I've read it all, there is only one conclusion. You are full of shit. I have even bothered to elaborate.
Now ladders have been removed everyone is sick of cavalry rampaging around unchecked.
Nope, it aint so bad.
and by the slower right-left animation, which makes jump-kill harder to execute.
Has been reverted, use a stab you derp.
There were obviously things wrong with the game back then; bringing in the Cataphract ("robot horse") and the Plated Charger unbalanced things, and soon the sidearm crossbow users were to reduce the game to a shooting match, but they were fixed.
No they were not. Till the end of december 2010 The_Finn did laps through the main zerg hordes getting scores of 50/2 just by the bump power of his +3 Plated Charger while being a mediocre lancer. Every match continued to be a big ass skirmish.
but they were fixed. But never again would I actually have a character I enjoyed playing. Patches keep spoiling things.
How did this fixing happen then? Seems like you are disagreeing with yourself there.
The only characters I have fun with now are silly characters like Hot Chick With a Sword or Ugg the Caveman. Even then the fun doesn't last, because with each patch, the viability of a build is reduced, the choice narrows. Dying 15 times in a row without killing a single one of those optimised, Kuyak wearing death machines is boring.
Stop being an individiuality whore, you can't expect to be viable with every type of build. You don't want to get a normal build or normal gear, but you still complain about effectivity? I use effective gear, still look unique, its not that hard.
One third to a half of all infantry are now pike users anyway, because of the OP-ness of cavalry.
Or, the OP-ness of pikes, that is why in my case. A pike doesn't help you if you are not aware, which is really the only thing you need to fight cavalry. You can just downblock or hit the horse with most weapons. Also, they don't always target you, thats when you need to kill cav if you have a shorter weapon.
The result is that Amiran has become yet another spammitar guy - a choice forced on me.
There are about a dozen viable top tier 1h weapons, you really chose yourself. But indeed, nerf scimitar or remove them as the engine can obviously not handle them. Or slow down 1h leftslash, speed up other directions
I used to have an archer alt, too. Now, forget it. Unless you play archer all the time or are of the same standard as Radh or Tenne, you may as well be a practice dummy.
Archery is popular, to prevent the servers from reaching gamebreaking archer levels they make it a hard class to weed out the nubs, seems like its working correctly.
Get rid of the "soft" level cap - it paradoxically makes everyone a munchkin power gamer.
I'm sorry that the transition from a performance based on grinding game to a skill based game didn't work out in your favour. I say the game is better now and how is only a hard cap better than both a soft cap and a hard cap?
Is it what you wanted?
Almost, yes.
Never before have phantom blocks and blows been such a problem. People are saying "don't bother blocking, it doesn't work, just spam".
Maybe because never so much people have been able to block so much attacks and the average engagement in battle takes an asston more time now. No one I know has ever said that. I am pretty confident in my blocks, they rarely fail.
That is all.
