Bow damage formula?

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

That's a great idea. Unfortunately my bags are a mess, especially right now carrying a bunch of extra stuff to swap out to vary str/dex values. I've got four bags filled with nonsense and I try to leave a slot open for peggy cloak so I've only got three bags for loot, bandages, and arrows, one of those three being my fleeting quiver. I've been drop transferring heads, toes, and weapons to my druid in exchange for bandages.

I also don't mind the summoning time too much. It fits pretty well into a cycle I've developed with very little downtime. Starting at full hp/mana, I'll facetank an elite, usually ending around 20hp/90mana. Then I'll bandage up, and with some gear swaps I can get up to 57%. Then after bow-rotting another elite and re-summoning arrows I'll usually be back up to ~90% hp and be ready to start again. I think one of the aspects of ranger that I really enjoy is the gameplay complexity and the interactions between chloroplast, medding, bow-rotting, face tanking, bandaging, swarmcaller, and damage shields. The other hybrids don't really have the same range of offensive + defensive spells; paladins are mostly defensive plus stuns and undead nukes while SKs are almost purely offensive.

It feels like there's a lot more mini-games while rangering. Especially since the frost giants aren't kos yet, it's a ton of fun to track the nearest elite and pull it back to a safe spot, dodging social aggro from wandering lower-level giants. And tracking is so helpful at ensuring I get my share of targets when there's competition. In comparison I found fear-kiting on my SK incredibly repetitive, as well as much more mana-intensive before the kunark clickies.

My bags are a train wreck too, it’s part of being a ranger and it doesn’t get better lol [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.].

I’m curious if there is a macro one can make using a custom UI button with a 31 second pause to summon up 4-6 stacks of arrows. That or just strategically clicking the bracer before you bind wound (saves 10 seconds of dead time) would make things slightly better than just sitting there waiting.

I like knights a lot. The Ranger play style is closer to a bard but with less clicking. You have a lot of close encounters. Even fear kiting animals is better due to having a better % snare and Sow; the difference between your speed and the npc is huge. Half a SK’s leveling is with engulfing darkness while being unsowed. Jboots makes it better, as does dooming, but SoW is low grade Selos compared to Jboots (or nothing).