i don't know much about bows. but we used to play a lot with pellet guns back in high school. so much that we play war games hitting each other. yes they hurt lol. depending on the distance but usually it still takes me a few tries before i hit even a stationary target. i used to play with makeshift hand to hand weapons to and no way I'm missing even if my target tries to dodge 

edit: parry is different though. of course i miss when my opponent parries. but parry is blocking. in this game, you still miss even if the monster isn't wearing a shield or even weapon. you still miss even if they don't do anything

there's a lot of things I've forgotten now but I'm pretty sure this used to be for shields only. having this socketable for torso armor too is big especially for self-found hunter archers. since on a self-found run, rigid carapace is one of the easiest ways to get huge pierce res. but archers don't have that luxury since bow is 2 handed. but now they do if they use it on torso

i wrote this few days ago. just maybe it can serve as guide for some. i don't know. it's a Druid spellcaster

https://www.reddit.com/r/TitanQuestAE/comments/tokytv/beating_the_game_with_a_spellcaster_solo/

wtf it rubberbanded. against lamia beastmen in act 4 epic, it lagged it stopped moving for about 2-3 secs, then when it moved again, I'm already dead. TF? maybe it's because of my weak ass 4gb ram

i still think mage sage is a good viable build. now i don't know what i would do. i don't think I'm interested in EE. I'm weak sigh

Hardcore and untwinked mmhmm nomnomnom.. ice shards makes normal soo damn easy.

of course, right after i criticize your build for being too hard, you criticize mine for being too easy. gotcha 

sb cuffs farm, not in normal. that bracers' "of the gryphon" suffix

edit: but i see you're doing a guardian. that's doable for sure. but warning, warning, warning (especially for you): that build is so damn slooooow and boring early game

hehe you're really obsessed with this
it's not that i hate it, but the problem is

hardcore, untwinked.

you have 50% recharge in normal. but can you carry it over to epic, and then to legendary, without sacrificing resists? you don't have items and the fact that it's hardcore limits your farming options. if you're allowed to die a hundred times then it's no problem. but you're not allowed to die even 1 death. you can't farm Typhon however many times you want

but hey if you can do it, that would be amazing. but I'm just saying, if you ask me, get through it first with an easier build

boring. yep i understand that. when i first played conqueror, i couldn't continue because it was so boring. all you do is hit hit hit slash slash slash. then when my nephew made one himself, he also stopped because it was so boring.

although with Atlantis, it gives you an alternate build. but i shouldn't tell you that because you'll just make another post titled Pet Conqueror - Almost Permanent  Ancestral Warriors and Phalanx. this kind of build shouldn't be very weird but only if you are playing twinked and you have good items already. yeah but we don't want that

alright so psionic beam evoker. this one you can do self-found.

skills - just start with dream and put 1pt each on the first 2 psionic skills, 1 pt on nightmare and hypnotic gaze, 1pt each on lucid dream skills, 1pt each on distort. also 1pt on earth enchantment. but that's it for earth, so just 2pts on earth. the rest goes to dream mastery. when you reach 40pts dream, max the beam. after maxing beam, only then put points on earth. trance too, i don't think trance helps you much very early game, but around act 3 feels like the time to put 1pt. also the time to put 1pt on mastermind because theoretically, you'll have core dweller right around this time

items - just use the best fire staff you can find early. after beating Typhon and before starting act 4, farm the Gadir merchant again and again until you find a fire tinkerer staff. complete prometheus flame and anubis wrath on the item (not inventory), to get attack speed completion bonus. in act 5, i encourage you to farm for blackbeards booties in primrose. its full of resists and DA you can use it the rest of the game. then farm for primal magma that you will socket on SB cuffs. you might want a hallowed helm, but if you ask me, I'll go for 30% physical res. that would be sthenos wisdom + dionysus wineskin + heat shield.

I've had this rough plan before which i wasn't able to do because i died because I'm stupid:
tinkerer staff with prometheus flame + anubis wrath
sb cuffs with primal magma
sthenos wisdom with pristine plumage bleed
impenetrable armor with pristine plumage bleed
blackbeards booties
golden belt artifact
tinkerer ring with demons blood elem res + dionysus
tinkerer ring with demons blood vit res + monkey kings pierce res
divine/sacred amulet with monkey kings pierce res
(all farmable items, right?)

edit: i was planning to get resistant/insulated of the tinkerer jewelries just for some elem res. just from experience, they're not very hard to find in epic atlantis

note that the standard completion bonus for pristine plumage and monkey kings are bleed res and pierce res, respectively. so even if there's 2 of them each, you don't have to farm again and again to find the right completion bonus

resists will be low positive in legendary, but there's 20% absorption from trance. there's also 30% physical res and the ever reliable tank core dweller

edit: this needs a cold staff secondary weapon for late act 5. Surtr won't be very hard. I've experienced it

i had fun with this, from what i remember

https://titanquestfans.net/index.php?topic=1030.msg12028#msg12028

oracle lightning dash + pets + spells

but i don't know if it was the most fun I've had