This subclass was nerfed so hard. It needs more uses of arcane shots between rests to be fun to play and viable. Something like the base amount plus your Intelligence modifier would be good.

I'm shocked that WotC discovered you don't need to give every magic class spellcasting.

Arrow Magic Was A really interesting Idea. Great to hear it made the Guide.

just two shots per rest.... feel not very magical when you spent all that

Well, looks like Fate fans will finally have a way to smoothly make a Cosplay of Archer now.

Soon plenty of arcane archers will start saying that they have failed their cities.

I'm living these hype videos. I've been watching them first thing every morning ^^

it really emphasises on magic being somthing that is evolving with its own styles and practices

Laughs in Heroic Spirit EMIYA

youtube max volume, speakers at max, still cant hear THE END OF HIS LONG WINDED SENTENCES

I'd like to hear the other characters and character stories associated with the new subclasses!

So I heard the Favored soul mentioned as being the divine soul. We getting that huh?

I like the idea of a gish who knows how to put temporary enchantments on the equipment they use, as distinct from one who juggles between spellcasting and martial stuff. But that should cover all armors and weapons, not just ammunition. Especially when spellcasting is mostly a ranged business already. My fear is that the arcane archer, the forge cleric and the artificer will all come close but no cigar. Another hope would be a half-psionicist.

it's pretty weird that they are doing this marketing thingy a whole month before lauching. but then again, there's gonna be a shitton of subclasses (25, right?) in the book, so I guess they're gonna get done with them just in time for launch. they might even have the time to talk about other stuff that's in the book.

I see this subclass as an Arcane Hawkeye an archer with different arcane tool in his/her arrows

I have a few complaints about the Arcane Archer mechanically, but my biggest complaint is that you can’t use crossbows with it. Second complaint is only having two shots, because it just sucks. And before someone mentions homeruling or homebrew, I play AL. There’s no skimping on the rules.

This would have been perfect for Vex'ahlia!

From a design perspective I hope they changed the number of uses from unearthed arcana. Felt very limited in it's arcane arrow uses and the fact that it never increased is kind of lopsided when compared against spell casting.

Arcane archer is basically the hawkeye subclass

Planning to play this someday

I played one from the UA. It reminded me of Hawkeye in the Avengers with the different types of arrows.

Mearls is moving at Colville speed for a bit here.

Anyone else think this subclass could be re-skinned as Gene from Outlaw Star, complete with Caster Shells instead of arrows, kind of like a Arcane Marksman?

It would make more sense to make them casters like Eldritch knights and have the magical arrows powered by spell slots, like smites, also having things like cantrips that can be delivered by arrows as a bonus action.

How about the magic arrows have to be Concentrated on? You can only have two arrows powered up at a time, say, Evocation and Necromancy, fire the Evocation, now you can concentrate on a Divination arrow. Take away the long/short rest for the Use of an arrow, and make it for the Creation of the arrow. So now, each morning, you Create an arrow for each school of magic, and you can concentrate on two of them. If you want to power up a different school, take a full round action to change your concentration from one to another, then fire that arrow. You can't create that arrow again until you complete a short or long rest, but at least you will have a quiver with other magic arrows available. That's 16 per day.

too bad this subclass missed the mark (pun intended). You are basically just a regular joe schmoe archer that can use a cool shot twice per rest. You don't get more uses ever, the special shots dont scale up until lvl 18, and you only get to chose a total of 6 types of shots at level 18 (which most people dont ever get to so you will likely have less options)

HAPPENING!

Yes thank god

I think I hear angels singing. I am SOOOO fucking playing this.

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Did anyone else catch the second spoiler, divine (favoured) soul sorcerer?

I can see Laura Bailey from Critical Role using this class in the next campaign.

Sad that it doesn't work with crossbows :(

Just take my money already.

Are you using the UA version, or are there updates to the class in the guide?

Can i make an arcane javelin thrower?

DnD be yondu!!

What is the difference between arcane archer and ranger

I really love playing an archer in these things, but I'm confused, are arcane archer not good in this Edition?

Mike Mearls design hour is way more intuitive

This looks great at a glance, but I feel like it might get kind of boring rather quickly compared to the variety other classes have. I'm not sure though.

Why cap it at 2 special shots per short rest? Why not more as you level? Why not equal to INT mod? And I agree with people on Arcane Archer being better as a Ranger archetype. The core Fighter class adds nothing to improve the feel of the archetype... Extra Attacks are just that, and they don't really change much with you still only able to use one special shot in a turn.

This was way better in 3.5

I thought that there were only two subclasses per class with wizard only getting one, why then is fighter getting 3?

op

can i use it with crossbows?

I love that it's got magic that isn't spellcasting. IMO, DnD should have less spellcasting, but just as much magic.

Hey all can you help me? I'm playing an arcane archer level 6 now and it really sucks. I can't even use the class ability yet because I don't have a magic bow or arrows, this is because of the adventure so far, we've been sailing a lot (it's really fun). However even when I do find one you can only use a arcane shot TWICE between rests. I feel you should get shots equal to your intelligence modifier or something between rests. Should I propose this to the DM? It's not like I can even use them because it's really rare for us to find magic bows or arrows. I've only found 3 magic fire arrows so far...

Why is this not for my ranger!? the fighter should be getting a new subclass to even be a good archer something like a war archer where they get a massive 6 foot long bow and are firing off siege breaking arrows and such. The Ranger deserves the arcane archer subclass.

very under powered because it can only use 2 of those magic arrows per short rest. so after 2 magic arrows he or she is just an archer

An awesome idea in concept, that falls flat on its face in implementation. I would honestly say that the only worse fighter archetype than this would be the cavalier, and tie it with the champion. (Ideas for a fix below.) Only two uses of create magic arrow per short or long rest is the crippling blow to this archetype. And it doesn't get better until level 15 when you are almost guaranteed at least one per encounter. (Small chance that you could have two encounters within a minute of each other, depending on circumstances.) To top it off, most of the arcane shot options are garbage anyway, which really makes it worse that you learn six of the eight instead of getting more uses. However, fixing this archetype is pretty simple, and I recommend that anyone who wants to play it, tries to convince their DM to allow the following changes: 1) Move the two per short/long rest from the create magic arrow feature to the arcane shot feature. (Basically, make create magic arrow a cantrip.) 2) Move the extra 2d6 from the create magic arrow feature to the arcane shot feature. The 18th level ability will also change to reflect this. 3) Add your intelligence (or wisdom, if that's what you want) modifier to the damage of magic arrows from the create magic arrow feature. 4) Start with three arcane shot options. That's all you'll ever get but you can switch them out at any fighter level. (The options aren't great anyway, so I doubt anyone will really miss them.) 5) Change the additional arcane shot options at 7th, 10th, 15th, and 18th level to additional arcane shot uses.

this subclass needs to be fixed.

3 fighter archytypes...... yay... just make blood hunter a.l. n I'll be happy

I hope the arcane archer got some serious buffs, it's arrows are cool but the fact that you can only use you classes defining ability twice per short or long rest all the way to level 15 is absolute garbage. the next to closest things to this are the battle master which gets more superiority dice as it levels allowing you more options and opportunities to use those options, and the ranger which again gets more options via spells and more opportunities to use those options. Your gameplay for this class does not change in any interesting ways until you hit 15, to be blunt this class is VERY boring, I played one up to level 10 before i couldn't stand it anymore and rerolled.

I want to bring something up for everyone talking about AA being weak for only having two magic arrows. What restricts me to having 4d6 per long rest? Presumably, people think that each arrow only deals the 2d6 once, which isn’t the case for at least three of these arrows: Bursting, Piercing, and Grasping. Bursting arrow deals that 2d6 in an area, so presumably you are using it on at least 2 or 3 creatures, which amounts to 4-6d6 force damage with no save to avoid its area of effect. Piercing arrow deals damage in a line with a dex save to half the damage, but it also lets you add the arrow’s damage to the roll. Meaning that if you hit 2 creatures and they both succeed you still get a minimum of one half of 1d8+2d6+dex mod per creature. And grasping arrow, while it deals easily resisted poison damage on impact, slows the target and deals slashing damage whenever they first move on *every turn* including your friends turns. So if anyone grapples the guy you hit, hits them with a lightning lure or similar spell effect or shoves them, they take an immediate 2d6 slashing. And this happens with *no save* until they use an action to make a skill check. I don’t know, maybe I have no idea what I’m talking about. But it seems rather silly to compare this subclass to the Battlemaster. Seems to me that you just need to play your cards a little smarter to get value out of it.

I'm confused, they have said there would be 2 subclasses for each class, and 1 for Wizard. But with this one, the Samurai, and the Cavalier, there are already 3 subclasses for the Fighter... what?

Loremaster Wizard pls