Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-32789632-20200118062919/@comment-39245592-20200118152322

For 1. : Horses aren't boats. A horse can swim by itself and then does not sink. But if the horse carries the weight of a player on its back, it is logic the horse will sink, weighed down by its load. Furthermore, I noticed the fastest horses swim the faster. A steed of Rohan can move in the water faster than the vanilla boat. Do you get it ? It's easier to go to the Meneltarma at horse back than on a barrel or in a boat. It's not realistic at all. Mevans said he made this change because it's more realistic. Of course it's annoying but no one said life is simple. And personally, I approve this changelog. However, the horses carrying a NPC on their back don't sink; and THAT is curious.

For 2. : The poison is a coward's weapon. Not strange it is only used by the most treacherous people of the Middle-Earth; and absolutely not by the fairest. Furthermore, poison has been forbidden by the Geneva Convention (yup, the use of poison is considered as a war crime in real life). Not astonishing Free People don't mind to use it. But orcs... of course yes ! Regarding Wicked Dwarves, only dwarves can reforge or repair mithril equipment; and every evil players have not the advantage to be allied with a dwarven faction, you know ? Finding mithril in the Misty Mountains takes lot, LOT of time; and Mevans wanted to give to evil players an opportunity to repair and reforge their mithril equipment by using silver, and not true-silver; an advantage that good players already had.

For 3. : It is the only point I'm agreed with you. The new bow mecanic has big problems and absolutely must be reviewed (I don't justificate myself because it deserves a place in bug reports). And, of course, the charred mallorn mace deserves to be a very good weapon. The Mallorn Ent is much harder to defeat than the Hill-Troll Chieftain. So the charred Mallorn Mace must have really to worth it. I never understood why Mevans "nerfed" it as you say.

A last thing. You can ally yourself with Near Harad and give up any friendship to Gondor to have got some poisoned arrows to kill these orcs-scum. (However, I can understand you're upset if you're pledged to Gondor.) Tbh, that's how I do it. Tbh.