Complete Lv 55 Archer Gear List

[Tengotengo]

I'll add my two cents, even though I haven't graduated my archer to sewer gear from Sentinel yet, and it's the same problem I had on first inspection of the new stuff. Where's that m/s? In all the runs I do, and all killing I perpetrate, the last thing on my mind anymore is h/s, though it is a nice thing. I repsec'd to half STR a while ago, and found only moderate survivability, even in Guardian armor. I'm in Sentinel now, and I use the Talon/shield alot, and still drop dead all the time.

So, what am I getting at? I want more m/s to blow before I get killed. The mage will rev me. If the other are doing their jobs and I'm doing mine, I'm not pulling aggro too much, so I'm spammmmmmmmmin' scream/armor/vine/blast/that other single-target attack/vineS as fast as they cool down, as well as dodge and focus. In boss fights when the bear has done it's job correctly, I'm also adding the push shot.

The way I see it, I'll get...what...a couple rounds of that in before I'm totally tapped. A few mana potions later, a couple more rounds, and tapped again. With the Sentinel Talon/shield, I can't really get my mana bar under half before I'm running to another fight and recoup most, if not all, the spent mana. Every bad-guy I meet gets a face-full of skill spam.

Now, mages...there's a nice couple of sets. I'm outfitted in a yellow set with 24h/s and 20m/s, AND more DPS and armor than one-handed Cosmos.

[Nightarcher]

(quoting Tengotengo, it's long and I don't want to waste space)

While relying on mages' revival power is a good teamwork skill, archers really need to be able to dish out serious damage and survive. This especially comes into play when constantly using xp pots to attain level 56. Dying isn't bad, but if it costs the team a lot, then it could be a problem.

Now, regen is good, and you can easily achieve very high regen while keeping high damage output. My suggestion would be to go for a Sewer King bow with Underling Cap and Leather. This will give a pure dex bird a total 9 H/s and 12 M/s, as well as 26~ crit (depends on which ring you use) and fairly high damage. I used this for a while before giving up regen for some armor and crit.

[Htiek]

really nice list
will u make the cat & bear gear list too?

[Physiologic]

Tengo - Try out how your newfound 41-71 crit works and maybe you'll start to prefer that over M/s

Htiek - I don't own a high leveled bear/mage to do a comparison chart. Mystical has done a mage one though located in the Enchantress section.

[Moogerfooger]

Try out how your newfound 41-71 crit works and maybe you'll start to prefer that over M/s

The difference between ~26 crit and 37-43 crit (depending on Raid Cap/Leather and Scarab or Recurve and certain rings), unFocused, is very noticeable...in a good way. The m/s sucks, but in a short boss fight, nothing beats it for archers at this point....

[Tengotengo]

it'd be an interesting changeup to my playing style for sure. I remember when I first set up my then-fullish dex bird with the Sunblessed Archer set, and watching the mobs HP bars disappear. He's sitting in a holding pattern, on-call, until my bear hits 53. Maybe I can pick up some of this gear on my way. As I'm too cheap to use pots, i'll be doing it for a while. heh

[superss]

im no archer but wow good!

[Physiologic]

Guide updated with set bonuses.

[Tour]

I say why settle, birds should learn to survive with 73 crit. Crit is just insane for damage output. I personally have zero problem with pot consumption (as in, i don't mind guzzling them until i'm blue in the face).

I use Raid cap, raid leather, and recurve. nothing customized, best crit, best damage. I am a pot spammer and I tend to Min/Max in MMO's.

Edit: 75 crit, woot set bonus's!

[neko]

I say why settle, birds should learn to survive with 73 crit. Crit is just insane for damage output. I personally have zero problem with pot consumption (as in, i don't mind guzzling them until i'm blue in the face).

I use Raid cap, raid leather, and recurve. nothing customized, best crit, best damage. I am a pot spammer and I tend to Min/Max in MMO's.

Edit: 75 crit, woot set bonus's!

I'm a bit late to this game but what I'm really appreciating about this game is that the Lvl55 gear can be mixed and matched to suit one's particular style of playing. Until recently, I've been playing a conservative game and relying heavily on mana regeneration (hence my reliance on my Sentinel Set). While I thought that was fine, it wasn't until I learned recently (with help from Mooger, Phys, Mits, Eche, Attack, etc) that dang, runs can go by REAL fast if your toon is tweaked a certain way: critical and dodge!

In the end, a good enemy is a dead enemy. It can't hurt you if it's already dead, so I've taken a much more aggressive playstyle, even if it's at the expense of mana pots.

Question to everyone else (I did a search but haven't found the answer): If you have a raid set, and decide to craft one item at a time, does it automatically break the raid set bonus until it's fully customized?

Mooger will likely say, "Bah, set bonuses are overrated!"

[Moogerfooger]

In the end, a good enemy is a dead enemy. It can't hurt you if it's already dead, so I've taken a much more aggressive playstyle, even if it's at the expense of mana pots.

Question to everyone else (I did a search but haven't found the answer): If you have a raid set, and decide to craft one item at a time, does it automatically break the raid set bonus until it's fully customized?

Mooger will likely say, "Bah, set bonuses are overrated!"

Why, I would never say something like "Crafting your Raid set for Custom and losing damage output for the sake of h/s when you will still end up using health pots anyway is over-rated!!!" unfortunately speaking from experience....unless you just have to have h/s for your style/comfort level, crafting the Raid set is not worth the expense for recipes (and the small loss in damage).

There's a reason why I sold my Custom set and now rock a combination of Crown of Persistence/Sewer Scarab and Raid Leather with various rings

I hope I can get to 56 with Paleriderz, so I can back to my true calling of Attack Bird, and mentor Mistui on how to not die on fire traps. Probably a lost cause on that one, haha.

[WhoIsThis]

You may want to correct the no set bonuses - now that the new update has been released.

[Physiologic]

You may want to correct the no set bonuses - now that the new update has been released.

Almost forgot about that - thanks!

[WhoIsThis]

Add This Too (like on Mystical's):

Gutter's: 10 Dex, 6% Hit, 6% Crit, 10 Damage
Drainer's: 10 Dex, 6% Dodge, 4% Hit, 6 H/s
Trapp's: 10 Dex, 10% Hit, 6 H/s, 8 Damage
Bagman's: 10 Dex, 10% Hit, 8% Crit, 8 Damage
Underling's: 10 Dex, 10% Hit, 7% Crit, 3 M/s, 6 Damage
Henchman's: 12 Dex, 8% Hit, 12 Damage
Raid Roach's: 12 Dex, 12% Hit, 10% Crit, 6 Damage
Customized: 14 Dex, 12% Hit, 10% Crit, 6 H/s,

Sewer King: 12 Dex, 6% Hit, 4% Crit, 6 H/s, 6 M/s

[Moogerfooger]

Wait...a Recurve has a -0.15 weapon speed vs an Auto-Xbow? Enlighten me, O Wise One.

[Physiologic]

Add This Too (like on Mystical's):

Gutter's: 10 Dex, 6% Hit, 6% Crit, 10 Damage
Drainer's: 10 Dex, 6% Dodge, 4% Hit, 6 H/s
Trapp's: 10 Dex, 10% Hit, 6 H/s, 8 Damage
Bagman's: 10 Dex, 10% Hit, 8% Crit, 8 Damage
Underling's: 10 Dex, 10% Hit, 7% Crit, 3 M/s, 6 Damage
Henchman's: 12 Dex, 8% Hit, 12 Damage
Raid Roach's: 12 Dex, 12% Hit, 10% Crit, 6 Damage
Customized: 14 Dex, 12% Hit, 10% Crit, 6 H/s,

Sewer King: 12 Dex, 6% Hit, 4% Crit, 6 H/s, 6 M/s

Added!

Wait...a Recurve has a -0.15 weapon speed vs an Auto-Xbow? Enlighten me, O Wise One.

The Auto-Bow has a weapon speed of 1.0 and the Recurve has a weapon speed of 0.9. The 0.9 is actually rounded up. I figured this out when I was calculating DPS for each individual weapon and for some reason the Sunblessed Bow (also speed of 0.9) DPS didn't match the damage and weapon speed. I eventually realized Cinco likes to round up/down values so the value of 0.85 worked for the Sunblessed Bow and also works for all bows with a weapon speed of 0.9.

You can test this out yourself - on the chart in the first post you can see the Customized Recurve has 208-253 damage and 271 DPS.
If you calculate DPS with weapon speed 0.9 [ (208+253) / 2 ] / 0.9 = 256.11, which doesn't match the 271 DPS.
If you calculate DPS with weapon speed 0.85 [ (208+253) / 2 ] / 0.85 = 271.17, the DPS seen.

Thus, Recurve has -0.15 less weapon speed than the Auto-Bow

[Moogerfooger]

Duhduhduh, for some reason my noggin' took it as the Recurve being slower...I will be out back slapping some reading comprehension into myself.

[davidis57]

From my understanding only raid, custom, and sewer king have set bonuses at this time am I right?

[Physiologic]

Sewer King does not have a set bonus

[Mr.Wallace]

Has anyone ever seen a Drainer wing? I'm now using a Henchman talon and wing combined with Drainer leather and cap as my high armor loadout, but i'd still like to add some more armor...