Bow damage formula?

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

That only lasted a week, it isn't the fix we're getting.



patch log at the time. This means bows like rallos zek, skydarkener or windstriker will fare better. Windstriker crits will probably be the ones netting 1000+. I guess there is no real point in getting a fast bow anymore considering they use up a lot more arrows for no particular reason except if you assume max hit from dex is a flat bonus.

Oh misread that.

I wonder if the War Bow of Rallos Zek will then be in-line with other similar ratio bows like the priceless or primal. The Windstriker has a .75 ratio; it just won’t be horrible for dps like it is now and should be even better for efficiency.

I’m all for if they find a way to make slow bows compete with fast bows of a similar ratio like how they tried to normalize 2h’s by ratio rather than speed. Also glad to put the Dagarn away if they aren’t going to give us /autofire. Taxing the index finger and summoning arrows more often isn’t fun, lol.

[Cecily]

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

One of the *bigger* issues in my eyes, is while double damage and trueshot can be reworked to reflect better bow dps - we still have rooted raid targets. The coding would need to change to have mobs in TOV be 99999% snared, rather than rooted, to allow for double damage shots. Otherwise a large portion of content is altered regarding ranger bow shot DPS (a classic and unique ranger feature) due to out of era rooting of raid bosses.

That's a fantastic point. Ranger archery damage is a lol core tactical lol consideration raid leaders lol in NToV keep in lol consideration.

[Goregasmic]

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

That's a fantastic point. Ranger archery damage is a lol core tactical lol consideration raid leaders lol in NToV keep in lol consideration.

Without the x2 weapon damage multiplier, double damage skill applied and now no damage bonus, it always has been a pipe dream. Only thing archery has going for itself is quiver haste but that 20% won't save it from the major drawbacks.

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The only note I would make is there isn’t much I would Trueshot in ToV since Weaponshield is so much more important to hold on to (even if they unrooted all the dragons). A well-done ranger bump is the most noticeable Disc in that zone.

Outside ToV though, going dps-mode isn’t a horrible thing if there are extra rangers. I’ve trueshot most raid and epic targets. Most those fights are a couple clerics, a tank, and a burn down. Luckily almost every other npc in the game isn’t rooted. Especially if you don’t betray Tunare.