New weapon for archery: Huo Jian
- Rare item
- For it to shoot you need an item on the bag called powder keg. It never gets exhausted. It uses arrows as well.
- Damage 24, hit ratio +80. It loses 1 damage and 8 hit ratio for each tile away from the target beyond the first.
Reasoning:
Pure archers usually lack of a good melee weapon for their talent and they need to resort to some less than ideal choices. This weapon lets them have very good melee damage and hr while adding a penalty for staying too far away from combat.
I don’t see why an archer needs a melee weapon. From lore perspective makes no sense. If you get close to an archer they die fast by a sword. For an archer it’s all about positioning.
I wouldn’t mind a spell/trick which could give an archer distance, like jumping 5 squares back again. Or things like fire/freeze arrows. Things more in line with real archers.