we would teamplay if people didnt hate archers so much sometimes our own teammates dont even care anough to proteckt a archer they see a guy running for the archer and just let them, ive seen this several times the problem is that no one teamplays really unless its clan people together and thereby its the very guys who whine about archers damn own fault that archers kite, as they are forced to kite it would almost be better to have archer hybrids back just with the current nerfs except for arrow weight.
and yes it would be great if it could be made so you more or less had to stand still to draw you bow and shoot if its possible to program that i would love that instead of this weight nerf its way to much arrows weight more than jarrids? wtf! anyway the other nerfs mentioned by
No melee char could catch archers before. Even when they have 6-7 athletics, they'd have to wear light armor and hope they can dodge well.
Shields made char too slow and were easily shot around.
So, the only counter was cav, ranged, or dead end alleys.
The ability to do damage withought the threat of incoming damage is a huge advantage. This is why so many nerfs and rebalances are in place against such weapons.
Xbow reload and damage
Thrower accuracy and ammo
Archer everything
Pike unbalanced and weight
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Notice the trend?
are all reasonble nerfs as a pike can stab you 3 meters away does alot of pierce damage sometimes you get 1 shot in heavy armor by a pikemen so ya fair.
thrower again alot of damage and possibility to make melee/thrower hybrid more than fair nerf.
xbow ya well huuge damage and fastest missile in the game and again possibility of a hybrid melee/xbow class and xbows dont require much wpf to get fairly accurate fair nerf again:
Archers no hybrid possibility and you have to dedicate all wpf to archery or you will suck at longer range and you need to shoot anyone in bigger armors about 1-2 times more than other ranged to kill them usaly unless you use bodkin arrows but then you have less arrows and higher repair than most people in heavy armor so not fair to nerf more atm as it is you more or less suck as a archer untill you reach lv 25-26+ as you either you damage or you wpf is to low to be usefull.
and to quete another:
L2Play. Get a horse.
also this last nerf have tempted me to to make my archer a horse archer for the first time ever and thats what it will be motivation others to do also or only use the biggest 2 slots bows because using a horn bow with 3 quivers is no longer possible so smaller bows are either ruined now for archers or only usefull from horseback, any yes i could just take 2 quivers a hornbow and a melee weapon but since archers are so specalised to be accurate now there is more or less no point in a melee weapon as you will exstremely rare win a melee fight against a melee build char
