Monday, June 11, 2012

Arcane Archer Guide Fighter/Sorcerer 11-20

Part 2 of the adventures in arcane archer starting with a fighter/sorcerer build.


Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Arcane Archer Guide: Fighter/Sorcerer 1-10

This guide is for arcane archers who chose to use the base classes of fighter and sorcerer. Fighter is chosen here because of their bonus feats and the fact that archers are very feat starved. Any +1 attack class could fit this role as easily, trading feats for other class features. Sorcerer was chosen because I prefer spontaneous casting and charisma over prepared casting and intellect. Wizard or witch can substitute sorcerer just fine if you prefer those classes. This will be the only standard level guide made for mix base classes. There are so many options that covering all of them would just take too long. So, here is the breakdown on how to build your fighter/sorcerer arcane archer.

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Arcane Archer Guide: Bard 11-20

Time to continue the level breakdown of the Bard/Arcane Archer. This will cover levels 11-20. Just like last time, I will cover suggested feats, key spells breakdown, and damage per round.


Friday, May 18, 2012

Arcane Archer Guide: Bard levels 1-10

A bard arcane archer mixes performance buffs with a dazzling display of arrow flinging. They can confuse and distract opponents while arrows slay the ones who keep their wits about them. They can easily be the face of the party utilizing their high charisma score and their versatile set of class skills. Buffs, battlefield control, high damage, minor healing, and versatile skill range, an arcane archer bard is truly a jack of all trades.

Here we will go level by level and break down the abilities of the bard arcane archer. We will go over how to buff, what kind of damage per round we are looking at, and what our core abilities consist of. A focus will be on combat as outside of combat is all dependant on how you play. At the end we will go over Bard Archetypes and look at ones that fit into our character builds.

Arcane Archer Guide: stats and race

I realized this morning that, in my guide, I did not go into detail on what race and what stats matter to an arcane archer. There are reasons for each. I don't find race to be all that important, play what you want to play and build the character around that. Stats on the other hand are important, but I feel fairly self explanatory.

In an effort to be as complete as possibly I will go over each race and stat here.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Arcane Archer Guide: character base.

Welcome to my guide on creating an arcane archer. This is not your typical class guide. There are many areas that need to be covered when it comes to making an arcane archer. I am breaking these into sections. Part 1 is Character Base.

What kind of arcane archer do you want to be? Do you want to deal out as much damage as possible? Do you want to control the battlefield? Arcane archers can be as different from one another as any other class.

What are your goals? Do you want to cast level 9 spells? Do you want to get the capstone abilities of arcane archer? Do you want as high a base attack bonus as possible? Do you want a versatile skill base? All of these are possible as an arcane archer, but not all of them at once. You must chose what you want to do.