Archer Astrals?

[SirChuck]

I have almost 7000 star points accumulated. What gold level astral would you obtain? Pdef, Mdef, Crit % or something else. I appreciate your opinion.

[maygwan]

Enhanced Determination is a must for archer..

[SirChuck]

Anyone else care to share I would appreciate.

I'm also curious what are the best Astrals to use as an archer for Arena party. What combination of Patk, Pdef, Mdef, Crit+ and Crit damage % would be best. I have been getting owned by mages RoF so I socketed Level 3 gems in every equipment space.

[Smoldering]

I can only see 3 diffrent choics.

Enhanced Determination
Enhanced Ruthlessness (it's an astral with risks, but can turn out good)
Enhanced Illusion

[R2471526]

lol don't listen to any of these people. your set up is fine for a normal pvp setup, in wb and some dungeons i would take out one of the defense for determination, say the dungeon is magic mobs, take out pdef and stick determination in. You won't need the hp one as you can get plenty from gear and sockets. Ruthlessness i don't like using as overall you will hit weaker. When another spot opens for an astral, put the goddess blessing in.

[HellionLady]

if you get to lvl50 buy determination astral it increase your crit. damage

[karac]

At your level i would have PDEF, MDEF, PA and either Crit / Crit Damage, depending if u using crit gems. Charisma astral is usefull too at low levels, specially against boss, so that could be an option too. It all depends on which gems u using. DO NOT use Floating Damage, that sucks..and Reduce Damage astral is an astral for high archers level in my opinion. Get rid of of your HP one too, useless.

[SirChuck]

Thanks for all the input. I have reached 7000 star points.

So which gold astral should I trade in for? Pdef, Mdef or Crit % increase. I have since leveled my magic damage to level 5.

Just for information sake I have gold charm and enhanced generation sitting in the main astro page in case I need them for future use.

Below are my current character stats. I am only 100K away from moving from level 42 to 43.

[karac]

I would go for Crit, first thing u nneed to do as archer is get crit astrals, both of them

[SirChuck]

I would go for Crit, first thing u nneed to do as archer is get crit astrals, both of them

Thanks everyone. I went crit damage and leveled it to 3 immediately. Awesome investment. Damage output has gone up significantly.

I'm curious for PvE Arena if i decide to use only 1 should it be crit+ or crit %? I could do both but its a gamble not equipping both Pdef and Mdef and i would have to disable one of them to have crit+ and crit % enabled.

[R2471526]

if you get rid of one astral, compensate by inputing that stat in gems, pdef astral gone, input pdef gems. The damage from crit % is nice, only if you crit a lot, so level up your astral and refine your gear to give out more crit

[SirChuck]

post answered one above.

[SirChuck]

Thanks everyone. I went crit damage and leveled it to 3 immediately. Awesome investment. Damage output has gone up significantly.

I'm curious for PvE Arena if i decide to use only 1 should it be crit+ or crit %? I could do both but its a gamble not equipping both Pdef and Mdef and i would have to disable one of them to have crit+ and crit % enabled.

This is my latest character. Where do you think I need to focus. This is with sniper, Patk, Mdef and Pdef equipped. My sockets are Patk, Mdef and HP for all. Thanks

[SirChuck]

I have seen conflicting information on the crit stat.

Does crit+ affect your likelihood of criting, increase crit damage or both?

[R2471526]

crit + increases chance to crit, not the damage, thats where determination comes in to give your crit damage, well extra damage