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Originally Posted by Lithril Ashwalker
for all of the people complaining about my psots and quoting me(LOL) i was only saying random things at the top of my head that prove u can have an IMS and IAS at the same time. thats it....
all-in-all logic behind a sword hitting more than one foe same as the scythe i just cant see happening,m even samurai only got to like 2 foes, the blade curves on a scythe because it harvests wheat in bulks.... a sword is meant to take down one foe at a time.
not only that if warriors did have the ability to hit multiple foes with a sword wouldnt that be kind of OP in itself, Dervish cant use a shield along with their scythe yet warriors can and warriors have the most armor now right?
multiple foes + sword = 100b
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Then don't quote me lol. Your analogies were terribly flawed and people picked up on how you were ultimately clasping at straws. Should I really explain to you the drawbacks of all the examples you gave?
Not to mention how those skills are being used on 60AL professions. Storm Djinn's is also mainly used for kiting. Offensively for a sin it's terrible if you're trying to spend energy on a combo and also forced to lose -1 energy per second of running (which will be around -2/3 between attacks). WotA is an elite. Need I also mention that Assassins prove their worth unloading their chains as spike damage, whilst the all-powerful Derv will casually auto attack. It means a Sin needs bar compression skills like WotA to seem even slightly viable because if they want to be deadly little assassins, they need 5/6 combo skills or other utility skills.
Soothing and Natures Renewal revolve around your team build and those two skills usually make up a 4-man backline or hexway. They're not viable in 4v4 nor in GvG unless you're planning to play a heavily territorial game, which is silly when trip-melee derv teams with brains can just collapse on their split and just play away from your spirits. even more yawn.
Soothing images can only work on a bar that can maintain the energy as well and provide enough pressure against the rest of the team. Seriously, to counter such physical/conditional pressure (someone has already mentioned) those skills have been casually nerfed throughout the years and mean there's less to choose from.
My friend's AoB build for Random arenas has 2 attack skills, Wearying Strike and Twin Moon Sweep, the rest are to aid him in auto attacking (Lyssa's, Aura of thorns bla bla).... yawnfest.
In HA, you've got players asking what's the best way to counter it, shutdown the Dervs (but sacrifice killing power) or manage the dervs and attack the backline. The problem is the 123 migraine mesmers who on most occasions set up 1 migraine on healer and 1 on your midline, such as your bsurge ele. It's very negative gameplay but hey-ho - welcome to GW 2011.
Side note:
Logically a scythe was a farming tool made only into a weapon in Feudal lands such as China when farmers and peasants weren't allowed weapons and so resorted to their farming tools. Idealistically, it's a pointless weapon that was only stylised by artists because of it's unique shape. The most effective weapon was a Roman Gladius that was short enough to provide terrible penetrative power.
Also, they fixed the "swap weapon in inventory to cancel" a while ago. Not sure their reason why but I wouldn't be surprised if it was being abused by macro users (crippling shot springs to mind)
its a buff that just offers more fun without being overpowered in anyway at all. 
