Let's talk about Ranger

[Shaard]

niceeeeee

By just eyeballing, how much delay reduction for aiming delay?

Very roughly, it feels like firing with a crossbow (pre-patch) with a bow, now (well, maybe a little bit slower, but it's definitely noticeable)

[VZX]

niceeeeee

By just eyeballing, how much delay reduction for aiming delay?

Very roughly, it feels like firing with a crossbow (pre-patch) with a bow, now (well, maybe a little bit slower, but it's definitely noticeable)

Which bow and which crossbow?
If you refer to 524 delay HQ bow vs 280 delay HQ crossbow, that's ALOT

[Abel]

20% seems likely, my normal shots were around 162 on a random bird and w/ velocity they were 202ish, so 20% atk seems right, 20% haste seems around right too, going w/ a rng burn on birds atm to see how marked the difference is, but 20%atk 20%haste boost really seems to be a nice change w/o trading shadows, though i'd personally like to see if zerk + VS stack for 45% atk boost, or to see if it is 20% or not. 20% haste on ebow is 98dly i think, so that's just shy of 1s faster per shot.

[Darcatvar]

I am not sure I can sub war now lol, death 10 fold.

[Naramaska]

Holy balls this JA owns faces.

Popping off ~3000 damage Barrages on colibri outside of town without much effort, and the delay has been cut sizable amount

[Lucavi]

going w/ a rng burn on birds atm

Oh god... it begins again.

[Naramaska]

Ok, trying this out with a BRD now...i'm almost 110% certain that Velocity Shot is a straight +dmg% like Overwhelm is. I just scored a few 600+ damage crits using E.Bow + Demon Arrows, and i've never seen damage close to that high out of a ranged weapon before.

<3<3<3

[LinktheDeme]

Looks like rangers gonna get nerfed next update probably, I hurt inside

hopefully they dont ;/

[Max™]

Full Circle huh.

SC's look more viable now for Samurai, Mages getting new options to make MB's even more ePeeneriffic, and Rangers burning mobs down.

[Lucavi]

I guess its time to pull bard back out and revive my 2004 8-man Ranger Firing squad. Ah well, I enjoyed my 3 months of power.

[Ashky]

This sounds incredible... Time to dust off the Ranger gear from 05!!!

[Mellema]

The increased speed of R att is very nice, however, with no auto ranged attack we now have to retrain our fingers on how soon to hit the shot macro. I was hitting it too fast quite often and getting the "You must wait longer..." message, thus wasting whatever increased speed I had for that shot.

As for -enmity, I currently use Novia (-7), Scout's braccae+1 (-3), Scout's socks (-3), and 4 merits for -17 enmity. I also carry trooper's ring for another -4 if needed. The main thing I've noticed with stacking -enmity is that I can still pull hate, but I lose hate so much faster.

[Vishnevskiy]

So how is the damage compared to pre-nerf?

[Semitry]

How are you guys getting +20%. When I use velocity shot, attack is decreased by exactly 15%. If it's like berserk/defender, it should be +15% attack.

[Naramaska]

How are you guys getting +20%. When I use velocity shot, attack is decreased by exactly 15%. If it's like berserk/defender, it should be +15% attack.

Just eyeballing it tbh

My staff skill is uncapped on RNG, so I never paid attention to the attack I had with it while toying with VS outside of town.

[Thorny]

Absolutely 0 difference in damage with Velocity Shot vs no Velocity Shot in Sarutabaruta, so its not a straight +DMG%. Ranged Attack has more linear returns than plain attack, could account for how direct the difference is on higher level things.

[VZX]

Ok, trying this out with a BRD now...i'm almost 110% certain that Velocity Shot is a straight +dmg% like Overwhelm is. I just scored a few 600+ damage crits using E.Bow + Demon Arrows, and i've never seen damage close to that high out of a ranged weapon before.

<3<3<3

no way, what the hell?

edit : oh wait, it's possible lol

[Ddong]

Kind of interested on the numbers relic holders are pumping out.

[Vic]

I got 8 merits in archery and then lvled sam because its cheaper, and went sam to events instead of rng. Now that rng gets beefceked up and sam gets run over, I can come rng now

[LinktheDeme]

Kind of interested on the numbers relic holders are pumping out.

Yea does that mean relic sams still pumping out old numbers? with their relic ws