Do people use a Great Lance?

[Lt_Anders]

I've recently spent a large portion of my gen playing GL cav, and I'd love to see if people use a great lance. I also wish that the looms on it made it more couch friendly...

But, Do you use a Great Lance?
Do you think it's a decent weapon?
Do you wish it could be made more couch friendly with looms(as in that link)?
Well, what say you :

[Smoothrich]

a great lance couch can still be out lanced by a heavy lance, a heavy lance has almost as good of a couch while being a very powerful melee weapon and the best cav thrusting weapon, great lance has a niche imo as a 0 ps back up weapon for horse archers that are bored/feel like engaging other cav before they start shooting away

now the lance of compensation, that was a lance, please bring it back, why even remove it, rus bows and bodkins do basically the same amount of damage except they have infinite range instead of ~250 or whatever it was, bring back lance of comp please

[KaMiKaZe_JoE]

I think the great lance should be made a tiny bit longer--just enough to out range a heavy lance thrust. I spend maybe 90% of my time using the heavy lance, because it can couch just like the GL, but is also thrustable.

If I ever use one of the couch-only lances, its the practice lance (or jousting lance or w/e). It does blunt damage, and its funny to hear the 'thunk' as you couch a biddy.

[Kafein]

I think the great lance should be made a tiny bit longer--just enough to out range a heavy lance thrust. I spend maybe 90% of my time using the heavy lance, because it can couch just like the GL, but is also thrustable.

If I ever use one of the couch-only lances, its the practice lance (or jousting lance or w/e). It does blunt damage, and its funny to hear the 'thunk' as you couch a biddy.

I think the GL should get a damage boost to prevent anyone from surviving a hit at 35 max speed. It happens often with those high str heavy armor beasts. And a shorter cooldown time.

[Leshma]

I think heavy lance shouldn't have couching option.

[Kafein]

I think heavy lance shouldn't have couching option.

Then it should have a proper angle freedom. And all horses should have *1,2 maneuver from current levels.

[Leshma]

You want to buff strongest class in the game, funny.

Edit: Btw. I agree with lance angle but maneuver buff, nooo!

[Lt_Anders]

I think the great lance should be made a tiny bit longer--just enough to out range a heavy lance thrust. I spend maybe 90% of my time using the heavy lance, because it can couch just like the GL, but is also thrustable.

If I ever use one of the couch-only lances, its the practice lance (or jousting lance or w/e). It does blunt damage, and its funny to hear the 'thunk' as you couch a biddy.

I've outranged HLances as long as it's not a DIRECT hit.(You can't couch over your horses head very well). But it requires timing and proper movement, otherwise you will get hit by Hlance.

I just wish the Great lance was truely more useable. It can only be used with a horse at speed and all other lances  are able to used standing still.

[Kafein]

You want to buff strongest class in the game, funny.

Edit: Btw. I agree with lance angle but maneuver buff, nooo!

If you think horsemen should be a decent counter to range, then you agree to a maneuver buff. The #1 problem with killing ranged as cav is that you need a lot of luck to catch those fairies.

You want to nerf cav by nerfing the heavy lance. At the moment it's the core weapon of cav. Nerfing it means nerfing the class, not "just a weapon".

[Leshma]

I don't think that. How I picture this game is completely different than what we have right now. Archery and xbowmy old friend classes should be so weak that only 10% of players choose to play them. Lancer cav without shields and 1H cav with shield but without any forcefield while on horse. Everybody else being infantry and enjoying this mighty fine melee combat system we have in place. That's what I think

[Christo]

I'd replace "weak" with

"hard to use properly",

And we'd think the same. It's very close tbh. 

[Chagan_Arslan]

leshma is just butthurt because i keep couching him, and that im able to even when he is not typing isnt it right leshma

[Kafein]

I don't think that. How I picture this game is completely different than what we have right now. Archery and xbowmy old friend classes should be so weak that only 10% of players choose to play them. Lancer cav without shields and 1H cav with shield but without any forcefield while on horse. Everybody else being infantry and enjoying this mighty fine melee combat system we have in place. That's what I think

We basically have the same views, but to acheive that, I think shields and cav should be very strong against all range. They aren't. Partly because of CoD map design.

[Lt_Anders]

Go nerf cav in another topic. I want the GL looms buffed, or A GL to be made more usable!

[Polobow]

I think GL should be buffed with range up to a point where only 5~ max pixel range from heavy lance thrust can still hit you.