Patch 1.006 melee

[Evanovic]

Explain to me why standard attack cancelling and slight holds mysteriously do not destroy anyone who chamber in NW yet do in native.

You obviously didn't watch the NW Duel Tournament that happened on the day of the patch. Chambering and kicking won the day in that tournament. The final had a lot of it, and this was a collection of some of the best players in the game (from both bygone eras of pre-1.006 patch and Mount and Musket).

Applying the Native meta-game to this is preposterous. Chambering in native has never been a big thing. If you have ever played Mount and Musket to a high level you would know that chambering was essential to a top player's repetoire, it is a lot more viable with polearms than swords.

Chambering in Mount and Musket was one of the big securities an aggressive and attacking player had, and with this update it is being brought back. If the next patch includes a higher turning speed and faster tapblocking we'll have a lot more attacking gameplay than the pre-patch stalemates that we saw in the Groupfighting servers and tournaments, where noone would dare make the first move on the enemy.