FREE MELEE!

[Grumbs]

I got my Huscarl round shield penetrated by a xbower the other day, and it was by Dieler (or an imposter. He is usually melee). Wasn't point blank but I was approaching him so might have been some movement speed bonus. The server was nearly dead so I know it was him and it only took 1/4 of my life so it was a shield penetrator. Seems you can't even move toward some ranged with a shield now incase you get penetrated and 1 shotted in the head

Kind of wish I took those 5 shield points and put them into athletics so I can at least dodge better. Holding the shield up makes you a much easier target and you just get hit from the sides.

[Hirlok]

I got my Huscarl round shield penetrated by a xbower the other day,

Arb has been doing this for years. Other ranged does not. So?

[Grumbs]

So I put 5 skill points into something. Xbower puts F-all and still has enough WPF for enough in a melee weapon

Xbowers are really poorly implemented, they are literally point and click. Don't have a window to shoot in like with archer, can run and shoot up close. Hide all round pewpewing in heavy armour and you can still have a better melee build than pure melee with shield. They overbuffed 1 handers and increased weight, they never seem to get weapon stunned anymore.

Would be nice if the devs focussed on xbowers, but all they do is increase their damage with their Steel Bolts, give them more WPF but add a little weight that doesn't actually matter in a melee fight because they just drop the xbow and are hiding before then anyway

[Hirlok]

Totally agreed. XBows and their hybrid abilities are a joke and have been so for ... since the mod exists.

Problem: won't change, since at least one of the devs used to be or still is a xbow.

So archers get nerfed because some goat must be offered to the whining melee blood gods. 

[Carthan]

Gandalf is cav/inf hybrid.

Correction Edit: Actually in this movie he is inf/thrower. Later on at the end of movie 1, he respecs to cav/inf hybrid.

Actually I think he retired.
I think Gandalf was too cheap to buy the name change.

[Lt_Anders]

How come EU whines so much. You don't see NA whine at all.

I think EU just can't handle anything that doesn't fit their Medieval definition of a fight.(which, btw, Shields WERE the most common form of weapon along with spears, so If anything, mass Migration to shield is realitically accurate for the majority of the "crpg timeperiod)

[Alec]

Dig a hole, put on some disguise, like orange clothes and prettend you are a carrot. I bet they'll miss 

[Rumblood]

Buff cavalry. Those squishies are lined up perfect for a conga line of lancers.

[//saxon]

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[Grumbs]

I don't want to play melee only. I want cav, melee, shielders, archers, xbows, throwers.

BUT the server is an absolute joke right now. We don't have ranged we have melee with ranged capability. Way too many projectiles flying around to make the game fun to play

[Gurnisson]

Would be nice if the devs focussed on xbowers, but all they do is increase their damage with their Steel Bolts

Buffed non-loomed version, but loomed one just increased in weight and price, not damage.

[Alec]

Why don't we add PD requirement for xbows and decrease accuracy when mounted? even when your horse isn't moving.

[Lt_Anders]

Why don't we add PD requirement for xbows and decrease accuracy when mounted? even when your horse isn't moving.

You do know that being mounted is -20% reduction in damage yes? You need 10 HA just to have equal damage as a foot archer. (HA is +2% damage from the -20%. So 1 HA is -18% damage, etc.)

[Alec]

You do know that being mounted is -20% reduction in damage yes? You need 10 HA just to have equal damage as a foot archer. (HA is +2% damage from the -20%. So 1 HA is -18% damage, etc.)

Not talking about damage, but accuracy.. 

[Grumbs]

Buffed non-loomed version, but loomed one just increased in weight and price, not damage.

Arbalest has always been 100 piercing has it? Thats OK then. Legit damage right there for such a weapon