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<blockquote data-quote="LordAO" data-source="post: 1339952" data-attributes="member: 6010">I respect your insights, but there is little point in continuing to drag this thread further and further off topic. The point I was trying to make is that melee and archery both have advantages and drawbacks. These things are seldom more than a nuisance, but they count. In my opinion, the two fighting styles are quite well balanced overall. Yes, they nerfed archery in 3.5 with the no magical bow and arrow stacking rule (for starters). But (this may surprise you that Im saying this), they also nerfed melee. Having to have a golfbag of weapons is the last thing any melee character wants. When I play a melee fighter, I want to dedicate myself to a single weapon (or pair of weapons), not lug around a golfbag full of adamntine, cold iron, holy, unholy, flaming, shocking, frost, axiomatic, etc, etc, etc weapons!&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad&nbsp; &nbsp; :mad:"&nbsp; data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /> IMHO, archery and melee were balanced in 3.0, and they are still balanced in 3.5. Just a little bit different ball game now - for everyone.As far as the Improved Rapid Shot, I still don't really know. I've taken this as one of my feats for my Ranger character I'll be playing, so I'll get to find out first hand how balanced it is.[EDIT] P.S. - Manyshot sucks! Just thought I'd add that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="LordAO, post: 1339952, member: 6010"] I respect your insights, but there is little point in continuing to drag this thread further and further off topic. The point I was trying to make is that melee and archery both have advantages and drawbacks. These things are seldom more than a nuisance, but they count. In my opinion, the two fighting styles are quite well balanced overall. Yes, they nerfed archery in 3.5 with the no magical bow and arrow stacking rule (for starters). But (this may surprise you that Im saying this), they also nerfed melee. Having to have a golfbag of weapons is the last thing any melee character wants. When I play a melee fighter, I want to dedicate myself to a single weapon (or pair of weapons), not lug around a golfbag full of adamntine, cold iron, holy, unholy, flaming, shocking, frost, axiomatic, etc, etc, etc weapons! :mad: IMHO, archery and melee were balanced in 3.0, and they are still balanced in 3.5. Just a little bit different ball game now - for everyone. As far as the Improved Rapid Shot, I still don't really know. I've taken this as one of my feats for my Ranger character I'll be playing, so I'll get to find out first hand how balanced it is. [EDIT] P.S. - Manyshot sucks! Just thought I'd add that. [/QUOTE]

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