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To give an opinion about PoE archers: played your bog-standard wood elf ranger in my first playthrough. It's simple class, and having high Perception is a good attribute during dialogues.
You get your standard pet animal, which I didn't really care about. They are useful, but I was there for the archery.
During my playthrough, I had a moment of thinking "damn, my character isn't really doing much, is he?", since I was always busy micromanaging the casters. The usual stuff for these types of games. Until I checked the statistics and saw that he had like 40% of the kills.
You don't get anything overly fancy, but he's effective. Also good with gunpowder weapons.
There is the Stormcaller bow in the DLC, which is one of my favorite bows in video games. This thing fucks.

The Cipher class also makes for a good archer.