The Deadliest Archer of Them All

[Veldrane]

You should start with Barbarian instead of Fighter!

Ya, right, I wanted to get rid of that Fighter (5) asap, and forgot that was better to start with the Barb Thnx

Anyway, any suggestion?

 

[Thanee]

I think Quickdraw is not necessary, just get a Glove of Storing.

Some feats from Dragon Magazine might be nice... Improved Rapid Shot, Ranged Disarm, etc. Unfortunately I do not have the exact specifications of these.

Improved Initiative is always nice to have with Sneak Attack.
Flat-footed seem to be the main source for Sneak Attacks at higher levels in my experience.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Kai Lord]

I think Quickdraw is not necessary, just get a Glove of Storing.

Quickdraw is a prereq for Peerless Archer.

 

[Thanee]

Oh, I see.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Veldrane]

The only feats I'm not sure of are Improved Critical (Lvl12), and the Lvl 15 feat.
Three feats for two slots:

1. Improved Critical You know it all
2. Improved Rapid Shot From Dragon #275, ignore the -2 penalty when using Rapid Shot
3. Sharp Shooting From SaF, gives you a +2 bonus to attack when the target has some degree of cover except total cover or no cover. Now, the same ability, from Peerless Archer, lets you treat a cover as if it were two steps worse. Adding this feat to the ability, you'd have no malus when targeting someone with 3/4 cover, and (DM call I think) +2 when targeting someone with 1/2 or 1/4 cover. The problem is that the PA ability says "treated as if" it were two steps worse (the cover), but someone could rule that since for you there is no cover, no bonus is applied from the feat.
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   As always, suggestions are welcome..

 

[Crothian]

Improved Critical and Improved Rapiud shot. These you will use way more. Improved critical is in effect everytime you fire an arrow, and with improved rapid shot there is no reason to not use rapid shot when you are making a full round action.

 

[Marshall]

Here it is.. ..it's quite simple, but I find it to grant the highest damage in the average conditions (no 1 Hunter's Mercy / day and no capability of fighting in a dungeon, in example)

Problem.

You need to have Weapon Focus before you can pick up Specialization.

Without knowing the prereqs for PA, I'd switch out Far Shot for WF and take FS in place of QD.

 

[Victim]

Problem.

You need to have Weapon Focus before you can pick up Specialization.

Without knowing the prereqs for PA, I'd switch out Far Shot for WF and take FS in place of QD.

He has Weapon Focus. It's just that the 3 feats at level 1 push the weapon focus feat far enough to the right that it looks like it's under class features.

 

[Kai Lord]

Improved Critical and Improved Rapid shot. These you will use way more. Improved critical is in effect everytime you fire an arrow, and with improved rapid shot there is no reason to not use rapid shot when you are making a full round action.

These feats are especially useful for the Deepwood Sniper/Peerless Archer combo. Improved Crit to compliment the DS's Crit Multipliers and Improved Rapid Shot in particular for the PA. Any feat that reduces attack penalties just gives the PA that much more he can afford to plug into Power Shot.

Since I can't stand the "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" aspect of Improved Manyshot, we've houseruled it so that it eliminates the attack penalty of using Manyshot instead of having it allow you to add more than four arrows.

 

[Crothian]

Since I can't stand the "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" aspect of Improved Manyshot, we've houseruled it so that it eliminates the attack penalty of using Manyshot instead of having it allow you to add more than four arrows.

Since it's an epic feat, I doubt I'll ever have to deal with it. We're only 6th level in the group I've jioned and I think it's the highest they've ever made.

But since it is an epic feat, there are so many others that are just so far out there that it seems to fit in. And that may be a good or a bad thing.