Wow you arrogant ass, its about overall game balance for everyone. I had a level 3 alt I have taken to level 20 so far and by level 7 it was easy mode. All I had to do was 2H/thrower and strength build. Throw javelins (1hit pierce kill with 34 damage and 3 powerthrow now 6 powerhtrow) and then charge with a 2 handed weapon and block once (many spammers now that people are lower levels so easier to 1 hit kill) and the combat speed is much slower now so far easier to block then before and you can 1-2 hit kill with a fast melee weapon. Archers shoot me and almost all only take 5-10% of my health and I can run them down easily with 3 athletics or throw a javelin in their back as they run away from me and their drawing speed is so much slower then my throwing speed so incredibly easy. I get to put almost all my points into strength and IF, PS and Powerthrow and have 63 health already with much stronger armor that allows me tos urvive many cutting damage hits.
My javelins may sink a lot so you have to arc them, but they always go dead center where you aimed them with 96 wpf.
Meanwhile, my level 30 archer alt with 6 powerdraw and 162 wpf in archery has arrows go randomly shanked left and right, up and down from the aiming reticule most of the time so yes I can take 1/5 to 2/5ths of your health if I can hit with warbow and bodkin arrows and 6 pwrdrw, but because of the randomness it becomes a slow spamfest. I fanyone charges you with any erractic movement almost impossible to hit becuase of a delayed trigger release from when you release the button thanks to the new combat animation. Ive topped the charts twice with the archer alt when people were still uncertain about the patch and wearing lighter armor and maps heavily favored ranged (gulley down to the beach), but I have not seen any other archer in the top 3 by the end of a map with a sevrer having more then 30 people (and no I am not trying to be arrogant about this, because I have not been in top 3 nor any other archer that I can see since hotfix (unless fake archer doing mostly melee build and fighting melee) where everyone wears heavy mail or light plate and still makes money).
My xbow alt (level 13) with wpf in only xbow can shoot faster than alongbow with hunting and light xbow and more accurately because it shoots dead center of smaller reticule.
I dont know about you, but when a lot of changes were made its easy for imbalances to be created and right now throwing and 2h heavy strength builds heavy mail armor is heavily imbalanced. (xbows at least got some nerf, even more with hotfix - so seem more balanced) Maybe adding an aspect of realism would help, yes you can be near impervious to cutting but you actually move lower and swing slower as a tank.
Woah, arrogant ass Keshian spoken. Now hear the response:
Aspect of realism is that armor protects very well against arrows. Aspect of realism is that infantry guy with mail or coat of plates is fast enough to catch an archer on low distances. Armor does not slow fit person much, it just drain stamina faster. There is no stamina in this game. It does not make you swing noticeably slower, it just cut off some moves.
Both archers and throwing should have 2 stage shooting.
2h and Poles own thank to very good animations. You don't need high STR to be effective with either.
From game balance perspective, it's good that effective kiting archers are way of the past, as it should be. I already state my feeling about archery adjustment, you may check my other posts to find it out.
