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AlexanderHowl · 01-11-2018, 05:52 AM

It should not be possible for a single melee expert to counter a half-dozen archers, especially heroic archers. If nothing else, they can just ping you until you fail on a defense or they critically succeed on an attack. Even a character with dodge 16 ends up being hit with 2% of the attacks that succeed and all of the attacks that critically succeed (so around 4% of the time). The only plausible solution is to use Stealth and close the distance before they start to fire.

01-11-2018, 05:52 AM	#16
AlexanderHowl Join Date: Feb 2016	Re: Countering archers and bows? It should not be possible for a single melee expert to counter a half-dozen archers, especially heroic archers. If nothing else, they can just ping you until you fail on a defense or they critically succeed on an attack. Even a character with dodge 16 ends up being hit with 2% of the attacks that succeed and all of the attacks that critically succeed (so around 4% of the time). The only plausible solution is to use Stealth and close the distance before they start to fire.