Another archer anomaly

melee players who use 2 handed weapons. They can kick. Archer use bows. Bows are 2 handed weapons. Archers can not kick. Why is that?

Because bows don’t have a kick in their moveset, nor is there any use for a melee shieldbreaker attack on a ranged weapon. What are you gonna do, run up on someone and kick their shield away only to proceed to shoot at them point-blank and defeat the entire purpose of a bow? As for me, I think I’ll keep my distance and just shoot over/under the shield :sweat_smile:

Just as a follow-up, many two-handed melee weapons don’t even have a traditional kick, though some may have a special attack that similarly can’t be blocked. Some are even able to block, themselves. With that in mind, I don’t find it anomalous at all that a bowman cannot kick, and think it is instead a little silly to suggest that just because it is a two-handed weapon it should have a kick :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Have you seen how bows are used in PvP?

Abuse hyper armor with charged shots and 40+ accuracy at ANY range to knock down your opponent and permastun him to kill the person with 3 shots.

Shields interrupt this gameplay. So those PvP archers want to win against that as well.

Yes lol I often run bow builds and am well aware of how they are used. It seems like we’re on the same side here otherwise, so I don’t know why you’re coming for me. There’s no reason a bow, which is intended to be a ranged weapon, should have a kick.

Bows should have a skill instead of kick its ā€œfinal pullā€, you pull the bow and bowstring around the opponent and shield to sunder him useless for 3 seconds, but you loose the bow afterwards. :sweat_smile:

perhaps a ā€˜legolass’ style arrow stab for cqc

That’s a good idea! I’ll prolly get called a lair again, but I use bow in close-up melee sometimes and to pretty good effect. A kick or an arrow stab with affects similar to a javelin hit would really sweeten the play!