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Archery is definitly OP...You do more damage or about the same with each hit when using a bow then you do with any melee weapon and u can hit faster since now u need to "charge" your swing with melee to get decent damage! If we talk about balance, there is none...archer got dmg, speed attack and range...what do we have with melee? I guess we have the advantage when we fight in the jungle where there is so much trees and bushes that archery become useless.
And if u look at a realistic point of view...it isn't logical either; how can an arrow cause more damage than a sword, a spear or an axe....And don't answer me stuff like "yea but dude if you get hit right in the eye...it will cause alot of damage" because you can get hit in the eye too with a sword...but that won't be the same kind of damage... arrow = you lost one eye...sword = you lost half of your face (which of course include the lost of one eye)...in terms of damage to a human body, all melee weapons should have an advantage over an arrow.
I could understand if would have done more damage only on some kind of armor...but naked, light, medium or heavy armor, in the legs, heads, arms, torso, whatever, archery do more damage...that's just doesn't make sense. Archery shouldn't do that much damage...it should have a nice armor penetration but that's all...
and also have u ever try to shoot with a bow at someone who is at only 1 meter of you while that someone is swinging a big poleaxe at you? I didn't either, but I guess you wouldn't shoot 5 arrows in ten secondes. Each good hit, not handle hit, with a melee weapon should make the archer unable to shoot for 1 or 2 sec...or something like that...so bows would still kick ass as they do right now...but only at range...you know the main purpose to use a bow...staying away from your enemy...because right now even if you fight at a melee distance, you should stick with a ranged weapon (bow) because you will be more efficient.
Sorry if it's look like a been pked and need to complain a bit...but it isn't in fack my main is an archer...I just seriously think I shouldn't been able to take out that easily someone with my bow in a melee fight. We should definitly have advantage only at range.
And sorry too for my bad english...it's not my first langage.