Applying for item balancer.
I think the state of item balance is in decent shape but needs fine tuning and polishing in some areas.
The primary reason I am promoting my self for this job is because I would search out the view of the playing (active) community before making changes. While I am not advocating total democracy, I would certainly make use of polls and teamspeak communication to get an understanding of the full spectrum of player experience to better enable me in my item balancing decisions.
Here are some other reasons:
I am quite active. Duh.
I am a longstanding member of this community. I have been around since the age of ladderpulting and beheld the renowned Boulder on a Stick, Sword of Cookies\Tears, etc. I also participated through the betas of Warband and the original Mount & Blade.
I have played multiple gens of every class (both STR and AGI variants) and am reputed for having more alts (which I regularly retire with) than one rightly should. That includes archery, 2h, 1h, pole, thrower, hybrids etc etc etc, every class.
I understand and am immersed with medieval weaponry. I am a practitioner of Historical European Martial Arts and regularly practice with equipment such as chain mail, long swords, arming swords, gambesons round shields, bucklers, you get the idea. This does not mean I am ignorant of the need for game balance over some elements of realism, but simply that I am aware of the real life properties of many of the things we use in cRPG.
Here are some item balance issues that I would like looked at:
Note that if you happen to disagree with me, that doesn't mean you should disapprove of me doing this job because as I already stated, I wouldn't enforce any changes without checking on how the playing community felt about the issue. That means you!
Within the archery community there seems to be primarily longbow users and nomad bow users. The Rus, Horn, and Tatar bow need their own niche and appeal.
The armor on upper tier horses (excluding plated charger) does not seem to be justly reflected in the statistics. In general the higher tier horses seem to die too easily and certainly don't reflect their monetary cost.
The overall effectiveness of the hand and a half swords give little reason for infantry to make use of the great swords.
I believe that sums it up. If you have any questions I can be contacted via pm on the forums or on steam- lethwin_far_seeker
