Ranger Bow Killing

[Ivory]

Each mob dies a little slower than if you were meleeing....BUT you are able to rely more on spells (since you can meditate between shots) and have no downtime (letting you keep hunting). Rangers get a lot of pretty good DD spells to use as they level (along with their dots)....most rangers in melee don't bother using them, but a soloing archer has PLENTY of mana to throw them around and the damage stacks up fast along with the constant plink of arrows.

That is what makes archery outshine other soloing classes. That is why a ranger with a skydarkener can out-quad a wizard or druid (or out-single kill a necromancer). In a race for a single mob, yea those other classes win.....but when leveling up over an hour, a ranger with a good bow wins.

But since you rely SO MUCH on your bow and there are so few good ones (a wind saber isn't a good bow btw , way too fast to let you cast / med between shots ....just eats your arrows)....it can mean the world between having something like a huntsmans bow and having a skydarkener at level 45.

Huntsman bow between 40-50 isn't anything that special. 20/30 stats (its ok) is still worse than a 30/38 velium bow since it isn't proccing yet. A skydarkener or windstriker though is WAY better because of the procs (really, I can't stress the power of bow procs enough. I've gotten 5 procs in a row on my skydarkener....that is close to 1k damage to each mob in a quad kite :P).

The difference in proc rates between 100 dex and 200 dex is double the proc rate. Even with a frequent 81dd from the huntsmans bow, it can be really decent.