Why does my sorc get pwn'd by archer's?Follow

I am a 50 sorc and im always in a fight or trying to take a tower and i have a ranger trying to kill me. Once it get's by my pbt it hits for so much dmg which kills me very fast with it's huge range and los problems. Is there somthing I can do to minimize the 400+ dmg a shot?

Well, QQ mezzing will help if you're in range. Otherwise they'll just shoot at max range and you can't do anything. I just run from stealthers unless they're unstealthed and fighting someone else.

well the main problem is my 1850 mess is not enough range 2 get these archer's, it always seams that they are hitting me from 2k range or farther so it's hard 2 run... plus on my server it is usually a grp of 5 ranger assisting so i wanted 2 know if there is a resist that i could max out 2 minmize dmg.

Last poster called that one. need to know what limitations are. QC Aoe Amnesia a couple of times and move outta range. That or go hug the wall.

your right. Stealthers should never be able to beat a class with the lowest hit points, worst armor factor, and no melee skills in the game.

Im so sorry I forgot that the casters role in this game was to be invincible.

Look what I am saying is that a solo caster (Remember least HP's, Lowest AF, Highest DPS, No Melee) SHOULD die to a stealther who doesnt completely mess up. It SHOULDN'Teven be a competition. The current game play is actually broken. With casters having no fear of anything.

Random caster: Hi, I am going to sit here and wait for some stupid class to attempt to attack me while I ML9 my pet, MOC, stun/nuke, Lifetap them into the ground.

Rogues were originally designed as the ANTI-Caster, that is our role. Mythic lost their way for a while, but I think they have finally found the right path these last few patches and are heading in the right direction.

Currently if you are a rr5+ caster getting owned by a solo archer..then you are a really really bad player with the sole ability of the 1-2 button push kill and absolutely no knowledge of other class weaknesses.

Your 100% right. Assassins had it bad just before this last patch came out, only because they couldnt get the CritStrike line off through all the brittles/BT. BTW this is just my opinion on how things SHOULDSHOULD be. Im not saying that stealthers should win all fights. But 1v1 vs a caster 90% of the time the stealther should eat that caster alive. When I say that I will also agree with you that 1v1 vs a tank an assasin should have only a small 10% chance to win and only if he uses his RA's/ML's properly. This is how I see it to provide balance Stealthers > Casters > Tanks/Hybrids > Stealthers. Before the last patch the game sat at casters > all.

With this equation it should force casters to run with tanks for protection vs. stealthers and tanks to run with casters for protection vs. other casters. Casters are the range damage gods, this is why stealthers should roll them so easily, a stealther is the only class that is able to get close to a caster without getting killed first.

I dont believe that people should be out rolling casters (like they are now) because they are solo GODS. Which bd's, any hib caster w/stun, SM's, cabbies, sorcs are all solo Gods with the ability to qc CC and moc LT for incredible amounts of damage at a 1.2 sec casting speed even after moc.

Ok...so you have to use RA's to survive a fight against a class designed to kill you. Thats what the RA's are for. Considering, as a scout, if I get targeted by a caster unstealthed I have to A) stack up on Aom (3 or greater just to have a chance)
b) Use purge
c) Use IP
d) Most times use Sojourner ML9 or FZ
Just to survive long enough to restealth or get away which happens 10% of the time. Most times I dont live long enough to take 2 steps as my body explodes upon 1.2 seconds after a caster gets into range

Hopefully mythic will finally look upon archers and give us the needed fix that Assasins/hybrids/heavy tanks have gotten. For the longest time stealthers were resigned to hunting each other because those were the only targets they could safely take.

Archers have become an annoyance rather than the long range anti-caster they were designed as. Why? Because for me to do my max damage and even have a chance to kill a solo caster I
a) have to post 1.82 take two shots to kill BG and then BT
(even at rapid fire that is 3 total seconds of exposure to /face /qc *any spell) and I still havent done any damage.
b) One spell that interrupts me and I have to halve my damage and double my draw to do damage while he proceeds to moc destroy me this looks something like this
[b]*Robain hits you for 186
*You cast MoC
*You hit Robain for 600
*You hit Robain for 586
*You hit Robain for 650
*Robain hits you for 186
*You hit Robain for 400
*You hit Robain for 623
*You hit Robain for 400
*You kill Robain

And this happens 4 out of 5 times when I attack casters alone. Yeah I get a few kills. But more and more often I find myself holed up in a tower just to get rp's without having to sacrifice myself or every RA I have. This is why I have resigned myself to killing other stealthers.