"Devastating Longbowman" Elf Bard 6 Red Dragon Disciple 4 Arcane Archer 30 "PH34R MY CH33S3!"
Devastating Critical(Longbow) with maxed out Arcane Archer levels.
STR 15(25) DEX 16(28) CON 12(12) INT 12(12) WIS 10(10) CHA 12(12)
First 6 stat increases go to STR, everything else into DEX.
1 Bard-Point Blank Shot 2 Bard 3 Bard-Curse Song 4 Bard 5 Bard 6 RDD-Rapid Shot 7 RDD 8 RDD 9 RDD-Weapon Focus(Longbow) 10 AA 11 AA 12 AA-Imp Crit(Longbow) 13 AA 14 AA 15 AA-Power Attack 16 AA 17 AA 18 AA-Cleave 19 AA 20 Bard 21 AA-Great Cleave 22 AA 23 AA 24 AA-Overwhelmling Crit(Longbow),Devastating Crit(Longbow) 25 AA 26 AA 27 AA-Epic Weapon Focus(Longbow) 28 AA-Great DEX I 29 AA 30 AA-Great DEX II 31 AA 32 AA-Great DEX III 33 AA-Great DEX IV 34 AA 35 AA 36 AA-Great DEX V,VI 37 AA 38 AA 39 AA-Great DEX VII 40 AA-Great DEX VIII
Skills: Save up and dump in Tumble and UMD at 20th. Remember you need Perform 12 for 6th level Bard Song.
Build Options: If you're a skill nutt, you could move 2 points from CON to INT for the extra skill point goodness. If you're an uber skill nutt, finish with a Bard level at 40th and dump again. You will lose 1 AA bonus feat. If you do this, remember to take the last stat increase in CHA, so you can cast 3rd level Bard spells. In fact, this is prly a better build. If you're willing to tolerate not having the full 30 levels of AA and losing 2 points of DEX.
Mundane Longbow: +54 AB d8+15 damage
Notes: Pretty much a crap build. But at least it doesn't have those goofy wings. Terrible synergy trying to get dev crit on a dex build, and your threat range is only 19-20. However; all the other dev crit archers I saw were built with 10 RDD levels, so I thought I'd present another option. It's a simple build, practically building itself, over half the feats are the 'recommended' ones.
Side Note: Switching to a crossbow for a ranged dev crit build is no real help. Sure your threat range is now 17-20, but all your expensivly purchased STR is now useless since +mighty crossbows are few and far between. Plus crossbows cannot flurry, so you get 3 attacks a round maximum. But I do have a superior solution... prepare yourself for BBtDDM...