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Originally Posted by 7thGate [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ranger DPS with bows and high quality arrows is actually not bad. ALS has been having our rangers shoot from outside AOE range on a number of different targets. We did a parse once on the bee queen in sky, and the two rangers did 5075 and 4281 damage respectively in, IIRC, 55 seconds with trueshot active (60 and 56 rangers, Exquisite Velium/Windstriker and 5 damage arrows, respectively). That was 2nd and 3rd on the raid, behind a 60 rogue at 5975. We also had the 56 ranger parse against Vindi once, and did about 3500 damage/minute.

The important part about it is that arrows can't eat enrage if the mob death touches and flips on the DPS, they can't be disrupted with dragon fear, they can't be slowed or stunned by breath weapon attacks. Its just 80-90% of rogue DPS for 2 minutes completely unimpeded by whatever a mob's abilities to mess with the raid are, and that can be very strong, especially against old world mobs that rely on AOE damage/debilitation effects to stop the raid from just straight up murdering their small HP pools.

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