Item stat changes

[Senni]

Got a couple of suggestions :

1)Buff commando leg armour

Reason: Currently, in the best possible gear (not including dev gear ;P); leg armour totals up to 51. You get more from your body armour (31) than your plated boots (20).
When compared to your body armour (76), its quite a lot lower. Really noticeable if an archer or thrower decides he hates your leg .

Not sure if this extends across other classes, came to my attention recently while browsing the ingame equiptment screen .

2)Buff Top tier commando head armour

Similar reasons as above, 60 head armour from best. Compared to 76 body, quite a bit lower. This, despite having a lower difference than leg, it is more noticeable; due to the multiplier attached to getting hit in the head.

Also I think the difference between the base head armour and two best helms should be a little greater. For example current MP head armour has 56 armour, Grinder could be buffed to ~65 and Fearsome to ~70.

Again not sure if this affects other classes so much.

3)Snake spear

Compared to the Snake halberd, this things pretty lacking, especially considering they originated from different colours of the same thing.

I would love to see it usuable with shields (hoplite legendary ), more speed and damage would be nice to see aswell.

4)Accuracy of range weapons

Pretty sure this applies mainly to the higher tier/legendary bows and xbows. As damage increases, accuracy decreases. Particularly noticeable with the hurricane and I've been told the penetrator too. As the top tier weapons, there should be no doubt that its the one to use. However I often find myself choosing to stick with my sharpshooter over a hurricane, as I find the hurricane far too unreliable (often misses).

I think a simple buff to the accuracy of the items would suffice .

5)Bear armour,Red tunic over mail and leather jerkin

Bear is only slightly better than red tunic over mail (better leg armour and weight by 1 iirc), the price difference doesn't seem to justify the difference in stats . Both are inferior to the leather jerkin, though I'm pretty sure you've patched that already xD (as with most the stuff on this list ).

6)Less APB

you heard me NEERRRRRFFFF!!11!!2!

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EDIT:

Bonus:pikemen

Just remembered, these guys are like the jack of all trades of NI. They have pretty terrible range, to the point where its not useful or recomended . Melee wise they have slightly more use, but still they are outdone by the heavily armoured and more powerful commando.

Would love to see these guys become the glass cannon of the melee world, the best possible slashers you can have at your back while shielding. Giving them ~1 more ps I think would accomplish that, more pt would be nice too see aswell .

[Tarimoth]

I support this with all my heart!

[Ryu]

I agree to all of those. Especially about the pikeman. Its still not very useful class except having nice overhead weapons and ability of being good slashers. But their lack of accuracy with thowing weapons is disturbing. You have to be in medium-close range to make a good hit and if you wont; most of the time you miss the area you target for or hit shields. There is no point of using throwing weapons in this situation because mobs can close the distance with you very quickly and you get hit while trying to change to your polearm :/. This is very bad since you are already vulnerable as a skirmisher.

I think giving pikeman better armors or raising accuracy with throwing weapons can fix this and we can have more pikemen ingame. Also i wouldnt mind of having more damage as a slasher.

[Hypernoma]

These suggestions are noted. Some are not practical (number 6) but we will look into these.

[Huscarlton Banks]

I'd like to suggest a rebalance of the Sun Pike, since I hardly see it being used over the Swadian Halberd which deals 8 more base slashing damage.

I just want the swing damage of the Sun Pike to be upped to around the Swadian Halberd's, the thrust can be lowered to compensate. The Lance of Kings and Thunder Pike will still be around as the longer thrusting oriented polearms.

Current stats:

Spoiler

Sun Pike
Polearm
Swing Damage: 52 cut
Thrust Damage: 42 pierce
Length: 180
Speed: 88

Swadian Halberd
Polearm
Speed: 88
Length: 170
Swing damage: 60 cut
Thrust damage: 35 blunt

Having the same power strike as a commando would also be good, due to the range penalty of polearms compared to 2-handed weapons.

Spoiler

Comparison of the reach of swinging/thrusting attacks to an overhead attack with a one-handed weapon:

1h Overhead = +0
Left-to-right = +0
Right-to-left = +19
Thrust = +61

2h
Overhead = +15
Left-to-right = +17
Right-to-left = +13
Thrust = +80

2h Polearms
Overhead = -15
Left-to-right = -7
Right-to-left = -2
Thrust = +19

1h Polearms
Thrust = +50

On the accuracy of ranged weapons problem, that can easily be solved by moving some of the damage from the bows/crossbows to the arrows/bolts. The game doesn't penalize the accuracy if the damage is on the arrows, and the formula for damage just adds bow + arrow damage before multiplying by some factor of proficiency, power draw, and power draw requirement.

[Senni]

Innovative solution , but there is an accuracy stat, its just left at default iirc (99).

Also when you said king pike and thunder pike it reminded me of something xD.

King pikes got ghost reach, guessing the devs already know about this and since no one has one, it doesn't really matter .

And I think the thunder pike falls into the same category as the sun pike, when compared to the swadian halberd. Personally I always thought the halberd's stats were a bit off (has blunt stab and huge damage ratings) and going to be balanced a bit (nerfed xD).

[Hypernoma]

And I think the thunder pike falls into the same category as the sun pike, when compared to the swadian halberd. Personally I always thought the halberd's stats were a bit off (has blunt stab and huge damage ratings) and going to be balanced a bit (nerfed xD).

This has already been done for the next patch 

[Senni]

Thought so ,

Thanks

[Kwal]

Ah yes, the 'next patch'. I have dismissed that claim.

Joke aside, I agree mostly with these suggestions. Although nerfing thrust damage on pikes doesn't seem quite right. Also shouldn't the Sun Pike be Pikeman only?

[mggd]

I agree with these, would love a nice pair of craftable plate boots.

regarding the helmets, 70 might be getting a little excessive the only way things like nord rangers can hurt me in melee is if they hit me in head otherwise they bounce. perhaps a small buff to the fearsome 62-65 to make it clearly more superior to the grinder helm because as of now it only has an extra 2 armour.