Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-27179278-20160127025240/@comment-27179278-20160127042344

Deadly Forest wrote: That is so OP in PvE...

I hope is will not be added.

1 Gondor Lance rider killed 3 of my Near Harad Warriors in 12 second and knocked me into my Lava trap I set up for the riders. Interesting. In your post here:

http://lotrminecraftmod.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:201433

You said that it was 3 Gondorian lancers against 7 of your Haradrim warriors. Significantly better odds for the lancers, wouldn't you say? I did hop on my creative world and flew around until I found a Swan Knight with a lance, and spawned in 2 Haradrim warriors. They soundly thrashed the lone knight, and neither of them died. So unless they were knocking your men into the lava pits which you placed, I'm really starting to question if this might be a bit exaggerated.

Anyways, it would be perfectly reasonable to scale a lances base damage down to allow for the fact that a lancer who is not moving would do very little good with his weapon. I would even go so far as to recommend it, as it would be much more realistic, and give lances a very high risk - high reward feel. This would mean that NPCs armed with lances would be very powerful on the charge, but not much good once combat had closed, as their speed would be reduced.

PS: don't use hammers, especially against cavalry. The knockback only affects them if you hit the horse, and the dps is too low to hurt the rider much.