Earthcaller vs Swarmcaller

[Toxigen]

Non raiding players will get a lot more bang for their buck MQing Swiftwind, buying a Swiftblade of Zek for your mainhand, and keeping a Swarmcaller in inventory for those rare situations (or solo).

Plus, you can move the SBoZ to a future alt or sell it. Dumping 200k for a Shattered Emerald of Corruption should only be done by those with plenty of cash and an extreme desire to "complete" their ranger.

Swarmcaller is a great tool to have and it costs < 1% of Earthcaller for when you really need the slow.

[Azure Ogre]

The DPS comparison here is way off, no way a swarmcaller comes close to dual epics in almost all scenarios except maybe killing very low green mobs. Earthcaller from my experience has a very high proc chance, I’ve soloed from 50-52 so far with it and I don’t think there’s been one time it didn’t proc during a fight, usually happening multiple times.

[Pint]

Proc modifiers were removed from all wpns on p99, any sense that one is proccing more consistently then the other is just misunderstanding rng

[sogundordor]

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

Proc modifiers were removed from all wpns on p99, any sense that one is proccing more consistently then the other is just misunderstanding rng

interesting!!! actually we can’t prove OT hammer can proc in a row
just for reference is there a patch note or something like that we can read more about this

[Pint]

I want to say it was around the time they nerfed invis pulling but I'd have to wait till I'm back home to dig for it. It affected a lot of shit tier weapons like barb spiritist hammer etc iirc

[mcoy]

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

I want to say it was around the time they nerfed invis pulling but I'd have to wait till I'm back home to dig for it. It affected a lot of shit tier weapons like barb spiritist hammer etc iirc

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...02&postcount=1

-Mcoy

[Jimjam]

What mob are you using for logging parses? The super noob turtle in velious? Where is it found?

[sogundordor]

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

What mob are you using for logging parses? The super noob turtle in velious? Where is it found?

it’s not a single mob, it’s from 2 days of tar goos hunting in WL without changing weapon and basically not cast between fight
if using a single mob, the longest fight is focuser in PoG, but i usually buff during fight and got more dex than usual, i have only 2 logs that i didn’t change weapon and both are less than 800s

[Stonewallx39]

I haven’t parsed these weapons, but I did some quick back of the napkin math and at level 60 swarmcaller is going to be very close DPS wise to dual epics (assuming you have decent haste).

There may be a factor of high AC mobs and slow vs fast weapons but I’ve parsed T staff vs monk epic+SoS and t-staff outperforms consistently either against raid mobs or kunark blue/green mobs. Swarmcaller is slower so ymmv (but epic fist is faster so idk)

Long story long Earthcaller is min/max fashionquest while Swarmcaller is pretty comparable utility (similar slow and dps) for a fraction of the price.

[Ripqozko]

Slow in most situations isn't really needed less you do kot of sub optimal low man farming, sboz and swift wind is way to go and cheaper. It'll out parse either those.