When you block the E skill (Exhale), the A/D+C skill (Steady Breath) doesn't work in Awakening. Right now, you basically need to apply the exact fix from the last patch again. Normally, the skill works in Awakening if Exhale is not blocked. I don’t think this is normal, so I assume it needs to be fixed.

It’s funny that a fix needs to be fixed by another fix.

What's even more fun is that the skill activates if you use sideways on your horse.... for some reason.

Absolute Cinema, also the self crit is not working ....

It's been a few weeks and it looks like this class fell under the radar because there were no more changes or fixes. I know there are other classes to address but the fact that they broke Archer and didn't even bother to fix all the bugs kind of shows that they're rushing a lot with these "class balance" updates and randomly throwing either buffs for classes which were already strong or nerfs to mediocre ones. Yay strikers...

They fixed the crit rate buff on W+E, crazy. I guess not being able to move towards where you point the crosshair with certain spells like Piercing Cry like how it worked before, Steady Breath with locked Exhale as the OP mentioned and so on will be forgotten.

I've lost hope that they'll fix stamina, considering there is no single skill or possibility to recover it while kiting, although this kind of change would make the class playable and very fun again. Since range and damage got reduced in pvp, it'd be at least fair to allow us to kite like before. Funny thing, in the patch notes from 20th March when the pvp nerfs arrived, they mentioned on certain spells the following thing: "Changed the Stamina cost: 200 → 100" when in fact it is FROM 100 TO 200 (for example on Glide). 20th of March Patch Notes - Archer

But I bet that instead of changing those so we can consume less stamina, they'll just edit the text and let us crippled. Give it 2 more years, maybe at the next rework we'll get the lucky side of the coin