Lago PARANOIA wrote:Quoting myself from another thread:
You were something like this: Elven Fighter 4 / Ranger 1 / Order of the Bow Initiate 2 (you want close combat shot and ranged sneak attack so hard) / Peerless Archer 4 (you want ranged sneak attack, fletching +2 for spell-storing arrows, power shot, and sharp shooting so hard) / Deepwood Sniper 2 (you want keen arrows, concealment reduction 10%, and improved criticals so hard) / Order of the Bow Initiate 8 (rest of the levels continue to give you sneak attack and some pretty nice class features to boot, such as improved Weapon Specialization to make up for that sneak attack bonus you're not getting, +WIS + 1 bonus to attacks, and opportunist).
Feats:
1: Point Blank Shot, Rapid Shot
2: Weapon Focus: Composite Longbow, Precise Shot
3: Far Shot
4: Weapon Specialization: Longbow
6: Manyshot (there's some dumbass item somewhere that handed out Quick Draw--I forgot which one, but if not, you can just be a human instead)
9: Improved Critical
12: Zen Archery
15: Hamstring
18: Who cares, really?
But anyway, yeah. You had a pretty big attack bonus as this kind of archer and you could do a really large amount of damage to boot. You still needed to suck wizard cock to do your character schtick for enhancement bonuses to arrows and bows but a critical multiplier bonus + power shot + 7d6 sneak attack + vampiric touch arrows was pretty frickin' sweet you got to admit.
Of course, if your DM let you use spell storing arrows anyway things were already out of control, but assuming that you didn't you could still end up quite powerful around for an archer starting at around level 8 or 9. Fortunately just in time for when non-rogue casters really started sucking.
Ah. It's a multi-class that relies on a lot of PrC dipping. I thought it was a mainly Fighter build with just OotB on top.
Okay, that makes me feel better. My 3.5 Archer build was a PHBII Druid (using the swift action shapechanging), with dips in Ranger (because 95% of our enemies were Kobolds), Duskblade, and a couple of PrCs.
And yes, I realize Codzilla would have been easier.
Doesn't arrow effects still stack in 3.5 though? Not the straight-up enhancement bonuses, but the elemental damage I mean. If I fire a Fire Arrow with a Sonic Bow wouldn't it deal 1d6 fire and 1d6 sonic damage?