As in my thumbs up thread, I want to say that I am fully aware that the game is in heavy development. Just want to add som impressions. I made a separate skill tree suggestion so this is not mainly about that, although it is an aspect.
There are many different ways to play the game. And I am not saying mine is the most effective or anything. But I tend to choose similar skills and similar type of equipment. Which might be because I totally lack imagination, but may also be because it’s effetive and no reason to alternate.
My main concern is archers. I started of loving archers as they do great damage at low armor opponents and spamming into crowds is fun. But I felt I needed to give them melee weapons as well because it’s “impossible” to protect them. But then you should optimally use the utilty tree taking perks away. Not absolutely necessary of course… but if one needs to put point in BOTH melee and archery.. that is expensive. So archery is darn good? Well, I don’t see it. I started to quickly use bill hooks and pikes that was supposed to be their secondaries almost immidiately (exception big battles with npc allies involved).
So every time I play I tend to end up with 8 melee (shield+weapon or weapon+nimble perk), and 4 billhook/pikers.
I feel that archers are in disadvantage because of the “need” to have melee weapons anyway, and risk of hitting your own when firing into melee. It’s “easier” to just get billhooks/pikes and put all skills on melee instead.
Just my thoughts about this of course. Interesed in feed back :)
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