Archery

A skill requiring a steady aim and dexterous fingers, those who live “close to the land” often favor Archery.

Overview

"Stand over there and let me shoot this apple off your head. No. I promise. I’ll shoot the apple."

• Special moves for Archery have been disabled as part of our retrofit to pre-AOS.

More Information

This skill works similarly to Archery on UO Guide.

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Training

Skills on Sanctuary use our Grimmwold methods for skill training, including passive gains, 2 min timer activation, no difficulty checks, more than 1300 skill points using a .spec setting, and so on. In addition, you can purchase limited training from NPCs as well as advanced " book skills" both of which are available on Master NPCs. Read More ..

• Low skill levels can be trained by one of the Master NPCs.
• The books for crafting book skills can be purchased at the Master NPCs.

Train archery to 120 at the archery butts in Evervale

Weapons

There are two main types of weapons available to practitioners of Archery, bows and crossbows. The former require a good supply of Arrows on hand, while the more technical crossbows fire smaller Bolts at enemies. All of these can be crafted by Bowyers.

Bows are typically slightly faster to fire then crossbows and also usually offer a larger attacking radius. On the other hand, crossbows often pack more punch per bolt and so might be the better choice for a lengthy battle.

The Elven Composite Longbow is the only Archery class weapon that can be used with Poisoning (via Serpent Arrow). This should be disabled, if you can confirm that please post to the forum from the link above, or if you have a wiki account, delete this paragraph.

While not technically a weapon, it's worth mentioning that any archer worth his or her salt will be carrying a Quiver with them. Quivers have not been implemented in our pre-AOS design but there is a request for its consideration on the forums..

All Archery weapons are Two-Handed Weapons, unless they have the Balanced property. For this reason, when crafting with Runic Tools, you might consider the Lightweight Shortbow. Runic Tools are not yet active on this shard, pending later updates. This feature may or may not be implemented at that time.