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Tactical Manual page 1

Your friend, the longbow

Having a friend while adventuring is very important. Anything can happen out there, from Giants, Spider Queen & brood ambushes, to entire oceans deciding to have you for lunch. Thankfully for us fighting on top of sturdy soil, the warrior has access to his trusty longbow, his friend of many battles. While the rifle is also quite a friend for distance fighting ( specialising in huge amounts of damage against single targets , making it quite nice for playing it safe those 30 man boss battles) the longbow is unique in the fact that it has the only weapon skill in the warrior profession that is a field, meaning the first part of executing a Combo ( and in this case, a Fire_Field using the bow burst skill, Combustive_Shot)

If you are unfamiliar with the combo mechanic, try this simple move while adventuring :

1) Find an enemy

2) Build adrenaline ( preempting the fight with Healing_Surge and shooting a little to gain adren until Combustive_Shot is ready )

3) Quickly activate Combustive_Shot and Arcing_Arrow at the same spot.

This should activate and area Might effect, granting you increased damage .

Of course this simple combo example is only the very first step in what can be multiple combos off the same field. In fact, my favorite current tactic does a blast, leap and whirl finisher on the field using a sword/axe combo to execute a second maneuver that results in a flaming leap of whirly, shooty fire death. But that my friends is for page two of the manual , "Pushing the basic combo further".

Until then, much love to all of you warriors out there... --Kaga