[Fla$h619]

Why are you driving a Lambo if you can't afford the gas???

Considering the fact that you were able to afford the lambo in the first place and gas is considerably cheaper, how exactly does this make sense?

[Rikkitikkitavi]

I probably won't finish off the merits on ranger so I can merit ranger faster

wat?

[evilpaul]

He's probably got BRD or COR.

[Draxyl]

Nah, I just have ranger 75 on this character, and a 73 rdm I'm letting languish. My point was, if I'm only playing for fun, expending a ton of effort getting merit points just so I can merit more doesn't make a ton of sense - so I probably won't fully finish the character off. That said, I'm working on club/marks skill first, then some archery, then I'll do ranger category merits - which seem to only benefit /ra ranger.

Attached is a parse from over the weekend, just a follow-up I guess. I was spamming crab sushi, and the party build was rng, war, sam, cor, brd, rdm. I had buffs of haste, minuet, march, hunter's roll, and chaos roll. In this party I had 1 merit each in club and marksmanship. I kept Velocity Shot on for most of the time, kinda on the fence about that. It slows down the KC some, but I like the increased WS damage...my gut says its better to keep it on full-time.

Club accuracy parsed around 89% and WS accuracy was capped at 95% - made 166, missed 8. Pretty happy about those numbers, I could use more r. attack/str gear on WS I guess, but I figured since I'm spamming WS I might as well land them.

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[pathwriter]

I'm inclined to disagree regarding Velocity Shot, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's a wash. 15% extra Ranged Attack is pretty nice, but 15% Slow (or -15% Haste or however it is actually calculated) can be a real pain. Are you hitting 0s at all, by the way? I'm obviously using level 30ish daggers at present, but I hit 0 way more often than I like if I'm in melee range, always because of the -15% Attack. I suppose with both Minuet and Chaos Roll, you can overcome it, but Kraken Club is pretty weak by nature.

[Draxyl]

On birds I never hit for 0's, but I am wearing some +attack gear (dusk trousers, dusk gloves) and as you said I had the +attack buffs.

It's just that over the 5 min recast on VS, it's probably a safe assumption I'm getting somewhere between 5-7 WS off in that time, all with the 15% buff. It's really about 1 WS per mob (174 WS, 159 mobs), which is plenty - so I didn't feel like having the VS 15% haste penalty was hurting me all that much. Plus...I like seeing those 1900 slugs ^^

I do not have a lot of haste gear on for TP, just dusk gloves & turban. Doesn't even overcome the penalty

[DoA]

Leave Velocity Shot & Barrage for the /ra Ranger if your in a nonstop speed kill party.

Are you hitting 0s at all, by the way?

You don't really hit for 0's in Mamool camp. I actually prefer on KC RNG.

It's really about 1 WS per mob (174 WS, 159 mobs)

I'm sorry no it's not. KC is about TP spamming. I would prefer to go /nin and fire off 2.5, ~1.2k Slugwinders per mob. Honestly 1900 is low if you have both COR and BRD singing Attck buffs.

[Draxyl]

174 WS / 159 Mobs = 1.0943396226415094339622641509434

That looks like ~1 WS per mob to me.

1900 will be low in comparison to your damage output, but remember - this character has no real merits and no rare/ex gear. I just raised club and marksmanship to level 2...also, my WS set is mixed str (+22) and r. acc.

[Spider-Dan]

174 WS in 159 mobs means you're doing it wrong.

[Kaparu]

He's using Velocity Shot, the lackluster WS frequency shouldn't be surprising.

[DoA]

2.5 WS x 159 Mobs = 397.5

1.094 WS x 159 Mobs = 174


174 x 1900 = 330,600

397.5 x 1200 = 477,000

Just to give you an idea on how much damage your missing out on. Im also missing 7% haste from Hands/Belt.

[Draxyl]

Next party I'll parse and leave off the VS.