that it does is one of the few redeeming qualities of the game. Would it be fair if you were able to combat a group of three by yourself? Of course not. People who make posts complaining about being teamed up on can't grasp the simple principle that Wilds is a team game, and that you should be traveling as a team, as your enemy is doing, and that it's a good thing that you get slaughtered by three opponents at once, because that's the way it is supposed to work.

It's fair punishment for

A) not traveling with allies in the first place, and

B) being foolish enough to attack a group by yourself.

Just because you engaged a single target doesn't mean you are entitled to the entire combat, if another enemy joins in, you need to re-evaluate and make a conscious decision to either keep fighting or run.

Teaming isn't a problem, because Wilds is a team game.

And additionally, sword and hammer specials aren't intended as a kind of block. They are attacks, and someone using that special in order to attack (as everyone does, do one uses it as a block) should not be granted protection, because it far too often results in wasted items or specials, and because if they chose to attack whilst the enemy chose to use a special or knife or whatever, the latter should at least do damage, if not interupt the special.