Body shot nerf was not needed in the slightest. Removal of ladders would have been enough.
It certainly screwed over all other ranged. HA has very little chance of getting headshots since the original HA nerf, the HA skill needs to be fixed to compensate. Otherwise the damage decrease in body shots particularly sucks. Throwing is even more useless. Crossbows are now completely fucked in the rain.
Devs really need to use their brains a little bit more. Introduce one change at a time. Remove ladders and see how that pans out. If another nerf was needed after (I honestly doubt it would have been) then so be it. But right now it was over kill and hurt a lot of classes simply because infantry are a bunch of bloody pansys and couldn't stop whining.
Edit: And to those using Jambi ect as examples of archers doing well, they are bloody good archers, they will always do well. Balance by the average player, not by the best.