Dude why would you not get pin feet.. Trash shooter stance and spec pin it will save ur life more over

I’m a lvl60 archer.  
The pin feet skill is bread and butter.  I always apply the p-poison my bow and toxic poison to my swords or axes.  Since they don’t always work (and less so against stronger mobs), they are sort of a bonus.

I almost always sneak up then stun a mob with rapid shot, while they are stunned, hit them with bleeding.  If you are lucky and the poison takes and they walk slowly (which allows bleeding to do extra damage).  If I don’t get the poison to take or if its a powerful monster then after they snake off the stun I use pin feet which gives time for a number of additional ranged attacks. Explosive arrows are very useful against mages and other ranged mobs.  When they start to charge up an attack you can hit them real quick with the explosive arrows which knocks them down and cancels their attack.Split shot is the one I left down.  Its kind of useful for grinding against much weaker opponents (like grinding though old daily quests quickly), but not so much for pushing though against strong mobs in the main quests.  However which way you do it, rangers are not going to be good tanks.  Even level 60 armor and weapons are comparatively weak when compared to warriors.  Generally you want to take a divide and conquer approach.  There are a couple of quests specifically designed to make that difficult, but they can be done.

I built a an archer that focuses on solo/questing as well as PVP and personally I like Pin feet as a talent choice. However, I didn’t take the secondary Pin feet which increases the duration. The only assassin talent I took was the crit % increase. As you level early on I would focus on hit %, crit %, agil/crit/hit rating/ stamina gear, in that order of importance. My low level spell rotation up to lvl 25 looked like this; rapid shot w/ acute toxicity on bow, pin feet, two rapid shots before mob got to me, shadow strike/ melee attacks w/ acute tox on one blade paralyzing on another, rapid shots. Normally mob would die before they reached me however if they weren’t dead they would die several shots or swings after. Also I would grind NPC’s two or three levels higher than me for xp, but was able to kill REDS/ elites if I needed to. If played right archers are the perfect solo character and can be amazing in PVP as well. Once you fill the talent tree utilize explosive shot and avulsion shot and snipe. I personallly like shooter stance and overwhelm but I can swee where alternate talents could be useful as well. With proper use of pin feet and bleed out techniques the ranger/archer is a deadly/extremely formiddable foe.The most important thing to realize is that everyone is going to have a different playing style and enjoy doing different things within the game. So tailor your character to meet your needs and playing style. Most of us will alter our toons anyway when dungeons come out because aoe’s and defense will probably become more necessary if bosses in dungeons have aoes and there are different strats tokill and complete dungeons. Some bosses may have to be paralyzed or pinned in order to beat them. As this game progresses and new patches are added you will see changeds made to characters and skills and abilities anyway. So like I said for now make your character to how you see fit and enjoy as this is just a game that we should have fun with. The last bit of advice I have is as follows…  max out leather craft as it is vital. All toons should buy all bag slots as well and save all crafting mats and sell to other players or use for your own profession. Selling cloth, metals, furs etc will allow you to afford everything you want as gold is not difficult to earn. Also as a ranger who constantly grinds high level mobs it is vital to keep lots of potions and food on you at all times to minimize downtime and maximize xp and quests completed. Hope this is helpful to all and if any of you are on the Mac-Arcadian Server feel free to message me!

Bullzeye…member of ” =DEMISE= ”
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You need pin feet If you solo.

Archers are the best but also focus on pin feet because this will help you with strong bosses like Aventhal or Burtga

i use pin feet every time i fight especially at the lower levels why wouldnt you want an extra stun?

Hey should i put talents towards path of shooter? If so how many talents should i put for it?