Ok - here are some things that **bleep** me off on a daily basis and in my opinion these things have made any form of Martial Arts duels utterly pointless and frustrating.
1. We all know about the broken Combat Roll system - not gonna go into that in detail again - but basicially yiou roll everything from 200 to 350 on both specials and normal attacks. Rolls are completely random and don't seem to hae ANYTHING to do anymore with your charachter's stats.
2.The broken reuse timer(s) on MA specials. This one frustrates me the most and probably only the people that have been in the game since the beginning will even know what I am talking about since this has been broken since like June and I already hear people saying that that's the way it's supposed to be. When you use a special (EFK, Sidekick Combo, etc.) and that special gets either blocked or outrolled by your opponent the reuse timer is STILL SUPPOSED to go on. Has always been that way until it broke. So this leads to people using the same mover over and over again until it finally goes through while YOU are at an disadvantage because YOUR timers went on and you only have a limited number of specials you can use. If you beat someone's EFK on the first move you already KNOW they will use that EFK right away again as their second move but now YOU have hardly any abilities left that can BEAT an EFK since your timers are on.
3.The fact that status effects are caused even if the move doesn't go through. Someone can use 3 power attacks on me and I can beat all three - but somehow magicially that person can still stagger me and all of a sudden come back with a Machinegun Kick. Correct me if I am wrong - but status effects are only supposed to occur when the move goes THROUGH.
So - here we sit with all these bugs that make the Martial Arts tree(s) more frustrating than fun and basicially leave 90% of all duels up to luck and chance and the only answer we get from SOE is that this will be fixed with the new Combat System - which as far as we know is still 2 to 3 months away. We are paying $15/month for this game and they think it is TOTALLY OK to let us sit with an UTTERLY BROKEN Combat system for 3-4 MONTHS (Considering how long some of these bugs have been there it's been even longer) and expect us to just shut up and take it.
I love this game - but it's these things that on a daily basis just tempt me to just cancel my account and move on......