06-03-2012, 08:12 PM
Change Knights for throwers, increasing throwing stacks, make them break shields easily 
On a more serious note, what are Knights doing anyway ? Doesnt matter if you buff/nerf anything, their role remains the same .. kiting. Kiting is long and boring, and doesnt imply any teamplay at all. Now with the new OP lances, it's over. More people will go knights and we'll see more kiting.
Choke points : It's always the same Commandos who have to shield (Mostly because there aren't many left that didnt respec Knight/Sniper) and they don't get direct XP or Drops. I see many snipers complaining but the fact is, doesnt matter if they are kiting or doing a shield wall, Snipers are getting all the XP and the best loot. Unless the drop system is fixed (Shared between the people, like many games using "party" system), why would someone bother Shielding just to get killed by Crush Through for some assist XP, but no drops.
When we do events, I share my loots with the shielders, since they got nothing,but I know many don't, and I understand why they'd get bored of shielding (press "t" + alt/tab).
To force Knights to do some real melee and help the team, they have to be on a map where they can't really use a horse, but most of the time they just leave, or an admin changes the map (private servers), so turning off poll didn't help much, except people are stuck in a map and leave the server when an assassin spawned in the wall or a bot fell due to the barricade bug.
On a more serious note, what are Knights doing anyway ? Doesnt matter if you buff/nerf anything, their role remains the same .. kiting. Kiting is long and boring, and doesnt imply any teamplay at all. Now with the new OP lances, it's over. More people will go knights and we'll see more kiting.
Choke points : It's always the same Commandos who have to shield (Mostly because there aren't many left that didnt respec Knight/Sniper) and they don't get direct XP or Drops. I see many snipers complaining but the fact is, doesnt matter if they are kiting or doing a shield wall, Snipers are getting all the XP and the best loot. Unless the drop system is fixed (Shared between the people, like many games using "party" system), why would someone bother Shielding just to get killed by Crush Through for some assist XP, but no drops.
When we do events, I share my loots with the shielders, since they got nothing,but I know many don't, and I understand why they'd get bored of shielding (press "t" + alt/tab).
To force Knights to do some real melee and help the team, they have to be on a map where they can't really use a horse, but most of the time they just leave, or an admin changes the map (private servers), so turning off poll didn't help much, except people are stuck in a map and leave the server when an assassin spawned in the wall or a bot fell due to the barricade bug.