Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26172435-20151212141734/@comment-26078371-20160128045528

71.80.11.209 wrote: Recneps wrote: That's a good point. Currently, (cross)bows are all really powerful, as they were already some of the best weapons in the game and they didn't suffer the nerfing that melee weapons did. If this were added, unarmored archers would easily be the most powerful thing to be. Yea since  the  heavy  armored person  wouldn't  be able  to  catch yu so yu just kite around  them and shoot em all day. So I hope  something  will come  up to counter  this or wearing  armor  unless it's like  really light mithril  is gonna just get yu wrecked  by people  on foot or on mounts with  powerful  ranged  weapons  just think of horse archers kiting  and destroying entire groups of players. Hence the reason you should go support the suggestion to add shields and shielding. Not only would it make pvp more interesting, it'd also reduce some of the advantages archers have.

Related to the current topic, I don't think armor weight/rigidity would have an effect on weapon reach as that's more of an inherent characteristic of the weapon and not how you use it.