Changing the name of Master Strike to "Blade Dance" is almost as bad as naming the Sage class Jedi Wizard.

 

Please considering using a different name.

 

Sith Warriors use... Ravage. And Jedi Knights... Blade Dance.

Edited September 11, 2015 by arunav

That is a somewhat... silly name.

I really have to agree...I thought it was silly the first...uhm I mean today which is the first time I've seen that name.

I think it's great and fitting, you guys please stop smoking whatever it is you're high on.

Even Chinese sword forms for demo and practice purposes, that basically look like a dance with a sword, aren't called dances.

 

Blade Dance is awful. Master Strike is good.

Edited September 4, 2015 by Joesixxpack

I think it's great and fitting, you guys please stop smoking whatever it is you're high on.

 

Are you Arya Stark? What happens next season??

What exactly is so wrong with "Master Strike" that they feel the need to change it after all this time?

 

And why is it more important to BioWare to change the name of one ability--which has no impact on game play and serves no purpose other than someone on the team's personal taste--when bugs that have been in the game since launch haven't been fixed yet? I think they should consider getting their priorities straight. Maybe they should also stop having in-game bug reports automatically forwarded into the trash bin while they're at it.

What exactly is so wrong with "Master Strike" that they feel the need to change it after all this time?

 

Perhaps you didn't read the part where they said, " The Jedi Knight’s Master Strike ability has been renamed “Blade Dance” because Soresu Form reduces the Focus gained by “Strike” abilities (Strike, Sundering Strike, and Warding Strike), but Master Strike does not generate or cost Focus – so its name is out of place with the conventions of the rest of the class."

 

Personally I'm indifferent to the name change and it seems to me like people are just flipping out because change is scary. If it makes the naming conventions more logical, ok.

I like Blade Dance as a name. But I'm also positively giddy about getting a charge for my Marauder, so perhaps I am not to be trusted.

Perhaps you didn't read the part where they said, " The Jedi Knight’s Master Strike ability has been renamed “Blade Dance” because Soresu Form reduces the Focus gained by “Strike” abilities (Strike, Sundering Strike, and Warding Strike), but Master Strike does not generate or cost Focus – so its name is out of place with the conventions of the rest of the class."

 

Personally I'm indifferent to the name change and it seems to me like people are just flipping out because change is scary. If it makes the naming conventions more logical, ok.

 

To be honest, the forums had gone at least 5 minutes without someone raging about something.

Perhaps you didn't read the part where they said, " The Jedi Knight’s Master Strike ability has been renamed “Blade Dance” because Soresu Form reduces the Focus gained by “Strike” abilities (Strike, Sundering Strike, and Warding Strike), but Master Strike does not generate or cost Focus – so its name is out of place with the conventions of the rest of the class."

 

Personally I'm indifferent to the name change and it seems to me like people are just flipping out because change is scary. If it makes the naming conventions more logical, ok.

 

People are irked because it's a really silly name and an utterly pointless change.

People are irked because it's a really silly name and an utterly pointless change.

 

Actually, the reasoning behind the change is logical, but the new name is a bit dumb...

As long as the ability looks cool, I don't care. It could be called "Saber Stride" for all I care.

Actually, the reasoning behind the change is logical, but the new name is a bit dumb...

I agree.

 

Perhaps this thread should go in a constructive direction by suggesting replacement names?

I agree with the OP. Blade Dance demeans us more than Pub Mirrors already are. You could spend 2 minutes with a thesaurus and come up with something better.

 

 

Suggestions:

 

Blade Mastery, Sweep Away, Extinguish, Trample, Overrun, Overwhelm, Total Devastation, Retribution, Exorcise, Rebuke, Retribution... Thesaurus.com

 

Ballet of Blades, Blade Plie, Tango of Terror (SW), Salsa of Sabers, Contemporary Interpretive Blade Performance, or Saber Swing are also likeminded alternatives.

Edited September 4, 2015 by TitusOfTides

I agree.

 

Perhaps this thread should go in a constructive direction by suggesting replacement names?

 

I suggest: Master Strike.

I suggest: Master Strike.

 

But that presents a problem absolutely no one noticed or cared about! In Soresu I thought I was going to generate -1 Focus!

I agree.

 

Perhaps this thread should go in a constructive direction by suggesting replacement names?

 

For those of us who troll on /r/swtor, I launched a topic just for that purpose (much easier to downvote nonconstructive comments into hiding).

 

But I think it might be worthwhile to do something like that here on forums as well

Please keep Master Strike. Why do you have to change my favorite abilities? First Force Storm and Force Quake get their duration reduced and now you're planning to change the name of my favorite Jedi Knight ability to something that terrible? goddammit! Edited September 4, 2015 by ShenLongKazama

For those of us who troll on /r/swtor, I launched a topic just for that purpose (much easier to downvote nonconstructive comments into hiding).

 

But I think it might be worthwhile to do something like that here on forums as well

 

Good for you!

 

If the people you are targeting with this already troll on Reddit, you wouldn't need to post it here, would you?

Well, if Ravage is one word, I guess it should be something similar for a guardian, like a sunburst, blaze, exorcise, perish, decimate, breakthrough.... I dunno. I am sure there is a great verb out there. Edited September 4, 2015 by DomiSotto

Please keep Master Strike. Why do you have to change my favorite abilities? First Force Storm and Force Quake get their duration reduced and now you're planning to change the name of my favorite Jedi Knight ability to something that terrible? goddammit!

 

Good, good...let the hate flow through you.

Personally I'm indifferent to the name change and it seems to me like people are just flipping out because change is scary. If it makes the naming conventions more logical, ok.

 

Pretty much.

 

I don't really care either way. I'm used to calling it Master Strike by now, but switching that to Blade Dance doesn't really grind my gears.

 

There is literally a thousand things you could discuss about this article. What do you think about the new utilities? What do you think about the new Sentinel/Marauder abilities? Do you think it will help their overall state in PvP? I could go on. Yet the thing people went for is: "I don't like that, change it!".

 

Yeah, a forum that has some useful discussions. That'd be great.

Edited September 4, 2015 by Alssaran

As I've said before, I don't mind this name at all. I don't think it's amazing, mind you, but it's no sillier than Master Strike and I actually prefer it to Master Strike. At least with Blade Dance you can argue that it implies multiple hits, something Master Strike doesn't do, on top of the aforementioned conflicts with the class' naming conventions.

 

I wouldn't be opposed to them changing it to something new, or even keeping Master Strike (I prefer Blade Dance but not by so much that I'd be bothered by them not actually using it), but let's not pretend that Master Strike was any less silly.

Personally I kinda like it from a RP perspective. Puts me in mind of of my favorite series of books. Fights between Drizzt and Artemis where always equated to a dance, and that's how I pictured their fight scenes while reading. Plus, to me, that's how a master would truly fight, as opposed to the hack and slash of a beginner. Just my 2c on a positive spin.