So here are a few tips for a Hawk archer: 1) Why bother with constitution when you can specialize in not getting hit or running the heck away? 2) Cunning is your friend. You want it to disarm traps and open those cool treasure chests. 3) Dex is also your friend. It effects both your attack and your crit chance. What's not to love? 4) With you playing an archer rogue you don't have to cart another rogue along which opens the opportunity to have two of the other mage characters with Avaline as a tank. The fireworks can truly begin to show.
Early mistakes I made: I bought pinning shot and bursting shot and used them maybe two or three times a piece. My advice? Ignore the entire archery tree. Your bang-for-the buck is in other trees. Also early cunning is wonderful. Late cunning, not so good except to enhance your crit damage.
Early mistakes I didn't make: I always kept my resistances fairly high, especially fire and ice. You're opponents AoE spells are nearly always fire or ice based. Keeping these up means that when a dragon happens to blow fire on you? You don't keel over and die. In fact most of the time you simply ignore it.
And now.... the build!
Level 2: Here we take Evade in the Subtlety tree. You dish out a lot of damage and getting this soon avoids the need for a high Constitution. Sink all three points into cunning taking it to fifteen.
Level 3: Now we wander into one of the truly remarkable trees: Specialist. Buy your precision and turn it on. This will be the only level you will really use it. 3 more points into cunning for an 18.
Level 4: You should be at 4 right around the time the year of servitude comes up or is over. Take Speed from the precision tree. The bow's biggest disadvantage is its slow rate of fire. Turn off precision and turn on Speed. Never turn Speed off again. 2 in Cunning to take you to a 20 so you can open 'standard' locks in the first act. Toss the other point into Dex.
Level 5: Grab Power from the Spcialist tree. You'll never use it, but its a prereq for Harmony. Sink all three points into Dex.(You'll be at 17)
Level 6: Take Stealth from the subtley tree. This is used primarily to get out of interesting situations when Aviline isn't pulling all twenty creatures on the screen at one time. Lotta things on you? Pop stealth, reposition, and go back to shooting. 3 more points in Dex takes us to 20
Level 7: Oh fun! Specialist point! You'll want your first specialty to be Marksman. So you purchase the tree with your specialty point... and then promptly ignore it until next level. This level we finish out the main block of the Specialty tree and purchase 'Harmony' which gives us more precision and power as well as a small stun chance while we have Speed eternally on. 2 points in cunning, 1 in dex.
Level 8: Take 'Parry' from the Marksman tree. Turn it on and leave it on. Now you can begin to ignore a few mobs atacking you while you shoot other things at a distance. If you start seeing damage you have evade and stealth. 1 point in cunning, 2 in dex. (Both are at 23)
level 9: Throw the Gauntlet from the Marksman tree. Take it off of your hotbar. There's no reason to ever use it unless you want to save a mage... but the darn mages can save themselves better than you can, so why bother? 2 in cunning, 1 in Dex
Level 10: Now we start getting passive happy. Passives are your friends! Sure strikes from the Marksman tree and now you almost never miss. At this point if you are close to act 2 start dropping points in cunning until you get to 30 then raise your dex to match it afterward. By the beginning of Act 3 you want your 40 cunning and then raise dex to match. After that focus on Dex but move cunning up a little as well. Notice no poits are spent on anything but cunning and Dex. You'll be critting all the time. No big.
Level 11: Evasive manueves from the Defensive tree. Normal things will have a hard time hitting you with both parry and defensive manuevers with your high dex.
Level 12: We'll finish messing with the MArksman tree by buying Lightening Speed and now totally ignore that speed problem with bows
Level 13: Subtlety from the Subterfuge tree. Even less threat so you almost never have to spend stamina on evading and whatnot.
Level 14: Seconds Specialty point! Purchase the Shadow tree and take pinpoint precision. Yay critical damage!
Level 15: Inconspicuous from the Shadow tree. Yet more ways to shed threat.
Level 16: Decoy from the Shadow tree. Quite fun.
Level 17: Disorienting Criticals from the Shadow tree
Level 18: Shadow Veil from the Shadow tree. A lot more stealthing damage
Level 19: Predator from the Shadow tree. Get behind things for insta crits.
Level 20: Blindside from the Scoundrel tree.
Level 21: Ambush from the subtlety tree
After this go for all the passive abilities you can.
Now, you can do some changing up for earlier passive abilities depending on your play style, but without really using stamina for anything other than 'always on' abilities and threat loss you'll be dishing out tons of damage as well as having the ability to unlock any lock and disarm any trap.
You can also foray into the archery tree if yur really really want to, but you'll be dishing out a lot of single target damage as is without really ever having to move once you start shooting unless you really want to flank something for the auto crits.
AS is, this is a great build for beginners and advanced players alike as it doesn't rely on which button your pushing but moreso on target selection. If Aveline dies you have enough defense to hang around and probably complete the battle without dying. If the mages go down, you still have incredible damage output, so again.not too bad. In the unlikely event that everyone but you dies, you can decoy and shoot from afar and usually finish off the last of whatever it was that demolished your party.
Other options for the build include taking Shadow first and Marksman second which gives you more evasion abilities earlier on but less overall damage and defense. It just depends on what you feel like prioritizing.
Have anymore archer tips? Feel free to post them here as well as any experiences you have using this particular build. So have fun and good sniping!
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