Green Arrow / Hawkeye type Archer

[Rylden]

Hey Guys looking for help building a trick shot archer using an Elf as the base race, and the empty Quiver Style feat chain. Those are the basic requirements, outside that, looking for a decent BAB, and trick arrows like no other.

[CampinCarl9127]

I built Green Arrow a few months ago. Could give you some inspiration.

Link

[Rylden]

CampinCarl9127 wrote:

I built Green Arrow a few months ago. Could give you some inspiration.

Link

Awesome, I appreciate the link :D

[CampinCarl9127]

I couldn't really get the concept to work without gestalt. Super heroes are just too competent to work with a single class.

[LizardMage]

This might help you out also.

http://www.infobarrel.com/How_to_Build_Hawkeye_in_The_Pathfinder_Roleplayin g_Game

[Oncoming_Storm]

Zen Archer with the Empty Quiver Style feat from the Weapon Masters Handbook is about 90% of the work. The other 10 is getting the ranged disarm feats from the same book mentioned above, and then adding some of the new alchemical arrows from the alchemy companion or whatever it's called.

[LuniasM]

Only the Grenadier Alchemist and the Explosive Missile discovery properly mimic the concept, but Alchemist doesn't fit the concept perfectly - needs less spells and more BAB to work properly.

[Cavall]

True but to mimic green arrow you know you'll need that disarm and explosive attacks. I'm having a hard time finding a way to do that without the alchemist. Except this one.

I suggest trapper ranger. No spells, and launch traps with your arrows. That seems pretty damn close given the traps you can choose.

Maybe find something to give up the bond to gain a good mimic as well.

[Cavall]

To further my idea of trapper ranger,

Bludgeoning trap
Decoy trap
Dirty trick
Distraction
Explosion (needs fire )
Smoke
Snare
Toxic fumes
Tripwire

All of these traps launched with arrows, and you'll gain a HUGE boost over some other classes because of being able to choose archery as a weapon style.

Would actually be worth it to take the feat to +1 dc to traps and gain the extra trap to flesh out the traps choices.

What do you all think?

[Ryan Freire]

Ranger with the hooded champion and trapper archetypes

[N. Jolly]

CampinCarl9127 wrote:

I built Green Arrow a few months ago. Could give you some inspiration.

Link

I was deeply glad to see Grenadier Alchemist here, this is the best possible way to emulate the arrow variety of Green Arrow.

[Cavall]

Ryan Freire wrote:

Ranger with the hooded champion and trapper archetypes

Yes that'd a perfect match for it. Thanks Ryan.

This is a great green arrow.

[CampinCarl9127]

Thanks N. Jolly. The grenadier archetype is too perfect to not use. I can't imagine a good Green Arrow build without at least a dip in it.

[Inkfist]

If you are going the Hawkeye route (the Matt Fraction comics run) you want your first two levels to be a hooded champion ranger, then the rest in a sleuth investigator. Take the ranged studied strike option and you are pretty much done. You hit hard, you are charming, slippery and dispite looking stupid you always seem to know how to muddle through. Now you can impress your party as you run a dungeon dispite being ambushed with your pants down (literally)

[Gwen Smith]

Look in Elves of Golarion for a nice list of trick arrows. (Most of these have also be reprinted in the Alchemy Manual, but not all.)

[Wolfsnap]

*Cuts his way out of ice block*

"And Black Canary said that a buzz-saw arrow was self-indulgent!"

[Imbicatus]

Aha! But did you remember to being along a trusty can of bat-shark repellent spray, dear chum?

[Ravingdork]

I made a similarly inspired archer a while ago. Perhaps it could serve to help you in some way? Dayer Rann, 15th-level trick archer