I hate you chadz. I hate you so much. By the time I retire my chars so they can ride their horses again you'll probably have devised another way of ruining them for me.
Seriously though, I play games to have fun. Playing a useless char for two more weeks is not exactly going to fit the bill.
I demand a non-level-reducing full respec. It's only fair to the cav. Come on devs, you've gotta realise that a lot of cav players are the ones who've been at this game the longest(due to the high cost of equipment and repairs) and a lot of us are settled, as in not wanting to retire anymore(lvl 32+). This fucks a large portion of the community over and forces damn near all cav to either retire or respec with no promise whatsoever of these changes being permanent. This is too big of a change for cav to just accept and continue playing. Seriously. You need to do something.