Bow damage formula?

[Snaggles]

According to the Wiki and Zam, call of sky and call of fire are both -100 check with a small stun. The DD is greater on fire and it doesn’t seem to have the same pushback. I’m not certain if either interupts reliably on p99 in practice but I sometimes have it up in Plane of Hate for some RNG chance to stop a gater. I recall using it long ago meleeing stuff in HK but the DD will often break root so you gotta weigh the dps boost over the possible loss of control (It was great for Dyrna).

IMHO the bandage thing is kind of like shaman canni-dancing but less effective since the party ends at 50% health (and a ranger can’t cannibalize). Your best ways to keep hps is to not lose them or to let regen work over time. For me that means clicking arrows and AFK’ing a bit. Even if efficiently bow rotting it won’t be a mana-free endeavor. If your mana outruns your hps you can always stand, toss a healing (3 sec), and sit without missing a server tick. Another nod to the shaman try-hard method.

Sorry for crapping up the archery thread! I think everyone is on the same page and bcbrown’s mix of melee and bowing, medding and bandages, is ideal. It’s just a lot of micro adjusting with this class. If I had the bag room I’d carry bandages. Once you get a tolan Bp the real trick is packing a Mystic Cloak. It’s not as convenient as Wort Pots but for a fetch quest it’s end game viable.

[Jimjam]

Whoops! I always assumed fire was pure DD (like since classic!). TIL! Thank you for that correction.

[Snaggles]

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

Whoops! I always assumed fire was pure DD (like since classic!). TIL! Thank you for that correction.

I wish it was sometimes; would give you a stun option and a DD low aggro one [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Goregasmic]

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

I use lightning instead of fire in KC as iirc fire has no substantial interruption component. But yea, root that curate at 45 and pewpewpew.

They're the same 1.0 sec stun. Same mana cost. I go for fire because it does 65dmg instead of the 35 on call of sky. Call of sky is magic based and call of fire is fire based so you might want to adjust depending on target resists. And yeah they might mess with root more but as a mostly solo ranger it doesn't matter much. I find bows absolutely have their place but they take so long to kill anything that I'd rather facetank if I can. Yeah you lose more ressources but the faster kills let you rest more. I'd have to run a side by side test. If you could autofire it would be a different story.

I have a fungi, 34% haste and decent gear though so a SF ranger would probably struggle a ton more and soften targets with bow more often.

Come to think of it, I used my spade a lot and I don't remember sky procs breaking it early but I'd have to pay more attention.