lvl 75 Phantom Archer needs some help / questions

first the "help me" part :
so i'm lvl 75 phantom archer, i have a grade equipment from evolutionary road and monsters take forever to kill, even the supposed "weak bow" type at wall of argos.
i have a mentor but he's not always on, and when he's not, or if he can't give me warrior's harmony then i can't do anything i can just log out (there's no party going i can join either).
i can barely do the shrine of loyalty daily quest since there's quite a lot of people there and they ks with their full iss buffs or mentor buffs.

soon i won't be able to get buffs from adventurer guide (when i'm lvl 76) so i guess i'll have to level up by slices of 30 min (duration of iss buffs).
(oh and i barely have 16kk adena)

is there anything i can do, or did i miss something?

now the questions

1- i'm currently using heavy armor because even with the passive, leather gives less p.def. and since i'm leveling solo i get hit a lot.
after awakening will i have to use heavy armor too ?

2-will i have to use the diploma to get low r-grade equipment asap or should i stay in s-80 for a while ?

3-how come people have hundreds of millions of adena while i barely have 16kk? i take everything on the ground that is worth the walk and the time spent looting. daily quests at my level give about 300k so not worth it in the long run.

 

archer after awakening uses only light. also, using heavy on your lvl is not smart - your p.def increases but other stats decrease (maybe that's why you have troubles killing mobs?). do you use soulshots? because on mentor buffs it should be very easy to kill mobs.

a piece of advice, if you see a rb party, join. raids give a lot of exp now.

as for adena, 16kk is quite a lot for 75 lvl. it's more than enough to get low r grade armor set and jewells. remember that you can use diplomas only when you reach lvl 86, which means you might need r grade armor and weapon earlier.

 

i read that to have more pdef yul archers (or at least a few) go heavy armor that's why i asked ^_^"

yes i use soulshots, average time to kill a green mob at woa is 12 seconds for 0.20%. only if mentor is available for warrior's harmony then i can tackle the angels deeper and get almost twice the exp.

i forgot that it's only at lvl 86 that i'll be able to use diplomas

 

find a new mentor . they should be there exactly for these problems you have

 

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this can't be stressed enough, if you can manage to get in 3-4 rb pts it will set you at level 85. (with mentor xp buff, of course)

 

thread moved to class specific discussion section so you may conitnue to discuss things more here.

 

buy iss buffs, seriously iss buff prices nowadays are ridiculously low, back in the days when i was leveling i was paying 300k every 30 minutes for iss buffs, don't tell me that u can't give 50k for buffs when in woa u kill 5 mobs and u already have 50k back...
also find a mentor that is online more if you are too greedy to buy buffs.

u can stay in s80 until u hit 86, then buy r-grade equipment with diplomas

wear light armor, archer kills mobs fast

 

when i played archer, when wasn't mentor system, on iss buff i always goes on light red mobs on woa and i killed it very easy, 1-2 normal hits