Quite a few people have stated how overpowered archery characters are.  I am thinking about making a change to how archery works in order to make some creatures more resilient to archery attacks.

There will be a chance for creatures to dodge arrows based on their speed.  Slow creatures, will be very susceptible to ranged attacks.  They will basically be hit with the same amount of damage as they are now.  On the other hand, fast creatures will have a higher chance of avoiding damage from attacks.

Creatures will likely end up having 0%-70% chance of dodging arrows.  Very few creatures are fast enough to have 70% chance of dodging.  The average will likely be 20-40% chance of dodging.

Now, as far as multishot goes, each arrow will be handled separately.  A player will not lose all damage from a multishot.  Instead, perhaps 1 or 2 arrows do not hit their target.

Let me know what you think.

I have to rerun my archery character with the new creatures, but if there was some way to code this to check by distance, that would probably be better.  My point is this.  Archery is really all about not being hit.  if you are hit, you melt.  if (to take the upper limit which would not be the norm) you have a failry strong and very fast monster, and you have a 70% miss chance at 5 squares away, w/e, you are still fine.  if you have a 70% miss chance when they are on your face, you are much much less fine.

It also appears that archers have 150% damage to both targets in a tile.  Just saying that this is more than Mages, and melee has NO option to AOE.  So maybe that is why things are easier for them as well.  They really do more damage than every other char.  With no mana to worry about, and since they aren't near the monster, no hp to worry about.

We just saw that mages get 133%/66%.  Maybe the answer is just to bring them in line with mages?  that may make the difference.

After playing a mage to level 20 in the dungeon, I have to say...he really does roast my archer character, and when he isn't killed immediately in 1 shot, he lasts a very long time as well. There is also NO room to put the needed distance for an archer to kill in any of those areas. Archery is really inferior to magic in every way. I've truly come to believe that mages are actually the only way to get past level 12-14.