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And that's fine. What I am saying is that it's stupid that the gear can only be used by a companion.

Letting the OP use the gear also would solve the problem.

So, I can use 1 of my abilities, the non melee ones, and is ok ?
I can't use the melee abilities and is ok ?

You're hilarious. He essentially just listed the ability priority for a Deception Assassin.

Yes, it's an issue if he can't use those abilities.

I don't know. Is this really that big of an issue?

Have you never played a game with a rogue/assassin/thief class that could only use an ability with daggers? Or a ranger class that can only use bows?

I mean, I don't want to get all 'realistic' on this stupidity, but in episode 3 the robots used electrostaves and they weren't lightsabers. Maul impales someone from behind because a lightsaber is, for all intent and purposes, a 'laser sword.' Electrostaves just hurt when you get hit with them and shock/burn the crap out of you.

THEN READ THE SKILLS DESCRIPTION.

Dear me - if it says usable only when using a lightsabre then thats exactly what it means.



Please read my posts - I have already said that if they gave you that skill then you should be able to use it with all the weapons you can equip. I have already said that in time it is something they will likely change or remove the skill from that class.

But until then simply read the skills - dont blame the game for a lack of reading comprehension.

Fair enough. But why am I granted the ability to use that weapon class upon choosing the Assassin AC? You would think that if I'm granted the ability to equip that kind of weapon only after choosing my AC, I'd be able to actually use them

It's bad design or a mistake. You can pick one.

If you didn't read my topic yet, wht should I read your posts ?

As I have stated many times already...
Even if everything is RIGHT, I DON'T CARE. I Want the GM to ANSWER CORRECTLY.
This was NOT an engine topic, are you so slow that you can't understand that ?

This has never been the case. Almost every game you will play allows for specializations and also has abilities limited to certain weapons being equipped. An assassin is in essence a rogue. It stealths, has abilities that trigger coming out of stealth, has abilities that target units from behind, etc. In almost every game involving rogues tracing back to DND, they have dagger specific abilities.

It is not bad design. It is class flavor.

A Jedi Guardian can equipped light robes, but he'd be gimping himself tankwise to do so. An assassin can equipped electrostaves, but he'd be gimping himself to do so.

You're getting hung up on semantics. What the GM meant to say was "I can't believe you are wasting my time with this. The ability says it requires a double bladed ligthsaber. I can't tell you to learn to read, so I am going to tell you some things you should already know."

Im just curious what makes you think a GM can know every single aspect of the game. They are not these all knowing Gods. A lot of them probably have never even played the game. If they have played most of them have jobs (hello) and maybe havent done all the end game stuff yet.

Well..take WoW. Yeah, a MutRogue had attacks specific to daggers. But if a player didn't want use daggers, you could still equip a variety of weapon types and could choose to specialize in a different tree that supported different weapons.

Your point would be stronger if this were the case, and we had different avenues of progression open to us via our three skill trees (or even paths within a given tree). But Assassins can only use double bladed lightsabers, so it's not really the same.