Archer Skill Guide

Commonly, a MM will get boost, se, mw, and then quit.

After those three, it's based on book availability.

• If you can get your hands on frostprey books, lvl 11 is decent, so is lvl 21. (I'm looking at an extra 8~11.5k damage per atk on top of the 3 second freeze.)

• Blind is useful if you're spamming AE everywhere (such as top in skelegons or in guardians).

• Snipe is useful in regular parties if you have 30 points RIGHT NOW and have enough snipe30 books available to pass it (i failed 9 personally).

• Finally, Pierce, Pierce isnt usable in training anywhere outside of gobies, in the time it takes for you to take down 4~6 gons with pierce, AE would've beaten that time. Plus considering a need for 11~21 db to help with mobbing purposes, its the most point heavy requirement of the 4 choices, and while flashy, it just isn't going to speed up your training.

Isn't Arrow Blow at level 19 stronger than level 20 now?

 Arrow Blow

Level 01: MP - 7 / 190% Damage
Level 02: MP - 8 / 193% Damage
Level 03: MP - 8 / 196% Damage
Level 04: MP - 8 / 200% Damage
Level 05: MP - 9 / 203% Damage
Level 06: MP - 9 / 206% Damage
Level 07: MP - 9 / 210% Damage
Level 08: MP - 10 / 213% Damage
Level 09: MP - 10 / 216% Damage
Level 10: MP - 10 / 220% Damage
Level 11: MP - 11 / 223% Damage
Level 12: MP - 11 / 226% Damage
Level 13: MP - 11 / 230% Damage
Level 14: MP - 12 / 233% Damage
Level 15: MP - 12 / 236% Damage
Level 16: MP - 12 / 240% Damage
Level 17: MP - 13 / 243% Damage
Level 18: MP - 13 / 248% Damage
Level 19: MP - 13 / 283% Damage <-- This is not a typo. It is 283%.
Level 20: MP - 14 / 260% Damage

Honestly, even if you never use PKB besides in 2nd job, it'd be more useful than Blessing. You'll get max Focus if you added it in 1st job, and blessing...

Accuracy is totally useless for an archer.

What about the avoid?

That's something it would be useful for. Training solo at newts, less hits on me.

Sure max focus, but he's talking about blessing which only adds accuracy and is thus useless.

Commonly, a MM will get boost, se, mw, and then quit.

After those three, it's based on book availability.

• If you can get your hands on frostprey books, lvl 11 is decent, so is lvl 21. (I'm looking at an extra 8~11.5k damage per atk on top of the 3 second freeze.)

• Blind is useful if you're spamming AE everywhere (such as top in skelegons or in guardians).

• Snipe is useful in regular parties if you have 30 points RIGHT NOW and have enough snipe30 books available to pass it (i failed 9 personally).

• Finally, Pierce, Pierce isnt usable in training anywhere outside of gobies, in the time it takes for you to take down 4~6 gons with pierce, AE would've beaten that time. Plus considering a need for 11~21 db to help with mobbing purposes, its the most point heavy requirement of the 4 choices, and while flashy, it just isn't going to speed up your training.

Mind if I talk to you in-game sometime? I really need to get the 4th job section up to speed.

After that, I'll remove some spoilers and make it prettier =P

You can try - I'm afk 9 times out of 10 beware.