Please change ARC close-range auto-attack from punching to striking with bow

[LlenCoram]

Whenever I play archer, I actually enjoy getting in close when the enemy HP is almost gone and shouting ARCHER PUNCH on vent.

It's great when it's the killing blow.

[Andrien]

how about piercing the enemy with the arrow in hand in close range instead.

[Gidonoidon_Sur]

Alright guys...simma down now with the bow nerdrage. I still think they could add a nice brass knuckle-like accessory that would accompany and be stylized after the bow your using. Sounds like a pipe dream. Oh well.

[Reika]

What?! You guys don't like punching monsters in the face when they are too close? That is preposterous! Currently, there aren't any plans to change this animation, but I'll be sure to keep them in the know of your feedback on the animation. In the meantime, keep on training.

*Queues "Eye of the Tiger"*

If you guys plan to make punching do the same amount of damage as an arrow shot, go right ahead and leave it punching. But it wont make sense , because we can currently use light shot and weapon skills at point blank range, and I dont see that changing (besides there no longer being light shot). The only negative is archers cant do combos if they are too close (which is a balance flaw please fix) So you guys might as well make archer/bard auto attacks arrow shots too at point when at melee range.

[Reika]

Do you realize how ineffective a bow is at close range? If you're so close that you can punch something, when shooting, the arrow contacts the target before it has left the frame of the bow. An arrow is not at its maximum velocity until it has left the vertical axis on which the bowstring sits, unlike a gun where the projectile is at full speed well before it leaves the barrel.

Like I said above - we can still use light shot and bow weapon skills at melee range, so this comment means nothing in this game.

[Warlock]

You need Hawkeye's bow to hit mobs with it hahaha Legolas hit orcs with his bow? i don't remember..but i do remember him punching , personally i wanna see Yoshi-P's Musketeer with dual barrel guns

[Hiruke]

No. You're thinking guns or riflemen, not bows and archers. I have never seen an archer smash their bow into someone.

Apparently you haven't seen enough movies, then. Because no, I'm not thinking of what you think I'm thinking about, or else... I would have said that instead of what I said.

Anyway...

In response to folks who mentioned stabbing with arrows, good point. I forgot to mention that, and edited it into the bottom of the post. Cheers!

[Hiruke]

What?! You guys don't like punching monsters in the face when they are too close? That is preposterous! Currently, there aren't any plans to change this animation, but I'll be sure to keep them in the know of your feedback on the animation. In the meantime, keep on training.

*Queues "Eye of the Tiger"*

lol... Fair enough. Hardly the end of the world if this isn't changed, but it would look a lot cooler if archers did something other than bareknuckle boxing when enemies got close... Unless your toon transforms into Rocky Balboa at that point, as well.

[PSxpert2011]

Be cool if they added a fist-like weapon to the ARC/BRD offhand that was stylized based off bow. Kinda like brass knuckles.

Sub-weapon or tool but I'd prefer a survival knife or the use of an unloaded arrow.

What?! You guys don't like punching monsters in the face when they are too close? That is preposterous! Currently, there aren't any plans to change this animation, but I'll be sure to keep them in the know of your feedback on the animation. In the meantime, keep on training.

*Queues "Eye of the Tiger"*

Rocky: "Aaay yo Adrian, lookit, imma Archier, I hav a bow and I'z still punching things..." :/

*Rambo walks in right*:"Aaay yo, that's nah how's itz dun... you use my knife... I cuts people wiff it when they getz tu close".


Snake: Hold your blade with your right while holding your gun with your left as a tripod, like this, see? I call it 'CQC'! ... what??"

[Alhanelem]

They really need to re do the animation before 2.0 comes out and let us smack the mob with a bow like Archers would have done in medieval times.

[citation needed]