Vengeance

Archers keeps getting luv. Volley is now 2300 range, and you get 5 arrows at 45 and 6 at 50. Volley kills will become much more common than they are now.

Bolldar's complaints notwithstanding - I've currently less than ten volley kills to my name. They are nice when they happen though.

Oh and longshot pierces AND pops BT. That is going to hurt. Longshot followed by crit (commence salivating).

On a down note, I will have to kill 1000 sharks to get my gloves to 10 and 1000 bugs to get my vest to ten. I've just started on the vest.

You do get the volley leech effect though. Any time we've been on keep sieges with Vengeance scouts we always get a piece of the RP from whomever's defending.

I think you like PvE you keep signing yourself up for more. Fools bow didn't break you?

I don't think volley is underpowered right now. I get rez kills (and if I crit volley on a caster - a normal kill) and it must be annoying as hell to get plinked for 400 every 15 seconds when you're trying to get your freak on. I've never to my knowledge been volleyd before so I don't really know if it is merely annoying or annoying as hell.

With every archer getting it for free - it will cease to be merely annoying, and on hib casters at least, become deadly.

I think the RP leech factor will start to become well known and archers will be sought after in groups (also for TS3 - the ultimate caster bodyguard). Although lately I've had zero problem getting groups - even pickup groups. This change makes me want to pinch myself to see if I am dreaming.

I've been volleyed in the lord room playing kidshealer. It is annoying as hell. The biggest problem is interruptions, if I'm in the lord room on a siege I'm not there to take a nap, I'm there to spreadheal, and a lot of times people get themselves into situations where they need heal support or they're going to die fast -- mostly against hibs who all have that castable stun.

So on this one keep siege some hib ranger I never heard of was using it, I'd get interrupted a lot, and some ppl died because I couldn't heal. Indirect effect but it's pretty useful. Same thing has happened with GTAE, although that seems a lot rarer now.

That's what I figured was going on. This won't be as much of an issue because there is a lot of cover in the new keeps, and you cannot volley into a covered area. If the designers have any sense they won't make volley completely useless in sieges.

For keep attackers, volley is going to be serious hell.

i got like 2k rp's with volley the other day...hibs were in the box in m1, so i set up on alb side and started volleying when mids tried to rush them. it was great because i was getting rp's for everybody that died, both hibs and mids.

Volley's best atribute is definetly the interupt factor. its hard to get kills with it unless you get ultra lucky and hit the same person with 3 of the arrows. its a beautiful thing for rp farming though.

edit - cant forget farming mids on their pad in uppland.

<---omw to rr10 one newb at a time!

(Edited by Lifesbane at 1:08 pm on April 23, 2004)