Board and sword is soooooo much fun.
Took me 1400 hours of 2h to make that change :-)
Ill have to make the following assumption:
People who are keen, have gamesense and in best case are able to adapt, will be good with every class.
With 1h u simply face different "problems" you have to "work around".
Its challanging, much easier and much harder, depending on the opposition u face.
IMHO, 1h is the only logical consequence for every veteran ;-)
I dont regret it.