I registered just so I could wax lyrical about this build. I've always approached the archer style unimaginatively, as a pure physical damage dealer, just because of the apparent lack of synergy with magic beyond the odd buff or heal.This build is a great way to add lots of the flavour of a mage to the archer class.
And it's such an effective play style too. At master difficulty with the Nightstalker setup I'm a walking blitzkrieg, a necromantic terminator who makes full frontal assaults on fortresses jammed with mixed enemy units and just remorselessly lays waste. I can still go down to a couple of well placed crits so it's proper glass cannon, but even so, wow!
Bravo, not just for coming up with a build that's so potent, but for giving the archer so much rp goodness in the form of swirly magic cloaks, elemental configurations to suit any challenge, undead meatpuppetry, and not a single moment of skulking in the shadows.
I registered just so I could wax lyrical about this build. I've always approached the archer style unimaginatively, as a pure physical damage dealer, just because of the apparent lack of synergy with magic beyond the odd buff or heal.This build is a great way to add lots of the flavour of a mage to the archer class.
And it's such an effective play style too. At master difficulty with the Nightstalker setup I'm a walking blitzkrieg, a necromantic terminator who makes full frontal assaults on fortresses jammed with mixed enemy units and just remorselessly lays waste. I can still go down to a couple of well placed crits so it's proper glass cannon, but even so, wow!
Bravo, not just for coming up with a build that's so potent, but for giving the archer so much rp goodness in the form of swirly magic cloaks, elemental configurations to suit any challenge, undead meatpuppetry, and not a single moment of skulking in the shadows.