Honey. To play Melee is also meant to be accompanied by a healer. So, being Melee is more useful to capture objectives and lockdown on players. For a ranged player, there is no need for a healer. So to make comparasion Melee vs Range is stupid. As a Melee player, you dont want to chase ranged players. As a solution for the “problem” is not the nerf Ranged and creates Zerg Fest. The solution is to create a high mobile assassin class that can take on ranged players without a need for a healer supporting their bum. High mobile assassin weapon/build, maybe daggers? That way, ranged players can have some danger around them so they will not be able to endlessly spam abilities. Make sense. Now get good
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This guy gets it.
(Honestly I was hoping they would add a dagger build eventually).
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And or girl. I’m sorry if I assumed you’re gender and I’m actually not kidding.
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My name is Vlad. And i am not American.
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That makes sense because Dex ranged dont really target each other very much 
You are mistaking melee with bruiser.
I play every build.
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EXCEPT ranged hatchet xD.
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Except for throwing hatchets apparently. Why don’t you try it 
No seriously. Do it and then tell me how “hard” bow is afterward.
I’ve tried it and I like it, but I prefer bow over throwing hatchet.
Everyone who says they’ve “tried it” did so for like 30 minutes, didn’t use the full tree(the only way it actually works), and/or mostly used it as a support weapon.
Accurate?
Honestly I always give a build a fair shake. I used it for a good couple of days (8 hours a day type nerd stuff). That’s like what? 4 months in casual time? Since most people probably play an hour or two a day, max. (I’m exaggerating slightly). It’s a fun build, but just not my playstyle.
By the way I don’t hate or dislike you in any fashion. If you dislike or hate me that’s totally fine. You can think I’m crazy and don’t know what I’m talking about, but just remember:
5 years from now when they finally balance combat I’m going to message you on the forums if you’re still active.
You’ll find that bow wont be as good as it is right now if that’s the case haha
Be honest, you used berserk, distancing, rending throw huh :p. I swear that’s what everyone does haha
I think it will still be close to where it’s at now. There’s other factors than simply reworking combat though right?
For example there’s no skill based matchmaking. So, if you get a team of noobs that doesn’t understand that you should socket certain gems, have certain perks, or a decent gear score, then you’re doomed from the start. You can be the most skilled player ever, but let’s be real. We need solid bruisers and healers who can distract enough to let DPS do their thing. There’s a really big difference between a team of good bruisers and healers and a team that’s new. Skill based match making alone would probably put a lot of peoples minds at ease.
There’s also hacking. There’s hybrid AI software that will allow you to macro PvP. Cheaper ones obviously don’t work as well as private scripts. So we aren’t even getting a true PvP experience as is.
This can all be a double edged sword in that, SBMM definitely helps so that you have a decent team, but hackers are typically in higher skilled lobbies. So, how do you really know you’re playing skilled players?
New World is just too messy all around for PvP. I think PvE is in a pretty good spot. They just need to keep adding more content to keep those who love PvE coming back.
I don’t remember a ton about the ranged hatchet build other than, I thought it was really solid and stopped playing it because I figured someone would complain and get it nerfed xD.
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I 3v1’d(won) 2/3 rounds of an arena this morning because my two bruiser-type teammates kept managing to die at the same time and very fast
(Spear/throwing ha btw)
I would really like skill based matchmaking
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Was it before or after that one patch where they tuned it up a bit?
I really …REALLY wish that they didn’t nerf rending throw and infected throw’s damage right before they released it to live. Uncalled for imo… I also very much miss the stagger on distancing throw. I would totally give up the slow or the haste for the stagger back.
I want to say I tried it out like 4 months ish ago, but I don’t completely remember. It could have been a lot longer though. It was a lot of fun despite not being a build that I would drive daily if you know what I mean.
I almost was going to main it because I don’t remember a ton of people using it. It seemed like it was more niche, or it could have been my server. I feel that I was honestly like 1 of 3 people on my server that used it. I just remember seeing it dominate in arenas after I got matched up with a guy running it a couple of times. I’ve also hopped a few different servers so I don’t remember all the details.
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Have you ever played melee competitively in this game? I finished 2nd in opr on my team and 6th overall in a close win in my 3rd ever mage match on a new character 625 weps but low gs otherwise and all junk gear. Did a hair under 1 million damage. Not rexord brraking or anything but about 2-5x what you will typically get as a melee in opr.
My fire staff I realized after the match was my Empryian Forge purple staff with Human Bane and Refreshing pillar of fire, ie. A 1-perker. Had the wrong gems on (diamonds), and wasn’t aiming at the ground for splash damage I was coached up on.
Ranged/mage in this game is extremely forgiving and the lowest skill req. In the game due to having the lowest enemy attention, attacks, and abilities that they have to interact with in combat.
Being able to aim is a skill but not as imprrssive as the players that fight in the thick of things managing their stamina, avoiding hard lock cc abilities, staying alive, and getting their offensive combo. Especially sibce hit boxes are so large or hit scan.
You are incorrect other than your ability to left-click is considered coordination. Its learning how to predict and where to aim to hit in relation to their name plate. That isn’t coordination that is prediction, point, left-click.
Playing musket and bow in New World is not like playing baseball or ping-pong.
What are you talking about?
Like schitzo and great sword that were nerfed and nerfed again? Like Blunderbuss nerfs?
I do agree though. It would be nice if AGS reverswd course and buffed the builds that can balance the meta instead of gutting everything except a couplr builds.
the thing since the patch, i dont use musket anymore as the main weapon no point in it even close range you will miss a tone of shots.
I just use it to use bomb sometimes poweder burn and then kill them in melee combat with rapier, its rly hard because of low con but whatever. If ags wants me to play like that i try to make it work xD
Yea it’s way harder ngl, hitbot for arrows are pretty massive