I bet you didn't even read my ideas,you just posted. It is not well deserved and tell the others it is a team game so they don't leave you in the back to die from cav because you are too slow to keep up.
Just going off your highlighted parts.
San made a nice point earlier in the post about cavalry just steam rolling archers. Cavalry was the normal counter to archers,now they pretty much dominate them. Heavy cav. eats them up pretty good as long as the horse can take a hit it can ride right in and kill. I am talking about one horse here killing,couching etc. multiple archers. The main reason why I say this is because the archer just cannot accelerate out of the way anymore just too slow.
As a pure archer build standpoint running around with plate armor on your back is an unbalanced nerf. With all the damage,stun nerfs I think you guys can give a little love to the archers for once.Throwers on the other hand. WP too pt reduction,they can jump throw,throwing speed is faster then a bow draw and their tossables do not weigh anything compared to 10 per. I don't think it is balanced to have throwers be able to skirmish and run around with 18/24 builds 8ath and get away from melee,but archers cant. You might as well give throwers 50 missile speed so then you don't need any other thing.
A pure archer should be very fat because A) They are focused on shooting from a distance, not kiting and pointblanking. B) They should not do well in melee at all because they are dedicated archers.
Cavalry wrecks archers simply because cavalry always wrecked archers. In history and in games. Acceleration bonus would be fine but arrow weight doesn't need to be lowered for that to happen. Also, cavalry doesn't really counter archers well unless they use really heavy cav or are extremely careful. Heavy cav upkeep is insane and you almost always lose money. Light fast cav is not as expensive, but 2 archers that see that cav can take him down no problem.
Throwers/xbows do have some advantages in kiting/dmg wise against archers, but they can not get as much ammo/accuracy (some xbows are very accurate if built well but the reload time is insane) and their style is supposed to be different. Not all ranged should be compared to each other as if they are the same.
TL;DR : I understand your pain but with the amount of archers on, I doubt a buff will be coming out for them. You also can't really argue realism in this game because realism doesn't equal a fun game for any class.
