Okay, as some of you probably know already, I specced to HA (once again).
I'm now going to write a big ass post about what I think on this matter.
0. It's not the class that is gay, its they way some people play it.
The HA build I always had when I played this class and the only one I find fun to play for myself, is 15-24 build having PS and (on higher levels) athletics, 101 wp in onehanded and 160 in archery.
1. God, 6 PD horse archers are such a scum. They do nice damage, they normally don't bring a melee weapon so they get 3 stacks of arrows and as they have all the weapon points put in archery they shoot fast and accurately enough. No doubt, its always a great pleasure for me when I manage to dehorse them and finish them with a sword. Sometimes. And sometimes they shoot me or my horse faster and then finish me with their bow.
2. My damage (5 PD, horn bow, 160 wp) is really small most of the time. Its ok for shooting horses (Arabian/Courser usually takes about 5-6 tatar arrows), it's ok for shooting archers and peasants, but honestly I don't even bother shooting at normal armoured melee unless I have to. With the flag system I don't have much time to make my impact on the battle (I rarely ever shoot all 48 arrows), so often I find it more effective to go full 1h cav and bumpslash or hunt horses. But that's ok, I don't think HAs deserve to have more damage (I compensate that with how OP the 1h cav damage is
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3. Quite similarly with historical reality, a mass of foot ranged is significantly superior to equal amount of HAs when it comes to shooting each other. A horse is a big target which is really easy to aim at, and foot archers have higher damage than HAs. Attacking enemy ranged for me is usually either randomly shooting them from far away, hoping to get a lucky headshot, or charging head on with my sword (but in this case I basically act like a normal 1h cav, so its irrelevant for the discussion about HAs).
4. I'm not sure if 160 points in archery is not enough or I just suck at shooting (probably both?).
5. Anyway, I don't like horse archers having 6 PD, that's too much and too gay, nerf pls ok thx. Don't touch 5 PD horse archers, we're fine.
6. Did you actually expect some serious argumentation for nerfing HAs?
7. Make Yumi unusable on horseback, problem solved (no bias here I swear).
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