Yeah I’m 52 now and have been capable of killing dark blues toe to toe most of the time. Medium level geared no sky cloak or fungi

Best thing to do on a Ranger is pay for potg 55+. No matter how geared you are you’ll still get worked and need mana for downtime heals which will be insanely faster than bow kiting.

Yah. To see this in full effect watch a warrior with thst bow and weighted axe. I was grouped with one who was proccing about half their shots

Hmm. So Sk levelling meta is to quad wyverns with skydarkener and weighted axe?

An sk in my guild did some ice burrower quads with that.

This makes a lot of sense and explains some things that I've seen happen.

I tried to do a Sontalak kill with Archery once, with the idea being that a few characters would start in melee, but most people would be outside fear/fire AOE range shooting, and as people got summoned in they would disc tank.

It immediately fell apart because the warrior with a weighted axe + gleed's bow ripped aggro by proccing 3x in a row and moved the dragon off the melee and into AOE range of the archers. I suspect the damage bonus might also be adding for aggro purposes in addition to the proc aggro.

On the other hand, an Ogre Warrior using a Weighted Axe and Furious disc vs. Sontalak is a hillarous amount of burst DPS.

bowquest

His hit box is so big you can shoot bow while in melee range. You should feasibly be shooting a Dagarn's bow to maximise damage bonus autoattack (well range button spam) dps while the weighted axe maximises riposte dps.


(just theoryquesting)

Bow of the Destroyer or even a Wind Saber/sarnak bow do fine dps but the arrow burn rate is just gross. I still want to disc with my Destroyer bow on Vindi but burning like 7 stacks in 2 mins won’t work well past a short fight. At currently I mainly just use for Lucan kills.

IMHO the sweet spot is that Velium bow damage/delay. Outside edge case situations of course where a Windstriker or Dagarn make sense.

https://wiki.project1999.com/Bow_of_the_Huntsman

I find it interesting that such an easy to attain bow performs so well. Since such a huge part of the per shot damage comes from the damage bonus of a slow 2hander, it will handily out-dps some bows with better ratios but higher delays. The proc, if not resisted, adds a noticeable jump over the white damage.

From a strict ratio standpoint, for general purpose use I’d argue primal/exquisite/priceless bows strike the best balance. Machine gun shots with the seb or bow of the destroyer would be fun, but the volume of arrow use has got to be ridiculous

Between soloing the wyrm on my shaman and then getting minimum faction dubious for a safe sneak turn-in, I think I spent right about an hour of time investment to get it.

If only double bow damage worked on rooted targets! :p