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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vraille Darkfang" data-source="post: 1559549" data-attributes="member: 16989">The quick and simple answer is both are equally good, just in different ways.Assuming all you want is to focus on the ability to put arrows into something until it drops, both a ranger and fighter can do both about as well.A ranger, through spells (particullary if you let in various WoTC and d20 sources), can easily outdo a fighter in terms of number of attacks, how likely those attacks are to hit, and how much damage they will do.  That said... after using up his small allotment of spells, the ranger becomes slightly better than a warrior of his level at archery.A fighter, on the other hand, with every bow feat he can find, will have a pretty constant stream of arrows going.  While he can't match the ranger's brief spell-enhanced arrow swarm, the fighter will keep shooting until he's out of arrows.So, the Ranger is capable of brief, intense, massive damage over the course of 1 or 2 encounters.  The Fighter can't match the Ranger's little arrow swarm, but he will be doing the same, moderately high damage for every encounter he goes into.And this doesn't even attempt to balance multi-classing or PrC.Though the most powerful archer classes are Order of the Bow Initiate & Deepwood Sniper.Vraille Darkfang</blockquote>