Talk:Melee 2.0/@comment-76.168.105.231-20140501030605

I'm sure this has been addressed at some point in time but since I'm in a rush to do something else, I'll just put it out here:

Ordinarily I use a Frost Prime alongside a Dragon Nikana with Tranquil Cleave. For a while I was having fun slicing up bug-brains, bucket-heads, robots, biomass...alot of things. Tranquil Cleave combos made it even more amusing as I could xx-xxx for some psycho stab action on infested ancients from time to time.

And then I got an Excalibur because I mean, it's a name of a sword, right? Because it has light emphasis on swords, you put stamina and melee mods on it like Reflex Guard, Steel Charge Aura, and Reflection, right?

So I gave Excie my Nikana and marched into Mercury to do a simple test run, first move I tried was slash dash, worked like a charm. Figured since slash dash worked I might as well try out the stance.

"What the...I can't draw this thing..."

Quite literally like Excalibur stuck in a gigantic rock, I couldn't make any swings with the Nikana when in melee mode. I can swing it if I'm using a primary, like a Tigris or a secondary like an Akvasto but specifically in melee mode, that thing gets stuck to its sheathe and I'm sitting there able to channel and block, but otherwise with my hands stuck on an undrawable sword which doesn't feel very useful since it can't cut in that stance.

"So I guess that's what they mean by Tranquil...you just don't swing it is all."

Turns out this isn't limited to just Excie. After getting the frame, my Frost Prime won't draw the Nikana in stance mode either. I also tried switching melee weapons to the Galatine, no effect. Tried forcing melee to be the only weapon in the set, was left in a level doing nothing but block bullets and let my sentinel try hard to kill everything. I officially cannot use stance combos anymore in melee mode.

Anyone got an explanation/suggestion/fix before I ask the devs what's going on with that?