Build:Master Marksman

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This is a high risk, high reward kind of build. All this build focuses on is getting reduced stamina cost to make using the bow easier and using the war bow to apply confusion and talus cleaver to apply pain and finishing things off with opportunist stab. Getting the master trader set is not mandatory but the weather protection, pouch size increase, and movement speed do help improve QoL from traveling. You can get started pretty easily with just a recurve bow, rondel dagger, and fang axe. The first goal would be to get a master trader garb from the friendly immaculate in Enmerkar Forest then staying in the region till you acquire all your wild hunter perks, then you'd want to head over to Levant to get the rest of the rogue and mercenary perks needed. You'd want to go to Harmattan next to pick up efficiency and you can find kazite bows there to use till you acquire a war bow, but you can get a war bow as early as reaching Berg if you get enough silver. The Dagger and Axe you use are flexible but I happened to like using the manticore dagger and living wood axe, which I picked up on my effort to get Zhorn's hunting backpack. Ideally you would enchant the master trader set with Aegis but if you aren't comfortable with kiting and evading then you'll end up dying often even with the 4 protection. You can tweak the build fairly easily by using evasion shot and strafing shot, or even using more dagger skills which will let you apply more extreme poison build up with the manticore dagger. You can also switch the war bow for the horror bow fairly easily since it's a component to crafting the horror bow, but I personally liked having confusion on my bow rather than trying to apply it with my melee weapons/skills. Buffing yourself up with discipline, enrage, mist, and possessed will help you get some more damage but I also suggest making use of warrior elixirs and stoneflesh elixirs.