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[Perfect World] Archer Skill Guide (11/12/2009)
Nov 12, 2009 13:23:17
Here is Archer Skills guide for Perfect World players. Hope you may like it!
---Level 1 skill---
Take Aim | Charged blast ?C Basic attack that increases the physical damage based upon your equipment's physical attack. Typically used levels 1-49 as the cheap mp cost and decent damage makes Take Aim a good combo starter. However, many debate over its importance after level 49 due to Deadly Shot (very similar to Take Aim except even more physical damage).
Leveling Route: depends on user, but you can max it out levels 7x/8x once other skills are maxed.
Strategies/Tips: None really except most people typically start off combos with this. You can stop the charging whenever, but you'll do less damage. Of course, you may buy Perfect World gold to help you.
Heaven Path ?C Because Take Aim gets 500% equipment boost, if you plan on going Heaven, this skill is definitely a must.
Quickshot | Dartle Shot ?C Basic double shot attack that only increases the physical damage dealt. Because the extra physical damage added is very low, Quickshot is not very useful at higher levels. Avoid leveling this skill more than necessary.
Leveling Route: Ideally keep it below level 5. If you go without leveling it at all, that's actually better, but most level it a bit to solo at lower levels quicker. Max out with spare sp levels 7x/8x
Strategies/Tips: None. Most people will leave it out of their combos by level 2x.
Hell Path ?C 50% chance to increase attack speed 30% for 6 seconds. Add that with a 3 second cooldown, and voila, a good filler skill that can boost damage per second.
---Level 6 skill---
Blazing Arrow ?C Passive skill that adds extra fire damage to each attack. Because it is fire damage added, do not expect it to deal exactly 13-40% more equipment physical damage - monsters have fire resistance as well! Either way though, blazing arrow is a must have skill because it passively adds extra damage.
Leveling Route: Max it as early as possible.
Strategies/Tips: Always have it on, especially if you're going against metal type monsters. You'll see a greater difference on them as you level blazing arrow up. If you have a glowing weapon...combine for glowy color combos!
Heaven Path ?C 60% of equipment attack is now dealt in fire damage. A better choice compared to Hell's 20 second extra 70% fire damage, since casting blazing every ~20 seconds is pretty troublesome. Better stable damage with Heaven as usual.
Frost Arrow ?C Basic attack that slows down the target ~50%. Although it costs vigor to execute, it can easily be regained by the following attacks. The guaranteed slowing effect and cheap mp cost makes frost arrow especially useful in both early and later levels. If you're pure agi with good equipment, you could easily grind with just this, repulsing, and stunning at higher levels.
Leveling Route: Max it as early as possible. You may also buy Perfect World gold to help you sometimes.
Strategies/Tips: At early levels, start combos off with frost arrow or follow a charged blast with one. If you have extra vigor and expect longer battles, placing one after Knockback Arrow works also. If necessary, one could kite after frost arrow as well.
Heaven Path ?C Converts the physical damage dealt into water damage. With this, now it gains some good potential against BM/BAR and other high physical defense builds. Combined with slow, it can be a good kiting method with lightning strike.
Winged Shell | Wing Barrier ?C Defensive skill that creates a barrier around the user in order to absorb damage while regenerating a small amount of mp. Requires some vigor but for 20 seconds of minimal damage, this skill is extremely handy in dangerous situations and emergencies. A well timed Winged Shell can cover a retreat very well. Pure agi archers are recommended to invest in this.
Leveling Route: Level it up with any extra sp along the way. Ideally max it as soon as possible, but its not top priority (frost, stunning, and passives are more important).
Strategies/Tips: Follow up a Winged Shell with a hp potion and voila, no hp lost while you skewer your target with arrows. Another more aggressive alternative is to put up a Winged Shell before a fury - minimal damage received, heavy damage given.
Winged Blessing | Great Precision ?C Another passive skill that increases the attack range 1 meter with each level. It's common sense really to level this. Greater range is an archer's best friend.
Leveling Route: Max it as early as possible.
Strategies/Tips: Level it first when you get the sp.
Flight Mastery | Flying Mastery ?C Passive skill that increases your flying speed. It only works with white wings, so don't expect the brown eagle wings or any cash shop wing to get the additional +2 m/s boost. Very useful for Cleric or Archer (with +mp regen) as with maxed flying mastery, the white wings are cash shop quality (in terms of speed).
Leveling Route: Depends on user...I would max it at later levels since the sp cost is very cheap. If you like flying often, max it.
Strategies/Tips: Since there's no fast fly mode, I would keep white wings for leisurely flying (traveling town to town), and use the brown wings for fighting/PvP. If you have cash shop wings that are 2 m/s or better, ignore this skill altogether. Of course, you may buy Perfect World gold to help you
---Level 13 skill ---
Lightning Strike | Thunder bolt ?C First and most basic elemental attack for archers. Deals metal damage which gives archers a move to deal with BM/BAR and other high defense players. Decent cooldown and cast time make lightning strike a good move to kite with against BM/BAR.
Leveling Route: Max it as soon as possible.
Strategies/Tips: lightning strike costs quite a lot of mp at lower levels, so only use it when necessary. Typically it should be used only once at the very end of a combo when the monster is next to you. In PvP, use it against BM/BAR after disabling skills (stunning, colligation) and use it as often as possible. Hopefully you get a critical and continue to kite.
---Level 19 skill---
Vicious Arrow | Bane Arrow ?C First DoT (damage over time) attack for archers. It deals constant wood damage for a duration of 15 seconds. The damage dealt is typically approximately equal to one normal attack. Because the damage dealt over 15 seconds is low, the mp used isn't really worth it. Not recommended to level.
Leveling Route: Keep it at level 1 until levels 7x/8x, when you can max it with extra sp.
Strategies/Tips: If you do use it, please use it early (after charged/frost) so that you can fully make use of the 15 seconds of poison.
Heaven Path: deals mp damage with each round of poison damage. bane arrow becomes a double edged sword - not only does it work better on BM/BAR damage-wise (lower elemental defense), they typically have lower mp as well, so the mp drain can have a greater effect.
Knockback Arrow | Repulsing Arrow ?C Basic attack that knockbacks the monster (does not knockback players). With the extra distance, typically 2-3 more shots can be used. As you probably have experienced, this move will pretty much end your sorrows and woes of close combat for monster encounters. A must have, but that's its sole purpose. It is not recommended to spend sp to level it as only the damage increases, not the knockback distance (even so, damage is average).
Leveling Route: Keep it at level 1 until levels 7x/8x, when you can max it with extra sp.
Strategies/Tips: Try to use it as the monster is in the middle of casting. This can cancel out the monster's current magic attack and temporarily lag the monster. The timing requires some practice, but if used correctly, you'll see what I mean. Otherwise than that, try not to overlap it with frost arrow, as frost arrow's slow time will continue while the monster is being pushed back (~0.5 seconds wasted time).
Hell Path: 33% chance to gain 30 vigor. Because repulsing is used almost every PvE battle, there is a good chance to help boost vigor up. 2 second cooldown reduction for heaven isn't needed as 2 repulsings per battle is a rare event. You may also buy Perfect World gold to help you.
Wings of Protection ?C Personal and party buff that increases dodge by 8-35% and increases movement speed 15% for 1-10 minutes (Note: the extra movespeed does not apply to flying). Because of the skeptical usefulness of dodge in PvE, Wings of Protection is more geared toward dungeons/PvP.
Leveling Route: Level up with any extra sp between levels. You should probably be able to max it at early 70s.
Strategies/Tips: none really, just don't be selfish and forget to buff your party members. When there are multiple archers in your party, I would consult with each another to see whose Wings of Protection is higher level, so that he/she can give the party a better dodge/speed boost.
Hell Path: 50% dodge, 20% movement speed. More evasiveness for PvP to dodge the BMs/BARs. Heaven only offers longer time duration, but wings of protection uses little mp anyhow, and 30 min/10 min is already good enough.
Winged Pledge | Wing Attack ?C Fast, close range physical attack that can be spammed due to short cast and cooldown times. Can be useful at times when a monster gets to close for comfort and has low hp. At this point with Knockback Arrow, wing attack shouldn't be a primary attack. In PvP, wing attack is definitely not recommended in close combat with BM/BAR as they have high physical defense.
Leveling Route: Keep at level 1 until levels 7x/8x, when you can max it with extra sp.
Strategies/Tips: When used in a pair with lightning strike, it can be a decent close range combo. Later since you get Thundershock and Wingspan, a good 4-hit close range combo can be used.
---Level 29 skill---
AimLow | Colligation Bolt ?C One of the better archer skills that deals very good physical damage and has a 90% chance to paralyze the target for a good length of time. However, the 1 fury point requirement makes it average for PvE, as it cannot be used every battle. If you find yourself with extra sp, Colligation Bolt is a great skill to invest in, as it is especially useful in PvP.
Leveling Route: You can keep it at level 1 if you prefer, but otherwise level it up with any extra sp.
Strategies/Tips: I would use it sparingly in PvE (make sure you have enough fury leftover for Winged Shell in case). Either early in combos (after charged if you use it), or after Knockback Arrow. Don't be stupid and use frost arrow immediately after colligation. In PvP, it typically is used against runners (esp retreating mage Venomancer who depend on pets). Just make sure you move in slightly so that when they run, and your colligation is casting, they don't move out of range and cancel out your move!
Thunder shock ?C Second metal damage skill move that lowers the metal defense of the target. The special effect helps out other lightning skills so that they do even more damage. The longer cast time however makes it not too perfect for PvP since BM/BAR could run you down, but if time allows, it helps out lightning strike nicely. Besides PvP, thundershock isn't really worth using unless fighting against defense enhanced monsters (most players avoid anyways).
Leveling Route: Keep at level 1, then max it out at levels 7x/8x when you have extra sp.
Strategies/Tips: To take advantage of the metal damage boost, when fighting wood monsters, lightning strike + thundershock can be a devastating combo. If time permits, thundershock before any lightning strike is good as it makes lightning strike more worthwhile. If partying with an Cleric, thundershock + your lightning strike + their thunder wield can be pretty impressive on an unsuspecting BM/BAR.
Bow/Arbalest Mastery ?C Passive skill that slowly increases your damage by adding equipment attack bonuses. It's common sense to level this as well. More damage = archer's other best friend.
Leveling Route: Max it as early as possible.
Strategies/Tips: None really...always level this first with great precision.
---Level 34 skill---
Serrated Arrow | Fanged Arrow ?C Another DoT skill that deals physical damage over a 15 second time period. The damage dealt over time is equivalent to 1-2 normal attacks. In PvP, fanged arrow's DoT will do low damage against BM/BAR as their physical defense is very high. To make use of the physical DoT, it must be used against mage robe classes, but in that case, other more offensive skills such as stunning, colligation, deadly, or even fury + normal shots are better. Because of this, fanged arrow is not recommended to level either.
Leveling Route: Keep at level 1 until level 7x/8x when you have extra sp to max it.
Strategies/Tips: Same with bane arrow...if you do use it, make sure you cast it early to make use of the 15 seconds of bleeding you'll inflict on your target.
---Level 39 skill---
Stunning Arrow | Outcold Blast ?C One of the better skills bestowed upon archers. It deals moderate damage but has a chance to stun the target for 3 seconds. At first stunning may be average, but as you level it and raise the % chance to stun, it'll reach a point where it becomes a new standard skill for grinding combos. Very useful in PvP as well because of the stun.
Leveling Route: Max it out as early as possible.
Strategies/Tips: In addition to frost arrow and Knockback Arrow, now stunning adds stun to the slow/knockback mix. You can use it to start off a combo, after charged (if you use it), or after repulsing. If you can time it well, you can use it during a monster's magic cast so that it cancels out the move. Either way, 1-2 more hits can be used thanks to stunning. In PvP, stunning can be used before fury or Winged Shell, so that the 3 second stun can cover for you. Otherwise, time Stunning Arrows so that they cancel out big skills that have potential to bring the pain (e.g. thunder wield, deadly shot, etc.). Of course, you may buy Perfect World gold to help you
Wingspan ?C Another close range physical attack similar to wing attack, except that it deals AoE (area of effect) damage and knockback. Not good for AoE leveling, but good for emergency situations where multiple monsters are swarming you. By this point however, as an archer you should know to avoid close combat, so it is not recommended to level as you won't be using this much.
Leveling Route: Keep at level 1 until levels 7x/8x when you have extra sp to max it.
Strategies/Tips: Because close range fighting can be mp costly for Archer, I wouldn't use wingspan unless its absolutely necessary, as if you aggro multiple mid/full hp monsters around, you pretty much sentenced yourself to death. In most situations, wingspan + retreat is done.
---Level 44 skill---
Thunderous Blast | Lightning Blaster ?C Another lightning skill and localized AoE. The skill does great metal damage but it has a long cast time. Because of that, it typically isn't used often in PvE or PvP unless aided by an Cleric sleep or some other long duration immobilizing skill.
Leveling Route: Keep at level 1 until level 7x/8x when you have extra sp to max it.
Strategies/Tips: Just watch out if your PK settings are on or off, as the AoE will hit other players even if you didn't mean to. Thundershock + lightning strike + Thunderous Blast = super lightning combo, which can be pretty nice on wood/defense enhanced monsters. Of course, you may buy Perfect World gold to help you.
---Level 49 skill---
Deadly Shot ?C Probably the strongest skill for Archer when fully maxed. Very similar to Take Aim in that it has a long cast time and deals equipment damage (better equipped archers get an advantage here). For some people it replaces Take Aim as their combo starter, but it's not necessary to use it as it is relatively mp expensive. In PvP, fury + deadly shot on an unsuspecting victim will deal heavy damage.
Leveling Route: You can hold off the first 1-3 levels (damage isn't that great yet and/or you are using maxed Take Aim), then max it as soon as possible.
Strategies/Tips: Because of the long cast time, the timing of deadly shot is important. In PvP, typically deadly shot is used on unsuspecting targets as your attack will most likely hit them. If they really are oblivious to you, I would just advance fury + deadly + stunning + normal attack away (considering you start off with plenty of vigor). Deadly shot after stuns is another alternative.
Sharpened Tooth Arrow | Sharptooth Arrow ?C Unique skill that reduces the max hp of the target by x%. Sharptooth only is used against bosses/HH since its almost pointless to do against normal monsters (you'll receive less exp as well).
Leveling Route: Keep at level 1 until level 6x+, then level with any extra sp.
Strategies/Tips: None really except to make Sharptooth your first attack on bosses.
---Level 59 skill---
Barrage of Arrows | Arrow Bombard ?C The "Zhen" move. Drains constant amount of mp in order to keep the arrows raining. Because of the costly mp cost, a mp hiero is a must in order to fuel it (inherently leaving Zhen to richer players). With a good Zhen party, leveling 59+ can be especially faster than normal grinding. In fact, Perfect World gold can help something sometimes.
Leveling Route: I wouldn't go above level 3 as your mp drain will outperform your mp hiero's cooldown. Check with you max mp to see if you can level up arrow bombard more.
Strategies/Tips: If you have the urge to use it against groups of monsters when grinding, just make sure to check for any HP Enhanced/Defense Enhanced ones, and target those! If you target a normal monster, your bombard will finish before all monsters are killed (leaving you vulnerable). Don't forget to check your mp also.
Stormrage Eagleon ?C Heavy DoT metal damage that also slows the target. 2 vigor requirement...so not used for normal grinding. More suited to PvP/bosses.
Leveling Route: Keep at level 1 until you pretty much maxed out more important skills at your level, namely deadly, stunning, sharptooth, etc.
Strategies/Tips: none really if you're using against bosses. It's a decent move if you want to avoid aggro of a period of time. For PvP, you could kite after using this as the target will be slowed 30%.
Wings of Grace | DeityHawk Wingrise ?C 15 seconds movement speed, damage reduction, and movement effect immune. Yes, movement, not complete status immune! Paralyze, stun, and sleep are examples that will be prevented, but seal or attack speed reduce/cast time increase will NOT be prevented. It will cost you 1 fury point. Of course, you may buy Perfect World gold to help you.
Leveling Route: Keep at level 1...because that's max already.
Strategies/Tips: Generally deityhawk is used to cover retreats or start of attack runs. The 1 second invincibility is hard to time, but if you manage to get it to block off a big attack, then clap yourself on the back.
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