03-01-2012, 09:34 AM
(03-01-2012, 07:47 AM)Lav link Wrote: I still fail to comprehend the reasoning behind this nerf though.
It's just doesn't make any sense, to nerf the weakest class in the game.
Because apparently Cavalry is OP and can easily solo waves (Let's disregard the fact that the only one who could actually do that were knights with the Katana on a heavily armored horse and being heavily armored themselves with a thunder lance) even though most of us by FAR get less kill than archers or infantry ever will.
I have to ride by someone, stab him and get a kill, then I have to get in position to ride by someone else to get a kill.
What do archers/infantry have to do? Press the S key and spam the mouse button with their crush through iron mace/morning stars or shoot them in the head and win us the wave.
Archers can 1 shot almost everyone in 1 headshot while ignoring shields since shooting over shields can easily be done (even the huscarl that covers the head can easily be shot through to score an easy headshot and consequent death).
Infantry can kill almost everyone while ignoring any block because all they need is to spam their iron mace/morning star overhead while pressing the S key and racking up the kills.
Cavalry is the first to get to the battle, but once everyone's in the battle, they get far less kills, their only 1 hit kill attack that can ignore blocks (Not even shields mind you unlike the infantry and archer who can ignore both block and shield) is something that requires you speed and has a huge cooldown on it, it's not something that can be spammed.
So I really fail to see why it was necessary to nerf Cavalry.
Archers and Infantry are effective on ALL maps and can almost easily overpower any of the waves because they can just totally ignore any sort of defense the bots might be trying to put up.
Meanwhile, we, Cavalry are only effective on 2 maps (That always get polled off to play the linear chinese grind XP maps because infantry/archers greatly outnumber Cav players) and in most situations we can barely put up a fight, if ANY.
If I look at the NA server list at any given time, I almost never never never see any server on Swadian Village or Beach Assault, and if a server's on it, it's either empty or the map just changed and it's going to get polled in the coming 30 seconds by everyone on the server to the great dismay of the one or two if you're lucky lone cavalry players who just wish they could be useful instead of being stuck on foot with their mediocre 1 athletics and 2 power strike.