Take Aim half useless

Lol at atking melee with a melee atk. Next thing you know, you'll use lpoison on robes...

take aim is only become usefull after lvl 89, and only after u pick saga instead of demon

by pick that.. take aim give u 500% of your weapon damage in one single shoot, which is more than what u get from deadly shot.. and if u critcal.. needless to say the damage would be massive.

b4 lvl 89 it's sort good coz by cast it and hit esc stirght way u can build up chi very fast and cost almost no mana

ok let me put it this way....

wit a lvl 2 take aim i can hit a critical of 354 (highest ive hit so far) for a lvl 8 archer. how many blademasters do u see hit a 354 crit at level 8?

CRYSTY - Sanctuary wrote: »

if i havent Aim Low charged,i always start with Take Aim (lvl7) and its great opening attack.b:victory

Indeed. b:victory

I think take aim is a very useful tool it takes out a good chunk of hp from the mob which gives you a better chace of you killing it b4 it even hits you yes the charge takes awhile but thats why you use it for an opener.

Okay so what I want to know is this:

Level take aim, or keep it at 1? I find myself opening with it more and more now that I have my FB19 xbow. It deals an absurd amount of damage.

I did an over 3k damage crit at level 36 with my fb19 bow, you can't possibly say that's not a lot of damage at that level. I also managed to steal aggro twice from a barb 12 levels higher than me in an fb19 run with take aim. The long charging time is annoying though, and it's even more annoying when you miss. It's good for saving mp though, and recharges 15 chi.
EDIT: I'm not above level 40 yet, though, so I'm not sure if it'll be any good between level 40 and 60.

Fleuri - Sanctuary wrote: »

Take aim can be nice because you will be building up damage when you wait for some cooldowns from your previous fight to cool down.

But this does not work so well in some squads.

Also, take aim can let you shoot really fast if you activate twice. I am not sure how much of a damage bonus you get that way, but maybe if you have leveled this skill you might get your level adjustment (+15% damage per level?).

hard to tell how much it really adds because of damage range on weapon, shoudlnt be any if you cancel, its good for building chi if you just take aim, winged shell shell, and well at the end of the day you used nearly no potions
of course mana gets used on increased life/defense mobs (aim low, stun, or lightening usually), and sometimes a knockback arrow(very cheap because lvl 1) if a mobs too close, oh yah and use/cancel lets you a.build chi for winged shell and b. build chi for sparks, mmm tastey.

Most of the guys that say it's great don't know what deadly shot dmg is, or realize it's only useful if left at lvl one or when you are at lvl 90+. Let's say +5 90 hh weapon has 2k dmg max. With deadly shot lvl 10 that's base + 2kx100%+5k = base+ 7k dmg. With deadly shot max it's base+ 2kx300% = base+6k dmg. As you see, Take aim is still slower and less useful until that level than deadly shot. Leaving it at lvl 1 is best.

However, at 90, going hell adds 500 dmg to deadly shot at 99! and adds like 1.5k extra atk, so you get 7k +100% +base at 99. Take aim adds 400%+ base for hell.
At 99, with a weapon that's +ed to whatever, and it gives you 3k dmg (yeah, you plused that one hard core), you get 3kx400% = 12k dmg vs 7k+3kx100% = 10k dmg. Not only that, but take aim for you is also 2.5 seconds not 3 seconds channel, so it's already better....and it's better since 89 in fact since you can get it then, so 89+ take aim is already better since it will do more dmg than deadly and since it's available 9 lvls before hell deadly.

If you go heaven, the channeling time remains 3 seconds on both, deadly either becomes aoe or doesn't get 1/2 dmg to close targets (not sure), but Take aim gives you 500% wpn dmg, so it already completely overpowers deadly shot dmg wise at 90 with your weapon that's now +5 or something (2k max dmg for easy calc). 2kx500% + base vs 5k+100%x2k + base 7k+ base.


Unless you are 89+ and have the Take Aim hell/heaven book, leave that skill at 1, you later get deadly shot which is better until that lvl (unless you got +12 weapon or something completely overpowered like that, which will have 2.5+ phy atk). You will later learn that neither one should be your starter in PVE, so you will abondon that skill and just use frost and knockback so you don't even get hit, since you can frost and get 2 extra shots before the mob even starts running at you.

This has been an education experience provided by yours truly. This concludes our programming. Beeeeeeeeeep.

I always forget to bring my mana pots, so that's one of the reasons I use take aim. Even at lvl 10, take aim uses 83 less mp than lvl 1 deadly shot. Though I suppose if you're not like me and remember to bring your pots, deadly shot is more useful when you hit lvl 49.