Druid and archery?

ReiLarkmir

I'm new to MUD's, Achaea is my first one. I always liked being an archer in MMOs before, and I'm having a ton of fun so far being a tsol'aa druid, although, being only lvl 12, I have a lot to learn.
Is it silly to consider learning archery in the future, if it's even possible? Will my abilities as a pure druid make it useless?
Thank you for considering my newbie question.

Armali

You can use credits (premium currency) to buy an artifact bow and the only two things you'll be able to do is shoot an arrow and shoot a meteor arrow. There's no special shooting skills, your accuracy and damage will be shoddy without shelling out more credits for the aiming power, and you can't shoot people in room or NPCs. It's strictly a PvP thing, and not a very important one in the grand scheme of things since druids can hit people at range with lightning anyways.

Penwize

Just to clarify, there is no aiming power available for credits.  Artefact bows are normally only usable by classes that already have the archery ability, such as knights and serpents.  They can be upgraded to include the shooting ability innately, though, which will allow any class to use them.  They're useful for druids for the ability to shoot meteors, but in general lightning is a far better line of sight attack for them than shooting is.

Laedha

It sounds like what you might have in mind is sort of a Tolkien elf archer, since you picked tsol'aa and a nature orientation. 

In achaea, archery is just not something that's going to be very useful to a druid. If you for sure want to focus on archery, you might consider serpent class. 

Armali

It's not possible in the sense that you think.

ReiLarkmir

Armali said:

It's not possible in the sense that you think.

In what way then? Please enlighten me

Antonius

Laedha said:

It sounds like what you might have in mind is sort of a Tolkien elf archer, since you picked tsol'aa and a nature orientation. 

In achaea, archery is just not something that's going to be very useful to a druid. If you for sure want to focus on archery, you might consider serpent class. 

Even as a Serpent, Archery isn't a big part of it. It's only a handful of abilities out of three class skills. You can get away with just shooting a bow from adjacent in group fights most of the time, but that's it. If you want to hunt or do single combat you're not going to be doing much of anything that resembles archery.

Jiraishin

Antonius said:

Laedha said:

It sounds like what you might have in mind is sort of a Tolkien elf archer, since you picked tsol'aa and a nature orientation. 

In achaea, archery is just not something that's going to be very useful to a druid. If you for sure want to focus on archery, you might consider serpent class. 

Even as a Serpent, Archery isn't a big part of it. It's only a handful of abilities out of three class skills. You can get away with just shooting a bow from adjacent in group fights most of the time, but that's it. If you want to hunt or do single combat you're not going to be doing much of anything that resembles archery.

Ahem.
As a Serpent I can tell you I do a LOT of archery.

[Deleted User]

He didn't say that. He said the majority of your abilities don't use it... He did leave out the fact you don't use quite a lot of said abilities.

Aetolia and Imperian both have skills that are pure archery (with a handful of skills that can also be used in-room). They're pretty gimmicky honestly; they're either stupidly strong, or barely usable.