14
« on: January 06, 2011, 07:51:25 pm »
Just my opinion:
Needs to be pierce dmg. I'm an average archer in skill and archery has been disappointing so far. Had a guy in leather armor close to me (taking 4 hits to the torso from me) and kill me. If I'm going to have to melee everybody to be helpful to me team, I might as well invest the points into it, instead of archery. I'll keep pushing archery until I can get pd 6 going and see what happens. Maybe things will get better even with cut dmg and animation nerfs, once I'm at pd 6, wpf 200. If you can now heirloom bows without increased pd requirement (I haven't seen it myself yet), then that could also make archery work with cut dmg (albeit it'll take a while)
Sure I may not be using the pd 6 bows (pd 3), but kinda silly, especially since most recent patch will help people maintain higher end armor (5% upkeep instead of 20%).
Bottom line: like the animation, Hopefully piercing dmg will return. Archery whiners should just buy a damn shield. I'll wait and see how my progression with archery pans out before I go melee only.