Howdy All,

Like 99% of you, i'm a longtime DAOC vet. I mained a Scout on Gareth for a few years and quite enjoyed playing it. The archery "changes" killed it for me so I was excited to see Uthgard was using the old archery system.

However, I am reading conflicting testimonials about the effectiveness of Archery in 1.65.

I understand the RA issue with Archers being easy picking for assassin classes. I hardly expected to run solo as a scout anyway so this isn't as big of a killer for me.

But talk of bow damage is pretty mixed. I hear that Bow dmg is fine and its only low because there are a lack of buffbots. I find this odd since there is also a lack of defensive buffs on your target as well.

With Uthgard holding a significant population, hopefully RvR wont be just 8mans and there will be actual zergs and warfare. That or stealthwarz, I'm so used to New Frontiers it will take me a while to adapt.

I even spoke to a lvl 20 scout in SCed gear that was having issues soloing blues. Not sure if he was just fail/Autotraining or bow damage really is that borked.

Im asking for anyone who played an archer class in the beta to leave some feedback.

why so much hype about scout, and green mobs give XP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVh8pMmBvoc

I played a Ranger most of the beta. High pathfinding for buff and bow for range effectiveness. I was quite gimpy in melee because of it but understood.

Using just the free DF gear I typically had crits for around 400 and 200 for regular shots. I had max damage/speed RAs.

It was a tough killing anyone one on one. The best chance was to leach of battles or catch someone healing up off a battle.

Camo worked pretty well as did True Sight every 30 min. My feeling is archers are pretty weak at this patch level but maybe if there is a target rich environment and you have patience you might be able to find a kill every now and then.