True i concur with this, dont know why some are so mad about it… Its like just because ranged was heavy in opr they think that melee wasn’t a problem? i even bet ranged was so heavy in opr because ppl were tired of actually getting rekt by melee because of it overpower and homing.
All changes were very good for this combat change!
Yeap if this comes live refmove/grit/wh/ga nerf insatiable grav well perk for waste while we spent gold caps on those item Good Luck with 10k people online
They nerfed every build except FS and BB, which may be nerfed in upcoming months.
I say away with players that want to have an advantage over others. If balancing things out results in losing tryhards and Gold buyers that’s fine
no it’s not that. this change will make it worse for a game that already has poor PVP balance.
Currently the only classes causing major imbalance are bow and musket.
I really miss the OPRs I played without the musket and the bow.
because it was really competitive and fun.
I even want to tell you about a friend of mine.
In OPR if there are too many Bow muskets,
It was exiting the OPR and re-queuing. I know he did this to coincide with a game without bow and musket.
because my friend just wants to have fun
Bow and musket will continue to use light armor, which was nerfed and they die faster. Bow and musket also got nerfed.
If you want to kill bow and musket, you can do so easily after these changes.
If you want to go full dmg as melee in light 2-3 shotting everyone, you can still do it, but you lose grit and some survivability
If you don’t want to die to Bow/musket, go 300 CON and you get a bonus as well
I get that the dmg nerfs on GA/HM may be a bit much, but losing GRIT? That’s just absurd, no one should care about GRIT if you aim for dmg
I don’t see how anyone can complain about these changes, unless they are biased
We can’t kill Bow and Musket. do you know why?
because light armor is dead so every melee player will play with med build.
even mages (I even med build)
Rangeler will play with light armor again.
And they won’t die because we won’t be able to catch them.
because they still have unlimited haste ability
because they will still use rapier.
because they will still be able to deal tons of damage.
because it still has 150m+ distance advantage
It’s that simple my friend.
If this update comes as it is, it will be the end of the game. I hope they give up on this idea.
Don’t waste your time, the guy probably didn’t even read the patch notes.
Do you see 30 bows in wars no? Now you know answer
what did a real battlefield look like before modern guns were invented? did most people not have melee weapons?
because the ranged stuff that was giving issues was also adressed?
They nerfed bruisers AND Dex ranged lol
If we r being honest about weapon balance, Ppl have been complaining about grit on the 300 strength perk for much much longer. Most players expected them to fix it in Beta 
I think the patch is going to finely stop the cc burst-damage meta we have had to deal with these last few months , it should actually be good for bruisers, tanks, ranged dps and possibly even healers
happy times
Ranged nerfs were considerably smaller. Main issue was not addressed which is haste and light melee is basically dead. Void blade on top tho……
Idk. The haste is big but I never really thought it was the main issue. For me it was the insane damage. Honestly I think my light melee build got a buff overall
They lowered everyone’s damage output and increasing time to kill so combat has more meaning than 3 attacks = ded.
People whining are the war loggers who stole millions from the playerbase over the last year and have BIS everything. Welcome to the great reset.
Don’t worry they have not been nerfed really so don’t worry. 
I play heavy bruiser a lot and I can honestly say I am very excited about these changes and that all of it is good changes.
ye whoever thought this was the “weaponbalance” we needed just fire that guy, litterally utter incompetence
Very casual take. You’ll probably still be bottom of the barrel after this update.
If you couldn’t learn to enjoy the “3 attacks = dead” meta what makes you think you’ll thrive in a more complex meta against those who could press 3 buttons?
I am very surprised.
Everyone knew musket and bow damage was off the chart.
So, the first patch reduces all damage output across the board EXCEPT the musket… I mean I really REALLY don’t get that. Plus making them MORE likely to stay on the rocks. –
Then to really make waves, beat up melee some more.
It’s not all bad, fixing tracking and fixing bugs is a good thing. But the elephant is the room is STILL in the room, dancing with the same funny pink tutu.
Hatchet got it’s first kick too, it’s just a kick in the shins, but it’ll evolve to a kick in the junk in later iterations.
-pantz
From what i’m hearing, new fortify is a lot weaker than on live, so hopefuly the change in TTK is not too radical.