2 quick questions

You honestly believe that the primary mechanic any competent assassin uses to kill is a bug? This hasn't just come up, assassins having been doing this since the beginning of beta and uber has never even mentioned it.

You can make an arguement that you think it should be changed but assuming it's a bug is fairly absurd.

assassins have been lunging past pros quick turning and back grappling, or lunging into range than a step or two into a grapple for quite some time.. probably long before I started playing, but as of lately i have seen many more assassins who are now able to do somehting similar to a 'stance cancel' where they are landing full lunge dmg, than instantly grappling.. the grapple seems to hit before the lunge slash animation even finishes..

its possible this has always been going on, and if so than perhaps its "working as intended" in which case its not a bug than.. though its become much more prevelant in the last week for me atlesat, maybe thats just the community catching on..

either way I dont feel this is fair.. It would be like a tank being able to combo the charge into his 2ndary weapon grapple.. allowing him to hit you for full dmg from charge, and than launch you to the full length of his railgun grapple whlie stunned..

well atleast thats the way i see it.

maybe not a bug, I personally cant see this being intended.. simply because it allows an assassin to deal

minimum: 700
Maximum 1200

dmg instantly from stealth, with almost no chance of avoiding it.. or hearing it coming.. not a TON of assassins can make this happen with a lot of consistancy, probably requiers decent ping and great timing, but as more learn to do it, I can see it becoming a huge problem.

right now as it stands, thats really my ONLY complaint about assassin, everything else can be countered by skill, or chalked up to him having more skill than you..

I mean if i'm firing my weapon, and an assassin uses that to his advantage, knowing I probably wont hear his cloak coming, and I get back grappled, than cutos to him, he earned it.. but If i'm just running somewhere, and out of no where I get lunge grappled.. it feels like i got head shot by a sniper whos able to fire from cloak..

omg thread jackers!!! jk

thanks for the simple answer i got on page 2.
also thanks for the long and explained post with numbers. i think i'll be needing those later when i get into this game more