who cares about elitist anyway? other elitist perhaps? dunno ...
in my opinion in a point of view of an infantry bot, we need ranged my old friends as easy mode cav (that what you talking about elitist shit? ;) ), anyway we need those like a good food needs spices. Nevertheless depending on spice(salt f.e.) the food can become pretty fast not enjoyable.
That said, i always prefer fighting against cav over ranged, because they are still slower than projectiles.
When i see that 2/3 of all players have ranged weapons and both sides on a server are camping the hell out of each other(what i witness now more then ever before) then there is too much Salt in the soup to stay with the metaphor(sry for the long words, elitist again, so sry)
So Tears whats your point anyhow with this thread, want a buff or just some love?
I give my fellow players of the ranged classes the later, mates i am glad that we have ranged, even if i often swear a lot about you, part of my roleplay sometimes, sometimes pure rage
nevertheless it would be boring without ranged.