Ranged Combat Polish Ideas

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I am excited to hear about the ranged combat polish that was mentioned during the state of the union address. The summary of this thread is that I am happy with ranged attack speed and damage (although a little boost wouldn't hurt) but I think ranged combat is too feat intensive and too class/race specific.

I had a 20 Elf arcane archer ranger and I was pretty happy with how that character performed. The DPS was less than my melee, but there are advantages of being far away from your enemy (Epic DQ!) so I was OK with it. For other quests I usally ranged during my 20s multishot and meleed for the other 100 seconds.

But as I went to TR into another ranged attacker I start looking at ranged builds. Basically any ranged build other than ranger requires a huge sacrifice of feats to perform on par (or worse) than a 20 ranger who does not need to sacrifice much.

For instance a Elf 20FvS would require 10 feats to become an arcane archer ranged attacker (Power attack, point blank shot, ranged weapon focus, mental toughness, bow strength, rapid shot, multi shot, improved critical ranged, precise shot, improved precise shot). But even if you give up all melee, healing, and defensive feats you can only get 7 feats.

I feel arcane archer is a must for any ranged attacker. 25 damage per shot is too much to give up (slay living arrows are 1/20 chance at 500 damage, works on undead and portals and everything). This forces you to be a high level ranger or elf and eliminates build diversity.

I would like to see more options for ranged attackers other than 20 ranger or Elf arcane archer and I think the biggest step towards this is reducing the number of required feats, reducing ranger capstone, and reducing arcane archer added damage.

Some Example Ideas
Remove the pre-req's power attack/combat expertise/ranged wep specialization for bow strength
Include weapon focus ranged and weapon focus thrown as a pre-req's for bard Warchanter
Possibly combine feats (combine rapid shot, rapid reload, quick throwing?)
Possibly combine feats (rapid shot and multi shot)
Possibly combine feats (precise shot and improved precise shot)
Reduce ranger capstone alacrity %, reduce arcane archer damage, and increase ranged alacrity for everyone
Allow multi shot to work for ranged weapons other than bows

Just some ideas. I look forward to the changes. Feel free to comment.