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Archer skill priority

nicky2tymesnicky2tymes
in TERA PC - General Discussion
Anyone know of an updated archer glyph/rotation guide? I'm fairly new to the class, and I want to start learning. Thanks in advance.
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  • KetothKetoth ✭✭✭✭
    TB>RoA>RF>RA

    here is your priority list
  • nicky2tymesnicky2tymes ✭
    No Pen. Arrow at all, and are you not supposed to fire Seq. Fire after RA?
  • SylvietteSylviette ✭✭✭
    You only asked for skill priority though.
    Always keep in mind all archer's core plays like keeping mark up, use seq. fire to cancel TB,... Skill priority is for "what should I use when multiple skills are available ?", not a strictly full rotation.
  • CiberLugoCiberLugo ✭✭
    A priority list =/= Rotación

    The first is what you wanna keep in cd, the later is how you mix those.
  • nicky2tymesnicky2tymes ✭
    Ok, I was just curious about the full rotation with priorities, but seeing what you all have written I'm getting a general idea. I'm sure Yosha or someone will come out with detailed guide.
  • nightmare2x2xnightmare2x2x ✭
    archer has only one powerlink glyph to increase pa dmg...

    no priority in which skill comes first but you should start with the ones with the height cd for instance thunderbolt...
  • ChoaruChoaru ✭✭
    I always reveliks when thunderbolt comes up.
    My old rotation was ensnaring, veliks, low range explosion one lol, roa, tb cancel with SF, RF, Pen, radiant cancel and RF, reuse explosion, pen, radiant cancel and RF, restraint arrow and repeat this.

    Think I'm going to switch TB and ROA now...
    Probably going to do veliks. Explosion, Back crit, Tb, ROA and the rest will stay the same...
  • Kira98Kira98 ✭✭✭
    VM-RoA-EB-FW-TB-RF-RA-RF-RoA-RF-FW (if u have)-RA-RF-(PA or ResA) and repeat.

    Spam RF-SQ before RA-PA for Focus stacks - Charge Speed.
    Dont use FW (Find Weakness) with RoA, is better TB (dat [filtered] have tons of dmg) or RA.
    And use ever RoA-TB when u have.

    CD is very very important in Archer build.
  • nicky2tymesnicky2tymes ✭
    Thx for all the info! I'll likely just have to work through my noobness with my archer too.
  • dinnersdinners ✭✭✭
    I don't think there is skill rotation for archer.

    Thunderbolt - skill cancel - prob highest damage.
    Rain of Arrow - Fire
    Radiant - cancel
    if all skill is on CD, Penetrating- cancel
    Try to use Rapid fire after skill cancel.

    Using skill is about same as before the patch. Just, thunderbolt damage is huge now. And, rapid fire dps is somewhat nerfed.

  • KeiceeKeicee ✭
    How bout poison arrow? its animation has improved, do you use it to speed up RA?
  • dinnersdinners ✭✭✭
    Keicee wrote: »
    How bout poison arrow? its animation has improved, do you use it to speed up RA?

    Maybe some ppl will use it in pvp. But, in pve, RA charging time is already fast enough. Archer's dps is OP. Yesterday, I pulled out my sorry [filtered] Archer from the coffin. I gave her +12 Slaughter. +15 slayer did slightly higher dps than my archer in VoK. Prob, +12 guile archer does about same dps as +15 Imp, except ninja, sorc and skillful reaper and zerker.
  • KeiceeKeicee ✭
    edited December 2016
    my rotation is VM-RoA-FW-TB-Poison arrow-RA-PenArrow i dont use rapid fire since my ping avg is around 200-250. is my rotation ok? i use SQ every time its up
  • KetothKetoth ✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2016
    Just some points:
    [list]
    [*]Fw is a dps loss. You should be already at back
    [*]Your 4 main skills are: RoA, tb,ra and rf. Reason the first is a high damage skill and the last 3 have triple crit chance. Because of that you just need enough crit factor to get 100% crit chance on the last 3. Because of that all other skill will br at 45ish% crit chance
    [*]Pa is a dps loss if you can use rf. You can cast rf ( depend your ping) faster than pa do more consistence damage ( 100% crit vs 45%) and rf cd start on first hit instead of last( so come out cd sooner)
    [*]Always use sf after tb and ra. This mean: never use ra before tb, otherwise you will never have sf for tb.
    [*]Dont try to use breakaway bolt powerlink( will increase the time it takes and decrese dps)
    [*]Incendiary trap arrow is a good skill to use ( mediim damage with small cast time) that you can use when rf is missing 1s to rf.
    [*]Archer there is no fixed rotation, you have a priority list( that i said ealier). But if you still want is:
    [/list]
    ...rf> 2-3 skills (1 charged)> rf ...

    [list]
    [*]This mean that you can use 2-3 skill or 1 charged shot between eacg rf cd. The skill you will use are based on priority list. The number of skills will depend on your attack speed ( arush / brooch)
    [*]Never overcharge. Unless there is no other skill over the priority list in cd and rf is in cd. Its better overcharge ra instead of going not overcharge ra and not overcharged pa in the same time period ( 50% crit chance difference is huge)
    [/list]

    For now is this. Maybe i remember other things later and coment for high ping


    Ps. Dunno why bbcode didnt work
  • Idi0ticGeniusIdi0ticGenius ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2016
    Ketoth wrote: »
    Just some points:
    • Fw is a dps loss. You should be already at back
    • Your 4 main skills are: RoA, tb,ra and rf. Reason the first is a high damage skill and the last 3 have triple crit chance. Because of that you just need enough crit factor to get 100% crit chance on the last 3. Because of that all other skill will br at 45ish% crit chance
    • Pa is a dps loss if you can use rf. You can cast rf ( depend your ping) faster than pa do more consistence damage ( 100% crit vs 45%) and rf cd start on first hit instead of last( so come out cd sooner)
    • Always use sf after tb and ra. This mean: never use ra before tb, otherwise you will never have sf for tb.
    • Dont try to use breakaway bolt powerlink( will increase the time it takes and decrese dps)
    • Incendiary trap arrow is a good skill to use ( mediim damage with small cast time) that you can use when rf is missing 1s to rf.
    • Archer there is no fixed rotation, you have a priority list( that i said ealier). But if you still want is:
    ...rf> 2-3 skills (1 charged)> rf ...
    ---
    • This mean that you can use 2-3 skill or 1 charged shot between eacg rf cd. The skill you will use are based on priority list. The number of skills will depend on your attack speed ( arush / brooch)
    • Never overcharge. Unless there is no other skill over the priority list in cd and rf is in cd. Its better overcharge ra instead of going not overcharge ra and not overcharged pa in the same time period ( 50% crit chance difference is huge)

    For now is this. Maybe i remember other things later and coment for high ping

    Ps. Dunno why bbcode didnt work

    Kinda off topic but to answer @Ketoth :

    If you used mobile, it uses something else called TextEx. This causes the formatting to be lost and probably reason why BBCode does not work. If I quote yours from PC, i get this message
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    One way to avoid it is by "request Desktop mode" or something from the browser option to load up BBcode formatting text box instead of this "TextEx" thingy.
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