class/item idea: Arcane Archer

[rangerjeff]

Don't see any discussion of this going a ways back at least...

Arcane archer would be fairly obvious. Don't get the advanced archery tree but instead an archery/spell support tree and a couple other arcane spell trees. Add various effects, maybe a blink shot (tp to target).

What really got me thinking of this is the notion of bows which would be swap weapons for some spellcasters. Not archmages probably since they can fire at will already with their 3 spells with cooldowns of 3, but I'm playing anathoril and fairly often a turn or two goes by while in combat with me just waiting for something offensive to cooldown. Now if I could find a bow which grants +8 Spellpower and +2 to spell crits...

wait maybe that's not a great idea after all, since I don't invest in Dex or combat accuracy and so am lucky to have an accuracy of 14, meaning I probably couldn't hit a lot of what's out there anyway, so a spellcaster bow probably wouldn't work. Unless they can get high ego on occasion for like +12 - +20 accuracy. Or an artifact which has that.

Edit: thinking a little more, though it doesn't fit the concept I had, maybe an Arcane Slinger is more appropriate, given how Cunning is useful to casters, and Strength is not...

[catwhowalksbyhimself]

There already is such a class, the MageBow, available as an addon here.