Spellcraft for arcane archer ?

[Elindel22]

Hi. On some guides, I see spellcraft highly rated for arcane archer.

On others, no mention.

Is spellcraft any good for arcane archer ?

Thanks

[Swimms]

Hi. On some guides, I see spellcraft highly rated for arcane archer.

On others, no mention.

Is spellcraft any good for arcane archer ?

Thanks

It is critical, elemental arrows scales with spell power so the more the better

http://m.ddowiki.com/page/Arcane_Archer_enhancements

[Sunnie]

If you use Elemental Imbues for damage you'll definitely want to max out spellcraft. If, otoh, you exclusively use Paralyzing Arrows it's not a necessary skill to have.

[barecm]

Also something to keep in mind, if you are a paralyze build and use Scion of Feywild, you can invest into perform to boost the sonic damage. I utilize this on my paralyze build and the damage boost is quite noticeable.

[Enoach]

As others have stated since Elemental Imbue now uses Spell Power this is another way to boost that damage.

[Selvera]

It helps. I wouldn't consider it critical.

1 Spellcraft = 1 spellpower = +1% of base imbue damage.

The highest scaling damage you can get is pretty much 9d8 + 2d20; which averages to 40.5 + 21 = 61.5 base imbue damage per hit. 1% of this is 0.615 damage per point of spellcraft per hit.

Which means your awesome +22 enhancement, +11 insightful, +6 Quality spell-craft item is adding a little less then 24 damage per hit at endgame.

This is nice, because every source of stacking damage you can get is nice; but to put this in comparison, a real spellpower item like a Panasonic circlet is much more important. It grants nearly 130 imbue damage per hit. I consider +130 damage to be critical to the build, +24 stacking ontop of that as nice fluff.

In terms of spending skillpoints: 23 ranks in the skill = up to 14 damage per hit. This is likely better then anything else you can spend skillpoints on except for UMD.