Swordsman Archive

I know they put the 75% damage reduction in place to make PvP encounters last longer, but on some NPC's I've head hit for over 5k and often pull of 3k+ (not extremely regularly, but it happens), is there some additional modifiers against NPCs that are taken into account or could we potentially still 1 hit kill after the patch?

you can hit prone NPC without armor protection who hold a rifle for 5k. If you see someone in PvP like that NPC, sure, you can kill him with 1 blow. But wouldnt really expect it