Archery changes

[Guest Gizzol]

um hate to interupt the hurrah for lower bow damage but up can shields be given a change then? like a chance that they dont block the arrow? maybe scale this with the wood workers level? i dont know man shields are pretty overpowered agaisnt an archer and (i believe)you can use a shield on a house which negates the speed of the archer fully, im not saying bring back bow power but like at least fix shields a little please?

 

[Flurgh 78]

lmao comparing real life sniping to minecraft archery, hihi xd

[Nathan_Barnett36 1564]

Have none of you actually read the thread. The damage done by bows and arch sets (leather armour archer armour) has not changed at all. The only thing that has changed in velocity so why are people complaining about the damage done. Its exactly the same you just need to get better with using low velocity bows.

[Kvasir 1121]

yay more pvp nerfs! I really do hate pvp, seeing it get less attention or at least getting nerfs that make sense is nice.

[Nathan_Barnett36 1564]

6 hours ago, Teegah said:

i mean those would have been -5%...

tf would -5% do. Does it hit you it instead?

[Deleted User 001 0]

4 hours ago, Dewlox™ said:

Ah... mounts... yes, he had that topic aswell. Ever heard of dismounting arrows? That's like a lance flying at your face. Any melee troop can shoot one at an occupied archer's face and pretty much stuff him in the ground. It doesn't require a good bow or archer gear to shoot, and it takes one shot to make you free game. 100 blocks? Players don't display from further away than 50 blocks, not to mention that people move, i've served as a sniper for two years in the millitary and i can confirm that hitting a moving target that runs around in zigzags from this far is not something that you can do with your eyes closed. And we're talking about arrows, not bullets. You can easily see an arrow comming and just put up a shield, i've done it myself and it has saved my skin hundreds of times since shields literaly force the arrow to bounce off. Bows take time to charge up, you can't spam it, the melee troop runs while you charge, sees the arrow comming, blocks and does it all over again, if you stop shooting, he'll come even faster, if you don't, he'll get to you eventually by just blocking your arrows.

hitting a mounted archer speeding around on the roadhogs people have for horses isn't like you said something you can do with your eyes closed. If you're standing still on your horse and you get hit with a dismounting arrow, well that's your fault

 

2 hours ago, Roberik said:

THere are already only a few archers in the community now there will be almost no use to being an archer at all  then you need to buff melee even more because archers can only shoot a few times before an melee player has reached them so until melee is buffed which will also get much hate archery will be useless except if you're a really pro player so it would be better if it didn't happen at all or melee also should be nerfed 

that's why you have to position yourself correctly by either being behind melee fighters on your side or way out of reach from enemy melee fighters. If your playstyle is right you wont ever get caught out by people

[Harri 4815]

1 hour ago, Nathan_Barnett36 said:

Have none of you actually read the thread. The damage done by bows and arch sets (leather armour archer armour) has not changed at all. The only thing that has changed in velocity so why are people complaining about the damage done. Its exactly the same you just need to get better with using low velocity bows.

you're actually stupid nathan

[E__V__O 2000]

1 hour ago, HB_ said:

you're actually stupid nathan

 

I can never tell if you're meming, trolling or being angry with that profile picture of yours.

 

In other news, can we have Rp buffs? :)

[Pieman 1134]

nice but that thorn tho

[Arctic_Guard 1068]

Why couldn't this update wait until after the warclaim today???????? Is it seriously that necessary to add this right when a major battle using bows will ensue????

[Zindran 590]

Okay, So. Here's what should happen to balance everything out:

• Keep bows the way they CURRENTLY are, and I understand why @Dewlox™ is pissed, and they gave valid reasons which I respect.
• Add coding to shields that has like.. a 5% chance that the arrow won't be deflected.
• With the Bow nerf, make the Infinity enchant actually keep all the arrows since we all know that the Explosive Arrow doesn't work with infinity
• Keep swords the way they CURRENTLY are.
• Make archer gear not so painful to collect materials for since there's a high chance you'll just have to gather the materials again because the gear that was made is horrid stat wise.
• And just for banter, make caskets a bit easier to get for miner <3

Anyways that's my two cents, take them as you will.

[Mabah 156]

9 hours ago, Teegah said:

i mean those would have been -5%...

When you shoot yourself with your own bow ;)

[Eandyil 92]

7 hours ago, Dewlox™ said:

Thornbark, drops from trees only in desert biome.

Not so. Thornbark is confirmed to drop in both Plains and Savannah biomes. I'm confirming it for you, as that's the only places I thought they dropped. Dragon scale also drops in Savannah.

 

Also: I've heard that any % above 25% velocity was pointless in pvp?

[Vangroth 52]

On 1/7/2017 at 9:36 PM, Eandyil said:

Not so. Thornbark is confirmed to drop in both Plains and Savannah biomes. I'm confirming it for you, as that's the only places I thought they dropped. Dragon scale also drops in Savannah.

 

Also: I've heard that any % above 25% velocity was pointless in pvp?

It could drop in all biomes but it won't change the fact that it's way more difficult to get a hold of them compared to iron and coal.

[ryno2 1285]

I've gotten thornbark in ice mountain biome as well, but it didn't drop from a spruce tree, only dark oak. Didn't try acacia but that probably works too