Star Wars: The Old Republic revealed

Don't like where this is headed, the joke in regard to "Old republic in KotOR 3,4,5 etc" was really just frightening, because yeah, every RPG on PC should be an mmo.. right? And that one again Grey Knights are shut out and it's Jedi or Sith is also blah, the whole damned emphasis of the Skywalker family is that they are grey by nature and evenly spaced with the light or dark, are they going to remove this concept as playable or keep it as bland as it has been already when playable "your future is cloudy" "remember, heal not fry with lightning" where one over he other is simply depowered a bit?

I shudder at what they're going to do with the universe since they set up the premise that Revan stopped killing the Republic to combat the Sith Empire threat, write off the entire character much?

Actually when you think about it, instead of having a lightsabre for deuling you could really have someone with a few smaller knife like weaponry where say they have 4 could theoretically use all 4 as targeted projectiles. I mean it'd be similar in a lightsabre being thrown on the horizontal beheading someone and then spinning back but instead you could assume the smaller projectiles would be thrown on the vertical or as a piercing (like Jedi Academy) since that actually has credence in lore. Double ended sabres also can then be shortened to other martial weaponry without too much difference or "that's entirely moronic" opinion.

That was in my thinking, but also saw the potential for a different take on force powers as well, focusing on manipulation of instead of the usual, which could bring in;

wind & fire wheels;


meridian axes;


or sais. Since you can really see how each could done and could add a level of difference to combat with keeping with the overall theme of a focused light orientated sabre. In effect you already have the bo staff (double ended sabre) the typical martial sword (generic sabre) and a 9 ring broadsword / rapier (Dooku's) which focused more on sweeping instead of piercing where you could see Tonfa or more personal weaponry to fit with the lightsabre forms. For instance Soresu (focusing on repelling blaster fire) could then be reworked with a shorter weapon (since it requires less movement to change directions) and translate to quicker action / strikes.

This way you're changing the dynamics of how the force is executed (instead of having everyone run around with force lightning and battle meditation one could forgo that to manipulate their blade to a whip (Empire at War) or other manipulation of objects as above) as well as redefining combat and thus class structure with the forms as well.

Just yeah, don't see them doing this at all.

Of course fight style is different, grabbing from anywhere but the hilt would result in loss of hand which would change the fighting style immensely. I was speaking shape with that & the sabre and motion with Dooku as, assuming you could grab the double bladed anywhere it would be much like a bo staff in execution. (which in turn leads into manipulation aspect)

Also, what Klingon axe? If I recall my watchings they had a couple of different axes, traditional and one with like 2 hook things either side. There are hook swords (swords where the hilt is bladed and curved over the fist & instead of a piercing point the blade is tipped to a hook) as well as similar style axes in regards to Wu-shu weaponry?