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No one has any idea what it will come out looking like, and it's possible that the way Chivalry works might have to change with it because of how closely they're related. It's just too large and complicated of a project for anyone to really speculate on what the changes might be.
Even without a fist sigil, the noob obviously wasn't Gripping.
You forgot to say anything at all. You can't just say "Yeah man, I'm done with chicks, but I'm not doing any dudes. I can't wait to get some." Start with my previous post. Pick an option and elaborate upon it or surprise me with something original.
That magical new gender isn't just gonna pop out into existence and just put out. Sometimes you have to make it.
With plastic surgery.
Rapier becomes Bard class weapon, and look, we can adjust rapier stats to suit that class only without having a 3 class collateral.
Can't do shield. They add damage resist. Boosting Knight resist bad. Maybe Bard/Sentinel (since Sentinel is Achilles from Troy).
edit: I both like and don't like weapons being just flavour. It'd add cosmetic customisability but at the opportunity cost of not diversifying potential strategies.
And the only valid complaint is they don't like roleplaying just one weapon. Combat balance is what it is. Obviously speed will be favorable.
Mandorallen is the mightiest knight on life.
The best idea I can come up with is take the Blademaster approach and remove DSL's damage, speed, and accuracy dependencies on weapon stats and give it its own inherent values that are able to be balanced freely of Weaponry mechanics. (Weaponry damage could still be used to determine limb damage, so limb counting doesn't become universal and easily anticipated!) Next, give each weapon bonuses and penalties that modify DSL's base speed and damage, (Giving any weapon less accuracy than another would just mark it for disregard by the players) and give each a "perk" that would make weapon choice more than flavor and add a level of tactical variety, but that wouldn't put one weapon clearly above the others:
Battleaxes: extra damage, slower speed, could ignore some damage reduction (stacking with Mastery) to help "damage knights."
Broadswords: no bonuses, no penalties, could break limbs faster than other bladed weapons on account of their weight.
Longswords: no bonues, no penalties, could...Lunge/Arc/Raze faster. (I can't think of a good one)
Scimitars: no bonuses, no penalties, could deal extra disembowel damage because of their curve. (Could become Paladin's starting proficiency, given its origins)
Rapiers: less damage, faster speed, could have a chance to bypass parry (a la Airfist/Vinewreath), but deal less disembowel damage to account for that easy setup.
Lastly, make knights SPECIALISE IN a weapon like Bards have to do for instruments in order to get that weapon perk. They can learn all the proficiencies and use all the weapons they want, but only get the perk from their specialization, so you can't use broadswords to prep the first limbs faster, switch to rapiers to bypass parry on the last limb, and then switch to scimitars to guarantee your disembowel kill.
I'm not good enough with numbers to offer how STR health-scaling should factor in, but it feel like if battleaxes were on one end of the spectrum with an average 1400 damage on a 2.5 second balance, rapiers on the other with an average 700 damage at a 1.8 second balance, and longswords/broadswords/scimitars somewhere in the middle at 1000 every 2.2, we'd be pretty close. Battleaxes would become the king of damage (500 damage/sec) plus their damage reduction bypass, and could now actually use venoms, but they can't disembowel, so they'd become very momentum based. Rapier damage (370 damage/sec) would get dropped to about about 80% of what it is, now, but they can make up for that with prefarar stacks and other venom use, as well as the ease of limb-setups for burst damage. Longswords, broadswords, scimitars would live in the middle, (450 damage/sec) without the damage reduction bypass of axes or the speed of rapiers, but would still have their own unique advantages and could still be fast enough to stack venoms and disembowel/vivisect.
That's the best I have.