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R7 - C3 Archer, too late?

Class and Rank Archer
#1

Please advise me why this is a terrible idea, I haven’t had a chance to fit C3 archer into my build but I do honestly want to, and I’m not sold on musketeer / cannoneer.

Pros:
4 overheat twin arrow SP efficient DPS filler
Max: multishot for 16-hit combo burst > possible to hit multiple targets per hit with progressively increasing aoe ratio.
Max: Swiftstep for optimal unmounted move speed / eva with 100% up time ( Does this even work moving normally without shooting? Haven’t tested, sometimes it feels like it, other times it doesn’t.)

Optimal current endgame weapon: http://www.tosbase.com/database/items/164107/
Personally I am looking for high base dmg, crit rate / elemental dmg / movespeed. Which this seems to fit the bill, especially if future end game bows follow stats similair.

Cons: Lose out on musketeer burst / cannoneer aoe, both of these weapons at equivalent tier seem to be lower base damage than 2h bows. To me c3 archer as an R7 pick isn’t sounding awful. Just looking for some other opinions.

#2

might as well put the other 4 class you took :wink:

for broader PROs and CONs :smiley:

#3

My other jobs are sapper 2 / wugushi 2. Hear some saying wugushi 3 is worth considering but not convinced just for +5 seconds on 2 poisons that will be unneeded short from boss scenarios.

#4

If I was in your situation, I’d go cannoneer since cannon is offhand, so you can have a decent crossbow as main for the physical attack while still being able to use skills from your other classes without switching weapons.

Having gone through Archer c3 myself, I’ve realized max multishot is the only good aspect of that route moving towards end game. You’d want swift step for the crit attribute and level it up only to a point where you can achieve 100% uptime (no need to max). Kneeling is only good if you went running shot QS. Twin shot is ok, but not much later on compared to higher rank skills.

R7 classes will be more worth it.

#5

Thanks for the feedback,

As a wugushi, crossbow damage seems like it’d make poison damage fall off significantly unless its going to add attack from the cannon. As I’m fairly certain that scales as 100% phys + (skilldmg) every .5 seconds.

I can see cannoneer being good with zhendu in an aoe scenario, but other than that it seems lackluster…

I’m pretty sure it’d just be crossbow and not add cannon dmg, my idea was to avoid this dilemma, feel free to tell me if I’m missing something.

Same for my sapper traps, sure one can say just weapon swap for crossbow-cannon / 2h bow, but yeah using a crossbow sounds pretty underwhelming for someone looking for high based damage, not attack speed.

#6

the class you unlock at rank 7 cannon and musket are stronger than what Archer C3 will bring which is only higher level multi shot which wil be over shadowed by rank 7 class skills