bring a shield l2p
No more close thread and all other threads related to this its pathetic kthx.
I'm a hybrid thrower and polearm. If I can occasionally throw a throwing lance into a shielder's face while his shield is up, than you should be able to shoot them in the face, especially if you have an angle advantage. I also position myself at angles relative to them when they're distracted and throw stuff into their arms/back.
Yesterday, I found out that I could be one shot from arrows [excluding head shots]. In tribal warrior outfit, a body shot from tears killed me, and a body shot from some random person killed me [admittedly, I was pretty close to tears and he was on a hill]. The random person was pretty far away [and the oneshotting only happened twice].
For comparison, ignoring head hits [cause I'm not a helmet crutcher >.>], most melee weapons, including becs, poleaxes need to hit me twice in Gambeson.
Although, to be far, a different random archer did ~1% of my health at medium range in either tribal or Gambeson. I can't really comment anything else about archery, although in low armor they could do upwards of 50% of my life for most archers, and I think falling off of walls due to the lack of safety railings is a much bigger issue.