Weapon Progression Guide

KozakArcher - Lost City

I am using Guardian of the Realm and i think it's good bow and what is important it's very cheap since you can get it for divine orders.

Sarrafeline - Sanctuary

KozakArcher - Lost City wrote: »

I am using Guardian of the Realm and i think it's good bow and what is important it's very cheap since you can get it for divine orders.

I got one this way myself. I stuck a G10 earth shard in it, and use it as an FCC or TW toy. Going to make some Apo to add massive earth damage to attacks and use it while using this bow, to get the most out of it.

I found that if I switch from the Guardian of the Realm to my TT80 Gold bow, the procs don't overwrite. So I can have 3 barb buffs for a short amount of time. XD GotR is nice since it doesn't eat mana for the proc.

rahman123456

Annor - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Windcatcher > Abomination? /shrug

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wetpatch

no mention of many of the legandary weapons or what the pros and cons of using the 3 types of weapon.

at 101 my main archer has used almost every ranged archer weapon on the game except the rank 9 bow. i also have a 66 over dex archer that can only use rank armour which has no str requirements.

to start crossbows hit harder if they crit but if you look at the lower hit too they can actualy in fact do less damage than a sling shot .

sling shots are the most consitant of all the weapon in regardes to hits you rarely get a massive crit but then on the + side you dont get any nasty unexpected lows like with xbows .

most high lvls tend to favour bows as they are a happy medium between sling shot consistant fast hits and the hard hit of a xbow.

at lower lvls id not recomend a xbow as it does rely on crit rate for its full potental for damage and lower lvls do not have the capacity to have a high crit rate so stick to bows or slings shots .

my lvl 66 archer uses a + 5 penatrator which hes had since his early 50s and has proved to be a very good weapon but at 69 he will be getting a wind a cloulds that has a speed bonus of 0.1 which actualy makes it the fastest normal ranged weapon in the game.

I would also like to point out that damage/time a sling shot will out damage a xbow with out those nasty big crits . i say nasty because if your killing a boss in a low lvl squad that one big crit could steal agro and cause your death.

in pvp a sling shot is handy too as you are not realying on a big crit to kill your target you get fast constant hits .

also depends on build of toon ive seen people that favoured xbows put points into vit purely because they are getting hit by mobs , this is due to the low speed of attacks and the fact that it realies on crit hit to kill fast.
How ever if they had been a dex based archer they would have had a higher crit rate and a harder hit .
Also theres this point the more hits you get in the more chance you have of hitting crits.

The fact is that an archer should kill a target before it gets any where near him.

And as to the question of dex/vit just remember what ever weapon you use the more dex you have the harder you hit and the higher your crit rate . But what many forget also when looking at the vit option dex also increases you evassion too .

So in short a sling shot on dex archer in essance will hit some where around the same as a xbow in a vit archer because of his added attack due to the dex .
However the dex archer will get a lots more hits in with his slingshot and have a higher % crit rate. there also the fact that his dex will give he greater evassion too so although he may not be able to take a hit so well the odds of him getting hit is much less .

from personal experiance and the facts above pure build archers using faster weapons will usualy do much better in both pvp and pve .

but at the end of the day its your toon and it your own choice .

not mentioned either and a not commonly use weapon that is great for both pve and pvp is the lvl 95 lunar sling shot it got a very nice stunn add on it that offen kicks in, very usefull when barraging too.

I did notice that the unicorn bow was mentioned in some other posts i tried one compared to a wind and clouds at 70 the only thing i did with it was put it back in the auction house its a very poor weapon .

if your realy into pvp at lvl 80 the crimson horn is a great bow to get and id personaly avoid the 85 gold frost bow it looks great but although it has a chance to give you a big attack if that does cut in it will decrease you physical defence greatly too, something id not recomend whilst using barrage or pvp and in situations where theres a lot of physical aoe.

so there you go the low down from a 101 pure dex rank 8 sage archer .

Quilue - Sanctuary

You don't realistically use Slingshot for PvP because

a. At the level that slingshots are an option you typically don't PvP
b. At the level people typically PvP bows are better.

Sint - Harshlands

Quilue - Sanctuary wrote: »

You don't realistically use Slingshot for PvP because

a. At the level that slingshots are an option you typically don't PvP
b. At the level people typically PvP bows are better.

you dont use slingshots in pvp because average damage per hit is the lowest on slingshots. Wich means you gimp your metal attacks, wich is what you use to kill the hard targets. While slingshots are nice for normal shotting stuff to death, you dont realy want to try that with a barb, do you?

Quilue - Sanctuary

In TW and group PvP, which is like the only things I do, I wouldn't be the one to focus on barbs unless everything else is dead. It's not like just because you get slingshot you cannot have a bow either.

Back in the days of 7x-8x TW people did use W&C against robes, now it's just that there is no high level slingshot that is up to par with R8/R9.

Sint - Harshlands

Quilue - Sanctuary wrote: »

In TW and group PvP, which is like the only things I do, I wouldn't be the one to focus on barbs unless everything else is dead. It's not like just because you get slingshot you cannot have a bow either.

Back in the days of 7x-8x TW people did use W&C against robes, now it's just that there is no high level slingshot that is up to par with R8/R9.

i honestly believe that, even if i had a slingshot on par with my r9 bow, it would take longer to switch to it than it takes me to 1shot most robes.

Quilue - Sanctuary

Gear choice is only interesting to discuss when we're assuming we'd fight targets that would actually take some effort to kill. I honestly believe that I can still kill some 10x with my 3star birdshot. (with harem support of course!)

Sint - Harshlands

Quilue - Sanctuary wrote: »

Gear choice is only interesting to discuss when we're assuming we'd fight targets that would actually take some effort to kill. I honestly believe that I can still kill some 10x with my 3star birdshot. (with harem support of course!)

ok, in that case, it's not worth spending over9000 getting a pro slingshot in case i ever fight a mage and dont either kill that mage or get killed by that mage before my bow procs, wich is when i would prefer my slinghsot. Switching to an insane nirvana crossbow for every skill would also be nice, too, of course, but, once again, it's not really something anyone is likely to do.

Also, even though i risk sounding like kiyoshi, most of the players i run into take little effort to kill.

Thunderbow - Momaganon

i have a +3 Crimson: Soulsmasher (the tt80 Gold bow) it is totally farmable it isn't so hard t oget if you got the time and patience to farm money. and i am just going for the Dragon Bow cuz i dont like the crossbows i steal aggro from crossbow users easily so i like bow more

Walpurga - Dreamweaver

Necro'ing this thread

Request adding ☆☆Bow of the Goddess for level 45, quest reward from Suzerix quest if you can't afford Sinister Shooter

Phoenix_Eye - Heavens Tear

I havent see Annor posting here for years.

Sinister shooter is easy to get now with Divine Honors. Dont you know that this thread is pretty outdated already ? not even sticky

BreznanXarch - Raging Tide

can anyone give me the name of some weapons better than the trial crossbow? i've had it since lvl 19..

Traydor_Styx - Raging Tide

NPC Gear ...

Best be the Legend Slingshot.

Mapijs - Lothranis

what is a good lvl 30+ weapon? i'm atm using the lvl 19 3 star crossbow

opkossy

First page already answered that. Any 2* ranged weapon.

However since Annor is no longer playing and can't update it and this has been necro'd a few bit I'll close it. If someone wants to make a more updated version feel free to let me know.