I'm kinda okay with the ammo nerf, as far as i know an archer in medieval times couldn't wear hundreds of arrows with him. As for the damage well it's everything but realistic but i guess it's a necessary thing to keep things balanced. Now to the speed rating nerf, well i'm not too fond of it, it's already imo taking forever with the warbow to reach the point where you can release an accurate shot to just see most of your arrows be a miss. I'm using the warbow cauze i like its design and seems to me like the funniest bow to use and fun is everything ain't it?
I'm okay not being able to kill anyone, i'm an archer, supposed to be a support class, not kikoololroxor dps class, i got used to the fact that if i kill anyone it's most of the time because i had a good window on some guy who was already hurt and to be honest i've come to realize that my main goal in-game isn't to grab kills and climb the board ladder but rather to bring down horses, keep other archers busy, try to scatter or slow incoming infantry rush and interrupt ennemies movements/attacks in order for my team's infantry to gain an adventage, in other words just brings in the ennemy field a bit of panic. I know i can't really kill anyone on my own and am not THE threat melee classes, i know i am just annoying to them and i just try to be that just as much as i can, if in the process i got a kill that's good, but that's random. Just for the record a melee who gets to me can 2 shot me at worst and one cav strike is enough to bring me down given the speed bonus, so they're a bit more than just "annoying" to me
. Still i'm okay with it i try to adapt and i'm here for the fun anyway.
What i can take out of all this is the fact that okay i realize i'm not here to deal dmg but if unlike other classes i'm not a real threat hell i'd like to be able to at least do my job right and actually hit the thing i aim at without being a no-life talented and over-skilled pure-built archer and to me, that's arrow speed. I mean come one, we're no threat in terms of damage, ppl just zig-zag, there are a lot of shields out there (which already magically protect heads and feets alike) and we've to evaluate the height and distance well enough for our arrows to actually land near the guy, wich most of the time recquires at least 1 "free" evaluating shot.
I know it's not rly about realism but just for the record in medieval times i hear the average arrows used to fly around 133fps, abit less than Xbow's bolts, Xbows weren't stronger in terms of dmg, arrows were more deadly since they were way heavier although Xbows could shoot way further but bows were way more accurate and both just couldn't peirce the tickiest plate armor, just leather and mail most of the time. So really, i think that having a good arrow speed would balance the fact that we're absolutly no threat to mail and plate guys and others just zig-zag or got magical shields, and that's if the shot land. Sure archers are annoying, that's the goal, but please stop whinning about OPed archers just because you don't like being annoyed, how long as it been since you've seen an archer in the top 3 board and how many kills do you melee guys grab each round by getting though a soft skin archer? Just consider that.
