Shocking Grasp Archer? (in General)

Presumably you can use SG the same way as CoC and equip a bow that will fire?

sick?

Actually, it'd be difficult because you already have to pump EXP into HP/STR/DX and Archery for an archer... and most have DM or AMF on them...

Do archers have the EXP to waste on SG? I don't think so, but that might just be me.

You can run a CoC archer pretty well; if you use a ToA. Chuck on some evasion and a mage shield, which you can do these days...

XP dilution isn't actually the problem it might first seem if you stay single minion. I haven't tried SG with a bow, but presumably it will work the same. Might be a tough little cookie if you did it right.

An interesting concept, at least. :)

Instead of a bow, use a SoD.

No skill needed.

Evasion needed, of course. 8)
Or else you wont live to use SG!

Yeah, that's the best option; ranged tank anyhow with DD melee. Seems like it's a better option lately.

Chuck on some NSCs, a mage shield, a ToA, some evasion, pump your cash into the ranged weapon your xp into the evasion and DD and boom!

You can't have a MgS and DD...

Sorry, going spare this morning - had a fire alarm; Of course you can't!

Train some AMF, then chuck on the BoM instead.

Or use an EXBow. ;)

I had the idea for this strat the moment it came out. I got CC to try it out during free retraining, but it doesn't work too well.

Reasons it didn't work:

I used an SoD, and GA rocked me. I only had about 2mil HP on my attacking minion, because I'd retrained a lot of XP into SG.
I didn't do enough damage nor hit often enough with the SoD, because I only had 1.8 mil ST and 1.3mil DX (or something, I don't remember exactly. Basically the ToA wasn't lvl 7mil).

I think it *could* work, assuming you didn't put ALL your Experience into SG, and did some balancing work on how much HP you would have, and maybe some Evasion (though I really think the biggest ranged threat is GA). And make sure you have a large ToA. The biggest in the game, last I checked, was under 4 mil because everyone with big tats apparently re-inked to EF.

"Chuck on some NSCs, a mage shield, a ToA, some evasion, pump your cash into the ranged weapon your xp into the evasion and DD and boom! "

one big thing wrong with this. unless i'm seriously wrong, the MgS still nullifies all spells on who ever has it equipped

yeah, pointed out above by Kong.

It was early when I wrote that!