Hi
I’d like to start a debate about mount changes and combat from them (in PVE).
It’s good that they got a buff HP - a good warhorse has around 30k HP - but the problem is that FC didn’t adjust the other stats.
I don’t want the horses to have more stamina or regen it faster, this would affect PVP servers a lot but it’s bad along with the general increase in NPC damage to not increase the horses “resistance” to losing stamina when they get hit. As it stands now, for example in a volcano, all it takes is 2 hits from an NPC and I’m knocked out of the saddle ( because the horse no longer has stamina) which in the middle of a group of enemies can be fatal. It almost works the same way if I jump off a smaller ledge with my horse but there it’s more annoying than dangerous.
It would be nice if horses would lose less stamina when they take damage, at the moment fighting from a horse - for me one of the top features of the game- is unusable , which is pretty disappointing.
I really don’t know what’s going on with horse combat. I guess i’ll have to think of a challenge for it so i’ll immerse more
But i really wonder about the saddles, did you test them all, do they work as they say? Isn’t warhorse saddle best for battles? I believe that with scout your horse is going faster, is it true? Do you have any knowledge to share about these @Keldy
Fixed that for you.
My experience with horse combat is limited, what are you using?
I pretty much only use Mordlun and circle as much as I can for the reach.
PvE? I thought mounted combat was an RP thing.
Well I might point out that fighting from horseback has been an effective battle tactic for much of documented history.
But we’re talking about a game, so I’ll just mention it for the sake of argument. The fact is that a few years back when I started playing CE a lot of people were grumbling about lances in PVP ( supposedly OP ).
But PVP doesn’t interest me (here) , I play PVE and I’ve spent hundreds of hours on horseback there, often in combat. Until recently it was about effective combat tactics ( mainly against groups ) that had reasonably balanced pros and cons. And yes on my part there was the RP part, 99% of my game time is as a knight on one pve server and my tactics and gear are geared to that as well. So of course I’m bothered by the obviously unthought out changes which have a pretty negative effect on one of the main features of the game for me - after all there aren’t many open world games where you can fight from horseback but also build , hunt farm, cast spells etc at the same time and for me the sheer scope of things is one of the main reasons I love this game (and have spent thousands of hours in it).
I beg you to fix a challenge then. A role play challenge only with horse fighting. Something difficult but not impossible.
Help me love horse fighting and i will give you the best feedback i can.
Don’t make me beg 
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if I’m not mistaken so in the game already one “difficult to almost impossible” challenge is , at stablemaster - “kill one enemy from the horse” and to make it harder so it counts and random kill when you hit someone with a horse.
If you want a challenge, you have to make your own - easy level is like killing a big croc or spider from a horse without losing HP
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