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[Need some advice]Archer stats

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#1

Hey guys,

I’m still unsure about how to spend my statpoints on my archer and I thought you might could help me with that.
Note that I want to participate in PvP, too. So let’s just say that this char should work in both PvE and PvP.

At first I just wanted to go ful DEX. There are already enough discussions if you should go ful STR or ful DEX or hybrid so I wont go too much into that now.

After going through the official forum and the Redditforum I’m now more confused than ever scince everybody seems to have a different opinion about what’s best and a lot of them have some good arguments, too.
Sadly I havn’t tested this in icbt where you had these wonderful statreset scrolls :stuck_out_tongue:

Right now my idea looks like this: DEX/SPR 50/50

  • I want to have at least some DEX so I don’t miss and crit with at least every second hit. with the right gear maybe even more often.
  • I dont find evasion too useful because it doesn’t protect you from magic. Evasion just doesn’t seem like a good stat in any game…^^’. It still can be useful in some situations.
  • SPR looks interesting because with that you can spam more in PvE but it also gives you magic defense and block penetration but I don’t know how effective block penetration is. It could be a useful stat for some situations in PvP.
  • now you could say: if you don’t like evasion and want some SP and magic def than just use cloth armor, but from my expirience cloth armor does not increase your SP recovery. You also would miss that block penetration. Instead I want to use heavy armor for a good balanced character because archers just have such low health and def.
  • Some people even go ful SPR but personally I can’t imagine doing that.

Summed up if everything works as intended you would have a char with a decent HP and SP pool. some physical and magical resistance and no evasion. The big downsite here would be that this character would highly depend on gear.

I would love to hear your opinion about that and give some advice. :smile:

#2

as the game is right now, id go for full str or high str (with some dex for acc), with archer, swordsman or monk
the way stats work right now, each point u put in dex/spr/con is a lot of dmg lost
you get more bonus from a stat if u have more points in it, and int/str gets 10% better each rank, so for almost all builds i believe that high str/int builds are the best for end game
thats why they should make the stats bonus a flat number that “ticks” every 5 stats or something, and remove this int/str scalling (increase the flat bonus), this way ppl can make the build they want without feeling they are wasting a stats point

#3

I am going full DEX on my archer. Am I doing it wrong? Would be STR the best way to go? thank you

#4

Going full DEX will only make u survive a bit longer (against physical enemies). In the same way, u gonna take forever to kill enemies, so investing points in STR along with DEX (ratio is up to u) is a good option.

#5

like (STR)1:3(DEX) ?

#6

If u like, yes. I ran STR/DEX 1:2 and was doing just fine solo.

#7

I see. I wanna make a full two hand bow archer.

Could you see my question here and give your opinion about it?

Thanks!

#8

Archer viability early game is questionable. but not impossible to achieve while thinking of the bigger picture.

The quickest and easiest way to level would be full SPR and respec to DEX for crit and rest into STR. Seeing as how that may not be an option on release, I went STR to 50, followed by DEX to crit max on my second Archer and it worked fine. It did not clear groups as quickly as Oblique Shot spam, but it did scale well into the 100s when I started critical hitting more often and had a bigger SP pool to play with.

#9

From what I gather, the optimal route may be something like

20 SPR–>30 STR–>Rest Dex

in that order. Obviously, it will change based on your classes, but in general that’s a good base.