Yeah because you are the pro and "hero" when you win because of your speed, takes so much skill, really. Your whine really shows that you relied on speed instead of skill and now you are nothing with slower game speed.
see you cant realize the difference? not was about speed of attacks, but the ability to feint and make the fight more dinamic, not cause of spam, consider also looms not where here, so yes we where faster but dmg where probably inferior, wpf not determine much speed is more about, of your weapon movement and patterns.
i can say that when i was lev 41 in milanese plate shield+scimitar, duelling vs olwen or cybern where much more interesting different and dinamic. than now. now is all about waiting for a mistake or double spamming a left attack for a glitch
and i not remember any tincan spam, on a 100 man server maybe 15 where tincan. now is more , becouse when you loom an entire set of armor-weapon-shield now, trust me is much more uber that stuff now, than a tincan in the past.
to give you an idea in Merc_ only ppl who where using a tincan set where me and gingerpussy from a total of 20-25 player. so i never saw that proliferation