Yes Spear of Sylvia is now a range skill and Ravenous Talon is a flow skill, but same time Marked Bloom changed to be unusable during cooldown and Full Bloom arrow damage is no longer applied if you are in close proximity to an attack target so the archer loses his two best skills!!!

Marked bloom was a little bit too op because it could be put on cooldown and the dmg was quite high and when he didn't have a CD, I honestly expected a dmg debuff on him but I don't think it's that serious, you have many combinations . with which to replace it, so that you no longer farm centaurs with 1 skill and 2 dash. 

Full Bloom has 2 versions, short range, a lot of dmg if you didn't put Grand Bloom, or with Grand Bloom, range dmg but in short it gave very little dmg, now they also removed this "little dmg", anyway no usesed it when they are close to the target, you have better options. The new changes bring you many more advantages even if they change the mechanics of the class a little, but it is a change for the better, you have more mobility, more protected dmg skills, range movement for distance. These changes, if implemented, will bring the Archer up to the current classes level

I don't care about this pseudo advantage if I lose 80% grind speed 1 hits mobs.

Also these changes do not buff archer in end game zones in any way.

These are pseudo buffs for pvp, which won't change anything anyway because the archer no protection and his skills are too slow.

If they want to give a buff to the archerin pvp, let them add range grab to him because currently the berserker jump-grab has a greater range than the archer's skills.

What is it at this point for Archer? Triple down from PA on never giving him proper succession?

Seriously, put two long range shots on W+C and D+C, turn his regular SPACE twirl to C and let us enjoy the class already.

Gonna have to agree with OP, losing Marked Bloom spam basically killed his ability to EZ grind at certain spots you could 1 shot mobs.

BUT, to be fair, they did give him a ton of other great buffs and Marked Bloom grinding got so boring after a while.

It's moments like these where I WISH PA added some sort of skill customization feature, like the Tripods from Lost Ark, because it sucks when PA forces changes on your class and you get no say in things. I'd rather be able to customize the skills myself, maybe sacrifice CC for Protection or Range, or sacrifice Protection for Range, etc. The Core system is a great start but we need more to be able to please everybody's playstyles.