Archery
- Thread starter Joe McFly
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they are books at khurite trainer afaik. If you want to read them to level, marks is actually a child of a child, so I would read the child under archery, like you'd do for herding to level CC. You have to get them in khurite cities tho. I know Bakti has them.
aiming tech reduces stamina drain by half with a bow. MS (Marksmenship) increases the chance for weakspots. Weakspots only occur when you use broadhead arrows and land a head shot.
Archery is gimped right now, but is still super strong is certain situations which makes it a good secondary.
against low armored targets like mounts (even armored mounts) and less then molarium armor bows especially long bows are super strong. But it is super easy to avoid arrows as a non mounted player just by side stepping due to how slow arrows are. And when players start wearing steel level armor that damage drops from being around the 30s which is comparable to melee weapons to 16s and 24s depending on clade and build of the target.
You will need to kite as a footarcher so aiming tech is needed if you try to play a foot archer. You also want to be a stout veela if you want to hase yoursel by playing foot archer.
Landing shots on a player is already improbable enough but now you need to land head shots on a player to weakspots which bypasses armor values. MS is just not worth it outside of PvE. Aiming tech I would say is necessary for a foot archer but foot archery is so gimped right now that its not really viable against people with gear and you need high levels of skill to land those needed repeated shots to kill a player who will just side step and be improbable to hit.
I would say keep archery as a secondary but focus on melee as thats is what will win you the fights.
Archery is gimped right now, but is still super strong is certain situations which makes it a good secondary.
against low armored targets like mounts (even armored mounts) and less then molarium armor bows especially long bows are super strong. But it is super easy to avoid arrows as a non mounted player just by side stepping due to how slow arrows are. And when players start wearing steel level armor that damage drops from being around the 30s which is comparable to melee weapons to 16s and 24s depending on clade and build of the target.
You will need to kite as a footarcher so aiming tech is needed if you try to play a foot archer. You also want to be a stout veela if you want to hase yoursel by playing foot archer.
Landing shots on a player is already improbable enough but now you need to land head shots on a player to weakspots which bypasses armor values. MS is just not worth it outside of PvE. Aiming tech I would say is necessary for a foot archer but foot archery is so gimped right now that its not really viable against people with gear and you need high levels of skill to land those needed repeated shots to kill a player who will just side step and be improbable to hit.
I would say keep archery as a secondary but focus on melee as thats is what will win you the fights.
As a long term mounted archer who tried to play a dex mage at launch... I agree with all of this.
Current meta is and will continue to be in your face 2h sword spamming. Foot archers dont do enough damage per shot to make it worth it against any foot fighter, and you're not quite fast enough to be able to keep the distance and kill your target in PVP, but in PVE you dont need all of the other skills.
Then there is the complete pointless nature of any other arrow other than broadheads. But that is a topic for another discussion.