Can archers do anything anymore?

[Sandman]

Warbow has been nerfed to only kill MAA in one shot...sometimes
Heavy crossbow is so slow to reload that if you miss one shot...you're dead
The input lag on Javellin is so bad I'm amazed anyone can kill anything
And the sling is just...a thing

The balance and stupid DPI tactics are really messing with this game. If I swing my sword, almost without fail I'm out of range or won't hit, but no matter what I do to block, I'll almost always get hit by my opponent. WTF

[Cygnus]

Come play deadliest Warrior, the only way you can 1-shot with a projectile in Deadliest warrior is by shooting someone straight in the head while he moves.

Did I mentionned, Gun, throwing star, javelin, throwing 2handed hammer, throwing sword ?

[Lu2]

Crossbow or heavy crossbow can still kill one hit archer with body shot.if you using bows .use bodkin since even shortbow bodkin can 2shot archer and you will deal lot of damage to heavy classes
when you reloading crossbows use cover

[=(e)= Lemonater47]

TB needs to put the warbow damage back up. It didn't affect bodkin HTK at all really lol.

[Gemjano]

Yeah warbow needs a buff!

[ᛗᚨᛖᛋᛏᚱᛟ]

Well, warbow is still pretty good, but they just made broadheads pretty useless.

[Cygnus]

come play deadliest warrior, where everyone can shoot/throw stuff

[Nikita]

Archers are fine else you can't do this: http://puu.sh/czFXF/dbded77ad5.jpg winning FFA as archers if they were so underpowered and so bad you aren't able to do that stop using warbow as a 1 hit do everything weapon you will be fine then :P.

[Sandman]

Originally posted by Mskittyiana™:

Archers are fine else you can't do this: http://puu.sh/czFXF/dbded77ad5.jpg winning FFA as archers if they were so underpowered and so bad you aren't able to do that stop using warbow as a 1 hit do everything weapon you will be fine then :P.

Your skill doesn't negate the real problems that the archer class is presented with though. I'm ususally the top archer in the FFA I play, either top or second best, and in a crowded server I'm ususally lucky if I break top 10. Archer is the weakest class, both offensively and defensively unless you're godly accurate with warbow'heavy crossbow. 95% of the matches I've seen, it's usually either Knight or Vanguard at the top, sometimes it'll be a MAA (btw, MAA needs an attack speed nerf or something, but that's a different discussion), but only in 5% of my matches will an archer even hope to be top of the scoreboard

[Nikita]

Is because you just think a bow should be able to do anything you as archer you have the biggest advantage in chiv, you have good range and you sitll have melee if you add both well you will result always at top in archer if you count too much on your bow specially warbow well you will need to be happy with maybe top 15 xd. I can be archer in any mode even people I know same thing we will always be somewhere at top :P.

[Sandman]

also, the only way an archer can do realy well is with a javelin, it seems, which really doens't say much for balance

[=(e)= Lemonater47]

There is no way to justify the damage nerf from 105 to 90 for the warbow.

[Sandman]

Originally posted by Mskittyiana™:

Is because you just think a bow should be able to do anything you as archer you have the biggest advantage in chiv, you have good range and you sitll have melee if you add both well you will result always at top in archer if you count too much on your bow specially warbow well you will need to be happy with maybe top 15 xd. I can be archer in any mode even people I know same thing we will always be somewhere at top :P.

If I'm playing entirely melee, then
A. what's the pioint of even having the bow?
B. All of the melee weapons have ♥♥♥♥ range and damage, and vans/knights will always do that stupid instant overhead or bend backwards thing anyway
C. If it was really that easy, don't you think more archers would be top?

[=(e)= Lemonater47]

Come on Mskitty. Pub stomping in FFA which is a game more of who gets the most Killsteals wins isn't exactly the best of testing grounds. And did you constantly win game after game as archer? Half of them were under rank 20 a quarter being under rank 10. There was no one good on other than yourself lol. You would of won with any class.

[Nikita]

Has nothing to do with ranks FFA arena if archer is that bad like you all say shouldn't be possible low ranks just spam and archer is most of the times 1 hit, doesn't matter what ranks or what modes if you don't only count on bow you still will get good scores and it's all I will add to this discussion, because it's the only thing that needs to be answered. If you have a better testing ground i'm happy to see it tbh, range + melee as archer always fun to see different results, for the rest have fun playing ! :P

[Sandman]

seriously, the absolute only way to get a decent amount of kills is to go melee archer with a heavy javellin. Don't throw it, cauise it will take a literal second to actually be thrown once you release the button. If you ♥♥♥♥ up for half a moment, you're dead, killed in one shot by pretty much anything. It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ horrible, and it completely defeats the purpose of the archer class