Duelist with bows?

According with the Duelist description: "His powerful arms can draw the strings of the heaviest and most lethal longbows."

I would like to know from beta members how viable is a long range duelist.

Thanks in advance.

Very viable. And its easier to outfit them with higher armor%, which is nice. Honestly the character classes are very versatile, experimenting is going to keep people playing for a long time I think. ;)

Thanks for your answer, Mashekle.
My first char, without a doubt. Go Duelist!!!!!!!

i am fully in for the duelist as well just cant wait for a crack at this game. :)

I cannot wait to be able to play with a duelist. I LOVE ranged weapons but hate using girl characters in many games that use girls as the ranged characters which is something I never got used to.

normally with what i read, you can shape your character in the way you want.

like a Marauder Magician,
or a Witch with a big Melee potential.

(let me know if i am wrong)

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Sebas_the_French_Lord a écrit :

normally with what i read, you can shape your character in the way you want.

like a Marauder Magician,
or a Witch with a big Melee potential.

(let me know if i am wrong)

Yeah that seems correct right now but it will change when they launch update 0.9.3.
Quoting the Beta Manifesto:



"Passive Skill Tree

We intend to experiment with having each character class start at their own position in the tree (with a complete redesign so that these starting areas are appropriate, of course). This will further reinforce character identity while still allowing players to “splash” off-attribute skills by exploring the tree in that direction. More information on these changes will be made available as make progress on this. This update should be available in the medium term."



"Class Identity, Attributes and Requirements

Class identity is an area of the game that is of great importance to us currently. We are going to devote serious resources towards making the classes feel more distinct while still encouraging people to experiment with cross-class builds and versatile skill/item choices. The aforementioned change to the passive skill tree (each class starting at a distinct location) will help create a different early-game for each class.

We’re probably going to further differentiate the classes with specific base stats that affect their starting abilities in certain areas. For example, Witches will cast faster than other classes by default.

We will probably add properties to attributes (for example, having points in strength directly translate into Life) to reward people for specialising in their character’s core abilities (after all of the changes made to tempt people into building diverse characters).

There will be substantial changes to the formula behind the requirements of items. We changed this as recently as a week before Beta, and do intend to fix it up some more. There are currently some bad consequences of the way we calculate it (a Marauder finds it easy to specialise in Dex/Int items but hard to specialise in pure Dex items, for example). We want to encourage a situation where players can build diverse characters if they’re willing to splash in other attributes, but they’d better have a good reason for doing so."

thanks casaito,

maybe i was too exited than i missed this...
Class identity is an area of the game that is of great importance to us currently. We are going to devote serious resources towards making the classes feel more distinct while still encouraging people to experiment with cross-class builds and versatile skill/item choices. The aforementioned change to the passive skill tree (each class starting at a distinct location) will help create a different early-game for each class.
xD
i remind me FFX with the "sphere" if i am not wrong.
where different characters start in the sphere at different point.

too bad i could probaly not experiment the witch & melee then.


but i am still hoping ^.^
We want to encourage a situation where players can build diverse characters if they’re willing to splash in other attributes, but they’d better have a good reason for doing so.

again a thank, for pointing this casaito.

It doesn't appear to say that a melee witch is not possible. It just indicates that she will not be purely melee. She is a witch after all with latent magical abilities. How would her witch parents feel if their daughter became a brute instead of a nice wholesome witch? =D

You might be right though. The witch starting position in the tree might be too far from the skills you expected to use. Lets hope they consider than when designing the new skill tree.

I made a melee witch a while back, she did great early on. Didnt have any trouble picking up melee passives either. I dont know how viable she would be later on in the game though. hmmmmmm After the new patch comes out I'll try another war witch, just to see.