If there's one thing that disappoints me about 5E as a whole thus far, as someone who got into DnD with 5E, it's the relative lack of build variety in comparison to the Pathfinder franchise. I can't go make an Arcane Archer without feeling like something is majorly missing or going very off-flavor from the spirit of the original class design. Even the actual Arcane Archer fighter subclass in 5E is mostly about having enchanted arrows, while missing the actual spells to go along with it - and I suspect this is one of the subclasses that may make it into BG3 in the end.
It's to the level that I consider College of Valor Bard to be a better Arcane Archer than the actual Fighter subclass, and that's also a subclass that's very likely to make it into BG3 when the Bard class is released for us. I feel like getting access to double attack while having full spellcaster progression is going to be very powerful utility-wise in BG3.
It's why I was so fascinated by Solasta's homebrew wizard Greenmage subclass, even if it was less optimal than the horribly busted Shock Arcanist subclass. And Pathfinder's Eldritch Archer (and let's add Dragon's Dogma Magick Archer to this) was exactly what I'd been envisioning when I think of a proper Arcane Archer. Straight up casting spells through your bow is very visually pleasing.
