I have made a bunch of alts in preparation for the patch. Hands down, easiest build is 2h/thrower strength build with all strength other than the 9 agility for 3 weaponamster and athletics, all the rest of points in throwing, powerstrike, and ironflesh. Even in heavy armor can run down most archers, I can 1 hit kill most people with javelins 34 pierce plus the throwing skill modifier and swing incredibly fast with a bastard sword and two handed axe. SO EASY. Also, the new slower combat speed makes easy to block, but many people dont because of the 1 hit kkill ease for melee so you block once and kill a lot of the spammers out there (which there are alot mor eof since the patch hit). I have every other kind of build and nothing compares with the ease of this build. On the opposite side of the coin archery is near worthless build now as 6 powerdraw and warbow/longbow needed to do any effectual damage (2/5 health of someone in lamellar), but the 6 power draw 18 str prevents a high enough wpf such that your shots go randomly wide of the reticule amking it a spamfest, lower bow with lower powerdraw more accurate but only do 1/10 healtha t best against medim-armor clad opponents. Enjoy hunting archers with my OP build as near impossible to hit erratically moving target with delayed trigger release and reduced draw speed and I can 1-hit kill with javelin. Really need some game balancing issues addressed here, but until then killing easily.