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[sotirawr]

I'm looking for a warchanter/archer build to kind of cheat off of. If anyone could point me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you!

(I apologise in advance if this is a silly question!)

[Irinis]

I have one in my builds, 14 bard 6 ranger Elf, just be sure to pick ELF Arcane Archer rather than Ranger even though it qualifies for the Ranger one. Also you will need Power Attack and a Weapon Focus: Slashing, Piercing, or Bludgeon to qualify for Warchanter rather than Virtuoso.

[andbr22]

Well it won't be easy to build, but feats that you gona need:
Bow strenght (i hope you can get this as non ranger), Point blanc shot (required for AA), Rapid shoot, Manyshot, Precise shot, Improved precise shot; !Melee weapon FOCUS! (it is required for Warchanter); Ranged weapons focus (required for AA)
Ohh almost forgot about Power atack (for warchanter).
It definitly won't be duable without cross classing (you will loose warchanter III, and your songs wont be the best), of course you can drop Precise shot, and Improved precise , but they highly increase your usefulnes (Manyshot and rapidshot is too important to drop).
Othere extreamly usefull feat is Toughtness (HP is your AC)

Stats: you will need 17+ dex for Many shot (19+ for Improved precise), Decend Con (at least 12 for Elf, better if more), At least few points in charisma (well you could start with 8 and use +2 tome and +6 item to cast max level spells, but it is not fun at lower levels to not be able to use this blue bar).

Race: definitly elf (you get prestige enchantment (a bit slow thou) Arcane Archer - you can be Arcane Archer/Warchanter).

Keep in mind that in U7 we will see full PrE lines for bards.

[Irinis]

And apparently you need Mental Toughness for higher levels of arrows.

The sheer volume of feat requirements to gain both AA and Warchanter were why I went Virtuoso on my AA Bard build.

For a Warchanter, it might make more sense to go 16 Bard, 2 Fighter (for extra feats), 2 Ranger (free TWF, Bow Strength) But then you don't get free Manyshot, ITWF... sigh.

I really hope they will change the Warchanter prereqs so that Weapon Focus: Ranged will count for it.