Archer Tips?

[Rumblood]

I define it by the arrow flight.

Long range - Max arrow distance (about where it drops)
Medium range - about half the distance of the arrow flight
Short range - Oh snit that melee is about to own my face in 5 seconds!

When I say accurate, I mean pinpoint at range ie long range. Rus will only ever be accurate at mid to 3/4 range with PD 6, with PD 7 you are looking at Mid to 1/3 range depending upon whether you went hybrid or sacrificed points for more Agi and WM.

With that said, PD 7 is still the sweet spot for high damage builds. Most maps you won't be shooting at long range for a long time.  But go with WM 6 at least.

[Herkkutatti]

Just Run away from enemies all the time, nothing else need to know about archers.

[XyNox]

I gotta say I was quite pleased with the outcome of my 8 PD 6 WM pure archer build with a longbow. It was not exactly accurate but those arrows were fast and packed some mighty punch, functioning like a long range missile barrage. Shooting down horses was a piece of cake. Sadly when someone got close there were not many options to survive.

This gen Ill try 18/21

6 PD, 7 WM, 7 ATH, 3 PS all WPF into archery

Regarding ranges the rageball field is a good reference imo.

very long range: From one goal to another
long range: From your own goal to the enemy quarter line
mid range: everthing in between the distance from your goal to the mid line and your quarter line
short range: Everything shorter from your goal to your quarter line

everything shorter than that is point blank

[Fartface]

I prefered 18/18.
5if
6 ps
6 pd
6 ath
6 wm
Get like 100-50 1hander wpp, or 2hand, rest in archery ofcource
Wear like 0-1.5 weight head armour.
7-11 body armour.
Mail mittens or Mail gauntlets.
Rus cavalry boots or lighter.
And get a high damaging one hander and just stick with team and shoot and when enemy comes close switch to sword and finish them off.

[bigsean]

open item_kinds1.txt in your cRPG folder with notepad and replace these

arrows_flying_h1
barbed_arrows_flying_h1
bodkin_arrows_flying_h1
tatar_arrows_flying_h1

with

flying_missile

replace arrows_flying_h1 last, otherwise you could end up with things like barbed_flying_missile which means nothing

[Templar_Steevee]

Strength    18    
Agility    21    

One Handed    6    
Archery    163    


Power Strike    3
Athletics    7    
Power Draw    6    
Weapon Master    7    

On lvl 29 u will have full archer bulit, points on lvl 30 u can put in IF or PS, but i prefer PS (It's funny when i'm killing ninjas os runners with my hand axe)

I'm using mw longbow and mw tatar arrows.

Some tips from me:

1)To be usefull on battlefield u have to think.
 Take position where you are preety safe from cav, but also from where u can shoot enemies. Try to help you teammates fighting with enemies, but shot if u have clear position.

2)Remember: the worst enemy of archer is other range unit, so stop only for a moment when you are going to shot and try to kill enemies range every single occasion you have

3)Archers don't like cav, so shoot cav guys down or dismount them. If you will stay in a group of 3-4 archers many cav will think twice before try to come closer to you. Dismounting enemies cav is also really usefull for your teammates, especially HA and Horse x-bow

4)No one will show you mercy, because you are an archer, so don't show mercy for others. But respect duels... sometimes And if you will have occasion to shot someones back, just do it

While leveling up from pesant to an archer I preffer to run as a pesant meelee with some cheap blunt or pierce dmg 1h (i'm using Light spiked club or knobbed mace) and pitch fork(best pesant anti-cav weapon) you will practice melee fighting and will be more usefull for your team than shooting with piu-piu bows (below 4 pd). You will also earn some money (upkeep for weapons I suggest is just silly)