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Originally Posted by Snaggles
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I want to say bards are blue to 55. Nobles are a coin flip blue at 56. They have low 2k hps so go down easy with arrows. On blue they are not camped at all (usually). Not sure on green. Back then I used my Huntsman bow and it was fun but the DD will occasionally break root early.
Harmony won’t split them up. Gotta root and root, then go to work. Or snare and haul to the zone and split them that way.
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Blue cons are at -14 for 54-57 according to the wiki so at 55 only the 41-42s would be blue and 40s would be high green, leaving 38-39 no exp green. Not sure if that is acceptable for a melee camp. Not scared of some root CC action either, since the lvl 51 longer root it is a breeze.
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Originally Posted by Cecily
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Windstriker is neat because how hard it nails things when the shitty bow accuracy works. The unresistable 100 nukes are cool, too. It's just not fun to use with the delay. It does respect your arrow supply more than any other option, however.
I agree with ~32/35 being the sweet spot for rangers. I ran Primal bow as my main bow. That ratio hurts. Non-rangers abusing weighted axes etc get more benefit from the quicker bows, but rangers have Trueshot and double damage passives that benefit more from the higher base damage. And again, like you mention, running out of arrows sucks so balanced damage and moderate delay is optimal.
You're gonna be running Tolan arrows primarily (3 dmg 50 range) and 1 - 6 / 150s for fancy occasions like AEs or FTE. Any other option isn't a good choice unless you wanna throw away a bunch of 8 dmgs into a BFG trueshot burn to play rogue for a mob. Too expensive and range sucks on them.
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Yeah exq velium reinforced bow looks like the best compromise. It is 20-25k on green though and earthshaker is 20k and I just went broke buying a tolan's bracer with my last 10k so I got a lot of farming on my chanter ahead which I'm kind of dreading right now after farming for a fungi. I used to think I might have to farm a windsaber but even a 25dly sarnak war bow hasn't exactly been economical.
Yeah I love the 150 range arrows. Not always warranted but pulling across the map with a raincaller in EW/WL has been fun and safer. Don't really plan on fighting in open spaces for now so I just fletch the highest hitting ones I can skill up on for pulling and spam with tolan's if I need to.
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Originally Posted by Cecily
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Can't imagine how swapping weapons would be tedious. Anyways look at this chart: https://lucy.allakhazam.com/dmgbonus.html
That number will get tacked onto your bow damage. It's completely wrong and broken. Earthshaker will boost your archery to something semi-reliable, soon. You're still at kind of a bad bonus at 52, but later on you'll have minimum 100-ish dmg shots with nice bows with +56 dmg coming from bonus at 60.
Tbh just running the Swarmcaller mainhand works, too. You get +15 dmg bonus now. It's about half as good as ES. |
Nah you misunderstood me. I meant the mobs have been more tedious to kill in general. I don't mind swapping swarmcaller because an early proc is a night and day difference at this point. I switch between spade and AP also depending on if I want the spade or not to proc. That last 15%-20% on a fleeing mob makes an appreciable difference in efficiency. The difference in dps between swarmcaller and AP is noticeable so I'd rather swap once SC procced. I mean, if you're dad camping a 6:40 mob it doesn't matter but if you want to be efficient all those little things help.
And yeah I did take another look at that lucy 2hander damage bonus chart yesterday and I didn't remember damage bonus doubling between 50 and 60. Difference between AP and ES is about 25% too.