As I see somehow the need to fix the rangers, the fix was in my opinion poor as the damage reduce affects solo rangers/scouts with low RR more then the professional team playing archers and/or archers with high realmrank. A damage reduce when target has been hit by multiple archers had been the better choice imo, as the pure solo bow damage isn ´t that high and gamebreaking itself.
That being said, the offered skill respecc is kinda worthless and not enough imo, but the intention from this whole nerf is clear to make the rangers specc more melee and skip bow, to solve the ranged archer problem, or make it a less game impact/problem due less players play these classes.
But there is no point to make ranger or scout a melee toon as nightshades and Infiltrators do by far the better job in it.
As re-education never worked in daoc (uthgard with their "visions" should have been a warning) I suggest to give archer classes of all realms at least a quest to class respec into their realms assasin class (no reverse and can ´t be undone*) you help these players with their decission, as you soften the nerf on the other hand and give these players a choice. You will maybe see less archers and more assasins in the future (dunno if that ´s better and not just creating a new problem, but the bow range thing becomes maybe less annoying).
* As there will be maybe more changes in stealther classes in future, there might be a consideration to allow all stealthers to switch their classes into another stealther class of their realm without a restriction and as often they like.
That being said, the offered skill respecc is kinda worthless and not enough imo, but the intention from this whole nerf is clear to make the rangers specc more melee and skip bow, to solve the ranged archer problem, or make it a less game impact/problem due less players play these classes.
But there is no point to make ranger or scout a melee toon as nightshades and Infiltrators do by far the better job in it.
As re-education never worked in daoc (uthgard with their "visions" should have been a warning) I suggest to give archer classes of all realms at least a quest to class respec into their realms assasin class (no reverse and can ´t be undone*) you help these players with their decission, as you soften the nerf on the other hand and give these players a choice. You will maybe see less archers and more assasins in the future (dunno if that ´s better and not just creating a new problem, but the bow range thing becomes maybe less annoying).
* As there will be maybe more changes in stealther classes in future, there might be a consideration to allow all stealthers to switch their classes into another stealther class of their realm without a restriction and as often they like.
(celt)