Rage about the change here >.> I'm yet to hear from any Fiona user who is actually happy about this. I know most are frustrated merely because of HSC but for myself it's just actually having to learn the bosses moves and use the correct guard to negate damage. On top of that.. the animation was just plain sexy. Worst part of XE for me to be honest.

In case anyone is new to this or yet to find out, basically Fiona's Heavy Stander skill has been changed so that the animation is the exact same as a standard guard and requires no additional button to be pressed along with space(or shift if you kept the XE controls) to activate it. Meaning a standard guard blocks smash attacks now.

Thoughts?

I completely agree with you. It's way too easy to block smash attacks now, but they won't change it that's something we know for sure

Then there's no difference between Heavy Stander and stadard block in VindictusEU/XE at all? It's really confusing to read all sorts of guides from web which mention this HSC technique since there's no way to do it in-game(?).

Heavy stander counter? Well it's for lvl 48 I think?

Heavy Stander Counter? I knew of no such thing. I was thinking about Heady Stander cancel... Well, how does THAT work now that there is no different action for Heavy Stander? Just counter any guarded smash attack?

Mhmm... well it seems you can do that on XE with dodge, maybe?
Idk, for me it doesn't seem like the skills have that slow recovery on XE except for the finishing attacks (which don't have that much either).
I can guard/dodge really fast after doing NNSS (with sword) NS is also way faster than on premiere.