Archery and the lack of a Special Attack

Something tells me @Mandevu is trolling lol

Id be happy with some swing speed increase and runic bows and a GM archer that can hit a shot at 5 tiles away. For the special attack Iike fist of arrows idea but Armor Ignore seemed to work quite well and use stamina

Methinks the video and perhaps any feedback @Keza might have about his character's performance at the last public harrower might add value to the discussion.

No need to repost any videos or links from the other 100 archery hating threads. I have used archery effectively against Harrowers and in other PvM for years now. Heres what I think archery needs:

• Special attack (obviously) I'd vote for a shot that ignores armor. This would be mostly useful in PvM vs. things like bosses & dragons with high AR. Also bring more archers to CTF events were players sport full invulnerability armor sets.
• Make Bowcraft/Fletching +20% damage to archery, same as lumberjacking +20% damage to axes. Even with +20% archery damage, an axer would still do 2x the DPS of an archer lol.
• Lastly, a slight alteration to the formula used to calculate archery damage based on range. I do agree that damage should drop off with range, but not at such a drastic rate as its currently set.

Thank you representative Keza.

/end thread

Push the bill to our president for final approval, please.

Hell yeah, let's bring more archers to this shard!
We endorse this thread o7

I have two archery characters that are effective too. A tamer archer that I literally followed your build on and a provo archer.
I agree with you too on the armor ignore and I also agree with fletching given a 20% increase in damage. I also agree damage should fall off with range but not as drastically as it does.

I will add that hit chance at range NEEDS to be improved! A GM archer should hit 50/50 moving shot and not miss literally 13-20 ranged shots. Thats crazy for GM Archer.

Agree totally with this informed opinion, this thread was started in 2012 and is now 11 pages long, it would be nice to see it happen.

I don't want to loose the spirit of how UO used to play (hence I play Renaissance) but at the same time we should be brave enough to experiment with sensible suggestions such as this. I'm sure it is possible to evolve the current formula to impact gameplay positively.

how can we set up a poll to see how many people actually want something to change positively to archer, maybe gathering a good vote may help with @Chris looking into this more.

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I think I'll roll an archer for this year's NoH.

I have fun no matter what build but I still wonder how well I'll score.

NoH?

Night of Horrors.... a UO Renaissance custom holiday (Halloween) event.

And we get zero response from anyone on the admin staff. At least come tell us to screw off. Tamers are the ones that get all of buffs here

Archer tamers are great tho

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

How about bombard @Chris with pm's, maybe that will help with looking more into this. Or even get some response from staff.

Lung Shot - Archer hits you between the clavicle and lower rib cage, puncturing the lung, and preventing the victim from moving for 10s and reducing stamina to zero.

It happened to Alexander the Great

Could also call it an "Ankle Shot" or something with same effects...

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Omg finally something