an observation on archer

Fleuri - Sanctuary wrote: »

I really wish people would think, rather than just repeat these tired ideas they got from someone else:

Archers get 76% of the base hp that a barb gets, from vitality. We do not get their shapeshifting bonus, but we are ranged, so we quite often do not need to get hit. And, my evasion is high enough, even with my vit build, that in melee range I typically do not get hit maybe 25% of the time. So, from an overall incoming dps point of view, my tradeoff is: I am often ranged, they get shapeshifting. (Evasion works nicely when you have enough health to survive the hits.)

My tradeoff is 1911 health vs. a potential increase of 28% ranged dps and a potential 5% melee dps increase (edit: in other words, I have lost 18% off my peak ranged damage, and I have lost 7% off of my crit rate). Put differently, my ranged dps, including my crit rate, is 22% lower than it would be if I had moved 147 vit points to dexterity. Basically, that means that my ranged dps with jones blessing is slightly higher than my dps would be without jones and a pure build. And on most bosses my melee dps already greatly exceeds my ranged dps. And the percent changes on my health almost exactly match my ranged dps percent changes...

I am ignorable in pvp in because I do not have rank 9 nor high refines. My vit does not change that. Also, I am permanently blue named (except for the temporary red name I have sometimes gotten in TW, or pink name I have sometimes gotten in warsong), so PvP is not much of a priority for me. That said, when I have engaged in PvP in something approaching normal odds, I have done well enough.

And, ok, yes, I am sacrificing damage per hit and damage per second. And, yes, I would like for higher survivability than what I currently have. But I do not feel that I am sacrificing my total damage, because I tend to stay alive in situations that kill other archers (note that this does not include archers with much better defenses than I have, but reducing my vitality would not help there, either).

Meanwhile, competence is not the only factor. I may not have a rank 9 bow, but I do have a rank 8 bow. And I have a constant 1.05 attack rate whenever I want to use it. And, just like any other archer, I often enough get chains of critical hits. Not everyone has the kind of gear they would need to hold aggro from me.

Even if I ignore my damage range, for most archers, all I need to pull aggro from them is a chain of crits when the other archer has a chain of non-crits. How does this possibility mean that they suck? Do you mean that crit chance less than 100% means you suck? Meanwhile, I sometimes get chains of weak hits, and I sometimes get chains of heavy hits.

And, of course "easy to kill" is meaningless, since it is totally situational and non-specific. A barb with 40k health can be easy to kill, sometimes. But I am not always in those kinds of situations.

Finally, I do not really care if you want me in squad, or not. I all too frequently have to turn down whispers from friends that want me to run nirvana, or bh, or whatever else with them, because I am only one person and I am often enough doing something else with other people. If you wanted me in squad, you would be another person I have to turn down, which would make me feel a bit bad.

lmaonade1xp wrote: »

this is true =[





is this a good thing or a bad thing? b:avoid