1) many archers carry a polearm/ 2h for melee. That breaks the system. Cos of their high agi they can outspam many 1h-shielders. This shouldnt be possible.
It isnt: Archers have 18 str, so "high agi" is not something they have. Silly little wankers with pd3 bows are like moskitos, they are not archers. Archers have 18 str.
BUT REGARDLESS why is there still a discussion, ever patch changes the game, and people who post here are the problem: If you cannot find any class that you can rape people with, play another game, dont whine for the game to be changed. I suck at League of Legends, so I just dont play it. I do well in Warband (not just crpg) in any class. And, this, like ALL discussions about balance, can be summed up the same way I sum up all the "discussions" I stumble on:
Rock > Scissors > Paper > Rock > Scissors > Paper > Rock > Scissors > Paper > Rock > Scissors > Paper > (ad naseum)
Simple: Thanks to the whine during last patch, throwers are now godlike: Am I gonna start a thread about it? No. Archers got a MASSIVE nerf, but still people want them to do NO damage. Crossbows got a tiny nerf, and can still 1shot people easily: Most xbow users are whining. Light cav is cheap as chips to maintain, but a bunch of them are whining now too. I hate it, SO much: Polearms are MASSIVELY powerful, but to carry a big one you gotta put your shield away, so THOSE guys whine about ranged, 2h swordsmen got a massive nerf cause sheeple couldnt spot a stab animation and claimed it was the games fault. MAKES ME RAGE: With ANY of my chars, I will fight ANY other player: At range or in melee, be they on horses, foot, or on a building. When I die, I MADE THE MISTAKE, the game isnt broken.
A hint to OP: Archers never complain that shields are too powerful, personally I LOVE shielders, they move slowly and make nice targets when Im on my archer, on melee chars shielders are USUALLY an easykill (Obviosuly players like Cyber are an exeption to this) cause you can just spam them, since you can tract the number of skillpoints they wasted on shieldskill. On horseback, a shield is a MUST mosttimes, but on foot, putting points into IF or shield just shows a faulty philosophy: WHY are you planning on getting hit?? The plan is to AVOID being hit!
Stop changing the game guys, just l2p.