I need help with my bow build

Alucard0 · Post by **Alucard0** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 7:49 pm

Ok, i'm lvl 15 and I was wondering what the best way to go with my character would be, I've done all my stat points into Strength. And my sp are in bow, Fire, And light, All three of them are which their masteries are at lvl 12, and all skills i can gain at that level i have. So i basically, want to just do massive amounts of damage. So, i was wondering what should i do? Like keep the fire and get rid of the light? or keep the light at the level that it's at and advance the fire? or what?

Ice771x · Post by **Ice771x** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 7:58 pm

IMO, idk if this is even right, but ice is best for bow. cus bow doesnt do crazy damage (unless you have ridiculous bow skillz) its advantage is attacking from a distance. so you want to keep your target as far away as possible for as long as possible. so i would say use ice and light.

Alucard0 · Post by **Alucard0** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 8:07 pm

Cool, But i've heard that fire was the best for bow because of the imbue skill it has does the most damage out of them all. So, Anyone else like to put their two-cents in?

Alucard0 · Post by **Alucard0** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 8:10 pm

And also force skills, Are there any of those i should use?

Resist · Post by **Resist** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:58 am

fire is the best for bow

ice does too low dmg

Jon_owns_u · Post by **Jon_owns_u** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 7:28 am

IF YOU LET OTHERS PICK WHO YOU ARE, THEN YOUR NOT ORIGINAL ARE YOU?

What im saying is, PICK what YOU like the most.

plexiq · Post by **plexiq** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 7:53 am

IF YOU LET OTHERS PICK WHO YOU ARE, THEN YOUR NOT ORIGINAL ARE YOU?

What im saying is, PICK what YOU like the most.

Posting the same caps-phrase over and over isnt very original either. He is lvl15 now, and propably just started with this game a few days ago. At that point its just plain stupid to "gues" the good skills. There s no way for him to "know" the useless skills at this point.

Its fine if new players want to get some infos from more experienced players, and then decide on their skills. There s a lot of controversy among the experienced players about quite a few skill/force choices, and thats where he should choose by personal preference. But there s no need for him to find out by trial & error that a skill/build sucks, if there s already a general consensus about that.

@Alucard:
If you want to do high damage, fire seems to be a good choice as main force. And light is also ok as sub, as you will propably want to get a few levels of grasswalk + phantomwalk anyway.

Jon_owns_u · Post by **Jon_owns_u** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:00 am

^got shot with my own bullet :oops:

Brutish1 · Post by **Brutish1** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 10:03 am

Fire - does the most damage. Also required for any strength build for flame body.

Cold - At max range even at lower damage than fire can slow or freeze a mob so it never reaches you before it dies. Also some nice defensive skills.

Light - IMHO don't use the imbue. As an archer you want to go 1 on 1 vs mobs. Light imbue can agro 3 mobs at once. Grass flow is very useful.

The most important thing is maxing and correctly using anti-devil. While later skills do more damage anti-devil is the main skill because of the ability to raise the crit%. At higher levels and a decent crit bow you can expect a crit better than 1 time in 4. As a pure str the crit will hit for about 2x normal damage or more. When I say best use follow this procedure.

1 single click a mob OUT OF RANGE to highlight it.
2 activate anti-devil
3 wait until you run to the extreme range and start drawing back the bow
4 Then AND ONLY then activate the imbue.

This will increase the number of times you can shoot per imbue by 2 over hitting imbue then hitting anti-devil.