High demand?

[Mr_Awesome]

I'm still a relatively new player so let me offer my perspective.

When I first joined the game I was often frustrated by how quickly I'd die. This of course gave me plenty of time to observe what others are doing. I saw the snipers and wasn't really interested in sitting back and just shooting at stuff. I saw the crossbowmen and wondered why I wouldn't just be a sniper. I saw a commando and wondered why they could take 20 hits when II could barely take one. Then I saw the skirmisher. He jumped around gracefully and solo'd entire waves by himself. I was in awe.

I turned my first dude into a skirm and it was fun. I didn't have the athletics to kite and I couldn't kill much beyond the first couple waves, but it's immensely satisfying to throw things into people to kill them. I grew frustrated how I couldn't hit anything that didn't fill the crosshair.

I then saw a crossbowman kite, take hits, kill things at range, and melee effectively, everything I couldn't do on my low level skirm. I rolled a new redshirt and enjoyed the accuracy even if I couldn't quite get a handle on the range. I was too inconsistent with the crossbow so I decided to respec and embrace the class I usually end up playing with in games.

After switching to infantry, I've been pretty pretty happy with it. I still haven't figured out how to be as effective in melee as some other people I see running around, but when I get frustrated I'll switch to my skirm. Infantry has required the most effort than any of the other classes I've tried.

tl,dr: Melee is hard. Combine that with with how you are rewarded significantly better by killing directly rather than some sort of supporting role and you can see why ranged is so prevalent.

I didn't play an archer yet as that is simply not my style, but of the ranged classes, they probably have the lowest barrier of entry. Plus with an end name like "Sniper", the name alone generally attracts more people than any counterpart.

Once you hit 52, the skrim is the fastest unit in-game, you'll be able to out run those pesky archers.