No I mean unit that is better in melee than most of the enemies. Can be 1h/pole/2h.
Ok, I understand. I'm gonna throw in the old "support" argument in that you all know very well but I think its still somewhat valid.
I enjoy it very much to interfere in fights by shooting bolts in there. The best moments are when you see that an ally is getting engaged by 2 or more targets and you drop one of them so your mate has increased chances of survival. Or just hit one of the guys and if the timing is good it was just in that moment where your ally was starting a hit and with the stagger there is no chance for the other guy to block it.
These are the moments I play for mostly, to get teammates out of shit situations. Be it by dehorsing enemies, shooting enemy archers or enemy melee that would outnumber my own team.
For me this is one of the main reasons I play this game, I've always played more of a supportive role in most games and I enjoy it very much in this game. You want your hero aspect in the game but I also want to be able to support.
Dont tell me that you've never smiled when a horse is shot right in front of you and you can finish the guy off or when you see an archer aiming for you but before the arrow goes off he drops down dead. I know its annoying to die in battle because u just get to spawn once but adapting is part of survival.
In my case I adapt to be more of a coward (one might call it cautious, but lets call it coward) and run away from everything that is melee. I often get onehit from behind or bumped to death by horses. But thats ok, I dont want to be invincible, to have only one "life" and to take care of it makes this interesting.
I'm talking only for myself now. I've got 13 bolts with me, 14 with the preloaded xbow. So that means I can "stagger" 14 targets with that, if I had a 100% accuracy, which I do not have. Some rounds I hardly hit anything, other rounds I hit very good. I'd say I have 60-70% chance to hit in general. If it rains I dont use an xbow because of the damage reduction and practise some melee.
Ranged will always be there and the more hardcore melee heroes there are the more of the "average" players will play ranged to have a chance against you. I still remember when Tor used to finsih me off all the time with his bigass evil axe of annihilation, thats one of the reasons why I changed to xbow. Deal with the weapon range available in this game or change game.
Edit: ninja edit?
And we're all playing navy seals? I'm talking about serious blows of swords, axes, bar mace etc.