Baybay said:

Checked with the dev. team regarding questions about archers and their ability to auto-attack. Auto-attack as a system will initiate when the player is fighting an enemy in close range. While archers will be able to auto-attack enemies while in close range it won't be with arrows. New animations will be implemented to make this all happen!
Hopefully this means no melee weapon, but some "Legolas-like" fightting style! After all this game has some major references to lord of the rings...having ARCs using bows as bats and arrows as dagger during close combat would be just another one! ^^ I'd rather a knockback + pullback action tho...like you putting the foot at monsters' belly and at same time knock it back and jump ARCs back to force the rangedd distance.