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[Angantyr]

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I play near every day for years and honest to God I have never seen so much ranged in cRPG as the last few months. I count 14 ranged in this pic alone and there were even more on my team than I was able to capture in one screen.

Seems like a mix of old regulars getting bored and making ranged alts and especially inexperienced players doing shortcuts because melee is too demanding/takes too much practice.

Some serious xbow requirements would be a good start, and redoing the unloomed ranged buff would help also. Even ranged players argue this.

I'm not raging at all, more like this empty, hollow feeling 

[BerG]

[zottlmarsch]

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I play near every day for years and honest to God I have never seen so much ranged in cRPG as the last few months. I count 14 ranged in this pic alone and there were even more on my team than I was able to capture in one screen.

Seems like a mix of old regulars getting bored and making ranged alts and especially inexperienced players doing shortcuts because melee is too demanding/takes too much practice.

Some serious xbow requirements would be a good start, and redoing the unloomed ranged buff would help also. Even ranged players argue this.

I'm not raging at all, more like this empty, hollow feeling 

Doesn't my Horse just look fucking beautiful in that pic!!! 

[Jeraz]

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[Krex]

And what requirement do you want xbows to have?PD?So we can have Archer-xbow Hybrids?Nah...

[Andswaru]

Biggest problem is the armoury system (which i love btw)... any idiot can now grab a MW bow, some MW arrows and start firing homing missiles without any effort on his STF. Archery needs a whole rebalance.
 The rewards for going strength and heavy armour need to be increased against ranged. Light and medium armours should still be vunerable to ranged thou.

Also the most important thing you could ever do it increase the upkeep % chance on bodkins and tatar arrows to make them more expensive, like that patch 2 years ago were an archer lost 10k in a few hours using bodkins and tatars. Force more people onto normal or barbed arrows since these do a more acceptable level of damage with the current % of ranged played on the servers.
Thats only way you can encourage people back towards other classes imo.

[Jeraz]

And what requirement do you want xbows to have?PD?So we can have Archer-xbow Hybrids?Nah...

1. You cant have Archer/Xbow hybrid cause the only way is getting hunting crossbow, 1 stack of bolts, 1 slot bow and 1 stack of arrows. You wont hit annything if you have to devide all the wpf over both x-bow and archery + it wont do nearly as much damage as a dedicated x-bow/archer. You also won't have anny melee capabilities .

2. The people that want a dedicated skill want a skill specific for X-bow.

3. The main problem is that archers have to trade in melee capabilities (PS) so they can get PD. The only thing Xbowers need to trade in is WPF.

[BerG]

[no_rules_just_play]

Guys stop whining about ranged. Get yourself a shield. It's realistic. Every soldier in medieval had a shield they didn't QQ "nerf xbows". Ranged is natural enemies of OP 2h and polearms (because of game mecanics).

Again, get yourself a shield and stop agimy old friending in tunics.

It would be realistic if shields actually helped

[F i n]

GEZ A SHEEEEELDZ IS ALL THE SAY. SUCH MEAN

[Mr.K.]

http://i.imgur.com/LaaprP4.png

You missed at least two ranged there. Over half the team pew pew, yup must be EU1.

[BerG]

It would be realistic if shields actually helped

Well, i agree with that. I didn't play for few months and found my good old shield got reduce in force field.

But i think it's problem of nerfed shields, not op ranged. I think if devs wish to remove shild forcefields they need to reduce accuracy of bow, and reduce dramatically. Again this will be more authentic.

[F i n]

Guys stop whining about ranged. Get yourself a shield. It's realistic. Every soldier in medieval had a shield they didn't QQ "nerf xbows". Ranged is natural enemies of OP 2h and polearms (because of game mecanics).

Again, get yourself a shield and stop agimy old friending in tunics.

Ah and btw. talking about realism:

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[Osiris]

Guys stop whining about ranged. Get yourself a shield. It's realistic. Every soldier in medieval had a shield they didn't QQ "nerf xbows". Ranged is natural enemies of OP 2h and polearms (because of game mecanics).

Again, get yourself a shield and stop agimy old friending in tunics.

pretty sure there was much QQ about xbows

Back in the 12th Century it was considered by many to be a weapon of mass destruction. It was feared and hated not just because it was capable of eliminating anyone on the battlefield from great distances, but because it allowed any lowly peasant to kill a high-born professional knight with the simple squeeze of a trigger – something that many elites feared could shatter the natural order of society. As a result: the highest authority of the day, the church, called for an outright ban on this particular weapon.

http://militaryhistorynow.com/2012/05/23/the-crossbow-a-medieval-wmd/

We should go medieval on its ass and ban xbows except for shooting islamic style warriors

[Andswaru]

Btw it also says a crossbow could ONLY fire 2 shots a minute... lets bring that into Crpg since those crossbow boys keep claiming realism.