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Advanced guide to Ninja Archer:

Are you the kind of player that like to attack quick and kill bad players fast? 
Do you think you have to vendor kill or to afk kill someone that has done something bad to you? Are you up for the Consortium’s professional challenges?
Or are you just being tired of those who call you “Noob” when you die?
Or maybe no one of the previous, you are just looking for good builds for your Archer, well this must be your lucky day, if you feel like having a Ninja Archer character 

Then you MUST follow these guide guidelines.

First of all remember that your character is a stealth DD=Damage Dealer, so pick a good nickname that hits and strikes
Secondarily choose a class: in this guide I will talk about archer ( I will make a fighter guild too, be patient)
If you pick archer remember that there are various builds:

Guide to Archers features
http://www.outspark.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95061

Guide to Archer skills and build
http://www.outspark.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52864

Simple guide to archers build, exp and features
http://outspark.com/forums/showthread.php?t=120277

( Thank you Miss and Shadow for your useful guides ^_^ ) 

These guides are really useful, but they don’t focus on the possibilities you will, and may, have doing a good character.

The Archer is my second favorite class, it’s ability of attack at distance, auto-attack, high DEX and STR also good SPR make this, one of the most Infamous class if you know how to play it:
Personally I like the Stealth Archer: A good build for him would be full STR (or eventually 25 SPR) since it has to strike hard and RUN fast; most of the players I have seen empower skills like power hit, AOE, Aimed Shot… NO NO NO, AOE is good only against mobs, we need a Stealth Archer, a ninja that strikes you and vanishes before you could do anything BWHUHA.
Someone say that archers are underpowered, but that is because PEOPLE FEAR US
http://www.outspark.com/forums/showthread.php?t=125475

We are one of the best classes, and if the mages kill us in PvP and say “ haha noob, I have full int, stuff +9, each dress with crit +5 ” or if fighters come with a +9 axe, crit etc. and power hit us for 3K DMG and kill us saying “ Noob, paper archers muhah ” DONT TRUST THEM! They were noobs too.. As I said before archers are the best!
What to do then? 
Well simply answer by reading the following:

NINJA ARCHERS GUIDE TO PvP AND DESTROYING: 

PvP
So far act as follow,
You have to build it with FULL STR (or 25 SPR)
You have to choose the Crossbow
You have to empower these skills: Power Shot, Aimed Shot, giving them lots of damage points and faster cooldown, remember that at higher levels you have also a skill that allows you to repeat an attack twice, ignoring cooldown so Aimed, Nature Swiftness, Power, Power, and, eventually, “BWHUHA”..
Remember that before using power shot and aimed shot you have to “kite” your opponent making him go around and around, hitting him with bleeding, poison, venom, mobbing him is a good way to win with those skill, but only if you have faster movement speed and only if it’s a melee char, don’t worry with mages, if you use SPR gears, and have those 25 SPR too you should kill them faster since they usually build up END only (leaving out INT and SPR)

ok, then REMEMBER this, we have few stones so in PvP kiting is a good choice to gain some time and maybe RUN away, in order to do this you need to have the following skills (empowered in the DMG or not empowered depends on the skill points left for that) 

a) Fury Impact, You can use this skill while running 
b) Bone Shot, You can use this skill while running 
c) Venomous Shot, You can use this skill while running 

Remember NOT to EMPOWER the lasting of the skill, also because a target under abnormal states can’t die by it’s abnormal state effect, e.g. a poisoned char will go to 1 HIT POINT but will not die by poison.. and remember that DMG increase will not affect the poison damage rate but only the base damage of the skill.

The other thing to bear in mind while you are in PvP using a Ninja Archer is that you have to take your time, you attack from distance and you go on running and kiting your foe where you want to; that is to say, you can make him getting real angry ( especially if you are a DEX build with evasion scrolls and DEX gear) for not hitting you; in fact most of the players EXPECT that you PvP them 1 vs 1 staying still and on the same ground; NO NO NO an archer must RUN here and there, an archer is a Stinger that strikes, hides, strikes again.. It’s annoying for other players but it’s THE ONLY CHARACTER THAT CAN DO THIS! And it’s because of this that many players hate us and FEAR the power of THE ARCHERS, So I say let’s take – Fellows Archers- let’s take back what is our, let’s take back honor and pride, WE ARE THE BEST and if the other classes expect we will play following THEIR rules, they are doing a BAD bad mistake…
As an archer you are not expected to go in open ground, maybe with a target on your breast, telling anyone: “ What’s up, Doc ” like warrior and other classes do (and die because of that), you have to study the terrain and think: “mm, that place is good for hiding and stealth attack from behind the cover, at least until someone finds me.. then I will kite around and around”
I will make a survey and post some good and common spots for hidin, in the meanwhile look around too.
Archers have to use also some tricks, for example ninja scrolls, that allows you to warp in towns of Roumen, Elderine, Sand Hill and Uruga; since when the situation is critical in PvP or in PvM you are not expected to stay there and take a coffee while monsters slaughter you, use scrolls! Everyone do that (even if many don’t admit it) and if they don’t that means they are rich enough to buy loads of Teva (it’s an item mall object that prevents you from losing Exp) REMEMBER that you can’t use teleport scrolls in PvP zone and in Abyss (Behind Nina in Elderine) from there you can only use your brain to find a shortcut out of there without being killed, so dribble your foes if you manage to (still you can use scrolls during guild war, see below)

Equipment
Most of the players say that END is the best in build and on gear, I think NOT, in fact in build you have to MAXIMIZE YOUR DMG in gear you have to maximize what you want to, depends on the cases:

a) You are in a PvP against mages, use HIGH STR, SPR, DEX gears
b) You are in a guild war and have only a few fellows that can help and you need to win fast, use again HIGH STR, SPR, DEX gear, catch your enemy and hope to kill it before he shouts for renforcements
c) You are in a PvP against a warrior, use HIGH STR, END, DEX gears; warriors are extremely strong with axe, but at the same time they are slow and MISS you a lot, so if you are well equipped you may win rather easily
d) You are in a PvP against all the players, be sure you have teleport scrolls, RED potions, and loads of stones; put on HIGH END, DEX, SPR equipment, I don’t think you can kill them all, but surely they will not kill you as long as you kite and there are not many differences of level and equip.
e) You are in PvE against mobs, the use gear with END and a little of SPR

All of the previous points, are based on stats and level of the equipment, e.g. an archer with armor +39 END is weaker than an archer with base armor +9 
Remember that PvP is not a fixed science, it depends on your foe’s build too and on the rules that you may follow during the PvP.

Behavior:
The most delicate point I want to manage is the Guildwar and PvP behavior; that, as I told you before is affected by a player class, “ What does this mean? Aren’t there supposed to be rules that are the same for all classes?” – you will ask – The answer is NO but that the answer not because there is a lack of rules about it, (there are only some guidelines) but it is because PvP is various and depends on the nature itself of the classes involved in it, e.g. a mage would more easily attack in PvP by backstabbing a player when he is far (so waiting for the unaware to go at a certain distance) rather than facing him in close combat; instead a fighter will directly go toward the player to stun him and attack him, cleric is quite the same as fighter but he flees around to wait for his heal to cooldown and the archer will hide somewhere running and kiting and firing arrows here and there.

Here are some guidelines you MAY follow, but you MAY also NOT. 

For standard guild-wars guide lines
http://outspark.com/forums/showpost….66&postcount=1

For standard rules of behavior
http://www.outspark.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122483

Remember that there are not rules of behavior that must be strictly followed, since the first who try to enforce these “rules” are the first who break them, there is PvP, there is guildwar, if you wanted all players to be good and strictly follow rules (or follow your orders) then PvP would have never existed, but there is the PvP so you can’t constrict player to follow specific rules.

As an opposition to the standardized rules I make a new way of thought that I think it would be better to follow in certain situations:

For behavior:
1)If someone insults you screenshot him and decide to:
-insult back, kill him, Guildwar him, Report him,
2)If someone ks = kill stealing you decide as above
3)If someone kills you decide as point 1
4)If someone guildwar you decide as point 1 ( and see below)
5)If someone scams you same as previous

REMEMBER that player and staff always say: “ get a screenshot and report” yes, you can do that, or you can do it your own way =)
and also keep in mind that players who tell you to report are the first who break rules first..
REMEMBER that a real Ninja Archer helps those who are weaker, (not the alts or those who beg for money while having a level 80 alt) a Ninja Archer is balanced and always help with suggestions and tells newbie player how to raise level fast
REMEMBER that a Ninja Archer who wants to define himself like that has to PvP and Guildwar bad players who kills newbies or friends (that doesn’t mean he has to kill them, just telling them to stop acting like that)
REMEMBER that you can always end in troubles because of this free way of thought but a Ninja Archer can always play another game.. and you will be helped and approached by Consortium if you act well as Ninja Archer and especially if your acts spread all over Isya!

Also read this important points on rules of conduct:
http://www.outspark.com/forums/announcement.php?f=172
A REAL NINJA ARCHER would NEVER EVER SCAM

For Guild wars:
If a guild declared war on you:
a) the enemy guild overall power is lower level than your’s
Then don’t worry, you can continue grinding etc.. if you find that enemy guild members are bothering you, kill them.
b) the enemy guild overall power is about your guild’s one, then keep grinding but keep a continue chat with guildies (Guild members) and stay in parties with your guild mates or not, then plan to go in Elderine/Roumen/Uruga with your guildies in the same party to find the enemies, then make some kills ( one or more) without being killed and warp using scrolls in another place to regroup, if the attack was a failure, to hide, if the attack was a total success; you can also keep grinding, but if the other guild has many players be careful and always REMEMBER to use scrolls when in danger.
c) the enemy guild overall power is far more stronger than your guild’s power, there is only one choice to make.. 

How much do you want to win? How much you feel that those noob killers, harassers, bashers have to learn THE WAY HOW AN ARCHER DOES PVP!

Then there is only one choice and it’s RUN .. and start bombing vendors with Nature’s Mist skill and similar AoE attacks, remember that if you find a Vendor you have to kill it fast before other players can give the alarm, and here comes into play the infamous skills POWER SHOT and AIMED SHOT if properly empowered they allow you to kill anyone, Vendor or Afk player in no time, allowing you not only a fast and memorable victory, that will be kept into consider by Powerful Consortium Members, but also allows you to get points so fast that even a high level warrior or cleric (80+) cannot kill you since you will warp elsewhere once the “ game is done ”; if you got good equips ( see above ) you can kill anyone before any ranged attacks of your foes can kill you.

Now, we are at the final point the mystical function that every good STEALTH NINJA ARCHER MUST HAVE, that is the “warp” function; you have to know that due to recent update you can use, if you are the guild master, a warp function, that allows you to teleport you where one of your guild academy members is, you comprehend that it opens loads of more possibilities, so it is a new form of guild war that I would define “ Stealth War” that is opposed to traditional open ground guild war (that most of the high-level guilds do to show off their powers, it’s more or less a masquerade) because you don’t stay in the same place for too long, you move, hunt, warp, attack, scroll away, stealth kill and so on.. but it is also different from traditional guerrilla because you don’t just scroll away, in fact you have all the time to attack an enemy, you can’t use warp in Abyss nor in the PvP area as well as for the scrolls; you should use warp to help guild members so YOU CAN warp out of any towns and many other places ( and helping your guild to win is helping the academy member ), I will later on list all of the limits of the warp function.

I hope you all found this guide interesting especially for the new moral contents.. we have the liberty to choose how to play, also according to situations, I want you to think about this and about the fact that if you should follow those “guidelines of good conduct” strictly then PvP and Guild War would not exist.. So think well before believing all what is said by others.. 
P.S. I will make more updates of this guild especially because I have seen that in the Korean site WE ARCHERS WE WILL HAVE the HIDE SKILL!!!

Credits go to sirg4wain.