I am not sure how Bronzewood works when you are hitting people with DR lower than your ArmPen. Also in your example...I guess getting 2/4 hits with almost 30% more damage in is quite similar as having 4 at 16% more damage
Bronzewood is always a 16% damage boost, no matter what your opponent's damage reduction is. It is similar, but Perfect Bronzewood is cheap comparaticely. I have a perfect Vorpal on my GWF, and even if I was of mind to swap my good enchants out, i would not be so sure about switching to the vorpal. My build is less crit centric than others too, only having about 30% right now, and will only be about 35-36% when my build is done, as opposed to the 40-50% others run. So Vorpal isn;t quite as good for me.
I like my build though and with the hit crits are taking in the pvp preview, I won't feel it as much as others.
Mindflayer - Exodus
Daria - Dwarf Sentinel GWF (mistaken for Halfling a lot)
Karia (aka "The Pug") - Human Combat HR
Kayd - Human Conqueror GF - Retired
If we bring the price in the equation then definitely Bronzewood wins. However I am not sure that the overall efficiency of this is better than Terror or Plaguefire, since the 'marking' also lasts for a given time interval, meaning that you need to kill something withing 20 seconds. That's true in most cases, unless you are facing a GWF alone or a GF that knows what he is doing, or even a new breed TR.
I run G.Bronzewood on my GF, since I was trying to get my DR ignore+Armor ignore as high as possible because I can't get my crit higher than 20%, but I am still not sure if a G.Terror (or P.Terror) would simply be better.
If we bring the price in the equation then definitely Bronzewood wins. However I am not sure that the overall efficiency of this is better than Terror or Plaguefire, since the 'marking' also lasts for a given time interval, meaning that you need to kill something withing 20 seconds. That's true in most cases, unless you are facing a GWF alone or a GF that knows what he is doing, or even a new breed TR.
I run G.Bronzewood on my GF, since I was trying to get my DR ignore+Armor ignore as high as possible because I can't get my crit higher than 20%, but I am still not sure if a G.Terror (or P.Terror) would simply be better.
Food for thought.
In PvP, I would probably run Vorpal on a GF currently. Crit is low, but its all about burst damage and an IV GF has some of the hardest hitting abilities in the game. If they crit, it can be game over. That will most likely change with the new preview patch, since pvp gear is super tank oriented.
The nice thing about bronzewood is that unlike feytouched, the 20 second cooldown is on the target, not you. So if you switch targets before the 20 second cooldown is up, it will still put up a new mark. It does have limitations though. Your first encounter that puts the mark on (most likely boar's charge or marauder's rush) will not benefit from the 16%. 1v1, your encounters will come up before the 20 second cooldown does.
In pvp, it is all about the burst, so Bronzewood works very well for me. I had considered feytouched, but can't afford to build one at the moment. Having the fire and forget of Terror is nice, but the 4% damage boost is very low compared to others. I haven't played with plaguefire, but the constatn 9% if you can keep the stack up would work better in theory and gives you a dot to knock people off mounts.
Mindflayer - Exodus
Daria - Dwarf Sentinel GWF (mistaken for Halfling a lot)
Karia (aka "The Pug") - Human Combat HR
Kayd - Human Conqueror GF - Retired
Plaguefire is good overall. It's easy to get 3 dots going even before you Fox Shift and the dots are a nice addition. However DoT-wise Bilethorn wins, since they really stay for much longer (due to the time delay), which is a good counter for stealth. Not that HRs need any help against TRs but still...
Just like you said in PvP situations, Vorpal shines, because you are always looking for THAT spike damage.
Actually using a lot of silvery now. Kind of an HR budget build. Gear is so pricy but nobody can stop you from grinding up a Predator set at GG. Predator has a heal buff on deflects and.... no deflect on the entire set. So I run the Forrest Lord bow and blades and a lot of silverys (also the cheapest stones on the market). The base predator already has a pile of ArPen and Crit so with accessories it makes a good balanced kit. between the buff and oak I get field medic a lot when we run no DC......
If I want to build a hr(archery) ,which enchant will be more suitable for me ? I like plaguefire a lot actually but not gonna get it because I PvP a lot and it become useless if my teammate have it too.I had a g.vorp but since mod 3 up than vorpal is gonna be kinda useless right(guess in auction a lot will drop their vorpal price). So which enchant suite me better ,was thinking of p.bronze wood of the 16% resistance ignore,really nice.if I marked a target:example a cw,so usually cw/tr/hr/dc do not have high Dr like gwp/gf. So if I marked them and fire the powerful aimshot I think that's the end to them,if not than may be very less HP. Am I correct with this ? And also how about feytouched?
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Bronzewood is always a 16% damage boost, no matter what your opponent's damage reduction is. It is similar, but Perfect Bronzewood is cheap comparaticely. I have a perfect Vorpal on my GWF, and even if I was of mind to swap my good enchants out, i would not be so sure about switching to the vorpal. My build is less crit centric than others too, only having about 30% right now, and will only be about 35-36% when my build is done, as opposed to the 40-50% others run. So Vorpal isn;t quite as good for me.
I like my build though and with the hit crits are taking in the pvp preview, I won't feel it as much as others.
Daria - Dwarf Sentinel GWF (mistaken for Halfling a lot)
Karia (aka "The Pug") - Human Combat HR
Kayd - Human Conqueror GF - Retired
I run G.Bronzewood on my GF, since I was trying to get my DR ignore+Armor ignore as high as possible because I can't get my crit higher than 20%, but I am still not sure if a G.Terror (or P.Terror) would simply be better.
Food for thought.
In PvP, I would probably run Vorpal on a GF currently. Crit is low, but its all about burst damage and an IV GF has some of the hardest hitting abilities in the game. If they crit, it can be game over. That will most likely change with the new preview patch, since pvp gear is super tank oriented.
The nice thing about bronzewood is that unlike feytouched, the 20 second cooldown is on the target, not you. So if you switch targets before the 20 second cooldown is up, it will still put up a new mark. It does have limitations though. Your first encounter that puts the mark on (most likely boar's charge or marauder's rush) will not benefit from the 16%. 1v1, your encounters will come up before the 20 second cooldown does.
In pvp, it is all about the burst, so Bronzewood works very well for me. I had considered feytouched, but can't afford to build one at the moment. Having the fire and forget of Terror is nice, but the 4% damage boost is very low compared to others. I haven't played with plaguefire, but the constatn 9% if you can keep the stack up would work better in theory and gives you a dot to knock people off mounts.
Daria - Dwarf Sentinel GWF (mistaken for Halfling a lot)
Karia (aka "The Pug") - Human Combat HR
Kayd - Human Conqueror GF - Retired
Just like you said in PvP situations, Vorpal shines, because you are always looking for THAT spike damage.
Bilethorn is unique on how it handles DoTs, since each damage done gets a dot that applies 4 seconds later. So they can't really stack.