BDO Archer Guide (Black Desert Online)

Hello, Adventurers!

Archer has arrived last week and wields both the Crossbow and Greatbow using stylish skills. This allows him to be versatile on the battlefield.

Here, we will continue from the previous story where the young Luthragon followed the Mother’s will and reached for the rift. Not even the elder was able to stop him.

Let’s see what happens to him and the stronger skills he gains through the Ascension Quests.

It was a night when a white moon lighted up the Kamasylvian skies. A young Luthraghon stood in front of the goddess’ sacred tree, Kamasylve.

The Luthraghon stood underneath the moonlight, looking as he if he didn’t know what to do. He stood there, feeling the wind against his face. As he looked at the fluttering leaves of Kamasylve, he idly wondered whether the answer he was looking for, the answer about his destiny, was written on one of the leaves.

Then, his mind was racing with too many thoughts. The thoughts made the young Luthraghon very confused, and the feeling of confusion felt almost suffocating.

He thought about how he was born to protect the roots of Kamasylve. The Luthraghon came to this realm looking to find out more about his greater purpose in life, but everything he had seen so far seemed all too foreign. When he remembered that those who tried to keep his brothers and him locked up in the other realm were his own sisters, he trembled with rage for the first time in his life.

He was still lost in his thoughts when he heard a rustle and felt someone else’s presence. The figure vanished leaving behind black smoke, but he knew exactly who it was. It was one of his Vedir sisters, the one who tried to stop the Luthraghons from ever leaving Adùir.

The Luthraghon dashed through the forest, chasing after the trail of black smoke. Taking a deep breath, he drew his Greatbow. The arrow was released with a thundering roar, and as it ripped through the wind it created a gust in its path.

The Luthraghon was confident that his arrow hit the Vedir and started looking for her body. However, the only thing he could find was his arrow. There were no traces of the Vedir to be found.

As he pulled out his arrow from the tree, he heard a voice:

“Did you think you could hit me with that sluggish arrow?”

“You should’ve remained in Adùir, protecting your root…”

“You don’t belong here, Watcher.”

The Luthraghon quickly turned towards the voice, only to see a powerful spellbound Kriegsmesser embedded in the ground. Then, a dark energy erupted from the ground knocking back the Luthraghon, leaving him with excruciating pain. He felt as if his body was being shredded into pieces, but even in such pain, he used all that was left in him to stab the Vedir with the arrow in his hands…

In the aftermath of the explosion, the Luthraghon looked around as the dust settled around him, but the Vedir was long gone. He lamented:

“Mother, I am doubtful that I will be able to fulfill the purpose that you have bestowed upon me.”

Feeling bitter and resentful, he reached for his fallen arrow, which was now broken. His body felt numb from all his blood loss. It was then that a brilliant light entered his body, and he felt a warmth surrounding his body.

Then, he saw a white Sylvian Wolf appearing between the trees.

The Sylvian Wolf walked up close and paced around the Luthraghon. It was the first time he saw such a wolf, but the wolf felt familiar to him somehow.

The Luthraghon soon realized why the wolf felt familiar. He could feel his Greatbow resonate as the wolf came closer and closer.

As he reached out to the wolf, it let out a long howl and dispersed into light, becoming one with the Luthraghon. Then, he heard a voice.

“This is my answer to you. Your destiny is in your hands.
Walk the path you believe in,
and that is how you willfulfil your purpose.”

Gripping his Greatbow, he started walking purposefully, with no hesitation left in him.

‘This is the path that I choose to take, so this is my destiny.’

Archer Skill Ascension

Archer can use the main weapon and awakening weapon from the start, unlike any other class. However, he couldn’t learn all the skills.

Skill ascension will make his Greatbow skills even more powerful and allow him to learn additional skills. This is the moment when Archer becomes a true Luthraghon.

 Righteous Smite

Shoots an arrow infused with the power of light. It moves slowly, but has enough power to decimate anything once it explodes upon impact.

 Watcher

Strengthens the Greatbow with the energy of light for 30 sec.

 Piercing Light

With steady aim, gathers the energy of light to deliver a powerful arrow strong enough to split light itself.

 Ravenous Talon

Hits with the Greatbow before stabbing the enemy.

 Flow: Light’s Trail

Carefully takes aim after certain skills to deliver a finishing blow.

Archer Screenshots (Official)

The following Archer Screenshots and images were taken from the official website https://www.blackdesertonline.com/archer

BDO Archer Patch Notes History (Official)

Patch Notes – May 15th 2019

Patch Notes – May 8 2019

Patch Notes – 30th April 2019

Patch Notes – 27th March 2019

• Fixed the issue where the sound for the Descending Current skill would play when using the Evasive Shot skill immediately after casting the Flow: Crossing Wind and Descending Current skill.

• The speed of the arrows fired during the following skills has been increased. The amount of time after which you can swap gears after using these skills has also been changed.

  • Descending Current I, II, III, IV and V, as well as Ultimate: Descending Current.
    Made the hit effects for the skill Tearing Arrow the same when used while mounted and not mounted.

• The graphic effects of the skill Dagger of Protection should no longer follow the movements of your character.

• Fixed the issue where the back side of the head would move when customizing the eyes.

• Fixed the issue where the character’s motion would look awkward when standing still after using the Evasive Explosion Shot III and Absolute: Evasive Explosion Shot 2 times consecutively.

• Improved the hit effect of Tearing Arrow to be more dynamic.

Patch Notes – January 9th 2019

• Rabam skills have been added.

  • The first Rabam skill can be acquired at Lv. 56, and the second Rabam skill can be acquired at Lv. 57.

  • You must acquire the preceding skills in order to acquire the Rabam skills.

• Lv. 56 Rabam Skills

  Skill Name	Skills Required	Skill Description
  Radiant Storm	Arrow Explosion VI + Storm of Light V	Throws a deep breath and shoots consecutively, creating a radiant storm of arrows. Enemies within the area will bleed and have reduced movement speed.
  Deadly Explosion	Arrow Explosion VI + Covering Fire V	Inflicts damage over a wide area with a deadly explosion. Hits multiple enemies at once.

• Lv. 57 Rabam Skills

Skill Name	Skills Required	Skill Description
Ultimate: Verdure Clout	Flow: Verdure Clout II + Wrath of Nature V	Hits a nearby enemy and then shoots a powerful charged arrow with the crossbow. Allows you to surprise nearby enemies and deal an unexpected counterattack.
Radiant Ensnare	Flow: Verdure Clout II + Ensnare III	Drags enemies within range and brings them in front of you. Then, you deal a blow to the ensnared enemies. You can drag multiple enemies at once.

• The arrow effect for the Righteous Smite skill has been changed.

  • The MP/SP/WP reduction effect for successfully landing Righteous Fire hits has been changed to a movement speed reduction effect (movement speed reduced by 10% for 5 sec).

• Fixed the issue where the Righteous Fire effect would not be applied when using Winged Strike while equipped with a Crossbow after learning the Righteous Fire skill.

• The EP Recovery effect when using the skills below will now be applied to the additional hits added after learning Righteous Fire.

  • Winged Strike, Flow: Light's Trail

• After landing 1 hit with Winged Strike, you can now switch to the Greatbow or Crossbow by pressing Q or C. However, the Greatbow stance will maintain for using the Winged Strike backwards.

• After dealing the 1st hit with Winged Strike while using a crossbow, you can now deal the 2nd hit attack in the desired direction by maintaining the LMB.

• Aiming has been improved for Winged Strike, Light’s Path, and Tactical Strike.

• The Winged Strike skill will now be connected more naturally when used as a combo after the third hit for Glissade.

• Fixed the issue where the amount of damage for the first hit for the Glissade skill would occasionally not be applied when used from slanted areas.

• The combo for using Meteor Dive and Glide after using the Absolute: Earth Shatter skill has been improved to connect more smoothly.

• You can now quickly combo skills after using the Meteor Dive, Zephyr Leap, and Ultimate: Zephyr Leap skills.

• The character will now move back more quickly when using the Ultimate: Zephyr Leap skill while using the Awakening weapon.

• While using the Main Weapon, the character can now use other skills more quickly as combos after using the Zephyr Leap and Ultimate: Zephyr Leap skills.

• The skill combos for the skills below will connect more smoothly.

  • Radiant Explosion >> Full Bloom

  • Glide >> Spear of Sylvia

• The height for the following skills has been adjusted so that the falling motions will be displayed after using these skills.

  • Zephyr Leap

  • Ultimate: Zephyr Leap

  • Glissade

• Luthraghon’s Call will now combo more naturally when used after Full Bloom.

• Fixed the issue where the Forward Guard effect would not be applied when connecting the Luthraghon's Call skill as a combo after using certain skills.

  • The Forward Guard effect only applies for Luthraghon's Call when the charge-up gauge is displayed.

• The knockback effect (PvE) for the Full Bloom skill has been removed. Instead, the arrows shots will now deal a knockdown effect to monsters, too, on good hit.

• You can now combo Glissade with Luthraghon's Call after the first Glissade hit.

• You can now combo the Glissade skill after using Glide.

• Glissade can now be used while using a Crossbow.

• You can now combo other skills more quickly after the third Glissade hit.

• The speed for casting the Flow: Light's Trail skill when used while it is not on cooldown has been increased.

• The speed of the first hit for the Light's Path skill has been increased.

• The damage for the Flow: Light's Trail skill during cooldown has been decreased.

• A command has been added for the Flow: Light’s Trail skill.

  • LMB after the 2nd hit of Glissade, LMB/RMB/F after using Luthraghon’s Call.

• A DP reduction effect has been added for successfully landing hits for the Absolute: Volant Kick skill.

• Adjusted the amount of resources required to use the following skills:

  Skill Name	Required Resources (Before)	Required Resources (After)
  Glide	200 Stamina	100 Stamina
  Ensnare I	200 Stamina	30 EP
  Ensnare II	180 Stamina	40 EP
  Ensnare III	150 Stamina	50 EP
  Zephyr Leap	400 Stamina	200 Stamina
  Ultimate: Zephyr Leap	300 Stamina	200 Stamina
  Winged Strike I	200 Stamina	100 Stamina
  Winged Strike II	200 Stamina	100 Stamina
  Winged Strike III	200 Stamina	150 Stamina
  Covering Fire I – III	200 Stamina	100 Stamina
  Covering Fire IV – V	200 Stamina	150 Stamina

• The speed of the motions preceding the Piercing Light skill has been increased.

• Damage reduction effect for the Piercing Light skill has been changed like the following:

  • (Before)

    • During PvP, if more than 2 targets are hit, the damage dealt will decrease by 5% per hit. When attacking more than 8 targets, only 70% of damage will be dealt.
  • (After)
    • During PvP, if more than 2 targets are hit, the damage dealt will decrease by 10% per hit. When attacking more than 8 targets, only 50% of damage will be dealt.

• Damage has been increased for Piercing Light as follows:

  Skill Level	Before	After
  II	973% x 5	1075% x 5
  III	1180% x 5	1570% x 5

• Spear of Sylvia’s stun effect has been replaced with a bound effect.

• The “All DP -10 for 2 sec upon using skill” effect for the Spear of Sylvia has been removed.

• The Critical Hit Rate of Spear of Sylvia depending on levels has been changed as follows:

  Skill Level	Before	After
  I	20%	20%
  II	30%	40%
  III	40%	60%
  IV	50%	80%

• When Evasion is locked, you will not be able to use the skill while in an Awakening state.

• The character will now move forward while using the Gaping Darkness skill when it is used with the ↑ + RMB controls.

• Fixed the issue where the skill sound effect would not play when using the Gaping Darkness skill while moving forward.

• When Evasion is locked, the motions of rolling forward/backwards will no longer occur when in an Awakening state.

• Fixed the issue where the movement would not be normal when using the auto-run key while moving.

• Fixed the issue where the character would move abnormally when pressing RMB + a certain directional key while in a standby stance.

• Awakening skills will now activate properly after getting off of a horse while it is running.

• Fixed a typo in the tooltip for the Winged Strike skill.

• The typo of the skill Spear of Sylvia has been corrected.

• Fixed the typo in the tooltip for the Zephyr Leap skill.

• Fixed the issue where the neck area would look awkward when equipping the Seahorse Diving Hat.

• Fixed the issue where there would be a mark on the left side of the face when selecting the 2nd hairstyle.

• Fixed the graphical issue where the Luanwulf outfit would appear broken.

• Fixed the issue where the face would be visible outside of the helmet when equipping the Luanwulf helmet after selecting the 2nd and 3rd face in the character customization screen.

• Fixed the issue where the weapon would not be visible when equipped with the Snowflake outfit.

• Fixed the issue where the right arm of the Archer would not be visible when equipping Akum Gloves together with a Fishing Rod.

• Fixed the graphical awkwardness on the arm area when having Karlstein outfit equipped in combat mode.

• Fixed the issue where the content of ‘Combat EXP Available’ would not be visible when having Tagged an Archer of Lv. 60 or higher.

Patch Notes – 16th January 2019

• Fixed the issue where the Archer’s Inquirer’s Glasses would appear graphically broken.

• Fixed the issue where the Archer (with Awakening weapon) would move abnormally when repeatedly pressing the W key while auto-moving.

• Fixed the issue where the Archer (with Main Weapon) would show a sprinting motion when pressing the W key after pressing the T key.

• Fixed the issue where the Archer (with Main Weapon) would switch to a main weapon combat status after stopping by pressing the W key after pressing the T key.

• Fixed the issue where the Archer class could not equip Life Skill outfits which were obtained by using the Equipment Tailoring Coupon.

• Fixed the graphical awkwardness on the right part of the pants upon wearing Farmer’s Clothes.

• Fixed the graphical glitch in the arm part when wearing Trainer’s Clothes.

Patch Notes – 23rd January 2019

• Fixed the issue of nearby party members, guild members, and platoon members having their Processing canceled when the Archer uses Breath of the Spirit with Exhale on them while on a mount.

• You can now obtain Archer outfits when opening the [Event] Karlstein Classic Box (15 Days) item.

Patch Notes – January 30th 2019

• Luthraghon's Call will now activate more quickly when used after using Tactical Strike and Flow: Light's Trail.

• Fixed the issue where damage would occasionally not be dealt to targets when using the following skills from a slanted area.

  • Winged Strike

  • Bolt of Radiance

  • Storm of Light

  • Flow: Light's Trail

  • Righteous Smite

  • Glissade

• Reduced the PvP damage for melee attack for Full Bloom and Black Spirit: Full Bloom.

• Gaping Darkness can now be used through the Quick Slot.

• Forward Guard will now apply to the beginning of Luthraghon’s Call and only last until the charging motion ends.

  • The Forward Guard effect will not apply after the charging motion ends.

• The casting speed for Meteor Dive will increase as its skill level increases.

• Forward Guard will now apply in Greatbow mode when moving backwards.

• Fixed the issue where Ravenous Talon would not apply when Stamina was below 250.

• The commands for Arrow Explosion after using Zephyr Leap/Ultimate: Zephyr Leap have been changed from Shift to Shift+F.

• Watcher will now activate even while moving when entering the Q key.

• The casting speed for Earth Shatter will increase as its skill level increases.

• Wrath of Nature and Bolt of Radiance can now be canceled by using Glide and Meteor Dive.

• The animation leading up to the arrow firing during Bolt of Radiance has been sped up.

• Ravenous Talon will restore 30 HP upon each successful hit.

• Fixed the issue where a charging motion was made after performing Watcher, Glide (to the left or right), then Luthraghon's Call.

Patch Notes – February 8th 2019

Patch Notes – 20th February 2019

• The speed of the projectile shooting out from the activating the skill Righteous Smite has doubled and the attack range has decreased by 17M.

  • After using the skill, the speed to connect Righteous Smite into a combo of another skill has decreased.

  • When using the skill Righteous Smite, the speed of the your camera view when turning will now be faster.

• The cooldown for Luthraghon’s Call III, IV has been reduced by 1 sec.

• Transitioning to the Luthraghon’s Call skill after the left/right 2nd hit for Winged Strike and then a hit backwards while in Greatbow mode has been improved to flow more naturally.

• Luthraghon’s Call will flow more naturally after the 3rd hit of Glissade.

• Luthraghon’s Call will flow more naturally after using the Full Bloom skill.

• You can now activate Meteor Dive when moving backwards by pressing the spacebar while in the air when using Zephyr Leap.

• The combo speed of Glissade has been improved.

• The casting speed for Flow: Light’s Trail will not slow down when used during cooldown.

• When using Ravenous Talon, the damage from the additional hit will now be applied properly.

Patch Notes – 6th March 2019

• Improved the graphics such as the impact effect, direction of blood splatter, and attacking directions when hitting targets with the following skills.

  • Ascending Spirit

  • Ensnare

  • Radiant Explosion

  • Uproot

  • Piercing Light

  • Flow: Light’s Trail

  • Righteous Smite

  • Low Sweep

  • Ravenous Talon