Quote Originally Posted by Astasia View Post
Personally I find the entire archer troop set and all branches to be fairly crap. I stopped using any of them. Armor basically ruins the entire mechanic. Each hit is reduced a lot more by armor than the single larger hits from other classes, and even with armor penetration it just doesn't work well I found. I switched my Marksmen out for some Crimson Riders and that was massively more effective on most maps. Even in situations where the archers do a decent amount of damage, having other class types with them sort of messes with their thing, the archers weaken something then the other troops overkill it and waste a lot of potential damage. I feel like archers would work well in full teams of archers designed for quickly grinding easier/soft maps, but I feel like for progressing or doing difficult content they suck. That might just be me though, maybe other people are finding them more useful.
You are not that wrong, you are just missing one thing. Several characters have damage proc (Like SSR Kuroda Kanbei, SR Honganji "Voodoo is fucking OP in world boss" Kennyo and several other). These damage proc are not reduced by the damage multiplier of archer. Meaning if you use them in an artillery unit, you will do this damage proc x5 nearly each time, and it will do a fucking huge dps, even if the base damage is crap.