On my HA i play high risk most of time anyways, with high chance to get myself killed, by riding close to melee enemies and time arrows to hit and disrupt counter attacks and propably bump ( against shielders its the best way to do damage anyways) - except if there is archers, which i try to hit on range obv, but those are in advantage against my HA build with much better accuracy and damage, shooting my horse down easily, leaving me to the dogs 9/10 cases. Melee do always have a good chance to get a hit on me or my horse if i attack them, if they use good footwork or tactics ( flanking, surrounding ... ). If they dont play smart its not my fault ...
If anyone complaints about my playstyle or even polls me (which happened sometimes) i dont feel guilty or any necessarity to dismount or so. For me thats plain rageQQ . If they expect gay-duel at end of a round its not my fault and HA class has a right to be hero at round end like any other class ( EXCEPT HX VALOR WHORES! >:E but thats just me bitching because they have advantage over HA :3 )