My favorite topic...I'm a SR and I enjoy all buffers ;P but the SE if I can only chose one. I can just buy a grt swift attack pot and through my rapid shot buff and I'm good with the speed I shoot. Although if I could trio it would definetely be with a BD, they through the crit increase dance and with fury,,, I drool at the amount of damage I do plus the BD throwing hex, pwn
Yup Prophet or Warcryer for Haste. Vamp Rage doesn't help an Archer any, and although Agility/Evasion is nice from an OL/EE, still haste, zerk, as well as the high level focus and guidence really are what an archer needs...
Rememebr you have Queen the Cat now =P for Attacks and Seraphim for MP, choose a summoner =3
A warlock is so awesome for archers, or even daggers to.
I'd not expext bot group to use them cause of the crys cost, but any one else houl learn to love warlocks.
I like and respect what prophets and WC's have as buffs, but when it comes to down time, a SE is by far the best choise.
I used my SE on PTS to keep my down time to a minium. and even with her I still had alot, but I also liked to use skills for overhits!
The best combo, HE, WRL, PR, BD. out side SE and prophet.
If I was leveling a buffer with the archer I might choose the SE simply because of the versatility. Get tired of the archer and the SE can be easily matched with a pole user or a mage. But that's just me.
Thats not effective for high lvl archers, that works out fine if your still in your 40's.
Anything you do after 52 should be in the full range of the archer. IE: A BoP o/e with CS. and PL or at 52 doom set.
Archers are not cheep,(nore the necro) I'd say if you choose to lvl one, first lvl a WS to about 49 to make money to sapport the archer. (necro to)
I'd also recommend geting a secound acc and makeing a SE.
now, being that I played HE with secound acc SE (PTS). I can say this first hand, that prophet are nice, but with the new change to zerk they only come in handy for root and buffs, and very limeted heals. where as the SE, has Focus,DW, M. 3, Guid. 3. the worst about SE is cast speed, and mp regen.
EE on the other hand, does not have focus, DW, or guid.
where as there mp regen is alot faster then the PP or the SE, there buffs are rather meaningless to archers, with the exception to evation stun resist. tho some say that stun resist doesn't help.
when I played my SE, I did a +4 wit - 4 men, and lost no MP, I think whats she lost was MP regen and M df. but once you get your SE to 61 she/he can wear mejestic set which carrys over +8% to mp regen. so you will regen MP alot faster, doesn't take too long, and I'd sajest that you get a A/g or higher weapon that has MP regen SA.
Alot of the thing I say, agenst the PP is cause you can get haste in a bottle, so the only thing your missing is Zerk, Magic barrier,bless the body, bless the soul.
But if you got one class, and got friends that play the other class, you can trade off on buffs, for a few regens or w/e. Thats why I kind of favour the SE over PP is cause of the buffs that they get. (empower, VR,WM)
I would say SE its what I use, Mp regen is the main issue. haste comes bottle form now and prophets can't heal worth jack. With a good SE you won't need evasion you just stand still and take the hits the SE can heal you too. If you sit between recharges and heals you should have plenty of mp on buffer. If not buy healing pots and keep SE to buff and recharge. When I play my archer I have a out of party 75 SE to buff and recharge. Granted thats 30+ levels above my archer but it works great mana and health are never an issue I don't have to kite.