As soon as I hit lvl 31 I'll roll an archer. Never been dedicated archer before, it's time to try one. I wanted to make a 1h+shield with xbows as ranged option and also optional horse from time to time but now that's way above 48500 I was aiming for (I wanted to use studded leather over mail not plate, spammitar + huscarl and light xbow).
Right now I'm 2h and it's fun, I've learned manual blocking a bit but it's kinda annoying dueling players who spam polearms (for some strange reason, they seem way faster than my bastard, not to mention the damage). Claymore was cool, even cooler now but it's kinda pricey and I'm missing the key ingredient to make a true Highlander and those are medium armors with kilts.
Ninja takes much more skill than I have atm, but buffed Katana may sway me in that direction (along with Shurikens and Snowflakes).
I'm not really sure what to do, be a easy peasy fotm friendly archer or roll something more unique but harder to play.
(Polearms on foot are retarded, I won't play that, I dislike axes and anything similar)
Edit: I didn't write friendly, it was just a F before agcher.