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does anyone have a high level archer?
Joshua69
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I have a level 15 Archer and her Damage just seems to low and the animations for everything is rly boring. Is it worth continuing with?
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I love Hawkeye and Green Arrow, I always play rangers in RPGs, but bows in COH have never been able to hold my attention. I'd say try something else for a while, Arachnos Soldiers are fun.
One of the few powersets that's a very late bloomer, wait til you get rain of arrows (or something along that name).
I have a blaster (Archery / Energy Manipulation) that is 49.6 as of last night.
What others have said is correct. Once you get Rain of Arrows, you'll kill spawns of enemies insanely quickly.
Archery has a few things going for it:
1. Inherent accuracy bonus
2. Quick recharge times
3. It's 3rd single target nuke has normal range (Other blasts have 40 range)
4. 10 bonus range on its cone aoe
It is true, the power is not flashy at all. It does, however, pack a nice punch.
I went Archery - Devices . I'm wondering if that was a dumb idea. But I guess ill keep pluggin away at it till i get "Rain of Arrows" and see what happens lol
I believe there's also an Oil Slick attack in archery. My character that has it is Technology origin (Taser freebie power for ignition), but isn't yet high enough to take it, so I don't know how well it works.
Devices is kind of the red-headed stepchild of Blaster secondaries due to the fact that it has no build up. That, and some of the bomb powers take forever to place. That being said, the targetting drone and stealth power are pretty awesome.
What have you played in the past that makes you feel like the powers are weak?
The best sustainable single target chain that you should be doing is:
Snap Shot > Aimed Shot > Snap Shot > Blazing Arrow > Repeat
As a former Archery/ice, I would say, if this is your first blaster and you want to blast, reroll. Archery is decent but not great, it is not the worst powerset but definetely not the best one.
It's my first "DPS char". My two high levels are a Illusion - Storm Controller and Empathy - Psionics (I think its called) Defender.
I haven't DPS's much >_< But when I see other blasters, things just die. I recently hit level 22 and things have gotten way better alrready
Defenders are not so much about DPS as they are about force multiplication, buffs for teammates/self, debuffs for foes. You want DPS on a ranged set then give Blaster or Corruptor a try. And I echo the sentiment the others have stated, Archery is a late-blooming set, even moreso on a Defender as Archery is their Secondary so it'll be level 38 before getting Rain of Arrows.
When City of Villains first came out I decided to play a Dark Melee/Energy brute. Everyone who I came across basically would ask me why energy at that time it was considered really a poor choice and coupled with Dark Melee a real endurance eater I was often hearing that clang when you end bar is drained. It was a very off combination but I had a self heal among other things and the damage was almost unresistable but I had difficulty keeping agrro.
However brutes then were not really tankers . We would send pets in to take the alpha strike and I would try to engage as many as I could by targeting and bringing them to me individually. However the combination I had unlike many other brutes was very survivable because of my cloak. I could cloak myself when things went south and often was the only one that survived and could revive others.
This was early days when healing was very light .Almost no healing from corrupters their heals were pitiful so we would use shields and triage basically and the missions were fun fun fun. I swear in spite of how challenging the game was then we had so much fun . Everyone had to think on their feet and play smartly .Best time I had the only toon I got to 50.
So you know what my advice is .Play the character with the combination you enjoy. Don't go for numbers or check which is the best just play the combination you like.
Cheyane, I have just one thing to say about your post: Best. Advice. Ever.