Leshma if you can't manage to hit with 140/150 wpf I think you're just not supposed to play an archer and stick to other classes :3
And yeah remember some of us introduced the idea of changing some game mechanics to make kitting obsolete (motf flags spawing way sooner is an exemple). To find a balance the game needs to introduce a concept of goal other than killing everyone for e-penis. If archers want to kite and run when they see melee that would actually still be doable, but useless since they won't benefit their team if they're running away from the flags.
And if archers feels like going melee well, they make choices at the start of the round and take an adequat equipement. You can't have everything all the time, sometimes I have to make a choice if I want with my 1h : a 1 slot shield and 2 stacks of throwing, or a 2 slot shields and 1 stack, or 1 slot shield and a spear. That's part of the game, making judicious choices depending on the environnement. That's the good thing with having a "hybrid" (I don't call putting ~90 wpf in 1h hybrid for an archer, I call that common sense) build, you can make choices to weather use or do not use your side skills depending on the situation.
I get your general point, but I can't believe that in particular. I think what actually happens in build design is a very organic process that starts from what the game is and goes through popularity cycles until another change is made. That people would plan their build then ask for changes seems pretty far fetched. I think specialist builds rationally are the best adapted to the current balance, but people neglect the fact that specialist will have more difficulties facing their counter classes or some specific battle configurations (like 0 ath cav in towns), and that it is very frustrating. Being killed defenceless induces rage which leads to balance rants.
Anyway, blaming the players will not get us anywhere.
Btw, shields are about as effective a counter to archers as bunkers a weapon against people launching missiles on you.
I don't get your last line !
But yes you got my point and you kind of explained the same thing with your own words. It's like buffing scissors cause they get crushed by rock, so the "new cycle" starts and people choose to play scissors, but with that starts the whine of the rock being now underpowered against scissors and leaves, which leads to some leaves nerf to satisfy the rocks etc...
And all that because everyone makes "specialist" builds, and I repeat myself but that's the whole point off my thread, for fackin e-penis reasons. They keep arguing that specialist builds are the only way to have fun but end up raging at other classes 50% of the time, where's the fun in that, gentlemen ?
Rage that leads to more useless-ish tweaks of the game that will start a new build trend.
This is just plainly retarded, people needs to realize that they are either playing the game wrong, or playing an unsuitable class for them. You can't ask for things to change everytime you get killed in a multiplayer game, you'll always end up killed at some point if you play against other humans, they're not bot.
You adjust yourself.
