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Hello

Tired of being 2 shot with my wizz I decided to make a bower...

I know which Pachon skills to use but I'm a little bit worried, scared about what I readed on the forum.

I tought making a 110/110Fire/80light/30cold build (just to get speed/magic/parry/teleport skills and the lvl30 snow shield) After the cap I would probably be able to move 2 mastery only so I would concentrate on Pach/Fire..

Then I saw several people talking about 110P/110Light/110Ice build with Ice imbue... seems good to level but quite ridiculous in PVP no? I mean lot of people are immune to ice at lvl 110...

I also saw 110x/110x/xFORCE.... Really? Force for a bower.. yeah debuffing is great maybe but I tough that bower had a great range and it was better to stay away from everything and not waste time to debuff... Plus sorry but in pvp if you use 3-4 debuff on your enemy he already got 3-4 shot at you and your in trouble...Plus all I need in pvp is firewall + knockback/crit !

So... any idea for me on how to skills a proper STR bower made for thief/hunting and of course PVP...

Thank you

Either 110 Pach/Fire/Ice or Force instead of Ice. You have to learn how to play with a force archer and that keeping distance is just bullshit. They will run just as hard to you as you run away from them so it's just a waste of time trying to create distance.

Ice is for the max def, force is for the max dmg. If you choose for force you can pm me if you need any help building the char (same for ice ofcourse but I had, if I say so myself, the strongest lvl 100 non sun force archer).

Really? Wow... Yeah I would probably need some help then cauz except for Vital Spot Attack I dont know where to waste my SP..

Tho what will happen when cap lvl increase... Will a Force bower still survive good against Euro Char (cauz we all know that 90% of new char are Euro... (Warrior and Wizard mostly)

Also this build is mostly for job and other war event... I dont plan play 40h/week outside a town and 'free pvp'. I wanna hunt a few uniques if I can and either hunt or thief

Ah, well then I suggest you stick to Ice. Force does work well against uniques obviously but in group pvp it's pretty useless (besides maybe res when the cleric dies or something), debuffs dont do much because of holy spell. At 110 it is better because you get the stun debuff but to build a whole tree just for the debuff is kinda useless xD

Ice will do fine in both jobbing/pvp/uniques/grinding. Just get 50/100% speed pots and you're set.

Ok so no lighting at all... I got full Ice for Frost Guard Series, Ice Wall and... Max Snowshield? or I stop at lvl 30-40%?

Lvl 1 (20%) should be enough but if you want a bit more you can max out the first book. That's 26%, and get lvl 1 of the second book. That way you can try both and switch it out if needed. Well, some people disagree but I honestly think that no str char needs lightning, they are better off getting more defense/offense and just buy speed pots.

Skills in Ice is Imbue (if you got the sp)/Frostguard/Ice wall/Passive. If you want you can spend sp on those freeze skills, fun to play around with but not really usefull.

Ice Imbue for PVE I guess..Yeah should be a decent build... I think I can get the Ice Imbue too since this build in probably one of the cheapest SP wise build in iSRO

Wouldn't say that it's the cheapest build and well it's not entirely for PvE, it's fun using it in PvP too.

What about Pach/Bich/Fire ? :O or Pach/Heuk/Fire ?
I would also like to know what are the tricks u use in PVP with your force bower ... Im making the switch right now, but im not enterly sure Ill stick with it. Maybe Ill try Pach/Bich/Fire ...

thx

Well biggest point is to never use all your debuffs at once. Many people will just pillspam them all away. Put one debuff on him (impotent), if he heals it you can put division/decay on him and tear them to shreds. If he doesn't heal it he won't be able to kill you.

Use fire wall against bladers to stop them from getting stats on you, if they do use kb -> self target -> stat heal. The area stat heal can be handy sometimes but the single one (the targeted one) casts alot faster and has virtually no cooldown.