User blog comment:Valeth/Archer of SIN/@comment-32751919-20190501131740/@comment-27971189-20190501154827

He can, its just you do not get the buff if it done without arrow although I think he's already (too) strong with that deck and stats.

At first I also thought, what if I made him unable to attack if he ran out of arrows?

But after some thought-- player may unable to find skill cooldown (reload) timing good, and it would made his boss battle either too easy (as you only need to ensure he wasted his arrow) or straght dangerous (using permanent buff, arrow never depleted) rather than tricky fight because of his second skill and Tian Machination passive.

I also didn't want players to see him as 'someone useless without bow and arrows'. So at least I can make the reload costly, while keep him tricky to both sides by having it tied to Guts.

About the NP, its my own interpretation after reading several version of how he killed nine suns which I'd say the most interesting part when shaping him.

Version A wrote him--similar to Fate lore of Herc, killing it with god-like technique of releasing nine arrows under single shot. Very Buster-like.

Version B wrote him shot the suns one by one with the suns instantly died, just like that, as if unable to escape his arrows, he spare the last sun as world will end if he killed all the sun.

Version C wrote him running across the world (China), chasing the suns after they laughed at him--overpowering him by numbers; using his hunting skills to kill them (and some monsters) one by one with his bow and arrow, until the last sun realized there are no one but single sun, then begs for mercy.

Interestingly, the suns are portrayed as children running amok on B and C, rather than static fireballs on A. "He maybe closer to Assassins", I thought; Then someday I borrow my friend NP 5 Tristan, using his NP and remember how he killed civilians with Failnaught. "That's It!", "The deck will be interesting as well rather than straight all Busters". LOL.