Notes from author
Hey everybody, I recently made a bowman build, and I got some suggestions on it as well as did some optimizing, however I still wanted to make it look good, so here it is.
Some of the changes from my previous build that you may notice is that I have gotten rid of the rapier and replaced it with the pyromancy glove. The reasoning behind this is that the timing that was needed to switch to one handing parrry then switch and repost was quite rediculous and I also have found that Poison Mist is quite helpful as it makes it easier to put some distance between you and your opponent as well as allowing a few free shots and giving them less time to react.
The 2 other changes was that my armor now gives me 53 poise instead of 32 but I would have had to put my endurance to 76 in order to still fast roll with the FaP ring so I switched to the Havel's ring.
The last change was that I reduced my strength to 30 as having 40 wasn't giving me to much damage on my bow and put it directly into vitality.
One of the strategies that I use is to fake people out and bait them into attacking. The trick is that you can flip while the bow is drawn but not while you are drawing it. So what you do is wait until the opponent gets close and draw your bow, they will try to attack in order to stagger you thinking that you cannot move, at this time you should flip backwards and fire another shot while recovering, I would also suggest starting out with poison arrows in a fight as this build is very slow paced some free damage while you dodge attacks is nice.
Thank you for looking at my build, if you would like to you can switch up the armor to make it more effective, but I used this armor combination because it added up to 53 as well as the fact that it looked good together.
