Archery was not fine because of Strategus mostly. Do you remember the first Strat? Most of the battles were decided by archers, infantry being only a support class, especially on EU servers. Even after the last nerf I see some clans hiring like 50% of archers for Strategus battles which makes those battles more "pew-pew" than "chop-chop".
Oh, so that's why archers were nerfed ?!
Because in "old" strategus there was lv40 archers with 200wpf topping the scoreboard, even though "now" :
-level limit
-impossible to have more than 173wpf in archery as a "normal" player
-weight nerfs wpf greatly
-all bows but one do
cut damage
-new animation adds a bit more reload time (wich looks great, except for the "why the hell must i grab another arrow since i haven't fied that one)
So we didn't test strategus "before" the newest update with the missile speed nerf, but OF COURSE archery needed at least one more nerf since it was so OP
4 months ago.I'm one of the "archery was fine, maybe add a bow for 5PD foot archers, else ha is more viable" lobbyist. Even though it won't change anything.
To OP : Such posts don't help at all the archer's cause. And they never did.