Un-needed skills

Riz_Ryuzaki - Dreamweaver wrote: »

I recommend you look @ Annor's Archer Guide It'll tell you all you need to know.

That guide is a little out of date.

A few things I'd correct is max your Quickshot. Sage Quickshot gives you a 20% crit increase for 10 seconds. It only has a 3 second cooldown so you can constantly keep yourself buffed. Since you are mainly focusing on PvE (I'm the same), level you metal skills (except Stormrage) and Frost arrow. These are very useful in instances that have physical resistant mobs.

I know you said you are mainly a PvE player, but if you plan on doing NW learn Elven Alacrity. If you are an archer in NW everyone and their brother is going to be asking you for a push and they get cranky if you tell them you don't have the skill. I've seen archers booted out of squads just for that reason.

Sage frost arrow doesn't hit too hard. Look at it; it doesn't even have +%wep damage. That and the chi cost make people **** on sage frost arrow. I use mine though because it crit 7.5K on an unmarrowed BM in aps gear in TW and that was with a G15 + 5 bow.

Against decently geared heavies it's absolutely no damage at all. Stick to autoattacks to try purging or metal skills. At least you have a metal debuff.

It also doesn't have metal skills' bonus of not having dmg reduction at close range.

The following skills you don't need:
DoT arrows-lv.1
Deadly Shot-lv1
Stormrage Eagaleon-lv.0; don't even learn dat ****
WoP lv. 1 if you're cheap like I.
Winged shell lv.5 p. much does the job of absorbing 1 hit.

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PVE? Go demon

In PVE there are exactly 2 things you need: single target autoattack and barrage.

Demon QS = 46% dps boost

Sage QS = 16% dps boost

Demon spark = sage take aims at the speed of usain bolt, as Annor said,

Regular aps setup with -int G16 slingshot (100% chance tohave 2 sockets btw) = 1.54 APS = ~100K+ dps, putting you into the damage range of low-refined aps toons

Demon with claws = better gear due to demon spark. Sage spark gets overwritten by BB anyways so GG.

Demon BoA: anything else needs to be said?


For your occasional NW or TW your job is still to kill robes so, demon QS gg. Sage elemental skills will still not put you on par with actual robes at killing heavies.

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PotatoHeadQR - Dreamweaver wrote: »

wait what? o:

http://www.pwdatabase.com/pwi/items/34772

Craft rate for 2soc is 100%.

Walpurga - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Sage frost arrow doesn't hit too hard. Look at it; it doesn't even have +%wep damage. That and the chi cost make people **** on sage frost arrow. I use mine though because it crit 7.5K on an unmarrowed BM in aps gear in TW and that was with a G15 + 5 bow.

Against decently geared heavies it's absolutely no damage at all. Stick to autoattacks to try purging or metal skills. At least you have a metal debuff.

It also doesn't have metal skills' bonus of not having dmg reduction at close range.

The following skills you don't need:
DoT arrows-lv.1
Deadly Shot-lv1
Stormrage Eagaleon-lv.0; don't even learn dat ****
WoP lv. 1 if you're cheap like I.
Winged shell lv.5 p. much does the job of absorbing 1 hit.

>>>>>

PVE? Go demon

In PVE there are exactly 2 things you need: single target autoattack and barrage.

Demon QS = 46% dps boost

Sage QS = 16% dps boost

Demon spark = sage take aims at the speed of usain bolt, as Annor said,

Regular aps setup with -int G16 slingshot (100% chance tohave 2 sockets btw) = 1.54 APS = ~100K+ dps, putting you into the damage range of low-refined aps toons

Demon with claws = better gear due to demon spark. Sage spark gets overwritten by BB anyways so GG.

Demon BoA: anything else needs to be said?


For your occasional NW or TW your job is still to kill robes so, demon QS gg. Sage elemental skills will still not put you on par with actual robes at killing heavies.

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Stop trying to force people to go demon. He said he wanted to go sage and was asking for advice on what skills he should level for sage path. So stick to that topic.

For going sage the skills you want to learn are:
Bow Mastery and Winged Blessing (Mastery's always level first)
Blazing Arrow
Quickshot
Stunning Arrow
Frost Arrow
Metal Skills (except Stormrage)
Sharpened Tooth Arrow
Elven Alacrity
Take Aim or Deadly shot. It's good to have 1 heavy hitting skill for when you are solo farming then you can one shot mobs. Saves time and arrows.

All the other skills I'd learn, but for PvE it will be fine to keep them at a lower level if you are short on coin.
Personally I have all my sage skills learned just because I like having the variety of skills and they do hit a lot harder. Not going to lie, it was expensive to get all the books.

Fae_Harpy - Archosaur wrote: »

Stop trying to force people to go demon. He said he wanted to go sage and was asking for advice on what skills he should level for sage path. So stick to that topic.

For going sage the skills you want to learn are:
Bow Mastery and Winged Blessing (Mastery's always level first)
Blazing Arrow
Quickshot
Stunning Arrow
Frost Arrow
Metal Skills (except Stormrage)
Sharpened Tooth Arrow
Elven Alacrity
Take Aim or Deadly shot. It's good to have 1 heavy hitting skill for when you are solo farming then you can one shot mobs. Saves time and arrows.

Laawwwdy, QS-auto 2shots most trash mobs for morai dailies anyways lol. G16 bow can kill 2 mobs in the time it takes to charge deadly shot, if both are in range. More if you got -int pve gear and a lot of them are in range. And Take Aim hits harder anyways. Both cultis, with a tiny cooldown. Makes Deadly even less useful

All the other skills I'd learn, but for PvE it will be fine to keep them at a lower level if you are short on coin.

Dem DoT arros 2 stronk yo

Personally I have all my sage skills learned just because I like having the variety of skills and they do hit a lot harder. Not going to lie, it was expensive to get all the books.

Or save money for good **** like Awaken, BV, Whisper Shot. DoT arrows and winged shell are just so not worth it

replies in red. I'm sage, too, btw. I like the chi and the elemental skills since I don't go srs bznz fully squadded into NW and end up 1v1ing a lot.

Fae_Harpy - Archosaur wrote: »

Saves arrows.

Is it 08' again?

@Walpurga: Whisper shot is good now? For what, exactly?

Sint - Harshlands wrote: »

Is it 08' again?

@Walpurga: Whisper shot is good now? For what, exactly?

walpurga might be one of the biggest clows around here, but whisper shot is indeed pretty good. i use it a lot lately, usually to prevent barbs from invoking or to kill unaware bms that rely on their antistun

Whisper Shot is a piece of ****. 3s of seal, sub-par range, can miss, and I don't even think it interrupts.

Smack doesn't miss, casts faster, and has the same range for less chi.

Especially in TW, where wizards and venos have better seals in every way possible (cast range, channel time, duration, chi cost, can't miss), what's the point?

Archers have these skills that other classes can just do better without using spark, it's so sad. I guess it's the same deal with Aim Low...sucks but you use it when no one else has anything.

Read the guides

It isn't slow, you're spoiled

_Shui - Harshlands wrote: »

3500 / 65 infl daily farmed = 53 days. Now 53 days x 3 orders = 159 days > more than 5 months.

You're doing it wrong

And aeu

_Shui - Harshlands wrote: »

AEU only gives 10 influence...

You can do it multiple times per day

Marengo - Lost City wrote: »

+ badges with extra 80, 50 and 20% of influence per day.

Also very true