The devs are not interested in making the combat interesting that has some depth in it, because that means that it will become more complicated for new players to learn and they rather let it stay dumb af and they think that "they will see more people pvping if the combat system is easy" and right now even with this dumb combat system the effect is quite opposite. The best combat we can get is somewhere in middle between the salem's combat and card combat, with the way they are thinking. I didn't like the new combat system that much, but it was alot better than we have right now and I suspect they didn't bring it live, because it is hard to learn the concept of offence and defence bar for some people. Legacy's combat seems like the most appropriate combat system for such a game like this and according to Dani's survey, combat changes was the most wanted update by the people according to the survey if i remember correctly which they cancelled hue, just, because a few people find it too complicated even when it was way more simpler than legacy's combat.
but yeah, the men can only dream for legacy combat to return
