Dwarf past-live but want to use bows

[Jasparius]

I havent played a bow build in forever and am working through racial past-lives and really dont want to wait. Thoughts on the best approach for a Dwarf bow user?

We will be going to level 30 for an Epic PL as well as a Racial, and likely running R1 to R3 for speed. I assume literally any build is going to do just fine with this, but are there fun choices here?

Cheers.

 

[Djoe]

I haven't actually ran one yet, but paladin gets a lot of AoE ranged attacks, and if you do at least two levels of ranger you can also get the Inferno Shot AoE attack from arcane archer and a lot of feats you wouldn't otherwise get very early.

 

[Enoach]

Ranger or Fighter could be good options

 

[Dunspartacus]

Paladin and ranger are great as they get access to some early AoE shots that really makes leveling a lot smoother. Horizon walker really is the crowning jewel of bow builds though, and would highly recommend it if you don't have it already. DWS ranger is my personal favorite.

Theres also some cool wisdom based archers you can do like monk or cleric or more in depth AA ranger since theres some good synergy with falconry as well for ranged builds.

 

[Jasparius]

DWS ranger is my personal favorite.

So DWS with Horizon Walker ?

 

[Dunspartacus]

So DWS with Horizon Walker ?

Yeah, it's admittedly pretty basic, just a pure dps archer. But it hits like a truck and being able to stack sneak attack dice with multishot can lead to some crazy single target damage. You also get the choice of going the shadowdancer epic strike if you really want to lean into sneak attacks for leveling (although I admittedly usually either go shiradi for dps or LD for some nice AoE CC).