Archery? Does it get better?

[Daldaen]

PoP archery was ridiculous for a few reasons.

The 2nd/3rd/4th best bows were all tradeable (EP Tradeskilled bows). The PoAir and PoWater bows that dropped from raid mobs were post PoP additions, they didn't exist in PoP 1.0, the only better bow dropped in P4 PoTime.

As a result of this, you could save up and afford basically a raid quality bow. Whereas every other classes needed to raid EPs or PoTime for access to this quality of weaponry.

Furthermore, Archery calculated hate incorrectly. Archery hate was essentially 1 point of hate per arrow, or perhaps it was calculated based off arrow damage or something. Anyways, a Trueshot discing ranger would be critically for 1000 per hit and would be generating less Hate than the bards just singing songs, all the while being able to out range most AEs and require almost no buffs or other gear.

/autofire didn't exist until LoY or GoD I believe, so you still needed a stack of quarters to chain fire your bow but man it was still OP as hell.