By nerfing archery you are breaking the game (+ solution for kiting)

[Tindel]

Carrying a shield makes no significant difference though. Ranged players gifted with a brain will wait until you are forced to turn your back/side on them. Also you are forced to block and be pinned down. Blocking projectiles after they are shot only works with throwing.

I know, i was trying to be funny

[tortoul]

Nordwolf, sorry, i use thread in order not to spam threads.
i've been playing  for an year, and now returned to archery. and what i see: no difference between rank0 and rank3 arrows, except the number of arrows o_O
no improvement in bow damage with ranks (but it's ok) bows messed up. bow is better than tatar etc
and i couldnt find complains on forum (i actually didnt lookfor them so carefully)
the question is: are these changes (in arow ranking mainly) normal to archers? what do they think of this? and will there be othe changes that will bring back the old conditions?
sorry for bad english

[Nordwolf]

Well, considering the amount of changes that has been done to archers since this topic, it's a bit outdated.
Archery became (not really) the kind of force that was weak alone but strong in a group - archery is now not limited to 28+ lvl players because "bad" bows are now better.

Though I still think that arrow weight is a much worse solution then the one in this topic ^^
Doubt they will change it though, everything is moving very slow atm and don't really know what they think atm (and by them I mean Paul or Tydeus, as most of the team are working on a new game)

[Gurnisson]

Nordwolf, sorry, i use thread in order not to spam threads.
i've been playing  for an year, and now returned to archery. and what i see: no difference between rank0 and rank3 arrows, except the number of arrows o_O
no improvement in bow damage with ranks (but it's ok) bows messed up. bow is better than tatar etc
and i couldnt find complains on forum (i actually didnt lookfor them so carefully)
the question is: are these changes (in arow ranking mainly) normal to archers? what do they think of this? and will there be othe changes that will bring back the old conditions?
sorry for bad english

The damage as it is now is what the loomed bows and arrows did pre-patch. It was a minor buff to archers with looms and a major buff to archers without looms.

[tortoul]

The damage as it is now is what the loomed bows and arrows did pre-patch. It was a minor buff to archers with looms and a major buff to archers without looms.

yap. no point to loom arrows. loomed archers are now in the bad i think. but +3 arrows are still in demand, wtf

[Nordwolf]

Oh you're all into looming stuff....

I have 1 mw and I'm fine

[tortoul]

in times when i was one of the archers, they needed loomed stuff the most. i'm not in love with +3, but archers realy needed them. other way they'd kill nobody. now i need only a bow)) and i can get it selling my 2 lps) i dont play much so my lvl 32 was gained in 1 year))

[Gurnisson]

If you use 2 stacks of bodkins, then looming arrows won't matter much, true. However, using a 2 slot bow with 1 stack of arrows and a 1 slot weapon is more viable than before, and with such a build, looming arrows would be mandatory.