Good bye, hope you find a game that suits you.
Also, this topic should be called horse acceleration not horse speed, two different things.
Horse speed was also nerfed. And seeing as I ride a courser, that's what I noticed first.
Plus I thought the point of WSE was that they'd be able to separate manoeuvre, acceleration and speed?
I don't mind a slightly less top speed, but right now acceleration is down in the dumps. As soon as you get stopped you are dead because, as someone else pointed out, 2h can get 3-4 swings on your horse before you get out of range again. And with the amount of hilly village maps that are on EU servers, that happens an awful lot.
That's also why I've been 1 shotted by Longbowmen and Crossbows so much suddenly. Because there are so many hills around you can hardly move if you get stuck on one. And no matter how much you weave, the fact you are almost at a standstill means you can't avoid it.