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Archers shouldn't have shields
Bow users, or archers, should not have a shield. A bow is a two-handed weapon, and it's meant to be used at a distance, not in close combat, thus a shield makes no sense to begin with.
Gameplay wise, archers have the ability to kite, running backwards while spamming arrows. This normally is enough to keep them out of harm's way, and a shield just makes them all the more annoying to deal with, as they can defend themselves and stun you to get distance again even if you manage to close the distance that they keep from you.
Not mentioning the fact that archers are everywhere. One archer is annoying enough, but manageable, but archers can team up more easily than melee fighters due to their attacks covering a larger range, which is oh, so annoying.
Please remove the shield of the archers, and perhaps reduce their health from 8 to 6, as archers are most often lightly armored.
Thank you for your time.
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If so they should have a better special attack.
Perhaps a poison arrow that does damage over time, or a fire shot that does more damage and some damage over time
Maybe even a quiver of arrows to choose from in the equip menu, to decide what your special will do
Just throwing out some ideas
I agree, when Saii and I teamed up shooting arrows at you it was practically impossible to get attacked since the player is so busy defending.
That's the main reason I typed this out.
I understand now how cheaply OP it can be to have a bow and shield. Even with the hammer pounce special, I couldn't do anything since you just blocked the damage and either ran from my attacks or blocked any potential hits, regaining the distance and/or getting a free arrow shot off since that doesn't knock me out of dizzy mode.
As v2 states, the Vigilantes goal is to make the game and community balanced and prosperous. So it is fair to agree with this. I wouldn't suggest arrow types for one reason, if the poison arrow saps health away slowly this gives the enemy a chance to recharge his ability and hit you again giving you reoccurring poison. More the Archers should fire out two arrows at once bringing the target to half health. It would be more balanced as an ability and being more creative than the ax ability.
- Saii
I can see players that have been hit with the poison arrow move out and wait until their special recharges/get health. Maybe if the poison arrow hits it can slow down the person as well? Since it would be a special it would have a longer recharge time, which is my reasoning for making it more powerful. Even then, it's blockable so it would only work once in a while.
I agree bow is really strong weapon.Actually strongest of all. You can barelly get to archer because they are always running and shooting while running and you have to kick that arrows back or block and you cant get to that archer if you are melee. But if you manage to get to enemy archer he can fight with that bow like with axe,so archer dont have any downgrade if you are good with axe or sword you are practicly undefeatable with bow,because you are shooting them from far away but if they will get close to you,you are fighting just like with normal axe so its really OP. Bow should have more personality because now its axe mutated with bow :D