Archery

[ghost182]

If I have max dex, STR, a windstriker bow, max haste, top arrows, and am squeezing call of the flame and the other quick cast nuke between shots, with double dmg bonus applying and a good amount of crits. Will my damage output be.... Respectable?

[eqgmrdbz]

LoL, your ideal setup is going to be after Velious come out. For max Archery, get your epics or something comparable to 40% haste, now if you have a good guild go do the sky quest for Dark Cloak of the Sky, that is an unlimited 50% haste. So now you have 90% haste, combine that with Fleeting quiver 60% bow haste and the best bow you can get your hands on, which is probably the Windstriker, and you will be a Archery machine. Well as good as you can get, but probably never going to be close to how it is with AA's.

[jolanar]

Depends on what you consider respectable. In a situation where you can't melee any dps better than no dps.

[Cecily]

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

LoL, your ideal setup is going to be after Velious come out. For max Archery, get your epics or something comparable to 40% haste, now if you have a good guild go do the sky quest for Dark Cloak of the Sky, that is an unlimited 50% haste. So now you have 90% haste, combine that with Fleeting quiver 60% bow haste and the best bow you can get your hands on, which is probably the Windstriker, and you will be a Archery machine. Well as good as you can get, but probably never going to be close to how it is with AA's.

*smacks your hand* No worn haste, no. No! Bad advice. That's a bad poster. No.

Just spell haste (cloak) + quiver haste for bows. OP, Fleeting quiver + VoG and trueshot with a striker is probably gonna be decent dps, yes. I don't know how much of Velious raiding is gonna be belly casters (probably most or all) so your quick nukes won't do much of anything while archerying.

[Ciroco]

Wind Saber should be better DPS than Windstriker if you she'll out the cash for good arrows.

[ghost182]

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

Wind Saber should be better DPS than Windstriker if you she'll out the cash for good arrows.

Thats a much lower damage weapon, even if a better ratio, wouldn't you not be taking advantage of the double damage and critical strike bonus? If someone were to do the math i would wage money that when you factor in double damage and crit the windstriker is probably the best in game, and in velious? also slower means less arrows which is a nice bonus, but regardless just interested in maximizing archery damage.

[Ciroco]

Why would double damage and crit affect relative damage? They have the same effect on all bows.

[Colgate]

with the way arrow damage works, faster bows will do way more damage than slower ones, but it'll be super annoying to burn through good arrows that quickly

[Cecily]

So are you doing (arrow dmg + bow dmg) / delay to determine ratio?

Would make Windsaber .954 vs Windstriker .883 w/ 8 dmg arrows.

[Pint]

If you're using a windstriker on a raid mob with max dex you're being a bad person