Please take another look at Athletics

[Matey]

I'm running 8 athletics and very light armour. I frequently have issues keeping pace with guys in plate. Ive had great maul guys (with 3 athletics) run me down and smash me. It just doesn't seem to be doing as much as it used to.

[Wildling]

Signed

[Malaclypse]

I feel like it has less effect, too. My builds have always been 7-9 athletics, and I wear light armor to maximize that effect, but it felt more sluggish than before. It could just be weather, but I turned particle effects etc. back on and have only seen it raining twice.

[BlameMeForTheNoise]

I feel the same way. I dont know if it was changed intentionally or maybe its just a bug or some side-effect. But i feel much slower with my 7 athletics than before the patch(es).

[Tzar]

If your play/builds depends on backpedalling people to death i suggest you go and play single player instead.

[Keshian]

Lol, not every who doesn't stand still and swing a long great maul overhead is a backpedaler spammer, high athletics is useful for good footwork and using the imprecise blows of opponents against them (badly aimed overheads/stabs, etc.).  I agree I think after latest hotfix athletics got wrecked again to what it was pre-patch, somehow it was doing better like pre-january after the first of the patches a couple weeks ago.

[Malaclypse]

What Kesh said. I like to play support with polearms, particularly the pike (now Long Spear), and decently good movement speed helps a lot for team play, and solo against a group. These are the reasons I have personally invested in Athletics in the past.

[Matey]

i like to chase down archers who try to kite people, and i like to engage and disengage with my footwark, dart forward and hit em in the face then dart back. thats how i deal with 36str 3agi players... cause i use a 85 reach 1h wep. i need my speed or im toast.

[Gamerofthegame]

I have found on perfectly flat ground I will, eventually, run noticably faster then someone with below 3 athletics with my 7 or 8, I forget, athletics. It's noticeable... But not all that significant.

On any slope, however, everyone's speed seems to revert to the same.

Athletics needs a increase, yes.

[Tavuk_Bey]

well this chase depends on your ping. if your pings are way shitty those tincans catch you easily. anyway, why routing like a coward? stand and fight yellowbelly. 

btw i have 12 athletic char and it runs before the wind 

[Tzar]

I see nothing but a buff backpedal spam thread here nothing too see here kids move along 

[Digglez]

I see nothing but a STR monkey spam complainer here nothing too see here kids move along 

[EponiCo]

Yeah, I have 7 athletics and can run very fast, too. Only in light armor, though.

[Lennu]

I've had some wtf experiences with my 8-ath build too, even when using light armor.

 2h-tincan following, I hear him swinging behind be.
*miss*
Yeah, now he can't catch m-...
*chop* he just 1hit killed me

[Matey]

I see nothing but a buff backpedal spam thread here nothing too see here kids move along 

dude, i use a 1handed wep with 85 reach. i like to run circles around people... i use my athletics as a way to position the 4-5 enemies who are trying to kill me in each others way. why are you so convinced that the only people who use athletics are backpedals who swing left to right while holding s until the fight is over? there are a few of those out there, and if athletics was working better i would have a much easier time face hugging and smashing them into the ground, cause most of those backpedalers have 5-7 athletics and wear heavy armour. i should be able to catch them easy... but right now its quite difficult to stay in range.

well this chase depends on your ping. if your pings are way shitty those tincans catch you easily. anyway, why routing like a coward? stand and fight yellowbelly. 

btw i have 12 athletic char and it runs before the wind 

as for you, i dont disengage and leave. i like to dart in and out. the trade off to being a tin can is supposed to be lack of speed and manoeuvrability... its barely noticeable right now.