Zad Archery Builds Tier List

A build in Zad Archery is a job kit plus skill-tree engines plus the Rare you actually equipped. It is not a 40-page planner. The campaign is designed around five hours. These four setups cover that window. Swap with the farming planner when you stop pushing.

S — Arrow Fall engine (every file)

Goal: charges, cooldown, automate, extra projectiles. Jobs: Archer, then Sniper without dropping Archer skills. Tree: charge nodes, cooldown, automate, then gem chance. Craft: any Rare with +1 Arrowfall Projectile. Gold-gain is nice; projectiles are the build. When: always. If your Arrowfall label still says 1 at Guardian time, you do not have a build, you have a tutorial.

This is the skill tree buy order turned into a loadout. Skip it and every other row on this page gets worse.

Zad Archery incremental build gameplay

S — Sniper kite (Guardians and King)

Goal: move while shooting, orb splash, don’t stand in horned packs. Jobs: Sniper online, Explosive Arrow still ranked. Tree: leftover points into attack speed and a little HP. Craft: HP + projectiles. Gold-gain can wait. When: from the first Guardian through the King. Launch-week deaths on the fifth Guardian were this build missing, not a DPS puzzle. Restore rules are on guardians.

A — Gold and gem farm hover

Goal: sit below your highest wave after patch 1.0.2 so gems still count. Jobs: whatever is already unlocked. Do not buy a 500-gem silhouette mid-farm. Tree: claw gem chance, bow gem chance, gold nodes. Craft: +60% gold-gain style rolls (the Armor1 +2 card is the teaching example on crafting). When: you just failed a Guardian, or a job button is 80 gems away. Hover, don’t ego-push.

B — Gathering hybrid

Goal: Herbalism then Mining while the lane idles. Jobs: Sniper already owned. Tree: leftover gold into Gathering levels, not into a fourth damage node. Craft: whatever you already wear. Do not vendor a projectile Rare to “make space” for profession flavor. When: after Sniper, before you obsess over locked jobs. Full tab routing is mining. This is B because it is a multiplier, not a fight kit. Taking it first is a C mistake.

C — Sell-everything anvil

Not a build: Ctrl+Shift+right-click on every drop because the itch demo taught you to. You will vendor the S-tier projectile roll and then wonder why Arrow Fall feels small. Right-click equips. Read the card.

C — Locked-job waiting room

Standing on Archer at wave 40 with 500 gems pocketed for a silhouette that has no public kit. Buy Sniper, buy engines, then save. The jobs tier list is blunt about this.

How to switch without a respec

There is no documented full respec. You switch by changing what you buy next and what you equip. Farm hover and kite share the same tree; only the armor roll and whether you walk change. That is why S-tier engines are listed first. For skill-only ranks, see skills. For the first-hour path that feeds these builds, see Getting Started.

You do not need five fashion loadouts. You need one engine, one kite, and a farm hover when a Guardian wipes you. Mining hybrids wait until the pickaxe tab is real. If Samharia adds named jobs later, this list will gain rows; it will not pretend they already exist on your bow tab.