OK, I have a stealth archer. Its my favourite character to use. its fun, and exciting. but how the hell am I meant to heal. i can't use chiv, i'm red. I can't use bandies, cos when I die i gotta go to my house and restock. I can't use magery for the same reason. i have the 2 best bows on the shard and i'm not giving them up just because they aren't balanced to use pots.

So what in the name do I use???? Need som help here............

And don't say make him blue again, do you have any idea how much bank sitting that would take (whilst hidden at brit bank) I could only use him for an couple of hours a week just to keep him blue.

Chug pots, that is your best bet if you can't do healing/magery/chiv. It sucks to have to chug hella pots, but you kinda screwed yourself over w/ bein red. :grin:

You can use chiv as a red, you just have to spend a little time to get some karma back every now and then. You could also use your confidence with bushido, assuming you have it. Or stealth away for a sec, chug a pot, come back out and start swinging. There are a variety of ways to handle this. There should always be people in your guild that you are fighting along with, that have bandages on them. Just gotta be a bit creative, but it does indeed work..

Doesnt everyone who uses bandies have to restock after death?

Also, it doesnt take very long to get to Glorious even from Dread. Arctic Ogre Lords in Ice are great from level 3 to 5 karma.

*kisses his talisman of bandage summoning*

I die probably more than most people in my guild, and I do just fine with healing using bandages. What I do is stack em in piles of 4, 5, 3, 7 just low numbers. People wont loot you as much as you think in a field fight. They see the numerous stacks of small amounts of bandages, and they say screw it.. works like a charm.....

I feel healing skill is the way to go if you are running high dex. You can heal well even as a red w/ chiv and if you get 4/6 or close to it casting you can heal poison and HP's faster than any other skill, but you will take mana away from specials if you use them on bow.

I have a totem of bandage summoning, for tamer, but I die more often than once an hour. So it'd work like once a session. And its extra insurance. I think I need to do a little re-working. I have 100 nujitsu on him, gonna swop it for bushido, I can evade then as well Think I'll end up with Bushido confidence and healing to heal, Its just annoying with the restocking thing. What are benifits of enhanced bandies, I have 5 fountains of life, so I can keep myself stocked up, I have a 1000 in a box somewhere already.

So wot u think, Enhanced Bandies or not????

:grin:

Careful w/ bushido since you will need parry to be an evade machine. Rough for archers since it will basically be a dead skill.

This is not aimed at anyone in particular, it is just a rant against the thousands of uhall naysayers who only think bushido is a 1 spell skill.

Well evade is not the only spell to use with bushido. So what, you wont be able to block spells as much, you will still be able to hit with insane HCI, heal quickly with confidence, hit multiple targets with a weapon, gain honor bonus's when hitting a champ, use a bokuto and be able to use the nerve strike.

So for all of you who ONLY use bushido for evading, try this. Develop your own train of thought, dont be sheep, unhook your think pattern from the Uhall naysayers and learn that there are other spells in that book.


And araevin I am in total agreement about the 4/6 dexxer/chiv heals. I have a 4/5(not quite 4/6 but still works) nox/macer that only has confidence/chiv heals. I also have 105 mana w/9mr so I dont worry about mana really that much. I do just fine without healing. Of course, sometimes there are those moments where I just cant heal through a fight, so I go down in a poisoned, deathstruck blaze. It only takes me 10 minutes to get enough karma to play for the entire day, so that my heals are effective enough.

The benefits of the enhanced bandages are the equivelant of adding 10pts to your healing skill. One way to not lose too much when out there is load up your bank, or a very easy access bag in your house, and only take 10-20 at a time. For example, a fight in fire, or surrounding areas(town, dungeon, t2a exit) you are in there, you die, go back out to bank real quick, grab another 10, and you are back in. At spawns, what I do is toss some bandages, like at despise, down in that south area, where alot of people rez when big fights are goin on. Just putting 100 down there, you can grab 10 everytime. Thats just me though, cause I like to run into groups and wail away, so I die more than the average bear..

I here what you r saying about bushido. In fact I use most of the spells, sometimes. But I think I'm gonna swap nujitsu for it, and I can HL when mana gets a lil low. My MR is like 10 on a stealth archer with 90 mana to start. So I can get 2 specials off easily. but you're right too many people hav bushido simply to evade. If only more people fought at Yew gate on sonoma I'd be fine, but its brit gate all the way. Lol. Healing in Magencia is my biggest problem. Don't think I'll use chiv after all. I'd make it too cramped. Even though I have 770 skill points on my archer, and its only a 6 month old account.