Archery

The Archery skill allows a player to fire arrows/bolts from afar with Bows and Crossbows. Players must remain stationary for 0.5 seconds in order to shoot (regardless of their Dexterity).

PvM

• Players have a 10% chance of inflicting an Archery Weapon Special Attack against creatures
• This chance can be further increased via the Arms Lore Skill, Water Aspect Armor, or Mastery Chain Links.

Archery Weapon Special Attack

• Only works against creatures, not other players
• Increases damage dealt by 50%
• Hinders the target (prevents all movement, casting, melee attacks) for 4-8 seconds
• Hinder effect duration scales based on weapon speed (slower archery weapons have longer effect duration) and creature difficulty
• If target is immune to hinders, or is already hindered, the attack will deal an overpowering shot instead, increasing damage dealt by a total of 100% without applying hinder or refreshing its duration.
• Players receive a +25% Accuracy bonus when using Archery Weapons against a creature that is hindered at the time of the attack.

Training

• Archery is trained through combat with an Archery weapon equipped and requires Arrows or Bolts depending on the weapon.
• See the Weapons Chart for a list of Archery weapons.
• Up to 50.0 skill can be trained by an NPC bowyer or ranger.
• Skill gains for Archery up to 70.0 are accelerated in the New Player Dungeon.
• 50-70 fight creatures in the New Player Dungeon.
• 70-100:
  • Method One:
  • Use a heavy crossbow to shoot creatures at Prevalia Zoo. Doing this with low stamina / dexterity will provide the same rate of skill gain while using less ammunition. Making archery attacks after first using hiding / stealth will further reduce the amount of ammunition required to train archery.
  • Method Two:
  • Purchase Wooden Training Bow from any NPC provisioner vendor.
  • Use a 2nd account as a sparr dummy by attacking it with the character who is training.
  • Then toggle war/peace on the 2nd account dummy character.

Notes:

• If training against another player, it is best to be in the same guild or else form a party where both members check "Flag Green to Party" in order to avoid being flagged as a criminal.
• You will need a way to heal the second account character.