People quite often one shotted me, so I went from a light kuyak to a heavy kuyak, and added a veil to my tagancha helm. Now 2 handers have to hit me twice, unless it's on my head, but with everyone else I can scrap for a bit, maybe 3 or 4 hits. The sad thing is with my espada (short, not long), heavy jarids, 733T cavalry shield and javs I have to wear leather and fur cap 75% of the time. Then anyone can one hit me.
I don't mind the amount of tin cans we have. Much like cav and archers it just makes the game more interesting. Gotta think a little, work together etc. I just wish every tiny mistake I make didn't mean insta-death. Its hard to get good at melee when you can only get one hit and three blocks in every five minutes.