Tempest no longer highest dps ranger prestige enhancement

[Cyr]

Please don't ever accuse me of thinking. It's just not my thing.



That explains why I've never seen that on my Exploiter, if I'm within 30 feet I've already got my blades out.

It's not bad dps when you have many shot up on a heavy rogue splash. My 12 rogue/6 ranger/ 2 monk build pulled the bow out versus most raid bosses when it was up and the dps was outstanding.

[Razcar]

You get one more crit per 20 shots (actually slightly less due to the chance of a one on confirm, but close enough).

My silly nitpick of the day: a rolled one on a confirm crit roll doesn't mean you loose the crit (if you'll hit the mob on a one with seeker included). You cannot roll a critical failure on a critical confirm roll.

[Cyr]

My silly nitpick of the day: a rolled one on a confirm crit roll doesn't mean you loose the crit (if you'll hit the mob on a one with seeker included). You cannot roll a critical failure on a critical confirm roll.

Good to know. That simplifies calculations.

[Turial]

I have been playing for a few weeks with AA on my ranger. My take on things is the style to play is still the combo style i.e. shoot when you can manyshot and melee the rest of the time. I am not sure if tempest is not the way to go though instead of AA, but it is pretty close actually just make sure you use the combo style to maximize your ranger dps.

The icy recipe is very intriguing to a dedicated archer by the way. Those Holy Greater Bane Icy Burst bows using +5 axiomatic arrows and the AA slaying arrow is pretty sweet for Velah.

It is unlikely Turbine will change ranged combat such that full time ranged combat is viable. That is fine in the end. Melee people would complain to much if it was any other way.

It is possible that ranged combat could get fixed if they allowed the monk specific coding for the TOD rings to work on ranged weapons. That being said your Risa imbued bow with two alignments, greater bane, slayer buff, and potentially the eternal fire buff from the red dragon armor will provide a nice damage output.

Currently Tempest is slightly better than AA though. The attack speed buff for the majority of your attacks eclipses the damage from slayer arrows pretty quickly. The slayer arrows only add 25 damage on average. It only takes a few additional swings on tempest to eclipse that.

That being said AA beats out tempest in coolness factor. I will remain an AA till I see deepwood sniper. Knowing that AA provides a vorpal strike for 500 damage we can likely expect a similar type attack for the deepwood snipers.

[A_Sheep]

Can you do elven arcane archer enhancement in addition to tempest?

[A_Sheep]

My silly nitpick of the day: a rolled one on a confirm crit roll doesn't mean you loose the crit (if you'll hit the mob on a one with seeker included). You cannot roll a critical failure on a critical confirm roll.

Woah! News to me!! Wow!!

[Visty]

Can you do elven arcane archer enhancement in addition to tempest?

no, AA is a ranger pre even if you take the elven path