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cRPG => Suggestions Corner => Game Balance Discussion => Topic started by: vinnytk on February 22, 2012, 03:19:15 am

Title: Great Lance Sucks
Post by: vinnytk on February 22, 2012, 03:19:15 am
bring back LoC or make it longer or something

real talk
Title: Re: Great Lance Sucks
Post by: Son Of Odin on February 22, 2012, 03:28:47 am
My short answer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfbK_dbsCu0&feature=related)
Title: Re: Great Lance Sucks
Post by: Chris_P_Bacon on February 22, 2012, 03:29:57 am
Bring back LoC? but Ricky got banned!

Also I agree great lance needs buffs. Maybe not length, but something couch related.
Title: Re: Great Lance Sucks
Post by: HarunYahya on February 22, 2012, 06:41:55 am
Bring back LoC? but Ricky got banned!

Also I agree great lance needs buffs. Maybe not length, but something couch related.
make it throwable !
Title: Re: Great Lance Sucks
Post by: Chris_P_Bacon on February 23, 2012, 04:28:17 pm
make it throwable !
I change my mind, screw length this man knows what's up.
Title: Re: Great Lance Sucks
Post by: Vexus on February 23, 2012, 06:16:24 pm
Like I said in another thread to buff the couch only lances you have to limit or remove couching from the other spears that can thrust.
Title: Re: Great Lance Sucks
Post by: Konrax on February 24, 2012, 12:18:43 am
Heavy lance thrust length > great lance couch range

Not hard to see which one is better.
Title: Re: Great Lance Sucks
Post by: Jarlek on February 24, 2012, 03:13:53 am
Heavy lance thrust length > great lance couch range

Not hard to see which one is better.
Not hard to see which one is cheaper too. I'm a cheapskate :D

Also you get 10+ to cool by using it :D
Title: Re: Great Lance Sucks
Post by: vinnytk on February 24, 2012, 05:57:47 pm
how about giving it blocking so it might be useful to guys without shields.  Say you are a 2h cav and try and use TGL you can't cancel a couch like you can when you have a shield.  Not being able to cancel leads to TKs and other bad shit.
Title: Re: Great Lance Sucks
Post by: Memento_Mori on February 24, 2012, 06:10:48 pm
how about giving it blocking so it might be useful to guys without shields.  Say you are a 2h cav and try and use TGL you can't cancel a couch like you can when you have a shield.  Not being able to cancel leads to TKs and other bad shit.

I like.
Title: Re: Great Lance Sucks
Post by: B3RS3RK on February 24, 2012, 06:51:51 pm
Throwing great lance, Over 9000 Pierce damage y/y?
Title: Re: Great Lance Sucks
Post by: MeevarTheMighty on February 25, 2012, 12:51:41 pm
Heavy lance thrust length > great lance couch range

Not hard to see which one is better.

Not many people can chamber a couch consistently, most people can hold downblock without much trouble. I much more often find myself having to couch a footman than being locked in an unavoidable joust with a heavy lancer.

Also agree though that it's a bit daft to include pikes with no cavalry counter. A skilled pikeman could down LoC every time, yet pikes remain and LoC is gone.
Title: Re: Great Lance Sucks
Post by: vinnytk on March 01, 2012, 05:22:21 pm
let me couch while running on the ground with enough athletics
Title: Re: Great Lance Sucks
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on March 01, 2012, 05:57:42 pm
how about giving it blocking so it might be useful to guys without shields.  Say you are a 2h cav and try and use TGL you can't cancel a couch like you can when you have a shield.  Not being able to cancel leads to TKs and other bad shit.

If you hit x again it should cancel out the couch...
Title: Re: Great Lance Sucks
Post by: Spa_geh_tea on March 01, 2012, 06:39:59 pm
Great lance is my go too. Especially since I have no polearm wpf, it instantly kills just bout anything. also run into situations where I got hit by an enemy lance and die, but the couch is on Target and kills the other guy due to momentum? Buff its length so its same distance as heavy lance poke. That way on a straight joust its a crap shoot instead of hl always win or on freak occasions ties. It would certainly be more entertaining and make gl more applicable in cav fights.

Looming decreases time between couches and time it takes to lower it would be awesome.

Seems fair since couch is interrupted by:
Rider getting hit
Horse going up hill
Terrain glitches
Horse rearing
Blocking
Horse decelleration( dont make tight turns!)

And blocking on coming attacks is interrupted by:
Succesful couch cool down

And couch does no damage when:
Enemy is moving away from you at a sufficient speed relative to your speed
Hits a sheild
Title: Re: Great Lance Sucks
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on March 01, 2012, 08:10:11 pm
I don't know if heavy lance thrust out reaches great lance couch.  I think the angle of attack comes into play here...if you are both completely straight on (like a joust) I'm pretty sure the great lance couch is longer, but most heavy lance thrusters know how to put their horse in a position to get the best reach while keeping their horse as far away from harm as possible. 

Thrusting with a polearm doesn't add any length to the reach, so that's why I think it's shenanigans.  The only way this is possible is if you couch a lance it makes it shorter than the normal reach...that would be hard to test (at least with the normal melee reach tests). 
Title: Re: Great Lance Sucks
Post by: Jarlek on March 01, 2012, 08:37:59 pm
I don't know if heavy lance thrust out reaches great lance couch.  I think the angle of attack comes into play here...if you are both completely straight on (like a joust) I'm pretty sure the great lance couch is longer, but most heavy lance thrusters know how to put their horse in a position to get the best reach while keeping their horse as far away from harm as possible. 

Thrusting with a polearm doesn't add any length to the reach, so that's why I think it's shenanigans.  The only way this is possible is if you couch a lance it makes it shorter than the normal reach...that would be hard to test (at least with the normal melee reach tests).
The 2h polearm thrust doesn't give reach. The 1h polearm thrust gives +50...
Title: Re: Great Lance Sucks
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on March 01, 2012, 10:17:59 pm
The 2h polearm thrust doesn't give reach. The 1h polearm thrust gives +50...

Sorry my bad

Still needs to be at the end of the thrust animation...which if timed correctly (should) out reach the great lance.  I'm ok with that.
Title: Re: Great Lance Sucks
Post by: Jarlek on March 02, 2012, 02:46:56 am
Sorry my bad

Still needs to be at the end of the thrust animation...which if timed correctly (should) out reach the great lance.  I'm ok with that.
NP. Just wanted to correct the mistake :P
Title: Re: Great Lance Sucks
Post by: Spa_geh_tea on March 03, 2012, 12:42:27 am
Timing is not difficult since the stab can be manuevered for full damage even if your off on your target a little. Couching you must position in near perfect to make the connection. Even then, the HL usually outranges. Bit unfair no?
Title: Re: Great Lance Sucks
Post by: FRANK_THE_TANK on March 03, 2012, 12:54:34 am
Yeah how many more buff TGL threads do we need to make before we get a buff?

Also my new build survives couches... 24str 8IF and between 50-69 armour depending on my mood. I took one to the head and walked away with 1% health, my mind boggled.
Title: Re: Great Lance Sucks
Post by: Spa_geh_tea on March 03, 2012, 01:53:35 am
anti infantry id say its pretty even....easy to dogde and pikes outrange it by a lot. But, against other cav it is fairly difficult to make it viable.