Archery

[Loki]

I'm curious what the community thinks of archery in it's current state.

[YourLord]

I never played an archer and I never will, but its very sad how little arrows I see flying in the sky. The battles just look poor nowadays without the archer masses, its just one blob of infantry against the other.... no more shield wall camping with archers behind makes me sad :-\ this mod used to be so epic, no more 200 pop servers no more archers I am a sad panda.....

[Loki]

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After I shot this player in the face, I was flabbergasted to see her run around with an arrow sticking out of her face.  This is with a twice heirloomed strong bow with PD 6, 152 wpf, and a bodkin arrow at medium range.

[bruce]

I never played an archer and I never will, but its very sad how little arrows I see flying in the sky. The battles just look poor nowadays without the archer masses, its just one blob of infantry against the other.... no more shield wall camping with archers behind makes me sad :-\ this mod used to be so epic, no more 200 pop servers no more archers I am a sad panda.....

You must be talking about NA servers (which have those silly town maps 90% of the time anyway), because there are still plenty of archers on EU.

[Poetrydog]

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After I shot this player in the face, I was flabbergasted to see her run around with an arrow sticking out of her face.  This is with a twice heirloomed strong bow with PD 6, 152 wpf, and a bodkin arrow at medium range.

From what I've been told a arrow in the head only shows if it's killing. If not you can't see it. So maybe you've just head the neck or something?

[Barracuda]

I think archery is a little underbalanced. Damage is a bit low and accuracy isn't that good even with ~170 wpf and a khergit bow. Some say PD increases accuracy but I'm yet to try it. Shoot speed drop has also made it pretty hard to hit a decent horseman or especially a horse archer. One could always shoot the horse but that takes many arrows (if courier or better) and you usually have other targets as well.

[Fasader]

poetry dog is right. That's not a headshot, it hit the shoulder or something

[Mattressi]

If that really was a hit on that unarmoured head, then wouldn't it have done the exact same damage pre-patch (all that piercing does is bypasses armour more effectively)?

[Beauchamp]

for crpg archery is ok, for strategus its a mystery.

[RamsesXXIIX]

for crpg archery is ok, for strategus its a mystery.

Agree on this.

[Vexus]

Starting as an archer it may be slow and painful for the low damage you do but going higher in PD they become very strong.

Some eu players probably know the witch archer she/he can take half or more of your life with 1 arrow and headshots frequently (There's many more archers that deal good damage so it's not only 1 person).

Maybe buff lower bows but surely archery is not under powered it's just throwing is more easier to use and hopefully something will be done on it next patch.

[Everkistus]

for crpg archery is ok, for strategus its a mystery.

Agree on this.

I agree with these two.

[Camaris]

Im playing this generation as archer.
I think archers are really balanced. You can be very good to very bad depending on how you do this day.

Its not to easy and not to hard.

[Wulzzz]

I guess mainly the guys who are too stupid to buy a wodden shield still think archers are OP..

[Punisher]

Archery is balanced in cRPG now, there are a lot of sucky archers that used to spam and now cry because they got nerfed but there are also skilled archers who top the scoreboards. In Strategus unless bow crafting will be very expensive archery will still be OP.