Joined yesterday for a bit... saw 6 Fallens... 4 of them shooting... clean up your own acts before... ahh, whatever...
Except that the guys shooting have either A) Always been shooting on their mains or B) are just playing on an alt to player as an archer squad, which doesn't happen often.
Option B) has always been something we do once in a while, but we also do that with non-ranged and cavalry at times too. So the Fallens ranged use hasn't really changed since the buff, we've always had a good amount of ranged alongside the melee, maybe it's more noticeable now with the buff.
Also in the general CRPG population are people who came back to , or decided to try archery it out when it was buffed, this is a common trend when anything gets a decent buff, not all of those stick with it and the archery will soon die down again. But archery is hardly the only ranged, right now there are even a ton of Xbows and even throwers, why?, maybe because they want to try and snipe archers, I don't know, but either way their numbers will probably die down once people get bored of it again.
There are always trends and phases CRPG has gone through, you can't expect that trend to always stay at a level YOU deem 'just right'. Archery recieved a buff yet it's not just more bowmen on the field in general, it's all kinds of ranged, it happens, it will change. Will the Fallen Brigade change? probably not, because we have always had a healthy mix of ranged and melee on main characters and a lot of players also have Ranged alts.