Archery + ?

[Nubpwner]

Hello, I've been playing around with this mod a bit, and am thoroughly enjoying my archer, though now at level 8 the almighty question of the secondary mastery arises...

I'm stuck between 2 choices, bestiary or alchemy?

I like alchemy for the aoe (bombs) +avoid projectiles, and buffs.
Now bestiary has pets, to distract the enemies while I take them out at range, but I don't know if they'll be all the much better than what alchemy has to offer.

Thanks for any help.

[SilentHawk]

Vampirism might be a good choice as well just for Feeding and Blood Shield. Max out Feeding+synergy, cast it on one group of mobs while you take out another group with your bow. Keep blood shield up to soak up the damage of arrows and whatnot.

[ward_rb]

alchemy gets my vote for best secondary mastery....no matter what your primary is. its just that **** good. beast is an amazing primary, but as a secondary youll probably end up wishing you had way more skill points than you actually get. if you only focus on one or two pets(turtle, isao, and if you have the spare points maybe another) as well as the aura, you should be good though.

both of those would work great for an archer, mysticism would probably get my vote as a distant third place.

[Hyperion²]

I think that costruction is a good 2° mastery for many other masteries; it adds 1 good pet, an enchantment for energy replenish, a passive resistance for phisical and pierce damage, and some really good timed pet for bosses.
Few skill points invested but very well payed.

Bestiary is good too: even if you don't want to abuse on pets, and have only few point to invest in the mastery, well, there are some pets that are really good: demonic phalanx (5 pets for 14 points... and even 4 for 1), the beatles (other 4 pets), 2 pal patine (great stun and dmg) and the horse (great dmg).
You don't need them all, but with some spare points you can have a great help.

[Nubpwner]

Thanks alot for your help guys, I've decided on alchemy, bestiary seems like it would require too many skill points to be effective, maybe I'll incorporate it in another toon. I'll try and work alchemy into 100% avoid projectiles build for my archer, though if it doesn't go too well I always have defiler too.

[Hyperion²]

Originally Posted by Nubpwner

bestiary seems like it would require too many skill points to be effective

That's not true; as i said before, you can put 1 point and you have 4 pet (demonic phalanx) or 3 beatles...
14 points for maxed demonic phalanx (no sinergy here) for 5 pets... it's not a waste of skill points.

Probably there are better sinergies from other masteries, but i think bestiary is a great support mastery.

[benjidatramp]

Archery + teucer's warbow which now has +4 to all skills and + 1 to all archery skills

ps. I think its bugged but i found it last night and the new +4 to skills is pretty hot

[i.n.s.a.n.e]

Originally Posted by benjidatramp

Archery + teucer's warbow which now has +4 to all skills and + 1 to all archery skills

ps. I think its bugged but i found it last night and the new +4 to skills is pretty hot

Hi,


Yeah, you should redownload your version...

We forgot to remove +4skills from there, it was for testing purposes only, hehe...

[benjidatramp]

Hmmm will do that.... I had version 1.01 when I found the bow though . Cant remember if it was normal or I was playing with 3x monsters.

[i.n.s.a.n.e]

Originally Posted by benjidatramp

Hmmm will do that.... I had version 1.01 when I found the bow though . Cant remember if it was normal or I was playing with 3x monsters.

Hi,


I know that and sorry for confusion. But read the first post in Masteries (release) thread. There is an additional note the +4 skills were removed from the bow.