Archery? Does it get better?

[Daywolf]

I think it can only go higher with crits regarding the bow itself, . Bow + arrow damage + bow haste? Should be doing more than 22 in total and cumulative with the haste. Then a bow like windstriker has 45 damage on the bow and 100 on effect. No, dex won't turn like a hunting bow into a fierce killing machine hehe [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] But you'll get it's ~max damage more often with high dex.

[Arclyte]

this guy is edgy as fuck

[Fanguru]

Most answers are in the wiki archery link.
tl;dr:

• higher dex, higher archery skill, , better bow, better arrows, atk buffs and worn items = better damage
• ranged atk not displayed != melee atk displayed
• no damage bonus on range slot
• archery sucks, even after 55
• good for pulling, sometimes useful for soloing

It's fun to shoot an arrow or two while running back to the dragon or hairy blob after eating a fear, apart from that, meh.

[am0n]

Archery gets better when Luclin is released.

[fadetree]

For damage, it never stops sucking until AA's, so that means never here. Sometimes, if you are REALLY patient, you can take down a mob with it that you couldn't otherwise. If root holds, its good for finishing things off too. It's great for pulling. That's about it.

[Pan]

Originally Posted by fadetree [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

For damage, it never stops sucking until AA's, so that means never here. Sometimes, if you are REALLY patient, you can take down a mob with it that you couldn't otherwise. If root holds, its good for finishing things off too. It's great for pulling. That's about it.

Truth. Straight from an oldest of the oldschool Rangers of the Glade!

/salute Sunmoon

[Daywolf]

I never used endless quiver, I had near max fletching by then and opted for range and/or damage. But yes, PoP was good for rangers, for a time anyway. Rangers in the there and then were like bards in the here and now; flooding the newbie zones especially in gfay.

[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.

[Fanguru]

Originally Posted by Daldaen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

SoL archery was ridiculous for a few reasons.

Fixed it for you. PoP archery was still awesome, but AM3 early in Luclin was god mode and was nerfed later.

[Daldaen]

Maiden's Eye.

Excellent zone for swarm kiting the PHers to VT key shard. Useless beyond that though.