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It takes a lot of feats to make a good archer, and bards also don't have the full BAB which is essential.
IMO, she should be treated as a buffer and skill monkey, with her feats helping her songs, spells, and skills. She can plink away with a light xbow if she really has nothing else to do, but she will never be good at it.
https://fextralife.com/pathfinder-kingmaker-builds-linzi-the-bard/
This is the guide. Like you said, her focus is on support, only with 2 ranger levels thrown in to improve a bit her bow damage and get the freebooter's bane feat. Seems straightforward enough, only thing that confused me was the suggestion to use longbows and invest in the corresponding feats after I realized she deals less damage with a longbow than with a light crossbow.
Though you can go for the freebooter's bane, it scales with level. I would rather get a fully fledged freebooter and a bard (or no booter at all). Your bard will end up with 2 free actions to perform, so the bane won't be up until her 2nd round. You lose on song and spell progress too while it's the only good thing she can do. Not worth the trade off IMO.
All you need from the bard for buffing is the song and the heroism spell. She isn't a terrible dragon disciple if you want to do something different with her.
Did the game change a lot since then? Any recommended guide? I'm playing on normal and not interested in min-maxing, or complicated builds, I just don't want to end up with a party so weak I can't clear some of the later battles.
Seize the Moment or not, you'll want to be getting more of your damage from Sense Vitals anyway (a great candidate for the multiple Lesser Extend Rods you'll likely have laying around).
I reported you, and did so again. What you're doing is the opposite of helping. and it's worse that you keep coming back and doing it again. Even if what you're saying is true, You know full well XP can be shared equally with off-party characters. Please stop. This is really not cool.
Is she going to be to worst thing ever as a archer? No, but the difference between Linzi archer versus Ekun is gonna be huge.
I never use Linzi for spoiler reason but if i was i would probably give her a heavy crossbow with point blank shot -> precise shot -> rapid shot -> and maybe imp critical heavy crossbow.
Wouldn’t you also need rapid reload in order to get rapid shot?
I think rapid reload is like a hidden passive everyone get for free in this video game.
In this game, xbows have the same firing rate as short and longbows. They are great for characters with low to average strength.
Fighter and ranger bow archers need both a high strength for damage and a high dex to hit anything. Since strength doesn't affect crossbows, that could be a reason to use crossbows instead and just ignore that stat. That counterpoint is the meta that there are a lot of great longbows in the game, including one you get very early, so you are kind of gimping yourself as an archer going crossbows instead of longbows.