it was balanced for a class that had 0 melee talents, the old power sword damage was much lower, it took 7 swings to kill a crusher, but the whole game had a complete different balance, so its hard to compare to what we have now
the power sword was nerfed to counter a bug some people were using, where they would glitch their power sword to stay active the whole game
but the nerf’s hit everyone and it was made by grossly incompetent people that are not among the devs anymore