As long as they realize it was a bad change and do some sort of revert then its fine. Im ok with them testing out new things as long as they are not biased about it.
The bad thing about them testing out new things is that it hurts their players experience when such a bad patch happens. Every competent player at a glance of that patch note was worried over the lighter weapons swing faster. Just people wanted to try before they complained about it.
They really just dont care about the player experience. Big EU buff.
What if they kept it and added more chip/pressure damage (thru parries) to heavier weps? Allow two types of play style. So people who wanna move and spam can do it and people who wanna just bang you out can do it. They also might wanna rethink the counter reduce defense relating to heavier weps so you can still get your lil pokes in there with a lighter wep but if you smash someone with the correct timing w/ an axe you get a better hit.
People are legit quitting the game though, man, and not just over the priest changes. Over just the wackness of combat. So, something needs to be done. Obv, I am half trolling when I say git fukt because I haven't tested it, but I'm not against favoring more aggressive playstyles. I just need to see more fights, engage in some fights, and they need to find a way to make slower swing weapons still impactful (hopefully with proper chip dmg.) So yea it does favor EU but high movement skill/feint play is still gonna be the ceiling. They just need to make sure they aren't rendering everything else obsolete.
THAT BEING SAID. Like you said, changes R good, let's test it for awhile n see. If it's trash, revert, but I think it could be built around.
@Hodo I assume you saw that PabloO vid but w/ a 1h vendor sword you can truly swing to hit and parry a charged incoming swing, reliably, even before the patch. The arcs on 1h are small. The swing of weps was pretty slow before. It's really just tough. Like I said, the game play is bad, but I dunno how to fix it. That they tried something IS GOOD. Makes me wanna try dueling a bit, and I've def been not doing shit in that department cuz I don't wanna work on morphology.
Apologies to everyone for massive posting, patches always get me riled up!
