Archery Guide

Below you'll find everything important to know about using Missile Bows.

In a Nutshell

Pros

• Can attack from close or even several paces away.
• Arrows can remain stuck in your target, draining their fatigue until they are able to have them removed.

Cons

• Archery is practically ineffective in Franlius Battlerground, high winds prevent most shots.
• More difficult to train than any other combat skill. Not recommended to newer players as a starting skill.
• Only 1 incomplete layer of defense (CMs) + 1 Difficult Block (Handle Parry).
• Many of the fundamental skills are Difficult or Impossible with very few Easy skills in the set.

Advice & Tips

• Archery damage scales with increased ranks in Basic Shot. All shot damage reaches its maximum potential at rank 151 in Basic Shot.
• Archery skill effectiveness scales with increased ranks in each skill. Each skill reaches its maximum effective potential (e.g. stuns, pins, etc.) at rank 151, as has been confirmed by GM Tale. ^{1 2}
• Use the get arrow from target command to retrieve arrows from an archery target.
• Use the pull arrow from <corpse> command to retrieve your arrows from an individual corpse.
• Use the retrieve arrows or recover arrows command to retrieve re-usable arrows from all of the corpses in the current area.
• Use the load <bow> with <arrow> command to manually load your bow.
• Use the scan clear command to clear your scanned targets.
• Use the weather command to gauge how much wind there is from your position. Stronger winds increase the penalty to shoot. Wind Gauging can be used to offset up to 50 RB of penalty (max rank 100)."
• 100 ranks in both Quick Load and Quick Shot will allow you to automatically load your empty bow before every shot.
• The ammo command will set your preferred arrow type, when using Quick Load while carrying multiple types of arrows.
• Do not take arrows out of the small bag that the bank clerks gives you. It will increase the weight of your arrows.

> ammo
USAGE: ammo bows|slings <ammo type>|none
You have not specified any preferred ammunition.
> ammo bows iron-tipped
Your ammunition preference for bows has been set to an iron-tipped arrow.

> load
USAGE: load <bow> with <arrow_type>
>load bow with arrow
You load a short bow with an arrow.

Suggested Training Plan

Special Thanks to therisifus#9783 for the training plan.

Phase 1 (~650 SP)

Name: 2-Shot Rotation
Required SP: ~650 SP

#	Skill	To Rank
1	Archery	20
2	Wind Gauging	1
3	Off-Position Firing	1
4	Point Blank Targeting	1
5	Long Range	1
6	Basic Shot	20
7	Steady Aim	20
8	Foot Shot	20
9	Hand Shot	1

• You only really need Wind Gauging and Off-Position Firing, but the other 2 help with shooting things other than the target, and will need to be learned along with slope gauging.
• Getting Hand Shot makes it so you get a solid 2-shots rotation.

Phase 2 (~398 SP)

Name: 3-Shot Rotation
Required SP: ~398 SP

#	Skill	To Rank
1	Archery	40
2	Basic Shot	40
3	Steady Aim	40
4	Head Shot	1

• Getting Archery to 40 is working on your 3-shot rotation & increasing your time on the target and learning the second shot.

Phase 3 (~558 SP)

Name: Final rotation
Required SP: ~558 SP

#	Skill	To Rank
1	Quick Load	20
2	Quick String	20
3	Quick Draw	20
4	Quick Shot	1

• Rapid Fire Shot doesn’t count as a separate shot, it counts as 2 basic shots that are fired instead of a different shot.
• All the passives till later on only need to be at 1 for you to gain some benefits.
• You should now get the best sp-gain from here on out.

Phase 4 (~2,260+ SP)

Name: Level Grinding
Required SP: ~2,260+ SP

#	Skill	To Rank
1	Wind Gauging	10
2	Slope Gauging	10
3	Off-Position Firing	10
4	Long Range	10
5	Point Blank Targeting	10
6	Archery	101
7	Basic Shot	101
8	Head Shot	101
9	Foot Shot	101
10	Quick Draw	43
11	Quick Load	Until Success of 1

• Rank 101 is when you can start hitting people regularly.
• If you feel up to it, you can also get 1 rank in Simple Stringing, Simple Unstringing & Range Assessment.
• If you have bad stats, stat skills () could be learned in Phase 4 in addition to others.
• If you’re working towards hunting with people, you can also learn 45 ranks in Shot Timing.
• Rank 43 in Quick Draw typically means a success of 1.

Phase 5 (~1,970 SP)

Name: To The Moon
Required SP: ~1,970 SP

#	Skill	To Rank
1	Wind Gauging	20
2	Slope Gauging	20
3	Off-Position Firing	20
4	Long Range	20
5	Point Blank Targeting	20
6	Archery	151+
7	Basic Shot	151+
8	Head Shot	151+
9	Foot Shot	151+

Archery Target Locations

Archery targets can be used until you've earned up to 1,000 total combat skill points. It is recommended for newer characters to start their training journey with archery targets, and continue it until their reach the maximum.

Archery targets are available in the following locations:

Campus Martius Training Courses (Campus-Martius): From the Carcass Buyers mark: W, NWx3, N, NEx4, Ex3
Behind Bowyer's Shop (Quartz-Heights): From the Temple mark: SW until you can't, S into the Bowyer's Shop (Pungo), S
Vetallun Training Courses (The-West-Grasslands): From the Crossroads marker: W until you can't, NWx3, N, Ex3
Rock Valley Archery Trainer (Town-of-Rock-Valley): West side of town, just outside the Archery Trainer (Brauthos). From the caravan dropoff: Ex10, Nx2, Wx3, Nx7, Ex2, N, W, S

Weapons

This is the list of bows & arrows that can be used by the Archery skill set.

Special Notes:

• Use the ammo command to quickly set your preferred ammo. (ammo bows|slings <ammo type>|none )

Weapons	How to get it	Est. cost in shops
Short Bow	Sold by various shopkeepers	+1t 400d
Arrows	How to get it	Est. cost in shops (20 arrows)
Crude Arrows	Found on TM Archers	n/a
Reed Arrows	Sold by various shopkeepers	39d - 75d
Bone-Tipped Arrows	Crafted by Hunters	n/a
Stone-Tipped Arrows	Crafted by Hunters	n/a
Barbed Arrows	Sold by various shopkeepers	63d - 253d
Bronze-Tipped Arrows	Sold by various shopkeepers=	190d - 332d
Iron-Tipped Arrows	Sold by various shopkeepers	316d - 399d

Summary

In most serious cases you'll want a to use iron-tipped arrows. Reed arrows are the arrow of choice for training or casual shooting.

A rank of 1 signifies the best in this category. In the case of archery, the short bow itself doesn't impact the skill, so we will focus on ammo types.

Ammo	Damage Rank	Speed Rank	Weight Rank	Overall Rank
Iron-Tipped Arrows	1	1	3	1
Bronze-Tipped Arrows	2	1	2	2
Barbed Arrows	3	1	1	2
Reed Arrows	5	1	1	3
Crude Arrows	6	1	3	4
Bone-Tipped Arrows	4	1
Stone-Tipped Arrows	2	1

Ammo Damage

A rank of 1 signifies the best in this category. The below is a guesstimate, confirmed testing is needed.

Ammo	Damage Rank
Iron-Tipped Arrows	1
Bronze-Tipped Arrows	2
Stone-Tipped Arrows	2
Barbed Arrows	3
Bone-Tipped Arrows	4
Reed Arrows	5
Crude Arrows	6

Ammo Speed

A rank of 1 signifies the best in this category. All arrows have the same speed, no difference based on type of arrow used.

	Rank 90 Reflexes		Maxed Speed
Ammo	Speed Rank	Median Speed	Speed Rank	Median Speed
Iron-Tipped Arrows	1	??	1	??
Bronze-Tipped Arrows	1	??	1	??
Stone-Tipped Arrows	1	??	1	??
Barbed Arrows	1	??	1	??
Bone-Tipped Arrows	1	??	1	??
Reed Arrows	1	??	1	??
Crude Arrows	1	??	1	??

Ammo Weight

Ammo	Weight Rank	Weight (per 100 arrows)
Reed Arrows	1	0.1 lbs
Barbed Arrows	1	0.1 lbs
Bronze-Tipped Arrows	2
Iron-Tipped Arrows	3	2 lbs
Crude Arrows	3	2 lbs
Stone-Tipped Arrows
Bone-Tipped Arrows

Note: Standard short bows weigh 2 lbs.

Moves

Worthwhile

• Quick Load - Faster loading for training.
• Quick Shot - Faster shooting for training.

Less useful

• TBC

Complementary Skill Sets

• Hunting & Outdoor Survival - Will allow you to make your own arrows.

Complementary Traits

• Night Vision (essential)
• Ox's Grace - For carrying more arrows & more armor, which you will 100% need. (recommended)
• Berserker (nice-to-have) & Spirit of Nature (recommended if you took Berserker)
• Hunter's Eye - Increased scanning and range of shots. (nice-to-have)
• Muscle Memory - Never fumble a shot. (nice-to-have)
• Wordly Knowledge (nice-to-have)
• Athletic (nice-to-have)

Miscellaneous

• Arrow can auto-group if you place them all in the same container.
• If you have mixed different qualities or types of arrows, just ungroup them and it will separate the dissimilar arrows.
• Attacks that inflict a wound levels of 2 (puncture) or more will stick in the target.