There are no hardcaps? soft cap is 36, but you can potentially hit 37 right? Also pre-upkeep was horrible, imagine it now. Everyone would be playing cav/tincan or both.
I don't think so. Cav players would all be wearing plate, no doubt. But for footmen ? Not really.
Perhaps compared to the days of 250 wpf combat has been slowed down, but I am fairly sure that combat is currently as fast if not faster than it ever was in 2011.
The one thing that significantly increased combat length was the soak/reduce change. But then again, it had to be done otherwise we would still have those RNG glances.
Also lol @ berenger rambling about "nerfs" when really everything has been nerfed,
usually (certainly not always) with good reason. It's not a good idea to have weapons so fast they get free double hits. It's not a good idea to have a long crushthrough weapon that can be used effectively outside of advantageous situations. It's not a good idea to have 4D weapons so long you can cover a street all by yourself and so powerful you can spam its hiltslashes (trust me I know, I was the worst Looney Tunes Axe abuser). Amusingly enough nobody ever mentions the Lance of Compensation in these threads, perhaps because with this one the problem was so obscenely obvious even the thickest nostalgia glasses do not hide it.
Edit : dat doublepost