Claw of Lightning is disappointing (ranger)

[Snaggles]

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

I Yeah, that was all with Tolan arrows. I forgot to mention but a full Trueshot discipline is just under 4 stacks at 40% haste. So the BFG is hungry but not ravenous for arrows. I've got fletching up to silver arrows, so I should fletch something for big fights. I've also got a half-stack of Gloomwater Arrows I'm slowly accumulating; that'll be fun to blow on a fight some time.

Very nice. Yea I generally always have 5-6 stacks on me to get through a Disc. I used to keep summoning them and would keep on the cursor. Gloom’s would be a blast lol.

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

Yeah I factionned the ranger, it is ~8 stacks of skins so about 2k. Parked him there and got him 2 HGLs, the hammer, the slick leather courier's cape (not great but decent), a sarnak war bow and a sarnak earring of station also dropped in the meantime. Good investment.

Yeah I've thought about windsaber but according to the comments that thing is a ~1% drop rate in a difficult camp. Gonna pull a ripkozo here and say it is probably faster and less of a hassle to just get a war bow of rallos zek or a bow of the destroyer, settle for a huntsman or buy exquisite. Haven't really ran the numbers on bows, haven't been bowing much outside of pulls or being in trouble.

The Sarnak bow is great. I expect the Windsaber isn’t worth the effort if you have that already.

I have a Dagarn bow but it’s really only good for a few things; I kill Lucan with it since every hit is pretty much damage bonus-only. I expect it would be great for PVP or other very short fights. The best mix of ratio and damage bonus are the Exquisite/Priceless/Primal bows. The War Bow of RZ has 180 range and an aggro proc; I expect due to the speed while more efficient per shot it’s less dps. Similar to a Windstriker.

That’s really the spread of bows…fast under the current 2h damage bonus deliver dps but no sustainability. Slow ones efficiency but poor dps; I expect a Windstriker will put down the most damage in a longer time period since arrows are finite. With a shaker and raid buffs Ive done 40-45dps on a glimmer drake or Zlexak with Tolan arrows and an Exquisite. About 90 on a glimmer with Trueshot. In limited testing I’ve never seen the Dagarn pop 100 dps but testing it is a literal pain so I can’t be certain.

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

Very nice. Yea I generally always have 5-6 stacks on me to get through a Disc. I used to keep summoning them and would keep on the cursor. Gloom’s would be a blast lol.



The Sarnak bow is great. I expect the Windsaber isn’t worth the effort if you have that already.

I have a Dagarn bow but it’s really only good for a few things; I kill Lucan with it since every hit is pretty much damage bonus-only. I expect it would be great for PVP or other very short fights. The best mix of ratio and damage bonus are the Exquisite/Priceless/Primal bows. The War Bow of RZ has 180 range and an aggro proc; I expect due to the speed while more efficient per shot it’s less dps. Similar to a Windstriker.

That’s really the spread of bows…fast under the current 2h damage bonus deliver dps but no sustainability. Slow ones efficiency but poor dps; I expect a Windstriker will put down the most damage in a longer time period since arrows are finite. With a shaker and raid buffs Ive done 40-45dps on a glimmer drake or Zlexak with Tolan arrows and an Exquisite. About 90 on a glimmer with Trueshot. In limited testing I’ve never seen the Dagarn pop 100 dps but testing it is a literal pain so I can’t be certain.

Thanks for the bow review! Yeah it is more or less what I thought. Sarnak is 25 delay and with only 34% haste it fires very fast. I can't imagine firing a 17dly bow nearing 100% haste. I guess dagarn's/windsaber are probably more effective from a dps standpoint but must be highly annoying. If you can get similar results with a higher delay bow without the hassle of firing every 0,6 second and having to summon with tolan's for 15 minutes every fight then the tradeoff might be worth it.

[Snaggles]

Yep exactly, a damned if you do or don’t situation.

The Dagarn bow and Earthshaker let me kill Lucan in like 15-20 minutes. Mostly 59 damage hits. Other than that though, it’s fun but the burn rate is just too high. At about a second a shot that’s three stacks a minute. For most stuff an Exquisite is too good to pass up (or any cheap Velium if range isn’t an issue for rotting).

Next time we get a knight to tank Vindi I’ll go ham and see if the Dagarn bow can crack 100 on Avatar without jolting.