You guys are really fighting over nothing here. Removing ladders from Battle Servers was suggested ages ago, in every possible way there is, from nice, decent suggestion threads to blatant rages & insults yet nothing, ABSOLUTELY nothing was ever done about it. How can we even make any other suggestion about anything while such an easy, basic, trivial & absolutely necessary thing can't even get a proper reply from any developer, let alone a proper course of action ? How hard can it be ? Even a complete fool would have to agree on this one, what we call "battles" is far, far away from "battle", you could use dozens of terms for it but not this one. How & why they refuse to understand the level of enhancement with this small, easy but a very significant "move" is really shocking. Just remove the ladders from all battle servers, don't give us a 30-slot server without it and say " There you go, assholes - enjoy yourselves." It's the same with melee only servers. None wants to play there, its not fun and no one ever asked for it but all these archers just tell you to go there instead "asking for further archery nerfs", which is not what all these arguments are about, at all. None wants to nerf archers to hell or "destroy" that class completely, people just want to play BATTLES, instead of acting as practicing targets to a bunch of unreachable "national heroes", that's all.
I mean seriously: back in the old days at least some teamwork could've helped you to do something, now even that doesn't help anymore. Team with more archers on roofs wins and there's nothing you can do about it. Awesome.