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Originally Posted by Naethyn
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Ivory is right. Bows are great dps. ....
Rangers are below Rogues, Warriors, and Monks for dps at the top end so dispel your belief that a bow can't work. It does.
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But!! Let's talk some numbers!!!
At 60, bow skill is 240.
Let's say you are in a decent guild and go to ToV and got a silver fang bow....
35/42....ok, nice bow.
Throw on some +8 arrows. ....ok, 43/42....yea, neat....but bows aren't like weapons, their damage is actually halved to compare to a sword.
21.5/42...ick....without double attack.
BUT, 51 means double damage. Back to 43/42 sword.
Trueshot.
Suddenly 240 skill goes to 269 (trueshot is a 12% increase is skillchecks) ....interesting.....
Oh, also that becomes an 86/42 weapon
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Rangers happen to also have some amazing haste items.....
Throw in some high dex (crits) and you have an archer throwing down some serious firepower for 2 minutes on an alpha raid boss!!
So, even throwing out all the stuff about archery being more useful in non traditional groups (mage pet tanking, ench pet tanking, druid pet tanking, shaman pet tanking...basically all the situations where stepping in to melee becomes a burden without a dedicated healer) ....throw out all of the advantaged of sustained damage without mana (if you have arrows, you can kill it....even stuff you shouldn't be able to, like the sand giant I soloed at level 20)......
If you want to have ONLY the conversation about "can a ranger competitively DPS with a bow in an ideal raid situation"....the answer is yes. ((Oh, and she will be doing it out of range of the AE fear and damage...so....that is pretty neat too)).
((And if you are using the best bow in the game, 43/45...with +8 arrows....you are swinging around a 102/45 sword that crits with 269 skill check :P))