Are Archers really worth the time to lvl up?

[kadrina]

Been playing for 2 days now n got to lvl 31 but from all the guides and members who iv spoken to crt which is essential for archers is not added by most, of of the top archers from various servers drop crt and take hp stat instead.

Idk if its me but most of the servers and i have been on a alot, the top players are always knights and sometimes mages. Archers in this seem sublime and not very effective.

There were various posts about them not even receiving the damage boost 20% from astrals. I have seen some archers do quite well in game but anything they can do mages seem to do better and knights have a great deal of damage and very hard to die.

Why do archers feel so weak, i'm kinda upset with my choice of using an archer and i wish i could change somehow, but im stuck with this. Mages make archers look obsolesce.

[DeathRiver]

FEW things = mage. a well build knight against a well build mage will fry. ^.^

A cash mage and a cash knight fight each other => the mage get floored

[御萧xXLJXx]

Yep we are beasts
Few things scarier than a well built knight...just need to finish getting there

FEW things = mage. a well build knight against a well build mage will fry. ^.^

[Barbarossa]

The hardest one is also the scariest

Yep we are beasts
Few things scarier than a well built knight...just need to finish getting there

[DeathRiver]

Hmm some of this was odd...archers dominate till knights really get the 35 pvp gear and a good build. Archers are out dps'ed in WB by knights? Hmm in S6 we see two knights in the top 10...rest are archers and mages. I think most players who have actually played all the classes agree the knight is the hardest to play and the most challenging. Why? Because we have to decide on whether to be dps or a tank. Non-cashers can't be both. All archers have to be is dps. I've seen a non-casher archer in the top 3 in our WB about every time he participates. So if I had to rate the classes in order of difficulty I would go with mage, archer, knight (easiest to hardest). Feel free to debate that though.

The hardest one is also the scariest

[Barbarossa]

It's true archers are the most challenging character in the game.

You will not know where to put the archers, they say its damager, but knight can out dps him easily in the WB,

You have to decide whether to continue archer or not, I'm a archer myself and I can tell you the amount and effort whether its money or time you put to archers will take less for a knight or mage to give and still have same strength and capabilities.

Ranks are dominated by Knights and Mages unless you throw heavy cash on your archer.

Hmm some of this was odd...archers dominate till knights really get the 35 pvp gear and a good build. Archers are out dps'ed in WB by knights? Hmm in S6 we see two knights in the top 10...rest are archers and mages. I think most players who have actually played all the classes agree the knight is the hardest to play and the most challenging. Why? Because we have to decide on whether to be dps or a tank. Non-cashers can't be both. All archers have to be is dps. I've seen a non-casher archer in the top 3 in our WB about every time he participates. So if I had to rate the classes in order of difficulty I would go with mage, archer, knight (easiest to hardest). Feel free to debate that though.

[anarashii]

Only Domnu is left up there isn't he

yup domnu very strong XDD

[DeathRiver]

in srever11 the top10 is dominated by Archers and Knights, the Mage is the only 1

Only Domnu is left up there isn't he

[anarashii]

in srever11 the top10 is dominated by Archers and Knights, the Mage is the only 1

[onimad]

an archer.. passing..by...O.o

[RayDMage]

In our server there are only 2 archers making it to top 10 in WB.

Well maybe its to early, its just 9 days since our server was launch.

Just watch and see. If those 2 archers are intelligent enough they don't even need to revive to be in the top ten. In my server there's an archer who's always in the top 3. His BR is 25-26k. My BR is 36k and I cannot beat him in WB.

Just the right astral, pump all attack, high crit, high base crit, gamble with floating damage, and you're good. Just AFK for a relaxing WB experience.

[OldSchoolNewb]

I had archer, spent 50 bucks over him, still couldnt pass some stuff, started 4 euro mage (mega-ultra-imba-recharge-pack-for-early-domination thing and i did pretty well.
My point is, they are really a challenge, u have to choose to be tanky or more dmg dealing, but can't made it to good balanse. Knights got natural balanse of hp and armor and dmg.

[TheMajor]

This is a matter of perception, which can be skewed by the apperance of a strong player hiding behind high level gems. I don't think it's particularly the class that makes or breaks it, it's the gems and astrals. Archers have a pretty decent aoe, and if they use a brut rune before they pop their AOE, it is devastating. They also have the highest single target damage in the game, and with frozen arrow can do a LOT of damage to back row enemies, giving them a tactical edge.

There are a lot of good things going for archer. Personally i don't think people are building them properly. Your spec gives you a 20% HP boost, you need to use that to gain an edge. Need to have an HP astral and socket HP gems.

[Mr.Viruz]

In our server there are only 2 archers making it to top 10 in WB.

Well maybe its to early, its just 9 days since our server was launch.

[RayDMage]

Archers in my server (S5) dominate. As a mage my impression is almost the opposite of what have been said here. Archers have it the easiest ever during the most important event: world boss. Put a reviving mage against a reviving Archer in the WB and the latter wipes the floor with the former... And the Archer doesn't even have to work hard (he can afk the world boss).

Just watch your own server, see how many top 10 mage chat during wb? Compare to how many top 10 archers chat all the time during wb.