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[ Noob Friendly Guide for Archer Class ]

Class and Rank Archer
#1

Be prepared for a WALL OF TEXT!

First, some fundamental knowledge about Archer Class adn ToS Values:

Base Stat Values - STR / CON / INT / SPR / DEX : 6 / 3 / 3 / 4 / 8

STR (Strength)
Increases min physical attack by 1.
Increases max physical attack by 1.
Increases critical attack by 1.
Increases weight limit by 5.
Note: For every additional class rank, you receive a bonus of 10% STR.

DEX (Dexterity)
Increases accuracy by 1.
Increases critical hit chance by 1.
Increases evasion by 1.
Note: DEX bonuses only affect physical attacks, as magic attacks can’t miss, can’t crit and can’t be dodged.

CON (Constitution)
Increases max HP by 85.
Increases HP recovery rate by 1.
Increases critical hit resistance by 1.
Increases weight limit by 5.
Increases shield block by 1 (Only when equipped with a shield.)

HP (Hit Points) - The max HP formula is as follows: (Class Multiplier * ((Level - 1) * 17)) + CON * 85

Archer HP multiplier is 1.4

Critical Attack - Only physical attacks are affected, as magic attacks can’t crit.The Critical Attack formula is as follows: STR

Critical Rate - Affects the chance of your physical attacks to land a critical hit. Magic attacks aren’t affected as they can’t crit. The Critical Rate formula is as follows: [DEX + (Level / 5)] for Archers

Evasion - Affects your chances to dodge physical attacks. Magic attacks can’t be dodged. The Evasion formula is as follows: [Level + DEX + (Level / 8)] for Archers

So, I listed all import stuff you need to know about Archer: STR / CON / DEX / HP / CRIT / EVASION

Now let’s get into more gameplay info! I’ll mostly cover Archer Cicle 1 and what is good about Cicles 2 and 3. For advanced classes I can make another guide later, who knows \o/

Archer Auto Attacks are slow… REALLY SLOW! And they are also single target… What does that mean? It means you’ll be counting on your skills for DPS 95% of the time, both for grinding and Bosses \o/

When you create an archer you’ll be at your first Cicle and have 4 skills available:

Swift Step - It’s a buff skill that increases movement speed and evasion while moving. It has a small (and irrelevant) Physical Defense penalty that lowers as you level up the skill. If you choose to go Archer Cicle 2 you’ll be able to get an upgrade (Swift Step: Critical Rate) that Increases your critical rate by 25% while Swift Step is active. With only 9 points in this skill you’ll be able to keep it up all time because de cooldown is the same as the duration (after the increase with Critical Rate Upgrade). Evasion is good no matter what, and the extra move speed will help kiting aroung mobs and bosses (also good for PvP). I’d rate this skill: 8/10.

**Multi Shot ** - This is the highest DPS Skill at the start. Each points in this skill greatly increases its effect. You’ll destroy Bosses up to Lv 40~50 with 1~3 uses! It has a really small area of effect, so I tend to use it as if it is Single Target because i’m lazy xD Max it without question! Rate: 10/10.

Full Draw - This skill has a quick cast and hits in a line, so has some AoE (small). The damage is low and the main use for it is the skew (snare) effect. For PvE I don’t remember even needing to use it, but in PvP the CC is great! Even with only rank 1 you’ll have 6 seconds of skew! Rate: 7/10.

Oblique Shot - This skill is the reason you can level up Archer at the start… No more no less! It’s cheap (low SP), it is spammable [ 0 Cooldown] and it tow targets at once! It has good sinergy with Swift Step with the upgrade (Switft Step Slow) giving a chance of slowing enemies. This skill is so special I’ll put some math below for better understanding. (Rate: 11/10!)

Oblique Shot Lv 1: Atk: 102 / Sp: 8 Sp

Skill Value: 108/8 = 12.75

Oblique Shot Lv 5: Atk: 201 / Sp: 14 Sp

Skill Value: 201/14 = 14,35

Oblique Shot Lv 15: Atk: 446 / Sp: 29 Sp

Skill Value: 446/29 = 15.37

You can see that the Value at Lv 1 is really close to Lv 5 and even lv 15. What does that mean? That you don’t need more than Lv 1 on this skill! It’s awesome because you’ll have High DPS at low Cost \o/ Advice: leave Oblique at Lv 1!

Some people will complaing that spamming this skill will make you run out of Sp, and it is the truth. But, with Sp Potions and later on with some enchantment on gear/gems you should never need any point in SPR. At low leves you can even carry Fire Wood around for fast regeneration. Silver spent on Sp Potions is not wasted, it’s an investment! If you can buy Alchemist Pots it’s even better!

This cover Archer starting skills! I’ll talk about the Stats distribution now:

Your Main Source of Damage should come from Weapon Attack Value and Upgrades, with STR being the second best (scales really well late game, while DEX as the games goes keeps on falling behinf).

CON in not needed low level. Most of the mobs will deal physical damage that you can evade and the damage will not be high enough to one shot you even when you are hit. But, later on, when mobs start to hit harder and also use Magic Attack if you have no CON you are literally DEAD T-T Magic can’t be evaded. So unless you want to gimmick yourself investing in Magic Defense, you should have enough HP to stand the enemies DPS while you kill them.

My suggestion is going 3:1:1 STR//CON/DEX so you’ll not lose significant DPS while leveling up and will built up your HP naturally.

At Cicle 2 of Archer Class, you gain access to Kneeling Shot and Heavy Shot.

Kneeling Shot - I personally don’t like this Skill. It makes you immovable, thus, more vunerable. Since if you follow my suggestion i’ll have High DEX this skill could scale very well, so its not useless. In the end it’s a matter of personal preference. It’s not wrong to go with it if you really like. Rate: 5/5.

Heavy Shot - The function here is utility. The damage is so low it’s not even worth mentioning. But, the kockback effect can save your life. 1 Point is enough. On a side note, there is a hidden buff og +50% Damage against Plate Armor (Not that much, but a buff is a buff!) Rate: 7/10.

Finally Archer C3 gives Twin Arrow:

Twin Arrow - Best instant damage skill for a long while. When you need Burst, this is the skill to go! You can cast it 5 times before going into overheat, and than, only 7 seconds CD and you can start casting again! It can drain your Sp really fast (since it costs 27 Sp at level 5), but the amount of damage you’ll do to a single target is just too great! Rate: 10/10.

Here is my Skill recomendation (Full Draw and Kneeling Shot distribution are optional):

Now that Stats and Skills are covered. Lets jump into Gear/Gems/Upgrades.

The most important thing to do from Lv 15+ is to upgrade your weapon using:

Upgrading other Gear to +3 is also nice, but later on, early you focus on your weapon and also upgrading you Skills.

Until Lv 15 any Gear you drop is good to go. It’s not necessary or time efficient to invest in Gear that you’ll use for 1~2 Hours, maybe less…

But from Lv 15 to 40 you’ll spend more time, I’ll list some Gear I think it’s relatively easy (to Drop / Reward Quest / Affordable) and that will improve your experience while leveling.

Weapon:

Rings:


Boots:

Gloves:

Armor:

For Lv 40~75 it’s really easy! Buy the 4 piece ‘set’ from the blacksmith vendor in Klaipeda and craft it:




A good weapon is:

At early levels it’s not really noticeable the use of Gems, but as you progress it’ll be of good use. My advice is to level up here and there the following:

on Gloves for +Crit Attack

on Pants and Armor for +Sp

on Boots for +Evasion

on Weapon for +Crit Attack

To end this Noob Guide, some advices on how to use your silver:

1º Hp/Sp Potions
2º Skill Upgrades / Gear / Gear Upgrade
3º Others

That’s it. Criticism to make the guide better is welcome!

  • updated 04.11.2016 (Some minor adjustments, included twin arrow review and changed the stats distribution for more late game oriented).
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#2

You mention upgrading your weapon but perhaps cover the details of the -% modifiers on that missile attacks that go away as you +.

#3

@thebloodyaugust

I’m afraid i’m the noob on that subject, what are you trying to say?

#4

Thanks for the tips. I enjoyed reading your suggestions about what gear to use at certain levels.

#5

Good to know man, I’ll add more (Lv75+ later on)

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#6

For the Armor section, I highly recommend getting a Tenet Chainmail and Kepa Pendant, and then later on two pieces of the Earth Armor set.

The additional +17 CON (4 from Kepa, 8 from Tenet, 5 from Earth Set) provides way more value than any other stat you can get at that early of the game.

Also, your highest priority by FAR is getting +SP Recovery on your headgears from the market, on a good day you can find some for like 30-50k. Each headgear will give on average 30-40 SP, which equates to about 30-40 SPR worth of regen. It makes the first 4-5 ranks so much better to play.

As for the bow, the most cost effective bow at 75 is the Recurve bow. Farm 8 Minos Bones in Novaha Annex and craft it yourself (should only cost 10-15k) as opposed to buying it for 100k.

Other than that, you get some sweet armor from the main quest line.

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#7

If your auto attacks are slow on archer then your doing it all wrong. Archer is actually a pretty fast auto attacking class, but you have to move all the time. If you auto attack standing still then yes you will attack slow… Also my auto attacks with priest buffs actually hit really hard and so with the right setup auto attacking can be a good filler between skill dropdowns.

#8

i just listed the easy/cheap gear to get. Until lv 100 (even 165 I’d say) is early game, so investing a lot of time in gear hunting is not priority. If you have the opportunity, sure, go for it! But don’t waste you leveling time on that :wink: My opinion. (Also CON early on is not really needed xD)

I forgot about the head gear SP Recovery! I’ll add to the guide, highly important! I’ll also check that Recurve Bow

#9

I guess slow sense is relative… i think the fire rate is slow xD and also, its single target… Skill>AA as an archer :wink: again, only my opinion.

#10

Some information are misleading or completely wrong.
STR isn’t useless. If you ignore STR, you’ll be missing out on dps.
Oblique Shot, that’s not how it works. Your physical attack gets added to the skill damage, that’s why you leave it at level 1.

Swift step, you need rank 9 for 100% uptime if you take the crit attribute, since it adds another 5s.
Kneeling shot is only useful with AA build, ignore it if you’re not an AA build.
Heavy Shot is actually pretty nice. It has +50% hidden damage vs Plate, and plate enemies are usually big size and tanky.

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#11

@xylonez

The damage is calculate with STR + Base Attack + Skill Damage - Enemy Defense. So, even if you have 200 STR, it would only add +200 damage. And that’s it. It may be good early on, but later it falls off hard! Dex on the other hand will give Evasion, Crit and Accuracy all scales greatly late on. STR is no useless, it’s just not as good (nearly as good!).

You are right on the Swift Step, thanks, i’ll change it.

Heavy Shot has this edge against Place so. Good to know, but not game breaking :wink:

#12

Not exactly. You seem to forget that it scales with rank.
Just at rank 7, 200 STR translates to 270 STR. That means 270 Physical Attack.

Even if you were to use end game weapon like


A lolopanther musket has 467 avg damage. Meaning that 200 STR becomes more than half of your physical attack.

We’re not even talking if we’re critting.
If we crit, it’s potentially another 135 damage depending on the enemy def, as well as another 270 damage from crit atk.

Dex, on the other hand, actually worth less the more you level up. The formula for crit chance is (CRIT_RATE - CRIT_DEF) * 42 / lvl.

Now, I’m not saying str is good and dex sucks so you should go Full STR. What I’m saying is you should get a healthy ratio between the two so that you don’t become useless later on.

#13

you forgot that str gives you crit attack as well like @xylonez mention

#14

Thanks for the guide, but you forgot to mentiopn the skill Twin Arrows from C3. And i’m curious if is it worth to get it.

#15

@cesarhzp

I created another Archer and I’m leveling up just following this guide process, so far Twin Arrow is insane :wink: Awesome Single Target Damage! save 5 points from Cicle 2 to buy Instant Lv 5 of this! Totally worth it :wink:

With 60 DEX and a +5 Iron Bow (lv 60) I’m critting for 800 with Twin Arrow :wink:

#16

The problem here is that because of the nature of how upping stats works, you get huge bonus values when you start pumping 300+ values into a certain stat (1 bonus stat for every 2 stats at 300+, eventually at 500+ you get 2 STR for every stat point spent).

With Dex, you never really want to put all your points into it because of the fact that crit ratio has a soft limit.

However with Str, once you’re 300+ points into it, you just get bonus points every 3 points or so. The raw value of extra points in STR makes it better to go fully into it. There’s never any diminishing returns for STR.

Also, when you start hitting content where enemies have 100+ crit resist, it really hurts your dex gains.

What I highly suggest is getting enough crit ratio from dex points and your gear until you start critting at 50%, then go all into STR. That’s how it was done in Diablo 3, and it worked great in terms of efficiency in damage.

#17

There are -% modifiers on missile attacks

Suffers a 25% damage penalty against M size enemies.
Suffers a 50% damage penalty against L size enemies.
Suffers a 50% damage penalty against XL size enemies.

And as you refine your weapon it removes these -%'s and if you go high enough you get +%'s

These numbers might be old though i recall them getting adjusted at one point but i cant find which patch it was. and i cant remember how much the % changes each +.

#18

Archers [missile] type damage reduction isnt like that anymore. The new values are:

10% vs. Medium size enemies.
25% vs. Large size enemies.

Also, lets not forget that [missile] attacks now shreds enemies physical defence up to 50%.

Sources:
New values for [missile] penalties. HERE.
[missile] attacks defence reduction. HERE.

#19

Does the refine rate still improve the %'s? i was looking for it in the ktos thread but i couldn’t find where we talked about it. The thread has gotten awfully long lol.

#20

I cant confirm, as Im not taking part of the EA, but I believe it does.