Hello everyone,
I am leaving here my take on the Spammer Scout + Burst Musketeer
I also give some nice combos that a scout can do for clear wave and boss fighting.
Iām planning a very similar build, but I made the mistake of lvling oblique shot, which like you say, isnāt very good. Going to have to stat/skill reset my archer.
Iāve been reading around some other forums/threads here and what I now believe is that you have 2 options and neither of them include getting SPR (reason is you get potions that give you huge amounts of SP later on in the game).
Option 1: (character attack + skill damage)*attribute
You use a lvl 1 skill so itās very cheap to spam (SPR cost scales up drastically for comparatively not much damage gain IF youāre going STR) and go STR/a little DEX/CON to give your low damage #s a huge boost.
This option has you doing less burst damage, but longer sustain: the SPAMMER feeling. This is also a much cheaper route to go as attributes get costly. Attributes still benefit you, just not as much. You are heavily relying on your physical attack/weapon damage to build up your damage with each hit since you shoot a lot more. This has a pitfall late game because you will want gear that gives you crit chance as you donāt get a whole lot going STR. This gear is apparently hard to obtain or very expensive.
Twin arrows does 151 damage at lvl 1 for 18 SP
you get 55 shots with 1000 mana
Twin Arrows does 320 damage at lvl 5 for 27 sp
you get 37 shots with 1000 mana
You get 18 more shots to let your STR work for you
OR
Option 2: ([character attack + skill damage]1.5 + critical damage)attribute
Go DEX (a little CON/STR) and go with a high damaging base damage attack which you level as much as you can (MAX lvl MAX attribute ASAP) so you get huge numbers of damage from crits. You want to have around a 50% crit chance.
Either way the consensus from high lvl archers is that you do not go SPR, ever. You suffer a bit in the early game, but reap the benefits of extra damage after.
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I dont know man ā¦ I did the same thing, leveled oblique shot
Now im lvl 70 with oblique shot lvl 15 
But im feeling pretty good tho, Im solo playing atm and clearing Mausoleum is pretty easy, on the other hand, I constantly need to sit near bonfire to recover sp.
My stats look like this
STR : 37
DEX : 71
SPR : 20
Imo without leveling oblique shot, the solo play would be horable D:
Scouts Perspective distortion working for scout as well or only for allies? And how far exactly is that range increasment? And it says āconsume 3spā is it like a channeling thing?
It is a channeling thing
it may work for you but youāll be stuck in channeling(i guess thats why flare shot is a dps of 15 sec + you can use it while you are stealth without canceling it)
Level 1 oblique shot is a must for any archer build. Thereās no arguing this.
What is the point in taking scout c2 + c3 over a single rank of fletcher? Level 5 crossfire seems to be strictly better than level 5 split arrow. Youāre a sitting duck during distortion, and youāre not doing dps while using it. Iād imagine you lose more dps from using it than you gain from letting melee users attack the boss from a range. IMO scout c2 and c3 are not at all worth getting.
Iād personally go a3 scout1 fletch 1 falc1, and decide between falc2, cannon, and musket from there
It can be useful at pvp though
especially Scout C3 against anothers scout since they can use Scan to view them while being stealth, then use perspective distortion to boost swordmanās damage(25% from attributes) and also increase their range so they can damage archer/wizard from far away
there no much explanation on PD but it may work even with rangedās ally
so what actually does this combo do good?
You can check this build of mine if you want. I can do PVE/PVP with no problems using this build. Iām STR but this build needs a little SPIRIT for like 40/50 spirit.