Bow damage formula?

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

The way I interpret these numbers: Since this is assuming you're rooting the mob, time to kill isn't super important since you're not taking damage you'll need to heal. Summoning Tolan arrows gives you 20 per 15 seconds or 1.3 seconds each. So saving 6 arrows at the cost of 6.5 seconds per kill in time spent shooting means 6.5 seconds more spent shooting while saving 7.8 seconds summoning arrows. So with this (unhasted) perspective Bow of the Huntsman beats out Sarnak War Bow.

Now, this is napkin math with multiple serious caveats. This isn't taking into account hit rate, haste, or the fact that the average damage per hit will differ from the modal damage based on level difference, offense stats vs defense stats, etc. I think my takeaway is that no matter which of these 4 bows you have you're gonna ball out, and which you choose is as much down to personal style and personal access as anything else. If I had a Sarnak bow I'd try it out and see if I liked it more than the Huntsman. But these numbers reassure me that I'm not really at any disadvantage with my Huntsman.

Fair point. The way I view it is the difference in arrows/kill speed doesn't really matter much either way, especially if you're not going to bow down a mob's entire hp bar in most cases, which leaves a lot of room for preference. Only reason I'm using sarnak war bow right now is because the melee stats are nice and it was the easiest decent bow to obtain but I like the raincaller for added dex (swarmcaller) and heavier double damage hits on initial pull (I don't have a higher damage bow). I like snaggles skydarkener theory, I'd like to try them all honestly.

Do we have a formula for max damage?

I wanted to try parsing str vs dex to see how that works out. I don't have dex gear but figured if DPS/max hit does or doesn't go down after removing a bunch of str gear then we'll know. If it doesn't I'll remove dex gear. Still new to parsers so I'll have to figure out how to extract the log of individual hits.