archery..

[POOPHAMMER]

7 athletics and not being able to catch an archer, while being riddled with shield breaking arrows?

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I am sure he was much more heavily armoured than the archer was, and I am sure the weight of the shield didnt help either

[rufio]

the thing is we started chasing him with 4 people of whome i ended up being the last surviving one QQ

[XyNox]

Why didnt you guys just call for ranged support yourself ? You were supporting your ranged, not being busy with cheap killhunting did you ? DID YOU ? I HOPE YOU DID !

E: Herkku doesnt like teh teAMplayZ I guess

[Old_Sir_Agor]

Archery is fine stop crying like little girls 

1. learn to live with Archery is counter for cav 2h/pole/1h/xbow/Thrower

2. Its your own fault for not goin archer to counter other archers

3. Get a shield noob!!!

wow Tzar , never expeted this post from you.
btw im arbalester, what i do in 1 way=i kill enemy archers
2) i kill enemy horses, thats what i do most the time.

[Rumblood]

I am sure he was much more heavily armoured than the archer was, and I am sure the weight of the shield didnt help either

The problem with that idea is that archers don't shoot arrows out of their arse, and so had to turn around several times. So I guess they started chasing across an open field 200 yards away? For 3 minutes? Reminds me of that ball of 10 melee chasing a HX around for 4-5 minutes while their own team's ranged was slaughtered by the enemy melee that wasn't quite as.......<fill in the appropriate term>

[POOPHAMMER]

The problem with that idea is that archers don't shoot arrows out of their arse, and so had to turn around several times. So I guess they started chasing across an open field 200 yards away? For 3 minutes? Reminds me of that ball of 10 melee chasing a HX around for 4-5 minutes while their own team's ranged was slaughtered by the enemy melee that wasn't quite as.......<fill in the appropriate term>

I am well aware that archers do not fire arrows out of their asses but its the only logical explanation I could think of if a 7 shield 7 athletics shielder managed to get killed chasing an archer, and I do agree with the picture you posted and not being able to make sense of how it happened, I was simply trying to make SOME sort of sense of how that coulda even worked out, and an archer with higher athletics (them damn EU players do love their agi builds), just kept running, turning around and taking shots until the job was done, which I have seen pulled off a few times by speedy archers on NA when they are the last alive.

[Tzar]

wow Tzar , never expeted this post from you.

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[rufio]

The problem with that idea is that archers don't shoot arrows out of their arse, and so had to turn around several times. So I guess they started chasing across an open field 200 yards away? For 3 minutes? Reminds me of that ball of 10 melee chasing a HX around for 4-5 minutes while their own team's ranged was slaughtered by the enemy melee that wasn't quite as.......<fill in the appropriate term>

makes me remember off that post where i said it was 4vs1,, i dont remember mentioning enyone else allive or anything like that, i think na should get theyr own forums where they can talk with theyr own  kind, since they play a totaly different game enyways.

[Kafein]

Archery is fine stop crying like little girls 

1. learn to live with Archery is counter for cav 2h/pole/1h/xbow/Thrower

2. Its your own fault for not goin archer to counter other archers

3. Get a shield noob!!!

Sig worthy.

Also, it baffles me how archer enthusiasts are unable to understand the problem with shielders that are stronger vs other melee than ranged troops.

An archer with a decent build can basically shoot while moving nearly non-stop. In a way, they do fire arrows out of their arse, unless they got a fail STR build of course, or armor heavier than peasant clothes. All of this makes him the hardest class to kill for any other class if he has half a brain, except maybe HA that inherently have this kiting ability. But HA got big horses that can be safely lanced or shot, besides they can't dodge cav during the last 500 ms like foot archers can.

Shielders need a significant buff to their ability to kill archers, and to survive while approaching 2 or more of them. This whole "there are two of us we kite in different directions while shooting, you die !" mechanic is absurd.

[Paul]

Wow, this reached a new level of retardism.

[MrShine]

Shielders need a significant buff to their ability to kill archers, and to survive while approaching 2 or more of them. This whole "there are two of us we kite in different directions while shooting, you die !" mechanic is absurd.

"Mechanic"? You mean, teamplay and being outnumbered? A skilled player going up against two other skilled players is almost always going to lose unless the team of two make a mistake.

But if you insist I've found the perfectly (balanced) shielder change that should help them with running archers:

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GIFSoup

[Rumblood]

Shielders need a significant buff to their ability to kill archers, and to survive while approaching 2 or more of them. This whole "there are two of us we kite in different directions while shooting, you die !" mechanic is absurd.

Now it isn't good enough for you if you can run down and auto-kill a single archer, oh no. You want to be able to auto-kill however many archers might be shooting at you without being touched.

Why not just have archers auto-die on spawn? 

[Tzar]

just have archers auto-die on spawn?

+1

[Ronin]

+1

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[Leshma]

I wanna make post filled with pictures like news headlines with Tzar and Rufio saying QQ Archery OP!!, Nerf friendly archery!, I had 8 kd then archer ruined it, nURF! and stuff like that. But I'm too lazy.