Vaegir archers were definitely not the weakest at melee in the previous version. They outclassed swadians easily and arguably rhodoks too and were on par with sarranid rangers. The only ranger which was better at melee than the vaegirs was the nords due to the access to super cheap heavy armour and axes.
The vaegirs did need a nerf, however I would have preferred to see it aimed at their cav which was the best in the game before (still pretty good now) rather than their infantry which was already mid-low tier and their archers which are their characteristic strength.
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Can vaegir archers still ride coursers?
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Dr4g0nkn1ght said:
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I agree archers kiting is op. Its fine in bot invasion mods but not in competetive multiplayer.
If you are losing because of kiting, look at your strats. There are plenty of ways of dealing with it already. These changes also won't help you much at all in regards to that and neither would the complete reduction of athletics to 1 since the effect on top speed is actually quite small. Athletics reductions main effect is in acceleration of your character which has more to do with melee combat than straight line speed.