Arrow 1 Sap • Piercing • Slowing Effect: Focus Generation: Shoot an arrow at a target up to 19 m away. Each successful hit generates 1 Stack of Focus. Stack Focus 10 to reduce the charging time of Penetrating Arrow and Radiant Arrow.
PvP: Reduced damage at max distance.
Skill Usage: Your basic skill
Backstep Icon update Backstep (Archer) 1 Energy Effect: Quickly back up and out of harm's way. Invincible while moving. You can move through units without restrictions.
Skill Usage: Press the skill button to dodge in the current movement direction or default to jump backwards
Arrow Volley Arrow Volley 2 Multiplication • Influence • Blaze (Stunning Trap) • Blaze (Penetrating Arrow) • Persistance Effect: Lock on to 5 targets and shoot arrows within 18m
Skill Usage: Press the skill button once and mouse over to lock on, then again (or left-click) to shoot all targets.
Penetrating Arrow Penetrating Arrow 4 Slick • Power • Longshot • Carving (apex only) Effect: Charge Skill:
Charge up the arrow's damage, then shoot a penetrating arrow at up to 15 targets in a 18m line by releasing the button. Charges to three levels.
PvP: Reduced damage at max distance.
Chained Skill Guide: Triggers Sequential Fire after use
Skill Usage: Fires as soon as you release the button. The longer you press it, the more damage you'll do.
Slow Trap Slow Trap 6 Lingering Effect: Set a trap that briefly slows the victim. The trap lasts for 15 seconds or until triggered.
Skill Usage: Use traps to inconvenience enemies and gain time for complex attacks.
Close Quarters Close Quarters 8 Fleetfoot • Lingering • Empowered Effect: Strike a foe in front of you twice. Second attack briefly stuns the foe.
Skill Usage: Use to incapacitate a target.
Breakaway Bolt Breakaway Bolt 10 Energetic • Powerlink • Fleetfoot • Slowing Effect: Shoot an explosive arrow that damages the target within 4 m, while leaping out of harm's way. You are invincible for a short while when using the skill
Skill Usage: Press the skill button to dodge in the current movement direction or default to jump backwards.
Retaliate Retaliate (Archer) 12 Empowered • Energy Effect: Leap to your feet while attacking your target. You can use this skill only when knocked-down. You become briefly immune to knockdown, stagger, and stuns.
Skill Usage: Use when you are knocked-down.
Rapid Fire Rapid Fire 14 Persistence • Spirited • Empowered Effect: Focus Generation: Shoot up to to 7 arrows at a target up to 22 m away. Each successful hit generates 1 stack of Focus. Stack Focus 10 times to reduce the charging time of Penetrating Arrow and Radiant Arrow.
PvP: Reduced damage at max distance.
Enchanced Skill: Windsong increases you MP replenishment, but lowers the number of arrows fired. (Apex only)
Skill Usage: Holding the button will fire up to 7 arrows.
Radiant Arrow Radiant Arrow 18 Longshot • Slick • Carving • Sanative Effect: Charge Skill: Charge up the arrow's damage by holding down the skill button, then shoot the arrow up to 18 m by releasing the button. Only charges to one level.
PvP: Reduced damage at max distance.
Chained Skill Guide: Triggers Sequential Fire after use.
Skill Usage: Fires as soon as you release the button. The longer you press it, the more damage you'll do.
Poison Arrow Poison Arrow 22 Blaze • Lingering Effect: Shoot an arrow dripping with lethal poison. The arrow flies 18 m, inflicting damage to the target and additionally inflicting 3,128 damage every 2 seconds for 12 seconds. Can be stacked up to 3 times.
PvP: Reduced stack damage and damage at max distance.
Skill Usage: Maintain 3 stacks to rapidly reduce an enemy's HP.
Incendiary Trap Incendiary Trap 26 Power • Powerlink Effect: Set a trap that lasts for 12 seconds. The trap explodes and deals damage to nearby enemies when triggered
Skill Usage: Use traps to inconvenience enemies and gain time for complex attacks.
Stunning Trap Stunning Trap 26 Lingering • Blaze Effect: Set up a trap that briefly stuns the victim. The trap lasts for 20 seconds or until triggered.
Skill Usage: Use traps to inconvenience enemies and gain time for complex attacks.
Feign Death Feign Death 38 Energetic • Regeneration Effect: Deceive monsters by pretending to be dead. This resets all aggro on you. You can feign death for up to 1 minute. Ends when you use a skill or take damage.
Skill Usage: Use to clear aggro.
Web Arrow Web Arrow 42 Lingering • Fleetwork Effect: Shoot an arrow up to 18 m, inflicting damage and slowing the target's movement speed by 33% for 7 seconds.
PvP: Reduced damage at max distance.
Skill Usage: Used to incapacitate a target.
Restraining Arrow Restraining Arrow 54 Lingering • Energetic • Sap Effect: Shoot an arrow up to 18 m, decreasing the target's movement speed by 50% and attack speed by 15% for a short time.
PvP: Reduced damage at max distance.
Skill Usage: Use while facing a distant target.
Rain of Arrows Rain of Arrows 58 Energy • Power • Hastened Effect: Shoot arrows into the sky; they descend 15 m away and damage targets in the circle where they land.
Skill Usage: Use when fighting multiple enemies.
Concussion Trap Stunning Trap Arrow 60 Energetic Effect: Launch a trap 15 m in front of you. The trap lasts for 10 seconds or until triggered. Briefly stuns the target and surrounding enemies.
Skill Usage: Used to incapacitate a target.
Ensnaring Trap Snare 60 Energetic Effect: Launch an arrow at enemies up to 22 m away. Press the button again before it reaches the max distance to detonate the arrow early, decreasing the movement speed of nearby enemies for a short time.
PvP: Slowing effect and duration is reduced
Skill Usage: Time the detonation to incapacitate a group of enemies.
Explosion Trap Incendiary Trap Arrow 60 Empowered Effect: Launch a trap 15 m in front of you. The trap lasts for 10 seconds or until triggered. Deals damage to the target and nearby enemies when triggered.
Skill Usage: Use to damage a group of enemies.
Tenacity (Archer) Tenacity (Archer) 61 Balance • Spirited • Energetic Effect: Call on inner reserves to instantly replenish 360 MP. Greatly increases resistance to stun for 5 seconds.
Skill Usage: Use when you are low on MP
Thunderbolt Thunderbolt 63 Hastened • Carving • Empowered Effect: Shoot a concussion arrow up to 24 m away. The shock will cause damage and knock enemies back. It cannot knock back bosses or elite monsters.
Skill Usage: Use to incapacitate an enemy
Sequential Fire Icon Sequential Fire ?? Blaze • Energetic • Persistent Effect: Focus Generation: Fire a quick, damaging arrow within 18 m. A successful hit staggers an enemy and adds a stack of Focus.
PvP: Deals reduced damage at max distance
Chain Skill Guide: Triggered by Radiant Arrow, Penetrating Arrow, Thunderbolt, and Gust Arrow.
Skill Usage: Use in a chain after select charging skill.
Find weakness icon Find Weakness ?? - Effect: Grants additional effects based on your choice of target, and modifies other skills. While active, all your attacks against monsters are considered back attacks, regardless of your relative position. Effect ends when skill is used again.
Chain Skill Guide: Aiming at a specific target with Radiant Arrow, Penetrating Arrow, or Thunderbolt triggers Weakness Exposed, which also increases damage by an additional 15%. The effect of Find Weakness is superceded by that of Weakness Exposed.
PvP: Velik's Mark: Damage to players within 24 m is increased by 10%
Skill Usage: Use to maximize your damage against specific targets.
Chase icon Chase (Archer) ?? Energetic Effect: Charge a short distance in the direction of movement. You will stop running if you encounter an enemy.
Skill Usage: Use to close the distance between you and your target.
Wind walk icon Wind Walk 65 (after reaching item level 439 or higher and completing the Apex(Awakening) quest) - Effect: Focus Generation: Charge forward up to 24 m and attack a target. Grants the Howling String effect.
Chain Skill Guide: Can be used to interrupt the animation of all skills.
Skill Usage: Use to close the distance between you and your target.
Windsong Icon Windsong 65 (after reaching item level 439 or higher and completing the Apex(Awakening) quest) - Effect: Enhance Skill: Increases Attack Speed by 10% for 22 seconds, and resets the cooldowns of Find Weakness, Thunderbolt, Radiant Arrow, Penetrating Arrow, Rapid Fire, and Sequential Fire. While the effect is active, the cooldowns of these skills are decreased by 50%.
Chain Skill Guide: While active, increases the attack speed of Radiant Arrow, Penetrating Arrow, and Thunderbolt by 30%. Decreases the number of attacks done by Rapid Fire, but increases the damage dealt and MP replenishment per hit. Decreases the RE consumption of Wind Walk by 30.
Skill Usage: Use boost your stats and enhances other skills.
Gust Arrow Gust Arrow 65 (after reaching item level 439 or higher and completing the Apex(Awakening) quest) - Effect: Charge Skill: Shoots an empowered arrow that staggers and knocks down all enemies within 40 m.
While the skill charges, you are invincible and immune to reactions.
Chain Skill Guide: Triggers Sequential Fire
Skill Usage: Use to incapacitate a group of enemies.
Passives Edit
These are the Passive Skills on archer both normal and apex passives.
Icon Name
Level
Apex?
Description
Speed Boost Icon Speed Boost 1 No Increases your noncombat Movement Speed by 60
Crack Shot Icon Crack Shot ?? No Increases all skill damage by 10% and grants additional 6% damage when attacking monsters.
Increases the chance to crit by 5% when attacking monsters from the side or rear.
Safe Space Icon Safe Space 65 Yes Increases the skill damage of all attack skills by 5% when no enemies are within a 5m radius.
Seasoned Seasoned 65 Yes Decreases the RE cost of Backstep (Archer) by 30, and recovers 10 RE after every successful hit of Focus Generation skill.
Huntsman Huntsman 65 Yes When Fighting monsters, using Chase (Archer) changes all attack skills into attack from behind for 5 seconds