Seriously...Are Archers Overpowered?

I'll start off saying I am not biased for or against archers.

But do they have too much of an advantage? If so, is it fair?

If its not fair, how would you level the field?

[Archer of Crosis]

with the 20+ skills ive seen for other chars, and with the skills that will be coming up after 40+, i think all classes will balance out quite evenly.
yes archers are super high damage givers, but at a huge cost to defense and recovery, making them easy targets for mobs and bosses, and more often that actually dying if they are targetted first.

At level 28, my archer does a very small amount less damage than my 2 handed pierce and 2 handed slash characters. Archer's DO do more damage during the early levels but it more than evens out later on.

[doctor-warlord]

I think all classes are pretty well balanced after you reach lvl 20 as then the spicilisation of skills start where you get skills that specifically help a lot only to your class

[doug]

lol i ahve to agree

with chandra i have a ****load of health on my archer

and it takes a lot of damage lol

and also with dual weild and stuff weapon master and stuff will catch up

it just a better starter but doesnt gain as much as the others later on

or more slowly

Well I'd argue that an archer doesn't take any more damage than say, a mage, but mages don't have anywhere near the damage output of an archer in the early game. And everyone pretty much has the same access to armor and defensive stats, some just have to work a bit harder to get their defensive stats.

Honestly, the only thing about archers that really niggles me is that they get the Trishot skill right off the bat. In my opinion, it should be a 20+ skill.

Nobody else gets anything close to a triple damage skill (that can crit on top of it) right off the bat. I would call that a distinctly unbalanced advantage, at least in the early game.

Nobody can say speculate about the late game, however, so I can't say whether everything will even out or not but I obviously hope so.

Look at it this way. Trishot at level 20 is a 2% chance for 2 extra attacks. At that level, it's roughly a 1% damage increase.

Two handed melee classes get an additional 8% chance to cause 50% or more damage with the crit from Two Handed at 20, which is a 4% increase.

Trishot is impressive burst damage, but the chance is so low, it's not actually very effective as an overall damage boost. Not to mention the extra attacks can miss (and crit, but still)

Ok good point, so why do archers level faster than everyone else?

I don't know what you all are talking about they sure are overpowered right now.

High damage weapons, an equipment slot that gives passive haste, and having their offensive stats spread out.
I.E. You can raise Dex in melee for accuracy AND Cnc in magic for damage. As a melee class, you have to split your points between Str and Dex.

[Nicho]

i agree archers are OP

[paultwloha]

Mage = ridiculous damage.
2H = good damage after buff. More so then archers at a higher level.
Archers = ability to hybrid but pure archer aren't anything special.

[hotshot64]

*shoots bow*
*enemy runs up and starts hitting me with a sword*
*keeps shooting bow at melee range*

I R PURE ARCHERZORZ \O/

[paultwloha]

exactly. Give me an ability to shoot faster after so many shots. :P if they run at me I don't have to worry about accuracy as much since it's an easier target so I shoot faster.

[thatperson]

i agree w/ the original post archers are OP

[Valarian]

Believe me Archers are not OP!!

[locurasbeach]

C'mon, be serious and don't bump a thread 3 years old for having reasons to tell archers are OP when 100% nod knows internally that's false when u get capped, they only time when archers are OP is in the early stages -low lv's-.

[Valarian]

Trolls are not serious :P

[Jerzy]

Nerf them!!!!

[nekkid]

NERF ARCHErs!!!! and DW Slashers....BUFF CASTERS!!!!