Only on the subject of amount of ranged on the servers:
Taken just now on EU1, out of a 14 player team:
Amount of people playing ranged doesn't reflect main reality, STFs change all the time. Eitherway, that doesn't make ranged balanced.
The game is being balanced to please a 2H and no shield polearm population that thinks they should always have the upper hand (especially str builds, we've all heard the cries when agility was "OP", and still hear it some times now) and it is also balanced only in battle made (last man standing)
This is the typical arrogant 2h view (not saying all 2h are arrogant): "I should be able to catch up an archer without him killing running straight at him, I should kill him in 1 hit, if he manages to defend or even kill me, it means archers are too good and thus must be nerfed in melee too"
Now if we add to the mix overly nerf HA... oh, even more cry for only selfish reasons.
There has been a infantry only server, and a no HA/HX server and yet EU1 still remains the best battle server. Stop nerfing archers when other alternatives have been provided. Buff accuracy, specially for HAs.