I don't wear anything that has a combined weight of over 7.5 due to the negative effect it has on your run speed. Depending on whether or not your bow is heirloomed and what level you are can effect what I would recommend.
Most of the time being that I prefer to use the warbow, and only have it heirloomed once, I normally never wear anything heavier than the Leather Jerkin with Khergit Leather Boots. The amount of armor you wear does effect your draw speed. So if I am going up against large amounts of other archers I will even drop the Leather Jerkin for a Red Tunic just so I can have a slightly faster drawspeed.
However, I've seen other archers using heirloomed Strong bows who are able to wear medium heavy armor yet fire just as quickly as I can using my setup. So if this is the case and you are using a heirloomed Strong Bow then you can obviously wear something slightly heavier if you like. However, this will effect your run speed.
Pretty much in the end it doesn't matter what you wear as long as it doesn't exceed 7.5 weight when all combined together as this once again effects your run speed. So just experiment around with different light armor you prefer and see what you like. As an archer you will always have plenty of money anyway to buy any light armor you want to try out.
Folks here say that it's 7,5. And it's only your armour, but helmets can lower your WPF more than other parts of armour, as far as I know, helmets have a 3x multiplier on weight penalty.
Horse archers can't go that near, unless they want to meet a hail of throwing missiles. There is a quite a lot of archering involved in HA since combat is a lot more fluid compared to hide behind cover, step out shoot, hide. I think optimum HA range is just out of throwing distance. While speed is not a factor for HA, WPF reductions apparently still exist.
Meh, I wear armour so I can actually 1 match my clan and 2 not get one shot like all of the no-armor archers. If archers in real life wear light amounts of armor, and if archers in games (including this one) wear light amounts of armor, then I shall do so too.
To the OP: Unless you are Grey who dodges all shots and ignores the times when a crossbow has ganked him unaware or when he has messed up his dodging and thus dies due to his lack of armor, then you yourself actually need some small amounts of it to remain competative... Unless you do enjoy being one-shot the instant you make a mistake, because even BKS players sometimes mess up...
ARCHERS DO NOT WEAR ARMOUR> You see a guy in armour with a bow, he IS NOT AN ARCHER. Owning a bow and putting points into PD does not make you an archer anymore than buying Katana MAKES you a ninja.
Now, HA are NOT ARCHERS, as HA you can wear whatever armour you want, it wont affect you, since REAL HA shoot from 2-3 metres, NOT longrange.
Ah, good to know you never mess up dodging and you just let me plug you with an arrow a few weeks back, thank you for letting me hit you. Forgive me for having the arrogance to assume that you were trying to dodge :lol:
hm?i wear mameluke mail (44 body defens) and lamellar gauntlets(8 defens)
When the enemy team is heavily camping, i often rush behind enemy line and just long range shoot archers on roofs..with success.
With 172 wpf btw
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But ... but ... but ... I have a strongbow and armor. And I'm not an archer? :cry:
What am I then? Oh, I know, I'm a stormtrooper. Pew Pew Pew lightsaber draw sound lightsaber swing sounds breathing. May the forcefield be with you!
Sadly I have to play like I was evil since we don't have a white plate.
On a more serious note I'm quite content with the 36 points armors. Technically the studded leather may be the best, but it has a huge penalty to charisma. Also I've often made kills while I was down to 1 or 2 hp, don't know if benefits of lower armor would be worth it. No head armor, though. Actually one these narrow backally type maps that are getting popular I think some higher armor may very well be worth it. Load out with some heavy armor, some good melee weapon and rush with the infantry. Once you come to a place where they shoot down from the roofs stand back and provide surpression fire.
Gray has a point, I never wear armour on Nanna except for fun and as a HA/A you have all that cha ching so money in the bank isn't a prob joe. Archer or horse archer is a no armour no brainer thing. But to answer the original question, there is only one thing you have to do...(click to show/hide)(click to show/hide)
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Grey, I don't want to play siege with you. You would be one of those archers sitting on the walls pewpewing while the flag is going down with your no armor self, while the real archers pull out their melee weapons with their decent armor charge to the rescue and stand on the flag until the heavy infantry arrive. Seriously Grey with how slow the bow reloads, unless you camp as an archer or run away every time someone even gets near you, you are going to have to pull out a melee weapon and having decent armor is very useful fighting multiple opponents swinging from multiple directions, while the close range throwers are tossing javelins into the mix.
Grey, I don't want to be on the same team as you on siege. You would be one of those archers sitting on the walls pewpewing while the flag is going down with your no armor self, while the real archers pull out their melee weapons with their decent armor charge to the rescue and stand on the flag until the heavy infantry arrive
This is actually a damn good reason why I also wear armor. In siege even if I am running with no melee weapon, I still dance around in melee firing arrows point blank and of course sometimes I do not pull away in time and get hit due to a dozen blood thirsty goons.I agree with this, it is smart to wear armour as a archer it can help you survive in melee. But when you say its stupid for an archer in siege to run down to protect flag you are mistaken imo, unless there are very few melee or obvious noblites you would do your team a favour to keep that arrow rain flowing. You have no or very little chance of actually doing anything useful at flag, of course some people are good at manual blocking and actually can use their secondary weapon with skill but most can not and will mostly be in the way. (Obvious exceptions, when flag needs a boost, no melee present and so on)
Grey, I don't want to be on the same team as you on siege. You would be one of those archers sitting on the walls pewpewing while the flag is going down with your no armor self, while the real archers pull out their melee weapons with their decent armor charge to the rescue and stand on the flag until the heavy infantry arrive. Seriously Grey with how slow the bow reloads, unless you camp as an archer or run away every time someone even gets near you, you are going to have to pull out a melee weapon and having decent armor is very useful fighting multiple opponents swinging from multiple directions, while the close range throwers are tossing javelins into the mix.
An archer is anyone who carries a bow. Period.
A crappy worthless archer is still an archer, and an archer launching laser guided ballistic pre-patch missiles is still an archer. Period.
A Dedicated archer, however, is someone who has archery as the main focus of his or her class.
A Ninja is a style of play, an Archer is a class like One Hander or Shielder or Polearm or Cav. Ninja = 2Her or Thrower, Thrower or 2Her =/= Ninja.
Dedicated Archer, a bow/2Her Hybrid Archer, or a Sword and Board carrying just one quiver and a bow for skirmishing are all Archers.
In the heat of battle, I will be damned if I say on teamspeak "Hey there is a heavily armored fake archer who is actually a pole arm user on the roof to our right!" or "There is a guy with a bow on the roof to our right!" Instead I shall be sane and say quickly "There is an archer on the roof to our right!" and everyone knows what I am talking about.
EDIT: Archer: One that shoots with a bow and arrow.
Leather for archers is stylish. Studded Leather Coat is the best low armour item in the game by stats, but the morale debuff you get from wearing a leather bodycondom is massive...