So you have stumbled upon my post, you must be an Archer or want to be one, you want to learn what skills to choose, and which do the best damage and help the most, you want to learn how to invest your JP in the best way possible. Well you've come to the right place 
Hey guys  , to begin this my IGN[In game name] is FatalFantasy in the server Bahamut, I noticed no one has any guides with helpful tips on being the best you can be at an Archer[Not related to the popular "E3 hunter guide" post or unfinished "complete fighter guide"] so I've decided to make my own. I hope my basic knowledge of the Archer that I've come to know will help many of you, and if you have any extra info or thoughts that might help me edit my post I'd be happy to read what you say and make a few changes.
Before I start though I'd like to clear something, it is a true fact that Archer skills are watered down and some aren't very useful, many people complain about this fact and that's the only thing we really can do until they may decide change them and make them more powerful, but the Archer is still a great choice, it's stats are great, hits lots of damage, good attack speed and critical damage. It's a fun class to choose, even though most of the time you'll have to pull, but I don't really mind pulling you will still get to show off your skills fighting bosses. I gave my name and server for people that have additional questions concerning this post, just add me and if I'm on ask me, most of the time if I'm not busy with my dp or other PMs I will answer your questions
What Helps Archers
Alright so the basics.. Dex and Agility are a very important aspect for an archer, and also a few other soul stones that can help;
DEX - Helps Accuracy and increases P. Attack
AGI - Helps evasion
STR - Dex would be a better choice because it increases your P. Attack much better then STR does. Dex helps increase P. Attack for bows, and STR is more for Daggers, Swords, Ect.
VIT - I would suggest using a few of these in your soul stone slots, because Archers have high P. Attack, they gain a lot of aggro every now and then, unless you have a knight/soldier/holy warrior constantly provoking
P.Atk and Accuracy is obviously good if you like damage dealing, but really since most of your time will be spent pulling monsters it would only be helpful solo/pk/duel/and boss kills or helping kill adds
Agility is sort of helpful for pulling to evade some attacks so the healer doesn't have to focus that much on you
Fighters[wanting to become an Archer]
So say you are a Fighter and want to eventually be an Archer, make sure you avoid everything to do with a Champion class route, this means all the combat skills, avoid those and level up these; Archery Practice, Archery Training, Spiracle Mastery, Mental Concentration, Spiracle Charge, Energy Charge, Spiracle Vitality[Helpful to defense/HP]. Also make sure you are keeping up at cc[crowd control] keeping the monsters away from clerics or almost dying person. And whenever you pull, depending on how good your dp is try to get another monster after the one you just puled died, usually 40-60% HP. Any other questions concerning your route from Fighter to Archer send them to me and I'll help you right away
Archer Skills
Job leveling Archery Practice and Archery Training to about 10-13 until you're level 60, then level a little bit of these skills.
Defense Practice - is up to you, if you see monsters hitting you so greatly that the healer can hardly even get to you before you die, I would level it a little bit. Mine is level 9, didn't cost me too many JP's so I didn't mind the defense boost.
Mysterious Energy - It can be helpful in duels or pk duels in times when you really need hp and nothing else can help you out, for 30 seconds, every time you hit a critical you gain a certain amount of hp, I would wait until after level 60 though to level it. But if you want to level it up it would be good to use with lv5+ mental concentration when you're fighting and have a lot of aggro
Energy of Protection - I think this would come in handy when you are using mental concentration and you have a lot of DEX, but I would concentrate on mastering the Archer Training/Practice first, because it greatly helps you're speed and damage
Spiracle Charge[Lv4 til 60+]/Spiracle Mastery[lv4 until your 60+] - spiracles are very helpful to an archer since we use them so much, most of the time Archers spend about 20% of their time charging/using spiracles
Energy Charge - I would just keep it maxed from when you were a fighter. Which was around level 5, not sure though, you can look under the fighter class skills. It helps you when you are running to your group and your getting hit or you're about to die. Mp wise it only gives a little boost, around 70-80.
Poison Arrow- It only gives a 10% chance for poison and mine is lvl 3 +2 and it only does 60 damage for 10-30 seconds and lasts 5 minutes, would not suggest leveling it but 1 level, but if you have extra JP go ahead and throw it in, once you gain to a higher level you'll realize you have a lot of JP sitting around if you're not constantly leveling everything
Arrow of Delay - This skill can be used to time your pulls, and has decent damage. It's good for soloing also, because the main point of fighting as an Archer is to kite your opponent and stay as far away as you can using your skills.
Heat Shot - Decent damage skill that deals fire damage overtime, I would level it to 10, can do around 100+ damage for about 10 secs
Loading Restraint - is a good skill, it stops the monsters for a certain amount of time and it usually hits decent damage.
Spiracle Shot/Freeze Arrow - these skills are good for saving party members in need. Spiracle shot can shoot back/stun an enemy so use that if someone is about to die. And Freeze arrow is good to stop adds unless someone has nightmared or shackled the monster
Eye of Raptor - Level to 1 only useful if your in the pvp server and you're trying to find hidden assassins using invisibility[I think it only lasts 5 seconds] or sieges.
The Traps/Snares - They are easy to use, just click it and it sets it move back a step behind and once the monster goes over it within it's circle, it will usually activate, I think that there is a bug because sometimes it doesn't activate. Just takes some good aiming and you're set. Snare of corrosion gives a lasting effect of 15 seconds does -90patk/def for 10secs at lv1[each lv. +10 to each patk/def] to monsters or multiple monsters that go over it.
*TIP*- The best trap would be snare of corrosion, it helps your DP out a lot when facing the bosses every 20 minutes. Just set the trap within the bosses circle when it is targeted
AOE Skills- Good damage dealing when facing adds. Wouldn't use it though unless you have mental concentration on and you know you're about to kill the mobs.
Successive Shot/Penetration Shot - Successive shot lets you shoot twice, which could be handy for duels and bosses. Same for Penetration shot allowing you to deal a critical hit
Equipment
Most of the Archer weapons are the same stats at r3, whatever look you like get it. Equipment wise get Hunting Wear of Oath[mov. speed 10+], 2 Ring of Archers[+4 agil/dex] or 2 Ring of Power Concentrations[+8 dex], Fang of Gust[p.atk 16], Plate Gloves, Combat Boots, Hidden Avenger/R3 Cape[If you have Gpotatoes that is]
Some LM2 Quests to pick up
This is off the topic but I thought it would help some people find some quests, they gain you 53k xp/5k Jp around there.
Weapon Merchant Albireo of Horizon - Finding premium ore
Guide Sage of Horizon - Imp's Powder
Warehouse Keeper Hyan of Katan- Lions of Mines
Guide Prometh of Laksy - Defeating Venom [The count on this is glitched I think it's around 20 venom kills though]
Union Directer Garder- What on Earth is Happening to Lost Mines?
So any questions or comment send them in on this page, I need all the feed back and constructive criticism I can get to make this guide more helpful. Hope you enjoyed this guide, I wouldn't mind if some of you could give me some input or suggestions you have, I'm trying to edit this as much as I can, the more experience and knowledge I gain about the Archer the more I will share with the rest of you
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