Best stealth archer setup?

[ULTRA]

Gloomstalker ranger? Some kind of ranger/rogue multiclass? Just rogue? A plain old archery fighter? Anyone have any suggestions, short or long?

[Morgian]

What is a stealth archer? You don't think you can shoot people from stealth?

[Mathias Giovanni]

Originally posted by ULTRA:

Gloomstalker ranger? Some kind of ranger/rogue multiclass? Just rogue? A plain old archery fighter? Anyone have any suggestions, short or long?

I would think a high traversal to get height plus sneak attacks at ranged would be powerful. I'm unsure what multiclass could get you that. Does ranger give you sneak attack? I would look for something that lets you teleport to high locations, hide easy, return to stealth and land stealth attacks. That would be pretty darn powerful.

Unfortunately the game doesn't let us look ahead on skills for classes which would be nice so we can kind of plan a bit.

[Nophex]

Archery fighter is best no stealth except maybe for opening shots.

[Arngrim]

For stealth I like Gloomstalker with enough levels of rogue to get the thief subclass.

[St0nemender]

The best stealth archer would be Gloomstalker Ranger (5)/Assassin (7) i think.

The gloomstalker ranger gives you access to some nice spells like hunters mark, longstrider and miststep for repositioning, while increasing your initiative and giving you additional damage in the first round - with lvl5 you even get a second attack.

The assassin gives you ambush and alacrity, which makes nice openers, and the option to go into stealth each turn, which means you can fire with advantage each turn as well.