Archer class whoring!

[Zetus]

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I have figured out the true meaning of your post, Zetus. It is not cowardly archers that you hate, it is people and their nature. It is not the sly and cunning who hold us back, it is the stupid and ridiculous. Those with cunning would happily work as a team, because you can only get far if everybody survives.
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I sadly admit that You are 100% correct.

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Is there something you want the admins to do about it Zetus?
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I belong to a minority of players that want from this mod mainly cooperation and good atmosphere. The whole stats and leveling system is a secondary feature for me. That's why instead of starting a thread with a topic like "Yo let's nerf archers!" I first wanted to see if anyone shares my concerns about current gameplay. What I want from admins is to look at this thread and see that we have a problem.

And if I could make some changes what would I do? (this can get a little OT)

It's obvious that people get easily swallowed by current mmoish leveling and equipment system. The thing is that You don't really need to get to high waves and cooperate with the team to be successful in that system. You can survive 4 waves each round and eventually get the same level and gear as a player who has godlike coop skills. Archer class is right now the best way to farm exp without much effort and without giving a shit about other players. We will re spawn in two minutes anyway right? so who cares... Paradoxically people who want to fully devote themselves to help their battle-mates will fall behind with their levels (yes, healers).

My solution would be as follows:
- No individual rewards for kills. Neither loot nor exp. All loot would be randomly distributed among players. Equal exp for everyone with each kill.
- Exp rewards would grow exponentially with each wave, in other words: You wouldn't get much happiness from killing peasants only, unless you were a newbie.
- Bonus exp with each wave survived.
- Strong system detecting idle players.
- For further consideration would be a complete removal of autoblock. That would make shield players play a proper role as tankers and two handers as damage dealers. Archers on the other hand would get too scared to fight on their own.

If people see that teamwork is the only way to get shiny legendary items and high stats they won't struggle with it. This would also fix the archer problem because from what I've seen servers with most people playing as archers don't get too far.