[954] Am I missing something with the archer class?

I played Soldat a ton and was actually a pretty good player at that game. I just picked up KAG and it seems to me that the archers just aren't up to par with the knights. I can't do much as an archer and I have yet to see a single archer impress me after over 4 hours of play time.

Knight players, however, have dominated a match plenty. I usually see someone have a ridiculously high kill count while holding a 2.0 kdr at least once on each server.

Can someone give me some info about this? The two classes don't seem to be balanced against each other.

 

Shadoninja, the archer class compared to the knight class is not supposed to be able to kill them straight on, the knight however is because of his sword and shield and ability to bomb jump. the archer has a grappling hook which allows him to escape easily against any knight as long as you use it correctly. there is a legolas shot which fires 3 shots in quick succession, hold down left mouse button then when you hear the scree you rapidly click and three arrows shoot out. all arrows fired at max power within slashing distance stun knights even if they are shielding so the legolas shot allows archers to go through knights shields if the shots are placed correctly. in the end its like this. archer isn't balanced with knight but they can hold their own against 1 knight granted he doesn't have a bomb. archer class is more geared towards lighting wood structures on fire and punching big holes in walls with their bomb arrows. you also have the ability to stun at any range with water arrows. if you want to rack up a bunch of kills and get over structures while still killing enemies play as the knight. if you want to be the support class which negates wood and almost any weak structure then go for archer. other then that there's builder which isn't supposed to really kill any of the the combat classes unless he gets lucky.

 

Thanks guys. That does clear some things up. I will think of them differently next time I play and see how I feel about them!

 

Archer class used to also be able to knock vehicles backwards with their arrows but now that vehicles are immobilizable, that ability is largely gone.

yay for tiny archer nerfs