When you play ranged you dont feel the difference, when i played xbow i felt that there wasnt too many ranged, because i shot them all, but when i play shielder, it seems like the only thing that is hitting your shield is arrows.
You know when archers have too many arrows that they will waste 3-5 arrows on your shield
Archers rarely "waste" arrows on shields. The better ones know what shields have been made virtually unbreakable anyways (NERFFFFF!!!! WHINE!!!!!!), and in all other cases it is a) good sports to try and hit an unaware shielder that is too stupid to hold the shield right or to shoot uncovered areas (from shield skill 7 up they usually have that arrow-soaking "aura" around them - NERFFFF!!!!! WHINE!!!! - where you can do nothing about as ranged, but worth a try...) and b) it is part of our job to weaken shields so they break or break on first contact with melee. I have smashed many shields in my str archer days and helped my teammates quite a bit with that (ok, sometimes shooting the teammate in the process, LOL)
BTW yesterday ran around with my almost naked str pole gal - and she got shot at quite a bit, hit a few times, and even died to arrows/bolts twice. Died to melee about 10 times in the same time...
But: whatever.
The current wave of anti-archerism is just another incarnation of the the bi-monthly "remove archery from mod plox" propaganda, so my fault to feed any fish to the trolls anyways
So - let the hate out, folks, it makes you stronnnnnng. I am out of this discussion. What had to be said, was said - and devs will do what devs will do, LOL. It won't be many months anyways until we all have to adopt to some new (BROKEN!!!! NERFFFFF!!!!!) game mechanics anyways (Bannerlord and/or M:BG)
So:
Kudos and much love to my melee friends and hate-friends
on NA - many decent, non-whiney guys among them, have taken many of my arrows to the face or the butt like men with honor and murdered me countless times in exchange ;-)
Good guys - almost could be archers.