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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 828021" data-attributes="member: 149">Why exactly are you taking levels in Rogue? If it is for the sneak attack damage I would forget about it, until you hit epic Order of the Master of the Bow, you don't threaten an area with your bow. If you are taking the rogue levels for evasion, that is probably well worthwhile in a epic level campaign. However, if your DM is permitting ANYTHING, you would be foolish not to take levels in Peerless Archer. (from the FR book Silver Marches). Which is so full of munchkiny goodness that it should be banned in any serious campaign. It gets you stuff like Power Shot (basically Power attack for bows), threatening areas and other obscenely powerful skills. I would definitely drop any Rogue levels in favor of the Peerless Archer levels, since they will increase your lethality substantially. You might also want to bump the fighter levels up to 6 if that is the case, since you can't qualify before 5th level and 6th gets you an extra feat.With regards to feats, remember that if you take more OoBI levels and have the Zen Archery feat, you get to add your Wis bonus at I think 6 or 7th level.Multishot (which is a non-epic feat) from the ELH, is an absolute necessity if permitted, since in many respects it is almost better than Rapid Shot.Obviously you want a high dex, but don't forget about Str. That bonus to damage is one of the few you get at any range. So one way or another you want at least a 16 str.Don't forget to have a least one "Burst" enchantment on your bow. With your DWS enhanced crit multipliers, they really kick ass.Mounted combat works very well for an archer, especially if you can get an exotic steed such as a Dire Wolf, advanced HD griffon (you want it with at least 11 HD so it gets the bump to Huge, w/t the stat increases) or a dragon of some sort. The key factor in mounted archery is that you can get a full move (since the mount is doing the movement) and still get off an attack. Throw a magic item with Expeditious retreat on the mount and have hours of fun straffing things. If you go that route, you will need to add Leadership (over all the MOST powerful feat for a high level char), mounted combat and to a lesser extent mounted archery (halves penalties for shooting while mount does a double move or run).</blockquote>

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