EU is awash with xbows, my lord the pain!

[FRANK_THE_TANK]

My horse, she no likey.

[karasu]

Horsies are all made of paper since the revival patch. You're actually forced to play like a cunt now and hide 24/7. A simple 1h will 1 hit you. Everything 1 hits you. 

Just respecc something completely homosexual meanwhile (read 2h *cough*) and wait for some horsie love.

[Grumbs]

Server is full of xbow and 1 hand with shield because it is the most efficient way to play atm when we have such high levels. Don't need to spend anything to use a xbow except a bit of WPF and it gives you amazing melee ability with such high level, not to mention protection from ranged as well

[darmaster]

Yes xbowers are definitely advantaged with this patch

[Leshma]

I've seen a couple dedicated Xbow players since I started playing again. Not sure what time do you play but in late evening/night (GMT+1) there are few ranged players on servers. Less than ever if I recall right. Servers are swarmed with 2H, the same class I play.

[Erzengel]

Shields just dont break these days, before there were just one or 2 shielders like that, now every shielder takes dozens of hits.

'Mount and Blade'? More like 'Turtle and Gank' amirite?

Well, I break most shields in two or three hits.  There are so many axes out there. Shields won't last long.

[Teeth]

Shielders and crossbows now? Well that changed quickly then. My exact thoughts when I played somewhat actively for a week after the patch was that everybody seemed to play fast high armour 2h and that there were hardly any crossbows anymore.

[FRANK_THE_TANK]

Shielders and crossbows now? Well that changed quickly then. My exact thoughts when I played somewhat actively for a week after the patch was that everybody seemed to play fast high armour 2h and that there were hardly any crossbows anymore.

Playing 15 vs 15 about 5-7 xbows per team. Tis nuts.

[FRANK_THE_TANK]

And 3 archers and 2 throwers. It's fucking CS:GO lol

[Leshma]

My exact thoughts when I played somewhat actively for a week after the patch was that everybody seemed to play fast high armour 2h and that there were hardly any crossbows anymore.

Got same impression. My build is 18/27 with 9 ATH and moderate armour and I don't feel fast or particularly agile at all.

Edit: Typo.

[karasu]

It's the game meta evolving slowly after each free respecc. With all the 2h swarm post patch a natural counter had to rise to the occasion. And that is a good thing, means people are using their grey matter.

Give it some more time to see where it lands (and pray for some more tweaks).

[Leshma]

That moment when you come back after a long pause, and realize how odd everything seems at first (this game is really really weird compared to everything else) and wondering why are twohanded animations so strange. After some time you adapt and this game becomes 'normal' for you and everything else seems strange. It's a really weird thing.

After two days I still think 2H anims are bollocks and can't stand them. Will respec to 1H or poles, just to spare myself of two-ha bullshitness.

[AwesomeHail]

Yes xbowers are definitely advantaged with this patch

wrong timing for me to buy a +3 rouncey D: every 1h short sword 1hits me and a simple HA arrow does 1/2 and they rapid fire those shots

[darmaster]

i swear to god i got 2 shot by daan with a katana and 7 ps, i have around 45 head armor and around 55 body armor, i pay a lot for it, i have 7 IF and 23 STR and still a katana 2 shots me :l

[Gravoth_iii]

Horsies are all made of paper since the revival patch. You're actually forced to play like a cunt now and hide 24/7. A simple 1h will 1 hit you. Everything 1 hits you. 

Just respecc something completely homosexual meanwhile (read 2h *cough*) and wait for some horsie love.

Horses always plays like cunts anyways, only difference is that they are weaker cunts now. Good riddance, they still annoy the shit outta me, nothing like getting couched as a late spawner och just getting poked in the back while fighting infantry.