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Archer/ Polearm build?
« on: May 21, 2011, 02:27:45 am »
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Is this feasible? What build would I need? Can I also get riding in there? Possibly horse arching too? Or is this all wishful thinking?

I want to be a fast archer with decent polearm ability.. Any help would be great

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Re: Archer/ Polearm build?
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2011, 02:31:27 am »
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Be careful with this, as sheathed polearms can block your aiming reticule. Get used to first person view for your shots.
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Re: Archer/ Polearm build?
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2011, 02:38:58 am »
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Thanks... I don't like the sound of that :(

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Re: Archer/ Polearm build?
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2011, 10:53:47 pm »
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Mounted archery is a very expensive class to maintain, many horse archers believe that you need a HA skill of 4 to be a viable horse archer, and this leaves very little skill points to put elsewhere. This is an example of a HA/polearm build

    Strength: 15
    Agility: 24
    Hit points: 50

    Skills to attributes: 8

    Ironflesh: 0
    Power Strike: 0
    Shield: 0
    Athletics: 0
    Riding: 6
    Horse Archery: 4
    Power Draw: 5
    Power Throw: 0
    Weapon Master: 8 

    One Handed: 1
    Two Handed: 1
    Polearm: 111
    Archery: 151
    Crossbow: 1
    Throwing: 1

You can play around with WM and Riding skill, maybe you would prefer 7 and 7 instead of 6 and 8 but as you can see there is very little flexibility in this build. A more flexible build would be:

    Strength: 15
    Agility: 21
    Hit points: 50

    Skills to attributes: 2

    Ironflesh: 0
    Power Strike: 0
    Shield: 2
    Athletics: 5
    Riding: 7
    Horse Archery: 3
    Power Draw: 5
    Power Throw: 0
    Weapon Master: 7

    One Handed: 1
    Two Handed: 1
    Polearm: 111
    Archery: 151
    Crossbow: 1
    Throwing: 1

With this build you're a viable footman and you can use a shield with your lance if you so wish, however with only 3 HA skill you might want to put more WPF in archery as your accuracy will really suffer. Another good option for this build is to go mounted-xbow because although you still need HA skill to use xbows on horseback, it's not nearly as important as it is for archers.

If you are new to cRPG I would highly recommend you go regular archer first and make a 18/21 build or a 21/18 build.

*edit this WPFs are roughly chosen. I'm not recommending putting exactly 151 points in archery.
« Last Edit: May 21, 2011, 10:57:22 pm by LLJK_Brolocaust »