2011-10-17, 08:43 AM
So... I'm a bit tired of trying to find good builds only to see a bunch of vastly different ones from people just going "oh I think that looks pretty good" without any reasoning behind it. I sat down for 5 minutes and did a little napkin math to figure out how much DPS each skill was worth using my own attack range.
LvL 26
850 max physical dmg range
600 max magical dmg range
I took each skill and got it to around level 5 on a simulator and compared their DPS. I took the damage in the tooltip (Twin shot is 52% + 112 for each arrow), used my damage range to figure out how much each skill would do with 1 shot, then divided it by each skills cooldown to figure out how much DPS each skill would be worth if I just sat there and held my finger on the button on a mob that doesn't move.
All of these are ESTIMATES. I didn't find exact DPS, and rounded each up to the nearest 100.
Twin shot - 200 dps
Piercing - 160 dps
Multi shot (this is with ALL 7 arrows hitting the same target) - 53 DPS
Magic Arrow - 60 DPS
Charged Shot - 200 DPS
Rapid Shot - 140 DPS
I couldn't figure out frag arrow, because I know the initial hit does hit more than once. In the tooltip it says "splits into 6 arrows" but if I do the math it comes out to like 300 DPS which I know for a fact isn't right. I think the tooltip (147% + 114) might be wrong. That would put frag arrow at around 1k damage per arrow hit and I've never seen mine hit that hard.
As for skill build, I couldn't find a calculator for the north america version of this game. Even the "old simulator" on dn.mmosite is weird about what skills you can use to a certain level. It says lvl 7 Piercing shot requires level 47 but mine is lvl 9 right now at lvl 26. Until level 32 though, I would do it like this
Twin shot as high as you can go
Piercing shot as high as you can go
LvL 1 multi shot
LvL 3 Magic Arrow
Charged Shot as high as you can go
Frag LvL 1 (for now... I might want to put more points in this)
Aerial Chain shot LvL 4
Rapid Shot LvL 4
Swift Shot LvL 3
Siege Stance LvL 3
Rain of Arrows LvL 1
Guided Missiles LvL 1
As for Wisdom of the Owl, I really really like this skill even though most of the sites say to leave it at level 1 "if your crit is high enough" which doesn't make any sense to me unless there's a crit cap that I don't know about. Each point gives you +50% crit which is >>>>HUGE<<<<<. It's worth more per point than most anything else you can get. This skill also has almost the same cooldown as siege stance meaning if you use them together, your going to chain 1k+ arrows every 1 second for the entire 15 second duration of each.
Anyone have a link to a good simulator I can use? One that uses north american skills?
LvL 26
850 max physical dmg range
600 max magical dmg range
I took each skill and got it to around level 5 on a simulator and compared their DPS. I took the damage in the tooltip (Twin shot is 52% + 112 for each arrow), used my damage range to figure out how much each skill would do with 1 shot, then divided it by each skills cooldown to figure out how much DPS each skill would be worth if I just sat there and held my finger on the button on a mob that doesn't move.
All of these are ESTIMATES. I didn't find exact DPS, and rounded each up to the nearest 100.
Twin shot - 200 dps
Piercing - 160 dps
Multi shot (this is with ALL 7 arrows hitting the same target) - 53 DPS
Magic Arrow - 60 DPS
Charged Shot - 200 DPS
Rapid Shot - 140 DPS
I couldn't figure out frag arrow, because I know the initial hit does hit more than once. In the tooltip it says "splits into 6 arrows" but if I do the math it comes out to like 300 DPS which I know for a fact isn't right. I think the tooltip (147% + 114) might be wrong. That would put frag arrow at around 1k damage per arrow hit and I've never seen mine hit that hard.
As for skill build, I couldn't find a calculator for the north america version of this game. Even the "old simulator" on dn.mmosite is weird about what skills you can use to a certain level. It says lvl 7 Piercing shot requires level 47 but mine is lvl 9 right now at lvl 26. Until level 32 though, I would do it like this
Twin shot as high as you can go
Piercing shot as high as you can go
LvL 1 multi shot
LvL 3 Magic Arrow
Charged Shot as high as you can go
Frag LvL 1 (for now... I might want to put more points in this)
Aerial Chain shot LvL 4
Rapid Shot LvL 4
Swift Shot LvL 3
Siege Stance LvL 3
Rain of Arrows LvL 1
Guided Missiles LvL 1
As for Wisdom of the Owl, I really really like this skill even though most of the sites say to leave it at level 1 "if your crit is high enough" which doesn't make any sense to me unless there's a crit cap that I don't know about. Each point gives you +50% crit which is >>>>HUGE<<<<<. It's worth more per point than most anything else you can get. This skill also has almost the same cooldown as siege stance meaning if you use them together, your going to chain 1k+ arrows every 1 second for the entire 15 second duration of each.
Anyone have a link to a good simulator I can use? One that uses north american skills?