First of all, i chose wind element because of the VG in agi. Then i add all points into agi from then on, only about 10 points into str to speed up my armour wearing [archers use str-based armour]. Pick Engineer as your starting class.
[for the archer friendly skills ^^]
lvl 1-20
Kill the usual noob monsters - sheep/pudding. Always aim for the monsters
with yellow arrows at this stage so that you can get good exp. It will be nice
if you have an engineer friend to tag along with you giving you attack and hit
rate bonuses. After sheep and pudding, go on to the birds and flying bats. Then
if you have gotten the 1st gun, go on to snipe at the non-aggro ants. (i was
lvling at the map east of Bell)
After ants, it's time to kill the rocks. I don't bother to bomb them around this time because lvl of landmine is still very low, won't do much dmg. Just tank and kill the rocks. By now, guns should do considerable dmg since your agi is all boosted up. After the rocks, the ducks give good exp too. But they also hurt a lot more. Not recommended that you tank them. The whales give good exp too but their splash dmg and criticals may kill you easily as you have low hp and def.
lvl 20-30
Lvling an engineer with agi is a pain until you get landmine skill lvl 2 at lvl 20. After that everything is a breeze. Start bombing blue whales, ducks, gunners. If you find the process slow[waiting for sp], use your bow/gun to snipe and kill. At lvl 20, it is recommended that you do the inventory page 2 quest as well, so that you can get exp even while completing the quest. Personally i find it a little difficult to do it at lvl 20, because i have crap armour [putting all points into agi].
The map east and then north of Trendol is a good place for bombing. But many
gunners will make you eat lots of fruits because your armour is still lousy.
After gunners, the aggro ants give good exp until you the bears are not dark red arrows to you anymore. Once you feel you're ready to take on the bears, immediately start to bomb/snipe them for good exp. Killing the bears lvled me up to about 30. They also drop decent armour. Archers usually find their own armour and 4ever need to meet the str requirements of a better armour.
Note: the weapon i used from lvl 20-30 is the 2nd gun you can buy from the engineer guild and a crossbow. Try to meet requirements of bows and use them asap. Gun's dmg are so much lower and slower too -_-;;.... Bows are much faster than crossbows. So try to aim for bows instead of crossbows unless you like to run and snipe a lot.
lvl 30-40
By lvl 25, you'll also obtain the robot skill. ^^ This skill is absolutely
wonderful for your bombing-lvling. Go to miongmiong groove for a good lvling
experience once the monsters are not dark red to you anymore. Lvling becomes a
lot more harder once you go past lvl 35 (the lvl to change occupation/class).
But no you're not going to change into archer at lvl 35 ^^;;. The point of
making dark archer is to get Darkness - the skill to make your shooting a lot
easier. This skill can only be obtained at lvl 40. *_* So bear with it! At
miongmiong, it's easy to get to lvl 40. ^^ Just lvl around that area until you
get there. Or go to ant cave and have a bombing good time. (but ants in there
give lower exp since you're still not high lvl enough)
At lvl 40, the ultimate moment has arrived. Go to Mesta and changed into a gunner to obtain Darkness skill. And your 3rd lvl 2 skill. [you have gotten your 2nd lvl 2 skill at lvl 30...... right?] You have also learnt a skill for gunner...... but since you're using a bow...... that skill don't work. ^^;; After changing to gunner......... head back to enterlance and change your class into a Fighter! But you need a mini-quest in order to do that. The fee is 50,000 + 1 lead. Give them to the guildmaster, and there..... you're a lvl 0 fighter. *lol* Here's where your pain will begin, for you need 35 more lvls before you can become an archer. But in order to be good and powerful ^^, you can bear with it!
At lvl 40, your hp must be still in -_- a bad state. So do not attempt your darkness skill without 450+++++ hp.
By lvl 40, i'm still using great bow although i can use the next crossbow. Xbow sux! >.> So there... still using great bow and lousy armour.
lvl 40-50
The ant cave is good exp until lvl 47. But that place is also full of KSers
and looters. So i eventually switched maps after countless incidents of ksing. I
like sniping more than bombing by now...... as bombing eats up my $$. (sp fruits
T_________T) A good sniping area is west of Wind Groove. Here, i sniped the blue
kitties for $$ and use very little pots/fruits. Earning lots of $$ here. ^_^
Just remember to stock up on lots of arrows.
Note: by now you should be uber rich......... if you had not spend all your $$$ on useless items. -0-;; Because your str is still so low that you look like a noob, by now you should have kept those str amour that u can wear since you can even find str 95 items for yourself now. [your str should be around 40-50+ by now]
-to be continued-s