Archer build

[Starrykitten]

Hey, so i was wondering if anyone knew any good gear and perks i should have if im mainly focusing on picking off enemies 1 by 1 with a bow.

[Simple Kind of Man]

bright lords bow.

[Starrykitten]

Originally posted by Lord_of_Death:

bright lords bow.

um what is that? i havent gotten to the end of every quest line yet

[Simple Kind of Man]

u can get it in the 1st few hours if i tell you were thats not fun just do the poems
that is all

[Starrykitten]

Originally posted by Lord_of_Death:

u can get it in the 1st few hours if i tell you were thats not fun just do the poems
that is all

ok ill keep an eye out for that, but if it wouldnt be really spoilerish what amount of arrows does it have?

[Dehya]

I wouldn't focus purely on archery if I were you because inevitably you're gonna run into enemies that are immune to arrows. But if you want to up your game regardless, here's a few things I recommend.

1) Bird of Prey Skill: Get this ASAP as its both insanely useful, and really cool/fun picking enemies off as you fall from the skies in slow motion.

2) Eagle Site Skill: This is an extension of the Bird of Prey Skill, and it halves your focus consumption rate as you fall through the air, giving you more time to take aim and defeat your enemies.

3) Bright Lord's Rune: Using this grants you 15 focus for every kill, so you can pick off a bunch of grunt orcs and continiously refill your focus. Insaly useful.

4) Special Bows: This is going to be harder to do because unlike the other items on this list which are gauranteed to happen at some point in the game (if you complete all necessary objectives/requirements) whereas bows from Gear Drops are random.

However, I would suggest looking for certain charicterists in bows. Preferably ones that grant you either extra health or focus for each kill, and lots of arrows.

I have one called the Mindmender for example, and whilst I've switched to the Vengaence Bow from the Vengaence Gear set (paired with the Vengaence Rune because I want the perks having 2 of a certain Gear Set gives you) the Mindmender was my primary bow a real long time, as it gave me 15 shots, and the ability to acquire 38 focus for every hit. Not kill, but simply hitting enemy orcs with arrows.

Combined with The Bright Lord rune, that gives me 53 Focus back every time I kill an enemy, which allows me to quickly recover alot of focus, even if I spend more time than usual taking aim.

If you can't find a bow like that though, you can use the Bright Lord's Bow or Hammer, which do similar things pertaining to focus, except they only give 15 focus, as well as 9 and 7 shots respectively. Though they do freeze enemies if you charge up the shots, so if you can live with less shots, might be worth the trade-off.

Hope all this helps. Good luck.

[Starrykitten]

Originally posted by Thane_Mantis:

I wouldn't focus purely on archery if I were you because inevitably you're gonna run into enemies that are immune to arrows. But if you want to up your game regardless, here's a few things I recommend.

1) Bird of Prey Skill: Get this ASAP as its both insanely useful, and really cool/fun picking enemies off as you fall from the skies in slow motion.

2) Eagle Site Skill: This is an extension of the Bird of Prey Skill, and it halves your focus consumption rate as you fall through the air, giving you more time to take aim and defeat your enemies.

3) Bright Lord's Rune: Using this grants you 15 focus for every kill, so you can pick off a bunch of grunt orcs and continiously refill your focus. Insaly useful.

4) Special Bows: This is going to be harder to do because unlike the other items on this list which are gauranteed to happen at some point in the game (if you complete all necessary objectives/requirements) whereas bows from Gear Drops are random.

However, I would suggest looking for certain charicterists in bows. Preferably ones that grant you either extra health or focus for each kill, and lots of arrows.

I have one called the Mindmender for example, and whilst I've switched to the Vengaence Bow from the Vengaence Gear set (paired with the Vengaence Rune because I want the perks having 2 of a certain Gear Set gives you) the Mindmender was my primary bow a real long time, as it gave me 15 shots, and the ability to acquire 38 focus for every hit. Not kill, but simply hitting enemy orcs with arrows.

Combined with The Bright Lord rune, that gives me 53 Focus back every time I kill an enemy, which allows me to quickly recover alot of focus, even if I spend more time than usual taking aim.

If you can't find a bow like that though, you can use the Bright Lord's Bow or Hammer, which do similar things pertaining to focus, except they only give 15 focus, as well as 9 and 7 shots respectively. Though they do freeze enemies if you charge up the shots, so if you can live with less shots, might be worth the trade-off.

Hope all this helps. Good luck.

Nice thanks but what quest/side line do i need to do to get the bright lord rune?

[Starrykitten]

ok nvm im good for the rune and armor and all that i did all the doors and got all the armors i didnt get the rune yet but i know how so now to get the perks. but im going to use a certain bow over the bright lords bow since the arrow cap is a big deal for me, its 240 dmg instead of the bright lords 213 and it has 10 arrows instead of 2 and it can shoot through enemies so i can kill like 5 at once if they are in a line

[Craig [K.A.O.S.]]

I use ranged/stealth build primarily. 4 Vendetta gear because I can drain grunts to charge shots and other might abilities. 2 Outlaw gear to cycle shots between fire, frost, etc. 4 perfect red and 2 perfect green gems. I stay in stealth mode most of the time I'm in combat.

[Dehya]

Originally posted by TheGamingPenguin1998:

ok nvm im good for the rune and armor and all that i did all the doors and got all the armors i didnt get the rune yet but i know how so now to get the perks. but im going to use a certain bow over the bright lords bow since the arrow cap is a big deal for me, its 240 dmg instead of the bright lords 213 and it has 10 arrows instead of 2 and it can shoot through enemies so i can kill like 5 at once if they are in a line

FYI, you can upgrade The Bright Lord's bow to give extra shots. However its still capped at 9 so its probably a good idea to use another one.

I mentioned earlier about using the Vengeance Bow and I recommend using that piece of Gear Alongside the Rune of Vegeance for the Ring. Together they provde the buff of letting Talion use attack that normally use Might by draining his health, so you can use more Mighty Arrow shots from the bow.

Admittedly this is a risky technique since it does drain alot of health (40% for every attack if you don't have sufficient Might,) but you can offset this by:

A: Using Gems in his Armour sets to boost Talion's health. I have a Refined and Perfected Life Gem in Talion's Armour & Cloak (I use Bright Lord Gear for those slots FYI as the Armour provides a 40% buff against enemy ranged attacks and the Cloak gives 15 focus per kill) giving him an extra 55% health.

And B: The Vengaence Rune gives 100% more health whenever you drain en enemy. If you run low on health, provided you have some Arrows left and you have the Shadow Dominate Skill, you can just Shadow Dominate a nearby grunt to refill pretty much all his health, letting you shoot more Mighty Shots.

Speaking of that, you can also add more Life Gems to Talion's weapons, which lets you "steal" life from enemies with every hit. (Consider this step C for offsetting the risk of using Health to perform Might Attacks.)

I have a Refined Life Gem attached to Talion's dagger, and I can Brutalize an enemy if I can make it into stealth, letting me refill Life and a shed load of Might, giving you the oppourtunity to perform a ton of Might Shots with the Bow, without sacrificing health.

Again, hope all this helps. Good luck.

[Starrykitten]

Originally posted by Thane_Mantis:

Originally posted by TheGamingPenguin1998:

ok nvm im good for the rune and armor and all that i did all the doors and got all the armors i didnt get the rune yet but i know how so now to get the perks. but im going to use a certain bow over the bright lords bow since the arrow cap is a big deal for me, its 240 dmg instead of the bright lords 213 and it has 10 arrows instead of 2 and it can shoot through enemies so i can kill like 5 at once if they are in a line

FYI, you can upgrade The Bright Lord's bow to give extra shots. However its still capped at 9 so its probably a good idea to use another one.

I mentioned earlier about using the Vengeance Bow and I recommend using that piece of Gear Alongside the Rune of Vegeance for the Ring. Together they provde the buff of letting Talion use attack that normally use Might by draining his health, so you can use more Mighty Arrow shots from the bow.

Admittedly this is a risky technique since it does drain alot of health (40% for every attack if you don't have sufficient Might,) but you can offset this by:

A: Using Gems in his Armour sets to boost Talion's health. I have a Refined and Perfected Life Gem in Talion's Armour & Cloak (I use Bright Lord Gear for those slots FYI as the Armour provides a 40% buff against enemy ranged attacks and the Cloak gives 15 focus per kill) giving him an extra 55% health.

And B: The Vengaence Rune gives 100% more health whenever you drain en enemy. If you run low on health, provided you have some Arrows left and you have the Shadow Dominate Skill, you can just Shadow Dominate a nearby grunt to refill pretty much all his health, letting you shoot more Mighty Shots.

Speaking of that, you can also add more Life Gems to Talion's weapons, which lets you "steal" life from enemies with every hit. (Consider this step C for offsetting the risk of using Health to perform Might Attacks.)

I have a Refined Life Gem attached to Talion's dagger, and I can Brutalize an enemy if I can make it into stealth, letting me refill Life and a shed load of Might, giving you the oppourtunity to perform a ton of Might Shots with the Bow, without sacrificing health.

Again, hope all this helps. Good luck.

ok so get the vengeance rune and bow then max 2 health stones and 2 life steal stones

[Dehya]

Originally posted by TheGamingPenguin1998:

ok so get the vengeance rune and bow then max 2 health stones and 2 life steal stones

Yes, that set-up should serve you well as an Archer if you like using the Might Shots. It can also be adapted somewhat to let you use the Elven Light skill as well, as Might also lets you use that skill set as well, making this set-up overall very efficient for crowd control, as either Might Shot or Elven Light are pretty solid AoE attacks.

Plus, once you reach Act IV (if you're not there already) you can use Might Shot and/or Elven Light to kill a bunch of enemies and then use the Ringwraith Skill to ressurect them and turn them into your allies, giving you a pretty hand near instant fighting force if you need it.

[Starrykitten]

Originally posted by Thane_Mantis:

Originally posted by TheGamingPenguin1998:

ok so get the vengeance rune and bow then max 2 health stones and 2 life steal stones

Yes, that set-up should serve you well as an Archer if you like using the Might Shots. It can also be adapted somewhat to let you use the Elven Light skill as well, as Might also lets you use that skill set as well, making this set-up overall very efficient for crowd control, as either Might Shot or Elven Light are pretty solid AoE attacks.

Plus, once you reach Act IV (if you're not there already) you can use Might Shot and/or Elven Light to kill a bunch of enemies and then use the Ringwraith Skill to ressurect them and turn them into your allies, giving you a pretty hand near instant fighting force if you need it.

yeah ok thanks for the help guys, but last question before i think i got all the info i need what is the elven light

[Dehya]

Originally posted by TheGamingPenguin1998:

yeah ok thanks for the help guys, but last question before i think i got all the info i need what is the elven light

Elven Light is one of the games skills you can get in the Wraith skill set. Its the second Primary Skill in the line after Brace of Daggers. Press R to use it (provided you have it unlocked of course) and Talion will slam his fist into the ground doing a moderately large AoE attack as well as stunning/blinding nearby enemies.

It can be upgraded to also add the additional benefit of either Fire, Ice or Poison to inflict that status effect on all nearby Orcs (assuming they aren't immune) in the nearby vicinity. Its very good for crowd control. Excellent means of clearing out weaker orcs to isolate Captains or Warchiefs or even Overlords if they have underlings fighting with them so you can focus on the biggest threat.

Plus as I said earlier, using this Skill in conjunction with Ringwraith is an efficient means of rapidly raising a quick army to help you in a fight. Especially since both Elven Light and Ringwraith use Might, which if you have a couple Vendetta Gear Pieces, you can use your Health as a substitute for if you're willing to take the risk.

[Starrykitten]

Originally posted by Thane_Mantis:

Originally posted by TheGamingPenguin1998:

yeah ok thanks for the help guys, but last question before i think i got all the info i need what is the elven light

Elven Light is one of the games skills you can get in the Wraith skill set. Its the second Primary Skill in the line after Brace of Daggers. Press R to use it (provided you have it unlocked of course) and Talion will slam his fist into the ground doing a moderately large AoE attack as well as stunning/blinding nearby enemies.

It can be upgraded to also add the additional benefit of either Fire, Ice or Poison to inflict that status effect on all nearby Orcs (assuming they aren't immune) in the nearby vicinity. Its very good for crowd control. Excellent means of clearing out weaker orcs to isolate Captains or Warchiefs or even Overlords if they have underlings fighting with them so you can focus on the biggest threat.

Plus as I said earlier, using this Skill in conjunction with Ringwraith is an efficient means of rapidly raising a quick army to help you in a fight. Especially since both Elven Light and Ringwraith use Might, which if you have a couple Vendetta Gear Pieces, you can use your Health as a substitute for if you're willing to take the risk.

ok thanks i have no more questions thank you all who helped out here, i do like the res part of the endgame skills that seems a bit broken and i dont really worry about health since i can time blocks well (the space ones are a bit unresponsive so i need to worry abouts those and thats it) so i will get that gear and then res a lot of people and be a god since then i can run away and start sniping again

[Dehya]

Originally posted by TheGamingPenguin1998:

ok thanks i have no more questions thank you all who helped out here, i do like the res part of the endgame skills that seems a bit broken and i dont really worry about health since i can time blocks well (the space ones are a bit unresponsive so i need to worry abouts those and thats it) so i will get that gear and then res a lot of people and be a god since then i can run away and start sniping again

Good luck with it. Hope what's been recommended here works out well for you.