By your logic, the best thing melee could do, is camp/hide for the first 3 minutes of a round till the archers either run out of ammo or die. If melee aren't cut out to take down archers, they should be trying to ensure that they, at the very least, don't die to them until they can ensure their ability to overwhelm them with sheer numbers.
In real life if you're wearing so much shit that it's somehow slowing you down enough to not be able to catch someone, you can just remove whatever it is that is slowing you down. In real life you don't have to put points into shield skill before you're able to pick one up and use it to block arrows. Sadly we're not going to get either of these in cRPG so you're always going to see complaints like this until archers can no longer kite. Meaning they may be able to run, but kiting becomes impossible.
Either i'm failing to get across what i'm trying to say or you don't follow my logic at all.
I'll keep it really really simple this time round, "Use your brain, adapt to the situation, think about what you're doing and don't blindly follow the spikey shooty thing."
You are human, you can change what you do, you have a brain that has many many different functions, don't just charge them, don't chase them, you don't charge head on towards a charging lancer do you? You move out of the way and then try something. It's the same thing, it's changing what you're doing to make sure that you murder them rather than them murdering you.
I completely agree with your second paragraph to an extend, i'd love to see someone try and run after something while taking off a set of full plate.
However, as much of the game can be modeled around realism, it's a game, it's about game balance, about making sure that the classes are even enough to make each one viable, to increase the number of people who play and that will always make some angry because "their class has a weakness against blah blah blah". I may rage and swear about cavalry and their odd hit boxes etc but I'm not calling for nerfs because they are my bane.
In short, as I have said, use your brain and adapt, don't blindly run after them and then complain because they took advantage of that and as another point, it's not all archers that can outrun you, there are plenty of high strength and therefore high power draw archers same as there are plenty of high agility infantry.
I can't stress more that you should be the one to adapt and not the game, I dont' know who it was, but someone quite recently said something similar.
