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Ultima Online: Archery Skill Guide
MMORPG.com's Vitaliy Dikker has provided us with this guide to the Archery Training Skill in Ultima Online.
Archery is for ranged fighting. This is good, because you can do damage to your opponent and stay safe unlike melee fighters. The difficulty is making sure you are far away enough to reload safely, but not so far away that your shooting range is limited.
As an archer you will need a ridiculous amount of arrows or bolts. If you train in fletching you will have a 99% chance of success to make these with only 30% skill level. You will need to gather wood from the forest and kill birdies or harpies for feathers. Also, centaurs, ratmen mages, and juka lords are usually good sources of free arrows after you kindly explain you would like them to die and give you all their belongings. Alternatively, you could buy arrows and save time. I personally recommend doing just that!
SKILL TRAINING
Archery is another one of those difficulty based skills. The key to successful weapon training is to fight a creature of your own level, and close enough to your own level, so that you will gain skill off it. Experimentation is essential so try shooting different creatures to see which animals you gain off best. Remember the ones that were too hard for you, because they will be good later:
| Skill | Recommended Creatures |
| 0 | Buy Skills from NPC fighter |
| 30 | Bulls, Cows, Great Harts, Hinds |
| 40 | Skeletons |
| 70 | Earth Elementals , Air Elementals |
| 90 | Dull Copper Elemental, Rotting Corpses |
| 100 | Rotting Corpses |
Once you reach 70 after fighting basic creatures there is a speedy way to train up to 100 and as high as 120 if you have the scrolls to do so. This method involves you purchasing or making a Grand Master Tinker crafted Golem. You must also be in a guild for this trick to work. If you’re not in a guild, you can create your own one man guild for a mere cost of 25k gold pieces. Just buy a guild deed from any banker. Once you are in a guild and you have your Golem ready you will also need to find a 100% poison damage weapon that would be applicable for the skill you are about to train. In case of archery, you will need a 100% poison bow. The type of bow is not important as long as it is 100% poison, because golems are practically immune to poison damage; and because of this while training you will only damage it 1 health point per hit.
Also, you can completely prevent Golem from hurting you. This is where being a guild comes into play. Stand next to your Golem inside a guarded zone such as Luna Bank or the outskirts of Luna City. Now, type in the command “All Kill” and click on yourself. Immediately after, you will take initial damage from Golem hitting you, now say “All Stop”. Right after that say “All Guard Me” and if you do this successfully and quick enough after initial damage, Golem will stop attacking and switch to guard mode. While you continue hitting with your weapon Golem will just stand still and not attack you. You will gain quite nicely for a while but eventually poor Golem will be hurt badly. If you are training near Luna bank you can conveniently stable him in the Luna stables next to the bank. It will take a few minutes for Golem to recover his health and then you can claim it from stables and repeat this whole process.
Good luck on your weapon skill training!
When the extended skill scrolls were added to the game in a pvp dungeon they basically destroyed this game. You no longer achieved top skills through your own efforts, you bought it. Present players probably can't see how ruinous to the game this change was, but it was what lead to it's downfall for sure.
When top skills become saleable the game has real issues.
When they made the graphics update to this game it brought very few back, basically because graphics weren't the issue it was all the changes to the ruleset which they did not address.
Thats why I quit, skills should be earnt not bought. Still, no other game is like this. Had good times there. If they did an ultima 1.5 (like 2 except not if you know what i mean) i'd definately come back. Cause it's definately not about graphics.
Skill scrolls?? You poor souls still play this piece of crap? Ultima Online died when EA took over(no surprise there) and they implemented Trammel back in 1999. The only reason the name UO is still relevant anymore is because of how much MMORPG vets such as myself keep talking about and refering to the REAL World SImulation environment that the pre-trammel era provided that has not been seen by a single MMORPG til this very day. Darkfall is the only game close to providing this feeling. The constant reference to this game "in the good ol days" is the only thing that attracts any new uninformed players to this game today.
As you can see anytime they create a new press release, forums like these are deserted. Seriously, go away UO, you have let so many people down, the people making decsions over there are pathetic, you are totally clueless to what mmorpgers really want.
You've perverted Richard Garriot's creation to nothing more than a cheap 2D WoW clone.
Completely untrue. Trammel reinvigorated the game. UO was fine until they tried to make it like EQ in "Age of Shadows". Please get your facts straight when posting.
I have a 10+ yr old UO acct. Trammel ruined the game, I lost interest about a year later and have barely touched the game since, I only keep the acct because my daughter enjoys making clothes....lol. I dilike WOW because all the PVP fighting, as with many MMOs is scripted and held in special arena etc. I have hope for Darkfall, please let it be like UO in the pre-tram, ie good, days. I want realism, I was never what we called a PK. I didnt kill others just to drive them crazy. I went after PKs with a gang of weaker players like myself and it was a blast. I want that back....thanks for reading my rant, Ifanyone knows of any other games,MMO, that they think I would enjoy ,please email me, Enigma2.0@gmail.com. Aqnother OT note, playing ALOT of Fallout 3 right now on XBOX360, Love the game, would love to see a MMO based on it or similar. Again anyone know of anything like that??? Fell free to email me, just put MMO in the subject please. Or start a new thread here and email the link. I would like to discuss UO pre tram morer and just about anything else related to realism im MMOs.....tks
Enigma
I have a 10+ yr old UO acct. Trammel ruined the game, I lost interest about a year later and have barely touched the game since, I only keep the acct because my daughter enjoys making clothes....lol. I dilike WOW because all the PVP fighting, as with many MMOs is scripted and held in special arena etc. I have hope for Darkfall, please let it be like UO in the pre-tram, ie good, days. I want realism, I was never what we called a PK. I didnt kill others just to drive them crazy. I went after PKs with a gang of weaker players like myself and it was a blast. I want that back....thanks for reading my rant, Ifanyone knows of any other games,MMO, that they think I would enjoy ,please email me, Enigma2.0@gmail.com. Aqnother OT note, playing ALOT of Fallout 3 right now on XBOX360, Love the game, would love to see a MMO based on it or similar. Again anyone know of anything like that??? Fell free to email me, just put MMO in the subject please. Or start a new thread here and email the link. I would like to discuss UO pre tram morer and just about anything else related to realism im MMOs.....tks
Enigma
Try the game Oblivion, or other Elder Scrolls games.
Fallout I and Fallout II. If you enjoy fallout one and two at least _try_ the Fallout Tactics game.
Edit: Ultima online is not my thing. Neither is Tibia which I find equal.