I personally think that completely destroying a class because we don't like it is a terrible development decision. A lot of people don't like archers, do we nerf the class so hard into the floor that it does no damage anymore and is useless? No. We don't. We B A L A N C E them. Destroying a class is NOT balance, it's the very OPPOSITE. One of the main reasons I enjoy C-RPG is because of all the stupid and whacky builds that you can make, I enjoy playing 3/41 (using old builds as an example as I don't know new builds off by heart yet) agi daggerers, I enjoy playing pure STR pure fisticuff tanks, I enjoyed playing an agi based rock thrower.
Rock throwers are a small majority of C-RPG but I do enjoy the class, and now that it's been nerfed, I can no longer play it without effectively trolling because of how useless it now is. The nerf was justified to me by saying it's a peasant weapon. Well we best get started on nerfing the other peasant weapons then right? When is the Pitch Fork nerf coming in? When is the Peasant Knife nerf coming in? When is the beefsplitter nerf coming in? When is the Cleaver nerf coming in? When is the Trident nerf coming in? When is the Scythe nerf coming in? Face it. A nerf on this scale is utterly ridiculous. Maybe rock throwers needed a bit of tuning, a bit of balancing, but destroying a class is stupid, and it also leaves me wondering, what class will be destroyed next? We seem to be getting pushed towards just playing META builds like 2h kuyak hero spammers as opposed to creating and making new fun builds to piss around with.
Another justification I saw for the destruction of the class was that they could 1 hit people who were wearing no armour, and to that I say, so what? If you have a fucking rock lobbed at you and it smashes you in the head then it is likely to do some serious fucking damage, especially when you're not wearing any armour lmfao. Rocks do low damage to tanky players and high damage to people without armour, which is why they were used to attack archers, as they were actually a counter for them (Which is actually why I played rock thrower, to attack archers and xbows) So by destroying this you have also (technically) buffed archers and xbows. (Very minor buff but it's still a buff)
also inb4 i get a salty reply about how some tincan got destroyed by a rock thrower and firmly believes that because of that one occasion rock throwers deserve the destruction