Im a level 32 cav player, Fall damage from horse and increasing riding cost from 1 points to 2 would help imo. The increase in riding points might be so detrimental as to not need the fall damage but idk.
Im a level 32 cav player and im saying this. Even though i play morningstar cav which is maybe the hardest melle cav type to get hits with, i can top the charts often times. And on melle maps i can go into melle mode and i still top the charts most of the time. Cav players should be Gimp in melee combat. Only downshide to this is it will hurt you in strat alot making things unfair for you, as almost all combat takes place in seige type situations and horses are too expensive to get for awhile as far as i know.
Although as a 32 cav palyer who was never planning on retiring, i think players with cav skill up to a point 3 or 5 or whatever it may be should have the option of getting to respec without having to lose any of their xp its only fair, should any change like this be implemented.
I dont think any restrictions on bumping should be made, bumping is a fundemtal part of playing cav. Not only that it would make 1h cav virtually impossible to play, the weapons are so short you cant help not bumping the target, and it would hurt bump slashing which is the one advantage 1h cav really have.