Archer Survivability

tehiro

so you are an archer and you have just stolen agro, probably not the best thing to do but it happens. there are lots of ways you can deal with this problem and lots of things that you absolutely should never do.

1, stun it/aim low. you should be leveling your stunning arrow at every chance you get, after immobilizing the mob stop attacking it unless it is almost dead anyway. give your bm or barb the chance to take the agro back

2, dew of rival whatever. for soft armored players (archers, clerics, wizard, sin) this is a god send and something i can't understand why more players don't use. it comes in three variety's, one that absorbs 1000, 2000 and 3000 damage and lasts a lot longer then the medicine says that it will. after popping one of these and becoming immortal to the next two hits or so run away from the back row of soft armored fellow and TOWARDS the front line of bm's and barbs. chances are a bm or barb is peeved that you stole their mob and are more then willing to take it off of your hands

3, wings of grace. not the perfect choice as you are immobile while using it but a good opportunity for a team mate to take the offending mob off of your back while you enjoy being much harder to kill for the next few seconds. also as a flashy move it signals an alert veno, barb or bm that you are in more trouble then you can handle.

when you inevitable steal agro you should never under any circumstance

1, run away, makes team mates have to chase you to save you. most won't bother even though most are willing to save you.

2, for exploding mobs say still, for gods sake! get away from the cleric! run to the barb run to the bm run to a small corner just get away from the innocent squishy bystanders.

3, do it again, i know it sucks sometimes to have to Nerf yourself, all archers feel this way. the main difference between an archer and a sin in my book is that a sin will accidentally steal agro 4/10 times and an archer 1/10 times. thats why people like to squad with an archer more then with a sin.

tehiro

ah, i forgot winged shell. a handy little spell and the envy of clerics, don't be afraid to use it because if you don't end up using all of the damage reduction during its use you get refunded the mana plus some interest.
and really if you don't use it when you steal agro then if the mob actually does hit you then you look like a beginner player that is inexperienced in using your skills

Falcondance - Heavens Tear

Well, if I end up taking aggro on a mob that's stunnable, it's usually dead before I need to stun it. And stuns and freezes don't work on bosses, unless you're running FB19. In addition, I have never seen exploding mobs outside of FB39, and they only hurt when five of them jump you at once... Although the same is not true in your 50s.

I agree with you that Wings of Grace and Winged Shell are handy, though. Usually if I take aggro I use Wings of Grace, Winged Shell and the boss is usually off me. Pot when I need to and move on. Wings of Grace may immobilize you, but it makes you immune to damage, gives you a hefty damage reduction, you look cool and the rest of your squad has to do less running to get to you. It's saved my life countless times.

Good post though.

Sulvain - Dreamweaver

Was a very good post. Again I say it. Thank you to all those who take the time to post information such as this. It is well recieved and appreciated. I've never really had the oppertunity of stealing aggro yet. But when I do this information you just posted will help me over coming that. And its always nice to have a spell or 2 that makes you look cool . b:victory

eyehaveyou

well there r exploding mobs in FB 59 too, aswell as in FB SoT, anyways... there will always be a better way to loose agro lmao.

best thing to loose agro is: just die lmao.

anyways if u love ur exp (idc if i loose any exp but thats just me) u should listen to the OP. + there r more ways to survive, use expell or Absolute Domain ( well both suck at low lvls )
or use Tree of Protection ( but not like many ppl do in the very last moment cause u will die in most cases) if ur skills r on CD u can use some other genie skills to to freeze ur opponents like occult ice, or the archers genie skill that aoe freezes mobs around u.

Fleuri - Sanctuary

eyehaveyou wrote: »

best thing to loose agro is: just die lmao.

Personally, I believe the best way to lose aggro is to kill whatever it is that I have aggro on.

And since no one else mentioned it, I should mention that triple spark can also be useful, for surviving. It will heal you 20% of your health, purify any bad effects you have, and adds a nice buff that will either help you kill something faster or will increase your survivability, depending on your previous quest choices. (And a variation on this theme is sage stormrage eagelon which is sort of like giving everyone in your party a weak version of sage damage reduction, for 30 seconds, but its a slow skill to be using and uses a lot of chi and mana for the minor bit of damage it does, and most of you are not sages.)