Ranged

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1 Spells
2 Advantages
3 Disadvantages
4 Ranged skills
5 See also
6 Further reading

A Ranged Attack is the damage style associated with an attack action that allows the attacker to hit the intended victim from a distance. These include spells and skills and attacks made with weapons such as Rifles, Pistols, or Bows.

All ranged attacks have a base 10% chance to hit. Your to-hit chance with these attacks can be improved by buying certain Mortal skills (each type of ranged weapon requires a specialized skill tree):

Ranged Combat, 25%
- Archery, 20%
  - Advanced Archery, 10%
- Long Arms, 20%
  - Advanced Long Arms, 10%
- Small Arms, 20%
  - Advanced Small Arms, 10%
- Thrown Weapons, 20%
  - Advanced Thrown Weapons, 10%

The Eagle Eye spell is a Utility Spell which buffs ranged attacks. But its use is restricted to only Tier 3 classes.

Ranged attacks are not resisted by combat defense. They are resisted by innate level-based defense and certain skills which offer defense versus weapons or 'all'.

[edit] Spells

Main article: Spell

Ranged spell accuracy is affected by Ranged Combat. The accuracy of spells can be further increased with Spell Combat and Battle Magic.

These bonuses apply to single target ranged spells and area of effect spells.

Autohit spells are a unique subset of ranged spells which are guaranteed a hit regardless of the character's accuracy and the target's defense.

[edit] Advantages

Mastering ranged combat allows you to generally deliver more damage than you could with your bare hands.

Defense bonuses provided by Dodge and Martial Arts do not protect against ranged attacks.

Ranged users do not have to contend with harmful Damage Auras.

A ranged combatant is capable of attacking from the ground-to-air or air-to-ground.

[edit] Disadvantages

In addition to regular weapon maintenance, a ranged combatant is completely dependent on maintaining a cache of ammunition at all times.

Ammunition must be crafted or searched for. It may require picking up Engineering or Repair Item to support your needs.

Additional time is required to unload and reload weapons.

A fully trained ranged fighter is virtually powerless without a loaded ranged weapon in their hand (provided that they do not possess an alternative offensive ability).