New player archer and PVP questions

Various equips increase speed by 0.1-0.3 m/s however it's fairly mild change. Charge orbs are a consumable will change your move speed to 15m/s for 15 seconds with a 1 minute CD shared with some other stuff. Normally they aren't spammed without reason as they get kinda expensive if you use 40 an hour. Holy path also increases your speed to 15 m/s and lasts for 6 seconds. It's a genie skill so how often it can be used depends on genie stats and energy regen. On a genie with relatively good regen it's about once every 20 seconds if you don't use other stuff. The coin cost of the stamina to use it is 500ish which is low enough that most leveled players can just spam it whenever and not care.

Flyers obviously add to your base speed up to 3.5m/s or 6.5m/s with accelerate on which indirectly consumes a consumable which must be bought. Ground mounts go up to 11m/s which can be had for minimal cost however they have a mount time which is kinda annoying.

Winged blessing increases archer range by up to 14m. The weapons themselves don't change their range. By level 50 you would have a 29 meter range assuming you level the passive as early as possible. Archers have the longest range in the game once leveled.

Flight isn't used much in pvp outside of support classes or if there is a specific reason to do so due to certain damage mechanics. For the most part people won't knock you out of the sky, they are much more likely to just try and kill you outright.

From what I recall 1-50 is about 2 days of not all that much play even for someone 100% new. You aren't going to find pvp outside of perhaps a few duels at that low of a level range. Archers are not used for stealth in pvp. All classes can fly.

If you followed the quests and played normally you'd have finished with the starter area and be 22ish in 3 hours of play.

There are quite a few ways of skipping early game play. None of them however work as a completely new player without paying PWE either to buy items directly or just to get coins to pay people to drag you around certain things for exp.

I'd not waste my time for research in forum if I'd be new to this game.
You are playing a MMO. You should interact with the people in-game.

Join a faction and ask people for explanations (vent/ts > chatting).
Almost everyone has an archer and knows at least the basics.
Learning by doing is best.
Forum (e.g. class sections) is outdated most of the time and a text of wall in general section won't help you much.

standoffishman said:

I'm not sure if that leveling comment was directed at me. I recently started leveling an alt on another sever, quite literally within the last week. Low level questing really isn't that slow and 1-22 in 3 hours is actually about right for a new player. Of course if one stops to look at all the UI elements it takes longer but that's more doing research or reading about the game than really playing it.

People who claim insane leveling speeds could fairly easily claim south of an hour for 1-50 actually. It's quite doable although as one might expect does it not involve actually playing the character.

It is not about speed of the leveling, it is about game.

I myself leveled my alt very fast 1-22 using aids from NPC, but leveling speed is not main measuring unit of the fun in the game, especially for novice.

I would not look directly to PvP if i was new to the game, especialy as an archer. Back in 2009, you could find lots of PvP action of lv.30~60, then years later it got harder, you should have at least TT99 gears to find something competitive. Nowadays, a common player with average gears can't survive 1 second in PvP. That's because our top players are Rank 9 gears (the best gear and most expensive at moment), not only that, they have huge "upgrades" on their equipment, making impossible to compete without being something near that.

I play as an archer for seven years now, my advice to new archers is not to focus mainly in PvP, because you'll hit a frustation wall. Do as people said above me, find a faction, do stuff and try to have fun.

About Range: Archers do have a good range, even a Lv80 buff to increase a bit more, although you won't find much difference between other classes range, since its just few steps better. The key to be a good archer is always be in a good position to take oportunities.

About Speed: We have a speed buff on Lv23 that increases evasion and movement speed. Used to be hyped years ago before the invention of holy path and Lv79 skill. I personaly love that buff and mostly can't walk around without it, its just 1m/s faster but feels good.

Stealth: Archers get stealth skill via Morai quests (Lv95) and its just a defensive ability, when used you can't move (well, your speed goes down to 0.1 m/s), but you can still leap to left and right (both also morai skills), making this a good escape tool.

The sad part about start playing pw is that being an old game, most of things are for Lv100+, events, dungeons and stuff. Something that works for me is to do something with someone and read more about the game itself, makes things more interesting.​​

No. Just reroll to DB.