Hi, dear Paizo's community
I'm currently playing Skulls and Shackles and our group is currently having a problem of protecting his main damage dealer, THE archer Ranger. The ranger is being focused by every monster, every fight.
Our group consist of:
- Half-Orc (being Reincarnated into a gnome) Besmara Bad touch Cleric 13th
- Human TwF Greater Vanish Ninja 13th
- Half-elf Archer Ranger(Freebooter) 13th
- Me, Tengu Gish Bard(Buccaneer) 13th
Bard and Ninja deal a lot of damage but... nothing near as the output of the archer. Then, he's the primary target of every fight and he's often drop to zero hp in 1rnd (he have the best AC/health of our group...). I (Gish Bard w/ miror images/displacement) try to stand between ennemies and him in every fight, casting Greater Invisibility if needed, but I consistently fail to protect him in big fight. I understand our GM to focus him, he deal to much damage and end encounter so quickly (ennemies know it too!), but, it's just so frustating for the player to being shut down and watching the group trying to survive the rest of the fight without their main damage source.
He tried invisibility -> Faced True Seeing, See Invisibility or Invibility Purge each time
He tried fly -> Face another archer or flying monsters
He tried being farther -> Faced Teleporting Devils
He tried stand behind -> Faced ridiculous grappling reach monsters
Is there some kind of Spells, Magic Items of another tacticas we could use to help him? If I can manage to ensure him 1-2 round of shooting we've probably won the fight.
We had an argument last game, we found a belt (+4Con, +4Dex) and he said he need that Con boost, more than our Ninja (I already bought mine :D). But I think we could have a better solution than giving him more HP to survive since I realy believe Con should be more useful on a frontline character...
Thanks!
*GM is fairplay and strictly follow the AP.