Throwing gets a nice buff from speed.
If you're stupidly charging the thrower in a straight line, then you deserve that "heavy" damage.
Getting one-shotted by throwing spears while wearing 40+ defense armor is retarded
What is retarded here is the lack of information...
While wearing Armor helps surviving, the biggest factor is actually your health.
This armor :
Archon's Armor
weight: 11.1
body armor: 40
leg armor: 6
difficulty: 10Can be worn with a 12 STR build. And no IF. Now if you get OS with such a build and armor, then it's... prefectly normal. You'd have been onehit by a lot of decent melee weapons too.
If i walk sideways, Mendro takes away 70% of my thrower health (21/21, no IF, 50 armor). I never jumped in front of him, and ran towars him, so i don't know about getting oneshot by a Mw Jarid.
Throwing is balanced though. Lack of ammo, dedicated wpf and skillpoints, low range, balances it out.
And luckily for throwers, i don't see them in all the LongRange stackers staying on a hill during the all map, pewpewing from far away, waiting for people to climb their hill. So no hate for throwers, they take risk to go as close as possible in melee.