After having played archer for a while I do agree, archers need to be dealt with, the damage, the volume, it's just too much. From a game perspective, having a ranged class that can instakill with a headshot is just silly (Talking purely C-RPG here) - The amount of times I just watch ArcherHelot, Merc_Mezzo run around with their instant death +3 Longbow and just 1 hit KO 50 people and end the scoreboard at like 16-0 because nobody can get close to them is ridiculous. The volume is also an issue too, there are far too many archers to make them dealable with a shield. Shields work up to a point, after that point they're not helpful really at all. Only thing that affects how helpful a shield is, is the volume of archers, multiple archers can stick together, and scatter as soon as a shielder approaches, then the shielder will find themselves surrounded on all sides and will in turn get shot to shit. Even with multiple shielders the same exact thing can occur.
I was 1 hit KOing people with a +3 Horn bow, Rus bow and Longbow. The headshot part comes down mostly to a question of skill, because we have a lot of really high skilled archers in C-RPG, and whilst that's not a bad thing, it's also not a good thing, as they can abuse something like that and just rack up millions and millions of kills like I see them do every time they play on the server. Part of the time I spent when I was temporarily a part of the Merc clan before they purged everyone who isn't only part of Mercs was noticing how much Mercs play together and work together with archers and melee, I constantly see an archer and melee pairing, they pull it off really well, the melee attacks and the archer shoots from close range at the person, it's a ridiculously annoying combo to fight against, and they do it really well.
Me personally I think archers are far too strong, and I do think their damage needs to be lowered. But the other avenue that should be opened is the ability for agicher to come back into the fold. strcher is currently the only viable build when it comes to archer, so, the logical thing to do is to nerf strcher and buff agicher. I think that will solve most of the problems with archers just becoming this unstoppable powerhouse of instakills.