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[Loveless]

Archers may have the 2nd lowest def but... what about the mages? They have the lowest defense yet has, more or less, the most people playing them.

Like Zwivix said, archers in most games are for more 'advanced' players. Not the best starter class.

[a.L]

Archers are great. End of story.

[koager]

archers are my 2nd favorite class after mages
except I wish that dex influenced attack speed.
that would make dex archers so amazing
and dex would no longer be a "useless" stat

[Hazu]

Archers are a fun class to play. You get to turn mobs...and your friends different shades of green. ^^
And not all archers have sucky defense. But just because they have low defense compared to cleric and fighter doesnt mean their a bad class. They're fun and cute.
Archer was my second choice of character, tried fighter for one day(lol), and fell in love with it.
And the resistant pots dont work the greatest. Archers have several poisons to poison someone ^^
They're able to kite aoe which makes them excelent at soloing or even duoing with a cleric who doesnt mind running a bit.
They're also the best pullers because they can use their aoe poisons to keep aggro.
In my opinion, thats why choose archers. ^^

[koager]

They're also the best pullers because they can use their aoe poisons to keep aggro.

how good is the aoe poison aggro exactly....
in abyss whenever I see archers pull a giant green train the person at least loses half of it and those always come straight at me
and then 5 mins later the person loses another half and so I see random mobs running back but then they see me so those come after me too

[Loveless]

That just means they were bad pullers/aoe'ers. xD

[a.L]

That's probably because they run too far.

[Hazu]

Or they didnt add any points to their natures mist for the CD. Or not aoing enough to keep the aggro ^^

[super_beast]

In all the pvps i've had i've only lost 2 a lv 89 archer, no other archer, yet i've lost 2 mages my lv and if they had really good gear a few lower. Mages attack where it hurts archers juut run around and do little damage. they just try 2 get u 2 bleed 2 death which apparently doesn't work that well against me. I mean in the pvp kq when archers attacked me i would just ignored them and kept going only bothering with them 2 get a quick kill point.
... hope my wife never sees this thread XD she just happens 2 be an archer

[Ninja_Medic]

Archers may have the 2nd lowest def but... what about the mages? They have the lowest defense yet has, more or less, the most people playing them.

Like Zwivix said, archers in most games are for more 'advanced' players. Not the best starter class.

i have a mage and he has the same defense as a dd fighter