boost their damage all they want, they still will not be prefered over the safety and the ease of MP management with an Archer. That is the advantage to playing a ranged class. In all honestly, I thought the other melee stacked up well with Archer damage wise before patch, just a lot of complaining going on with everyone wanting to be the "best". Only thing hard to compare with is a fully buffed multishot, which now you have to wait 15 seconds just to nock another arrow to be able to do that. So who knows, maybe melee can equal its damage in that time span.

Again, as I said, I think these melee were really good damage wise before this patch and don't think they even needed a damage boost.