Please give archer a dagger.

[Jennestia]

But yet, every melee class has ranged attack weapons.

And yet they don't do their main form of damage via range attack weapons that people rarely even make.

Odd, huh?

[Myrhn]

Who said that close combat was going to be the main form of dmg?

[Delmontyb]

Who said that close combat was going to be the main form of dmg?

Right, that was my thought... I was more or less thinking it wouldn't make since to hit with their bare hands, and a dagger makes more since. But I can understand that it might be difficult.

[AtlasThomas]

I say make the arrow an auto attack, or give them a dagger. Cmon now Yoshi!

[Delmontyb]

I say make the arrow an auto attack, or give them a dagger. Cmon now Yoshi!

Here is a great thread for the AA debate for Archer...

I'm fine with AA, but this thread is more for hitting with bare fists.

[Arngrim]

Ya know with the way the later bows have all that armor plating and spikes and god knows what else tacked on. It would make more sense for a arc to play a bit of el Kabong with there bow in melee distance.

I'm on board with this idea, when using AA at melee range, why not just have them clock the mob with the bow's edge, maybe adding a push back effect chance or a bind effect chance, so the Archer can better get back to proper range?

[Astral]

Archer's attacking with fists is just stupid imo, makes no sense whatsoever. Either have auto-attack arrows, or use the bow as a weapon at close range like staves/clubs are supposedly going to be doing. Can't be that hard to implement

[Dargoth_Draconia]

It is common sense for them to have some type of small melee weapon perhaps a knife of sorts. That is why people are saying go with a dagger. Hell even soldiers today who use guns for main combat carry a combat knife with them for when all else fails. For this game it would be a simple immersion mechanic to make the masses happy, I really see no point arguing against it, hell I even offered using a bow for a weapon just for a quick smack. Bows were very sturdy and strong and could be used to deflect a sword or to hit someone who got too close without damaging the bow.

[Skeloton]

If your close enough to B****slap your foe...your doing it wrong.

[Zanfire]

If your close enough to B****slap your foe...your doing it wrong.

when your playing solo or get hate (its quite easy right now) then its going to happen. Also WTF with giving basically every damn mob a ranged attack...whos genius idea was that?