Balance seems much better now then it did before when when winning a match with 5-0 happened quite often.
Also, plates and plated mounts are too powerful to be used all the time. Before the patch it took one plated charger in the team to ensure victory 90% of the times. I know high upkeep cost sucks for those that want to play as heavy armored inf/cav but if you were allowed to play that way all the time then others would be forced to do the same in order to stay competitve against you. We would be back to pre-patch times when 10% of the equipment was used while other 90% was obsolete.
Instead of just complaining I would really like to see you guys offer logical alternatives to the current sistem. Every single alternative I came up with would only bring further imbalance to the game.
Do you know guy, that a plated charger can be stop easy with a fork?
Do you know guy that plate make player slow, deacrease his dmg and his wpf, and by that his speed on fight?
If players can't play as a team and being aware, yes a plated charger can do lot of dommage, but if player are enough smart to buy a pike or a fork , there's no problem.
In what plate is powerfull?
It gives better protection but deacrease everything else. So I think make it unplayable is stupid.