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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 4928479" data-attributes="member: 35909">For the bow itself: Force property, a +2 market price, in Magic Item Compendium, so you never have to worry about DR again.  Make it a discipline weapon (Tome of Battle), a +1 cost, in return for +3 to hit, with whichever discipline you plan on being in the stance of most of the time.Maneuvers: You're maxing concentration for Withstand anyway, you might want more Diamond Mind maneuvers.  You can get the will and fortitude save replacements as novice Diamond Mind rings (3000 gp each), and if you're using Magic Item Compendium, then you can stack deflection and other common bonuses on those for no additional cost.  (Greater) Insightful Strike, even though it's melee only, might be worthwhile to have just in case, and the weapon used doesn't matter, so you can twack a guy with your bow for massive damage. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Feats: I really like the Woodlands Archer tactical feat from Races of the Wild.  I think Improved Precise Shot is very important as well, and I'm kinda shocked you're waiting until level 20 for Precise Shot.  It's a rather useful feat to have early on.  Or are you starting at 20?Ranged Pin could be fun, if you want to do more than just damage.  It's kind of situational at best, though.Cleric Spells: Hmm...not sure.  There's a level 5 cleric spell in Spell Compendium to get +10 enhancement to Dex for round/level.  I really don't think it's worth it, but might as well mention it.  In the same book at level 1, there is Blessed Aim, which is like Bless, but for ranged attacks only, and the attack bonus is +2.  ...Also in the same book is Sign, a level 1 spell that lasts for min/level.  The next time you roll initiative before the duration ends, you get a +4 bonus on it.  If you know battle is coming, high CL isn't needed, so cheap CL 1 scrolls/wand of it works fine.Prestige Classes:Exotic Weapon Master 1 level dip lets you fire while threatened without incident.The two best PrC for long range archery, IMO, are the Deepwood Sniper, a 10 level class from Masters of the Wild (technically a 3.0 book, but easily convertable) and the Cragtop Archer, a 5 level class in Races of Stone.  The latter gives you abilities like arcing shot to get insanely long reach with your arrows.  I believe I once had a hypothetical Ranger/Deepwood Sniper/Cragtop Archer build that could fire out to a mile!  I recall calculating the speed the arrow would have to travel at in order ot reach its target in less than 6 seconds and found such a shot would break the sound barrier. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Imagine you're Joe the level 1 orc, and all of a sudden you hear a loud sonic BOOM and your buddy drops dead with an arrow in his throat.  OMG!  Corellon Larethian himself is attacking us!!!!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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