The Hidden Forest

Hello,

Possible to get Hawk Strike to work for ranged damage also? Ranged damage is already in the toilet due to the abundance of Panther and I realize you can't give rangers Ranged damage > Melee damage with panther, but how about a bump in the right direction? Right now I parse 1300-1600 ranged non-trueshot, while melee in the guild pretty much auto-parse at least 2k with Panther once they have the appropriate AAs.

I know what some of the responses will be, just melee like everyone else. But, honestly if I wanted to melee everything to death I would have made a rogue not a ranger.

The 1300-1600 parses are with Dark Wind augmented with Cold Fungus Stone. Should a 55 base damage + 6 damage Augment + 3 Magical Damage + 10 Base Damage Arrow + 4 Fire Bonus Damage Arrow + EVERY archery AA really parse that low? The Trueshot buff (Timer Reduced to 34 Minutes) was helpful but I'm still coming up way short among equal geared DPS. I will parse whatever mobs you like and post put them up in response as valid proof.

Also, there is a HUGE gap in Bow upgrades on the high end. Dark Wind comes off Glyphed Covered Serpent not exactly the hardest SSRA mob in the world, but annoying to the tanks. No Bow Drop from Emperor Ssraeshza.
The Avatar of War Bow: War Bow of Rallos Zek is a downgrade from Dark Wind.

Breaking up the paragraph's a bit. Moving on to Temple of Vasheen. Dagaran The Destroyer which drops Bow:Bow of the Destroyer I do not have one to test, maybe Jeido or Nasty does, but I have a feeling it is a very very slight upgrade from Dark Wind. First of all you have Sharpshooting 3 vs. Sharpshooting 4. That should be a 3% increase in hit chance, however I already have 95% hit chance and I hardly see that getting any higher esp with the Eagle Eye buff.

The absolute BEST raid bow anyone has obtained in the game so far is: Oaken Crossbow which drops off of The Progenitor in Sleepers Tomb. For that bow, all I can comment on is look at the difficulty of organizing a raid guild, gearing them and flagging them up, killing the required mobs, waiting weeks for your turn to loot. This Bow should be the pinnacle and keep updating Bow's with Plane of Air and Plane of War in the furture. Jeido, I need some parses here with that bow if you please.

We tweaked bows accordingly, did you try with Bow of the Destroyer yet? I mean you are comparing a Bow from Ssra with melee weapons from ToV.

Hopefully I can get one to drop in the next few kills, barring that I need someone else who has one to parse for me.

Possible to get Hawk Strike to work for ranged damage also

Striat needs to comment on that really.

The other major issue is that Panther does not work for Archery. I took the time to level up and gear a shaman at 70 and guess what? His main spell adds nothing to my rangers DPS. I know that a weapon spell proc will work with a Bow, but why not a proc buff?

Yup, that's a known issue. Id like to see that fixed as well as every melee here boosts his DPS with panther.

As a quick fix, we could take panther away from everyone else so they are all balanced against each other although i think we will be hated alot for that

How about adding a 400 DD proc with the same proc modifier as panther to every raid dropped bow?

I'm willing to work with you on the balancing, I'm not trying to overpower archery. I just want 75-80% of melee DPS instead of less than 50%.

Just checked Hawk Strike. I think i could make it work for Ranged damage ONLY. It's currently set to work with all melee skills (1h slash/blunt 2h etc etc).

The Panther proc has a spell range of 100 already but it won't help with ranged procs i guess.

It has 2 spell effects Hawk Strike that is, can't you make 1 Melee and 1 Ranged? The Skills Damage Modifer? Rangers don't use any combat skills except MABYE kick?

I tried something, we will see next reload.