Remove the knockback attacks in Rieves

[Karah]

Don't know about you, but if something is trying to kill me, whatever it is, the logical thing to do is keep it at distance. (or try to kill it better than it can kill you lol)

That's what knockback is, the logical action of a foe. As I said, I can't stand knockback, I very much despise having to adjust my mule's distance when main gets knocked back, but I understand why it's there.

[Horadrim]

Don't know about you, but if something is trying to kill me, whatever it is, the logical thing to do is keep it at distance. (or try to kill it better than it can kill you lol)

That's what knockback is, the logical action of a foe. As I said, I can't stand knockback, I very much despise having to adjust my mule's distance when main gets knocked back, but I understand why it's there.

If you go at a tiger with a dagger, I have my distinct doubts it is going to try and push you away before it goes for your throat. Same with any wild animal -- maybe they'll try to run away if they are losing, but that's a different thing entirely.

Arguably, the "stagger" effect I outlined above fills the same purpose you proposed for knockback, but without the inconvenience of ruining your orientation the way the knock back currently does. I mean -- it is sort of a whatever most of the time, but when there's an invisible ring that can get you banned from an event like the way reives work, there's more reason to find an alternative to achieve the goal of disrupting ability and spell activation than there is in support of its use.

People can say "don't stand near the edge of the reive line" but it is pretty easy to run out of space if you're trying to avoid just standing directly on top of other people.