Range weapons minimal range.

[Mizantrop]

Just watched the gameplay video again and noticed the archer merc switched to a knife before he got pwned by the 1000 pounder. I was never an archer-class fan but I would like to know how would the rogue/amazon/throw-barb fans feel if blizzard introduce a minimal range for some weapons ala wow's hunter?

[konfeta]

That would be terrible. Like, force D2 barbarians to have a maximum of 50 vitality or give casters a 3 spell limit per minute level of terrible.

Unless the archer character is a melee hybrid, but even then. This is a claustrophobic game. Doing this to archery in this kind of a game would violate it in ways that make hentai-tentacle monsters cry in shame.

[Nimbostratus]

That would be awful. Characters are built to focus on their primary method of killing, so forcing them to rely on normal attack with something not meant for melee would be rather frustrating. The fact that ranged characters typically get owned when in melee range alone should be all that is needed to keep ranged characters at range.

[Akse]

Well if the future ranged class is a hybrid of rogue/assasin or something. Then he would have powerfull melee and ranged.

Altho I'm not a big fan of this.. playing 3 years of Hunter in Wow.. sometimes made me frustrated of the everlasting kiting of monsters. Things were nice when you reached a point in your gear when the monsters died before they reached you.. otherwise it was sometimes painfull to grind with it.

[EKHawkman]

Are you kidding me? Don't put up that crossbow! Kick the guy down and headshot him! Give the crossbow some blades on the end and slice em up! Grab an exploding arrow and stab that fool in the chest and jump back! Archers can still kick *** up close if the know how to move.

[AniMe]

*shrugs* terrible idea... No minimum range plox...

[Kaeros]

I think, this weekend, a melee/ranged hybrid character will be introduced, and this will be the announcement that will once again "make everyone mad."

I think it could be kind of fun to juggle ranged and melee combat, personally. It doesn't have to feel like WoW, despite immediate comparisons to the Hunter.

[nicro tower]

Originally Posted by konfeta

That would be terrible. Like, force D2 barbarians to have a maximum of 50 vitality or give casters a 3 spell limit per minute level of terrible.

Unless the archer character is a melee hybrid, but even then. This is a claustrophobic game. Doing this to archery in this kind of a game would violate it in ways that make hentai-tentacle monsters cry in shame.

Lol at comparison. And yes, minimum range would suck. Everyone knows a point blank arrow hurts so much more ^_^