Archery
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Basic Archery: increases the damage done by range attacking creatures by 10%. | |
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Advanced Archery: increases the damage done by range attacking creatures by 25%. | |
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Expert Archery: increases the damage done by range attacking creatures by 50%. | |
Archery is a secondary skill, that increases the dealt damage of ranged attacks including ballista. Orrin the Knight is the only hero to specialize in Archery.
Heroes with archery as a starting skill
- Orrin at basic (Castle)
- Valeska at basic (Castle)
- Ivor at basic (Rampart)
- Kyrre at basic (Rampart)
- Jenova at advanced (Rampart)
- Cahl at basic (Inferno)
- Jabarkas at basic (Stronghold)
- Wystan at basic (Fortress)
Heroes who specialize in archery
- Orrin (Castle)
Artifacts which stack to the ability
Discussion
Archery is a secondary skill with two sides. Is almost useless if a hero has only few (weak) ranged units. On the other hand, it may be even better than Offense, which only gives 30% increse to melee damage, if a hero manages to muster strong ranged units like Titans and Cyclops Kings. From the faction Tower and Dungeon heroes are perhaps the advisable candidates to choose Archery because of the powerful ranged units. Archery combined with the artifact Golden Bow is an effective combination, not to mention the combination artifact Bow of the Sharpshooter in Shadow of Death.