Sorc Archer?

[Darkstar1996]

Is this a good idea? Getting a Sorccer and when you run out of mana instead of waiting for party to kill enemy's Pull out a Crossbow or Bow and Do some damage that way? (Rather Perfer Melee, but REALLY low Health). And do some damage with that once outta Mana? or is that just a waste since Sorccers have so much SP?

[Rodomonte]

With Echoes of Power, you're never "out of SP," you're just "down to SLAs." You'll do a lot more damage with these than you will with a bow.

[Brennie]

Making ranged combat anything better than "Awful" would require a large feat, stat, and gear investment - Something that a pure sorc focused on being the best caster they can simply cannot afford.

Using some half decent bow, with little or no dex, no bow strength, and no feats would mean you will be missing 95% of the time, attacking terrible slow, and doing pitiable damage when you do hit. I do not mean this to be insulting, simply realistic.

You do, however, have options via SLAs (As part of one of the "Savant" lines) and eteneral wands, both of which are designed specifically to help in low-to-no SP usage situations. Or heck, ACTUAL wands can be useful too (they will eventually wear out, but they hurt a lot more... not nearly as much as blue-bar based casting, but better than nothign at all) !

[unbongwah]

If you want an offensive caster who also pew-pew-pews, I'd say artificer or something like my Radiant Archer would work out best. I've yet to see (or make myself) a sorc or wiz-based archer / offensive caster build which I think works well. The closest I've come is something like rgr 6 / monk 2 / wiz 12 for a ranged build which also has some decent buffs.

[Havok.cry]

You might try going helf for the artificer dil, and using repeaters. But not for DPS. You can use them to augment your spells. Improved curse spewing and improved shattermantle to help take down high save/spell resistance mobs.