Gearing a ranger

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

Turtle is a viable a parse target, and there is a scalable math formula.

Why do people believe these kinds of things? You have no evidence to suggest turtle is an invalid parse target. I have plenty of parses that show otherwise.

The damage formula is a scaleable formula. Thats how it works. You can see the EQEMU code, which is a scaleable formula.

Respectfully DSM, I don’t think you can. The damage bonus is doing a lot of heavy lifting on the main hand and the offhand ratio is doing less on high AC targets.

I did like an hour of parsing on Bloodmaw, a lvl 30 npc in Great Divide with 50k hps. I would snare it by Velks and zone just when it turned to flee, then do another once it regenned. I may have already posted this, sorry if so.

Earthcaller/Swiftwind = 74,012 over 688 seconds = 107dps average
Vyemm whip/swiftwind = 71,059 over 597 seconds = 119 dps
Vyemm whip/claw of Lightning = 71,542 over 576 seconds = 124 dps
Meljeldin = 74,358 over 605 seconds = 122 dps

Based on this, going from Kunark epics to a solid NTOV main hand is a 10% in DPS. It’s roughly a 14% increase going to a Claw of Lightning despite the 50 attack loss…which seems steep to me.

The Meljeldin is a 45/38 2h is less a 13% improvement over the two epics.

I truly wish this was the case. I worked harder for the epics than I did for the Meljeldin and they look far nicer. If anyone was crazy enough to use them on Vindi I expect the dps would be under 40 (roughly half the 2h). I used to get mid 40’s with my Zek blade and Swiftwind. I really liked that setup but these days I’m not sure it would beat a woodsman staff at 60.

In the end, raw dps isn’t the only metric that makes an effective player or even the game more fun. I just think a ranger has a lot to gain with a single ToV weapon. We can’t just go grab a Peacebringer for 500p or MQ a rogue epic for 20k pp.