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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 644382" data-attributes="member: 3146">Actually, my impression is that it isn't that there are tons of good archer feats. Quite the contrary. My impression is that an archer really only needs a few feats to be effective:Point Blank ShotPrecise ShotRapid ShotAnd that there are a few more feats that are helpful:Weapon FocusWeapon SpecializationImproved CriticalAnd one high level feat that is absolutely broken:ManyshotA character can easily master all of these feats (except Weapon Specialization) without ever taking a level of fighter and still have spare feats left over. And none of the other feats (except possibly Zen Archery for an Order of the Bow Initiate, Far Shot for the Deepwood Sniper wannabe, and Extend Spell and Persistent Spell for the cleric archer) really add much of any significance to the archer's effectiveness.Which is to say, it is very easy to collect all of the archery feats and have lots of feats left over. And even with just Point Blank, Precise, and Rapid shot, an archer would be effective--and much more so with Manyshot. Archers don't really need any other feats. (Although there are a few helpful ones). That is also the difficulty with archer prestige classes--since there aren't many effective archer feats, qualifying for one archer prestige class puts a character within spitting distance of qualifying for all the rest. That's why it's very easy to be a Fighter/Wizard/Arcane Archer/Order of the Bow Initiate/Deepwood Sniper. (It probably doesn't take much to add Peerless Archer to that either but I don't know much about that class). On the other hand, managing to put together a Fighter/Barbarian/Forsaker/Frenzied Beserker/Tribal Protector would be much more difficult.</blockquote>

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