BL or Archery for my strat (in General)

Should I use Bloodlust or Archery for my strategy. Its a WET, ToA tank and E is AMF / GA.

Archery, and also Arrows really help!

who's wet

WET
Wall
Enchanter
Tank

Bloodlust. If you're using a meat shield you should not consider using archery. Archery hits hard and fast but BL with overcome it if you survive long enough, if you use archery you don't want a meatshield in there, you'd be better with that EXP packed into your archer than spread out across another minion. But with a BL tank a defensive strategy such as WET you should do very well. Although I have to say that I'm not so sure about your use of GA, perhaps the EXP would be better spent in AMF or VA??

Regardless of whether or not you keep GA, you really should use BL here, I don't care if you have a bigger bow than your melee weapon, that'll only help you in the short term, before long your melee will be a long way ahead of what your ranged ever could be if you start putting your money into it. And for that matter, it'll be a long way ahead of your opponents' too. I also highly suspect that almost everyone else who replies to this topic will suggest archery, however I assure you, BL is the best option by far, I'd rant on about it but I'm too tired to do that right now so I'll just leave it at "If you aren't stupid, use BL!"

The biggest problem with BL is the increased damage you take as well as the fact GA does massive damage to you.

I have to agree with MrChuckles, though for different reasons.

My reason for saying that you should go with BL is your weapons. You have a compound bow for ranged and a BoNE for melee. With the archery nerf I think that, unfortunately, archery almost has to be reserved for ELBs. The BoNE will end up doing a lot more damage than the compound will ever be able to do (even with the beleg's and archery.) Play up your strong points. Get the massive damage from the BoNE and you may even consider switching over to an a/exbow instead of the compound.

Additionally, if you do decide to go with BL I think VA is almost a must to make up for the extra damage from you receive because of BL.

I don't know if training even has a point anymore. If they have DM, and a lot of teams do, it's just a waste. It's never trained high enough.

My weapons are rented.

I would check and see how long your tank survives (on average) in battle. If you typically survive 7 or more rounds, consider going bloodlust. If you don't survive that long, then you're not going to get much benefit from BL, so go archery.

(Note that if you survive 7 rounds without BL, then you'll probably survive less with BL. Your BL tank, as the only damage dealer, will have to survive 6 rounds to kill 4 minion teams with familiars (if your ranged weapon kills one minion/round both rounds it fires.)

oh man, my post was about training VA.