Cutlass-How do I skip Cleave?

[Doroda Sword]

Thanks for all the advice and comments everyone. Hopefully, I will make more threads soon.

[Maya Kate]

My first pirate skipped cleave and it made for a very smoothe flowing 4 part combo. Cleave is just plain awkward. Unfortuantely I retrained this pirate's cutlass and now she has the "required" combos. Face it no one, pirate or otherwise, is going to use an overhead strike unless they're desperate. It is not a "normal" sword move. But that said...
sorry you can't skip it anymore, you MUST use cleave before you can get flourish.

[Poison elf]

This is still a non dealt issue at Disney.
I was against the new system, I am a pirate, not a soldier that lines up and fires when told or something. To skip a combo or use a different method of attack than the 1 2 3 4, is a given right to pirates.

I do and don't have this on pirates, but what I find most disturbing is the perk out of this to some.

Basically what it boils down to is all those pirates starting months before us others, setting this up. Now they have this while others and future pirates don't.

The bad thing out of it, they are not likely to give us back freedom in skills, so eventually are going to have to deal with those that have this.

With so many downgrades lately to paid accounts so free ones can play as even as possible, past history leads me to believe this to be one of their high priorities.

[Nack]

combo skips were eliminated a month or two ago and now you cant get rid of cleave.

[Angel Daggerfury]

Originally Posted by Nack

combo skips were eliminated a month or two ago and now you cant get rid of cleave.

Release Notes - October 17, 2008
* Trainer NPC's at local blacksmiths can now retrain your weapons, by retraining a weapon you can refund all your spent skill points and allow you to re-choose your skills for that same weapon.

More like 5 months ago back in October when they allowed us to buy back our skill points, same day bosses & the lvl 20 weapons were released. Used to be able to just save skill points and unlock whatever when you level, the old fashion way.

There was a maintenance downtime that night for some sort of game update...but the only thing that was even close to that listed in the release notes wasn't until
Release Notes - October 20, 2008
* Fixed a bug with skill respec pricing.

This is sort of like the whole reduction in cannon ammo thing, it was never in the release notes, it just happened.

Well same thing here, I thought you could place your points WHEREEVER after buying them back. Unfortunately, me like most people were busy doing the lvl 20 weapons quests & hunting for bosses, rather than sit and brainstorm on where to place my skill points at after buying them back.

Only the people who brought their skill points back and redistributed them on the FIRST day the option to retrain your skills at a Trainer on Oct 17, were able to skip combos. =(

The maintenance thing that night updated the game and threw in those Red words that said "Requires Cleave/Flourish/Gouge/etc". Ask anyone who retrained their weapons on the 1st day who remembers the Red words not being there...

One of my friends got lucky, his cutlass is just simply maxed "Hack, Slash, Stab/Thrust"... which is as close & similar as you could possibly get to an NPC's attack where Officers/Mercs can just skip combos and go straight to their attacks randomly.

[jason davy]

Back in the day you could skip combo skills. No more.

[Aaron McEagle]

Yes, before the updates where you could retrain weapons you could skip combos. I know some of the best pvpers skip it but you can't skip it now. And if you retrain that weapon where you did skip a combo, you now can't skip a combo.