have your 'other' character as leader and set archer to 'aggressive'. things wont get close.
put your skill points into reload, critical hit and piercing (maybe 2,2,1) with ocassional drops into point blank and splitting arrows. i ended with 44 skill points divided as follows: reload 12, point blank 4, critical hit 12, piercing 12, splitting arrows 4.
she was unstoppable, with many things/monsters dying before they became visible through the fog-of-war.
hope this isn't too forward.
Yeah, I discovered this trick about midway through Act 2. And DK almost never got a chance to kill anything. It's a good thing XP is divided or he'd never have gotten any. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I didn't even think about specializing in one arrow type until near the middle of Act 4, and when I did I chose Splitting Arrows. And no it wasn't too forward, someone else might read this and pick up some ideas. My only problem with this strategy was her wasting arrows on things she could see way off in the distance, but not hit due to obstacles. Heheh... She would ocassionally shoot at the monsters inside the walls, and actually killed a few when they got real close to the side she was on. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> After she killed the first one this way, I switched her to explosive arrows when I got a glimpse of one, and killed several with the explosions.
