arrow can stun a slash

hello mates,
im not sure if the title of this says it correctly, i didnt know how to explain it in short..

so whats pissing me off, is when i load a tripple shot, its ready and i want to shot a knight, the knight slashs the first arrow, and then i get a slash so im dead, why are knights able to slash arrows in the air? why couldnt it be possible, if a knight loads his slash, and gets shooten by an archer, that his sword ''knocks back'' so that he cant hit anymore? that would just be fair, because knights already can slash arrows, why cant arrows stun a knights sword?
(sorry for my bad expression, im sorry for it, but i hope you got what i mainly mean)

 

YES.
It irritates me so much.
When you have a triple shot loaded and... they... slash the arrows out of the air!?
It's utterly ridiculous.
just remove it

 

Because if a knight is skilled enough he can actually get past 2 archers spamming legolas shots at him at the same time. It gets incredibly tricky to do, and it can differentiate a decent knight from an experienced knight.

@FuzzyBlueBaron

 

no, just no Archers are OP enough already.... And what would happen in the battlefield
1archer, 1knight vs 1knight = And in every game there's atleast 5 archers shooting arrows from the tower... + the damn legolas shot ... 3*5 = 15 So you hove to dodge 15 arrows while you're fighting an enemy knight - good luck on surviving, might as well just run away, because that's the only thing you can do....!

 

I'm sorry, my earlier post didn't really get the point across. That's my fault.

This is my problem with slashes destroying arrows:
It is an offense and a defense at the same time. The one general rule of slashes is that while slashing, the knight should be defensively weak.
with double slash, a knight can protect themselves and kill the archer at the same time. Blocking arrows is what the shield is for.

FearSome, archers are not OP, you are seriously bias if you think that. You cannot predict an encounter with math. math does not factor in skill, nor human stupidity.

You're right, 5 archers legolas shooting from a tower would be quite deadly. (Although you can shoot arrows faster without the legolas shot.) But think of it this way:
If your enemy has five archers on top a castle, that is five knights they don't have fighting on the front lines.
just say if all those archers converted to knights, they would pose a much greater threat.

 

But it actually doesn't have anything to do with skill. Most of the time it's just a random occurrence where the knight got lucky. Worst of all, even jabs can cancel arrows just as easily as slashes can. It's just an unintuitive feature.

 

I wouldn't mind if jabs destroying arrows was removed, but have you actually tried assaulting bases in CTF as a knight? More than half the time an archer can keep me at bay because they can constantly hit me as I try to scale the wall or even bomb jump. I've never been held in bases by knights, but even single archers have killed me when I had the flag because of their constant barraging. Archers are one of the main things that kill me in knight vs knight combat because I can't shield as fast as I can slash.

@FuzzyBlueBaron

 

i dont know, but if you guys think that archers are op,... i just cant get it, its so unlogically, a knight, with a 30 kg armor, can climb a 9 blocks high tower....? and, they are as fast as an archer without any special weight on it?
i dont get how you guys think knights could have any disadvantages, oh my god, 5 enemy archer, why do you piss of that you have no chance? do you think the sherriff would have had a chance against 5 robin hoods? and your nice thing with knight+archer against a knight =, god damn, its just smarter to fight in a team that going solo, all that show offs, that think they would be pros..

 

Welp... 5 robin hoods... no one could survive, but i just can't disagree with "going on solo" It's a team based game! I just have some hate for archers... probably because i'm a noob...

 

Considering how fast it is to charge a slash compared to a charged shot (not even gonna suggest a triple shot) I'd go for removing the arrow slashing mid air, I've found myself countless times in front of a knight, releasing an arrow only to have it slashed mid air and the knight jumping on my ass afterwards as a good old sword rape ensued.

I admit that it's a 'cool' feature when you think about it but it doesn't seems to happen more out of dumb luck than skills given how quickly people can charge a slash.

 

I really don't understand how winning in a 1v1 (as an archer) would make the archer a "one man army". Even if arrow slashing is removed it would, at best, give them the chance to get a shot in a 1v1 encounter vs a knight. Even so, it would require precise timing and having to be in slashing range to perform it accurately, which is a very risky maneuvers. If you want to see a one man army, check the knight.

Also I'm just gonna add how absurd this is because archers can't hit knights when they shield, they also can't hit them when they slash, so the only times they can hit them is when the knight is either stunned or he/she is unaware of the archer, which results in a very small window of opportunity for getting a hit in.

Even if the archer is supposed to be a support class, it's pretty damn shitty for the archer to only be able to hit a knight when he's unaware or stunned, reason why I suspect most archers just start spamming arrows in the middle of a knight fight.

As for the 4 archers and one good knight team steam rolling everything, c'mon lets be serious for a moment here. Against a team of 5 knights that lone knight will get his ass owned fairly quickly, even with 4 archers backing him up, unless those archers are crazy to stick in melee range (which I doubt) to get the stun from their shots, the 5 man knight army will just jump the lone knight, kill him horribly then shield and move towards the archers unhindered.

Seriously though, isn't it enough that knights can shield against arrows? Do they really have to be able to slash arrows mid air aswell? Isn't that a bit OP how the knight's versatility keeps minimizing the archer's already small windows of opportunity for getting decent shots in? Has the archer truly degraded to a simple watchmen that tries to fend off the castle against bomb jumpers? I mean, if that's the only reason I should take an archer then I'm better off getting a knight and just slashing the guy when he gets close since I might even kill him off and don't risk dying so quickly as an archer if he still gets through.

 

I beg to differ.

...

Okay, I'm not THAT good, but there ARE a lot of situations in which I've injured and/or killed Knights by timing my triple shot perfectly and blasting them in the face with it.

Reason I can't consider myself a one-man-army is because of the fact that Knights can slash arrows out of the air, causing me to get killed 50% of the time.

I don't mind that, though. My issue is the triple shot itself.
Archers are a ranged class, and yet, because of the new triple shot, their best damage-dealing opportunities actually arise when attacking a single Knight at melee range. Plus it makes them spammier and more annoying in general....

Doesn't make sense to me, honestly.

 

As Kouji said, learn your timings. If you have a legolas shot ready to fire, you don't have to fire them all 1 after another. You can change the repetition of the arrows just by waiting half a second each time rather than doing them all right after each other. It is easy to do and works like a charm.

 

sorry kouji, but as i played with you, you were always playing a knight, and slaughtered the enemy archers, i thouged the devs wanted to make the classes easier to play, so in my opinion, why should a new player take the archer? you have to learn how to aim first, you wont get many kills and your kd will always be low, if you want a highone like i always do, you have to do solo, if your with a knight, he will always kill the enemy first, and really,... sniping or just spamming legolas from a save place is so boring! if i play KAB, i want to have action and fun, and not just always staying in the background.. i miss it from alpha, where i could get 3 knights as archer at a time, where i had a chance to stun their slashes, while they tried to slaughter me, but that was the only good chance too. so if you really want to be a good archer, in your opinion, you should go, support a knight, thats so boring. i always go solo, and thats like 10x more fun. but it isnt fun, if you have your legolas, and a knight comes, and loads his slash in a half second, you spam your legolas, but it doesnt do anything, the knight slashes the first, maybe the others do damage, but they dont push him away and SLING, your in 2 pieces, i really miss that archers were equal to knights, there you had a chance against them, and the only way i see, is to make the window of doing damage to a knight a bit bigger, because a knight needs one normal slash, a normal bomb, or just a freaking jab spam, an archer, has to hit him with 4 arrows! that means, 2 legolas shots from near distence, and if a knight can load his slash in a half second, its very hard to get him, because they are always jumping and so.. why isnt it like in the old storys of robin hood? one good aimed shot can kill a knight! maybe adding critical headshot! and kouji, if you think all archers that just want to have a little bigger chance in 1 vs 1 against a knight, they arent bad, they have a reason. ( i havent seen you playing archer that much, i always saw you playing knight, and in my opinion knights are just cruel, unintelligent slaughteres, which have a big advantage with their bombs..

 

Ok ignoring all the other issues for a sec, show me video evidence of an archer destroying a team lol. I don't think archer can physically output enough damage to destroy a team, even if you land every hit perfectly. I know knights destroy ass, as I knight I destroy ass every day and see others do the same. I even have a whole pile of videos of me doing work as knight, even crippled with recording lag.

I have never ever seen an archer come even close to what knights do on a daily basis.

 

This.

People look too much at the finer details and don't pay attention to the elephant in the room: Archers' damage output sucks royally compared to Knights'.