Infantry / ranged just doesn't have enough opportunity to shoot the horses down.
Tbh given all the nerfs ranged took, horse HP needs to go down. Maybe disable light crossbow from being usable on horseback, so HX have to resort to hunting crossbow, and raise str req of it to 12. The result is that the class exists but is no better then HA.
However, the problem with horse ranged is this:
- with the nerfs to foot ranged there is too few of them and too weak to shoot down horses reliably
- with the nerfs to hybridization there are too few people with throwing weapons, so horse ranged can ride very close to infantry
- because of slots, shields aren't that common amongst two-handers
I mean, next people will make STF HAs to troll people. As long as you can't shoot the horses down, they will troll infantry and slowly shoot them to bits.
In short, my suggestion is this:
- make light crossbow non-reloadable on horseback (but leave the hunting one as reloadable), this nerfs the accuracy and damage by a lot
- increase the str requirement of the hunting crossbow to 12 (so no more 30 agi builds)
- reduce horse HP across the board or alternatively give (foot) ranged weapons a bonus to horse damage.
