Another Global Lab patch and nothing. Is this really how they want to leave Archer? There are so many issues introduced with these changes. While PVE is actually better it just switched us from one clunky thing to another with making Steady Breath part of our skill rotation. Please PA don't just leave us like this. 

Positives

1. More damage in PVE.

2. More protected skills.

3. Simplified self buffing, assuming +12 Ranged AP from Steady Breath is unintended (Wtf?). Give us Attack Speed somewhere else instead of this if intentional.

Negatives

1. Clunky feeling movement with camera locks.

2. Inconsistent damage on Glissade, terrain issues.

3. Storm of Light is just not it, just remove it. We don't want to press it. 

4. CC removals feel wrong.

5. Bugs with Exhale needing to be unlocked to use Steady Breath and C-Swap conflict.

Changes

General

1. Revert camera rotation changes.

2. Make every skill without an overlap work from crossbow/greatbow. (Piercing Light, Shadebound Beam, etc)

3. Fix the weird delays between skills and quick slots. (After Radiant Explosion, Earth Shatter, Spear of Sylvia)

Crossbow Skills

1. We don't need Storm of Light, remove it. No one wants to press this every 3 minutes for a terrible skill. It also bricks the Spear of Sylvia Q keybind.

2. Buff Covering Fire damage and Earth Shatter damage (PVE).

3. Remove Earth Kick and it's Flows. No one uses these, ever. 

4. Give back CC on Verdure Clout and Earth Shatter.

Awakening Skills

1. Combine Full Bloom and Grand Bloom into one ability. By default it should do the increased melee damage, if the melee attack hits nothing; the arrows do increased damage.

2. Make Luthraghon's Call Foward Guard during skill, change the Core skill to Super Armor on Marked Bloom.

3. Increase the "melee" size of Glissade's attack. It should be similar Full Bloom's. 

4. Reduce the cooldown of Flow: Light's trail to 3 or 4 seconds.

Input Changes

1. Earth Shatter to E.

2. Exhale to ↓ + C. 

3. Remove Left/Right/Down C-Swaps. It interferes with the new bind for Steady Breath. (Would anyone actually miss these?)

4. Change Righteous Smite to activate while Light's Trail is on cooldown. Without the "available while on cooldown" on Light's Trail, you can only use from Quick Slot (slow version) on demand.

5. Change Spear of Sylvia to just Q, clears the ovlerap with Double Tap. 

Keybinds after proposed changes. I know I posted this before, but this really would simplify swaps and make the class much smoother. This time with very little drastic changes.

This is a very good option.

Nothing but damage nerfs in the next patch. RIP.

+1 to this new weird camera lock thing they're just randomly throwing around on classes. It makes no sense PA. We as humans understand how to manually move our camera ourselves. Stop changing it and ruining the flow of combat.

New Glissade makes no sense at all. Wonky REALLY large but inconsistent hitbox. Just give back the old Glissade imo.

i'm scared for other classes changes after what they did to archer/ranger and i don't even play them.

If you are referring to yesterday's patch, they partly nerfed the PVE damage buff from week before.

Archer: "stop touching me!" 

Archer is the third class I made, way back in 2020.  Loved his versitility then and his mix of melee and ranged attacks.  Then they ruined him a couple years ago.  Gaping Darkness needs to be RMB again, when using the crossbow.  I haven't used it since they made this abominable change.  Ruined my style completely.  Plus they ruined Spear of Sylvia.  It should be the ground slam CC skill it used to be.  Archer is now my AFK fisher, it was such a bad change.  I'd like to have incentive to use him again.

Please PA do something. These changes were 1 step forward 2 steps back. Don't leave it like this. 

Weird class changes lately