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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dandu" data-source="post: 5989745" data-attributes="member: 85158">No one uses the long blade bow because it is useless. You spend a feat on a weapon that can be wielded as a weapon in melee, but if the archer is in melee, then something has gone horribly, horribly wrong and the bow will not save you since your archer's low strength score means he will have trouble hitting whatever is attacking him.Tell him to ditch the bow and use a Bone Bow (250 gp) [Frost Pg. 76], which is also an Exotic Weapon, but automatically adjusts to the user's strength score. Enchantments he should watch out for are Splitting (+3 price) [CoR Pg. 42], Force (+2 price) [MIC Pg. 35], Seeking (+1 price) [PHB], Holy/Unholy (+2 price) [PHB], and Collision [<a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/items/weapons.htm#collision" target="_blank">XPH</a>]Recommended feats are Exotic Weapon Proficiency Bone Bow, Point Blank Shot, Rapid Shot, Weapon Focus: Bone Bow, Weapon Specialization (Bone Bow), <a href="http://dndtools.eu/feats/races-of-the-wild--84/woodland-archer--3165/" target="_blank">Woodland Archer</a>, Improved Precise Shot, <a href="http://dndtools.eu/feats/players-handbook-ii--80/ranged-weapon-mastery--2360/" target="_blank">Ranged Weapon Mastery</a>, Greater Weapon Focus: Bone Bow, Greater Weapon Specialization: Bone BowTry the Hit-and-Run Fighter from Drow of the Underdark. It loses heavy armor and tower shield proficiencies for untyped +2 initiative and Dexterity modifier to damage against flatfooted targets.As an archer, you want to make sure each arrow has a lot of damage behind it, otherwise you become irrelevant when facing creatures with Damage Reduction.Here's the obligatory link to the <a href="http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=2892.0" target="_blank">Archery Handbook</a> for more information.</blockquote>

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