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User:Dydzio/SandBox/Archer Hints
Here are few tips for archer characters. New enhancements are confusing and some people seem to be lost when playing arcane archer now. Here are few hints and my own ideas what is good now:
- Spend one point in deepwood stalker tree if possible for sneak damage and better point blank shot range.
- Useful imbue for leveling: Paralyzing arrows. Useful imbue for epic levels: frost arrows and shock arrows (take the imbue upgrade at top of the tree).
- Useful epic destinies (same as before expansion) - fury of the wild as main destiny, otto's whistler, pin and rejuvenation cocoon twisted.
- Thingy granting 1 spell point per shot from arcane archer tree is not worth getting because it has annoying icon on every shot. It decreases game performance when using manyshot.
- Combine adrenaline with slayer arrow and manyshot for great damage.
- It seems Ten Thousand Stars is not sharing coodown with manyshot, can be not WAI.
- Precision, and Improved Precise Shot are worthy feats, if you have many feats in your build then it is worth to get Overwhelming Critical.
- Some people might think about dumping their strength because there is elf enhancement allowing to use dexterity modifier to damage with bows. That would make a lot of sense if Overwhelming Critical was not high-strength dependant. Also many buffs give strength bonus and no dexterity bonus, for example Primal Scream.
- Ranger past lifes are really helpful for archers. And they provide much higher bow damage at low levels while getting past lifes as a bowman.