Great Long Axe and Danish. They are just crowding the battlefield.
A 2h player? most likely danish.
Every polearmer or polecav pulls out a big ass axe and hiltslashes it..
Paul, Fasaderp. Do you really want this bias towards the longest ranged weapons?
I've said it a gazillion times, your formulas for 2h/pole doesn't reflect the battle power of weapons sufficiently. IMO it doesn't count in the range of weapons and weigh it in enough..
That's really the core problem. It's not some kind of superstition or romanticism with big swords that makes so many players use them. I think i.ex the Longsword is an excellent sword, perfectly usable in battle. The only problem is that there is another sword that is longer AND does more damage in cut and pierce. The experienced speed difference in game marginal, and not many wants to spend those saved $$$ on armor since it will slow them down too much. And with a shorter sword you need superior speed to not get backpedalspammed..
To be more precise. I think the reason the longest weapons are more powerful than they "should" be according to formula, is that the longest weapon will always outrange everything else (duh). And towards the end of the list of the longest wep, they outrange almost everything, and very little outrange them. So in a random selection of encounters, you get the "Backpedal and get free slash effect" much more often with a long wep. So the metagame adapts to this, and you end up with everyone using a danish greatsword.
Now the question:
Should we nerf the longest 4 directional weapons a little bit and have a more varied battlefield?
The only melee infantry players NOT using a danish or a Great Long Axe are different variants of roleplayers.
This is not me having a problem with these weapons. It's just really boring to see so little of our amazing armory getting used.
