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Skill suggestions/Ranger/Marksmanship
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Arcing Shot[edit]
Current:[edit]
5 
6 
Bow Attack. Deals +10...22...25 damage. Unblockable. This arrow moves 50% slower.
Proposed:[edit]
5 ¾ 
Bow Attack. This arrow moves 66...40...33% slower and deals 50% less damage.
This skill is for spreading conditions.
Barrage[edit]
Current:[edit]
5 1 Elite Bow Attack. Deals +5...17...20 damage. Hits 6 foes adjacent to your target. All your preparations are removed.
Proposed:[edit]
10 ¾ 1 Elite Bow Attack. Shoot arrows at target foe and up to 4 foes in the area. These arrows move 66...40...33% slower and deal 33% less damage.
Elite Volley. This is for when you want to spew arrows into a mob, for whatever reason. Intense poison spread, amazing Choking Gas application, splinter triggers like whoa, and respectable damage to boot.
Crippling Shot[edit]
Current:[edit]
10 2 Elite Bow Attack. Inflicts Crippled condition (1...8...10 second[s]). Unblockable.
Proposed:[edit]
10 2 Elite Bow Attack. Inflicts Crippled condition (3...10...12 seconds). Unblockable if target foe is nearby.
Small nerf. This shouldn't make a huge difference against eles, but it should allow a reasonably skilled and properly specced warrior to compete on a purely offensive split.
Debilitating Shot[edit]
Current:[edit]
10 10 Bow Attack. Causes 1...8...10 Energy loss.
Proposed:[edit]
10 ½ 8 Bow Attack. Interrupts an action. Interrupt effect: causes 1...6...7 Energy loss. Deals half damage otherwise.
Unconditional energy loss was rather skilless and, therefore, uninteresting. Instead, this is now another bow interrupt, with a similar conditional effect.
Distracting Shot[edit]
Current:[edit]
- See Expertise.
Proposed:[edit]
5 ½ 10 Bow Attack. Interrupts an action. Interruption effect: interrupted skill is disabled for +5...21...25 seconds. Deals 50% less damage.
15 damage was a horrible way to scale dshot. No one cared if they were being hit for 1 or 16; they cared that their skill was being disabled for 20 seconds by the Ghostly Hero.
Accordingly, the disable on this skill is now the scaling factor. At the high end, this skill has actually been buffed. However, with typical ranger att splits, it should be the same, if not slightly worse.
Disrupting Shot[edit]
Current:[edit]
10 ½ 15 Bow Attack. Interrupts an action. Interruption effect: +10...34...40 damage if you interrupt a skill.
Proposed:[edit]
5 7 Bow Attack. Interrupts an action. Interruption effect: interrupted skill is disabled for +7...29...35 seconds.
This is yet another dshot alternative. It trades reactive ability for a stronger disable.
This skill should, imo, be very interesting to see in play.
Focused Shot[edit]
Current:[edit]
5 2 Bow Attack. Deals +10...22...25 damage. Your other attack skills are disabled (5...3...3 seconds) if this attack hits.
Proposed:[edit]
5 Bow Attack. Deals +10...22...25 damage and results in a critical hit. Your other attack skills are disabled (12...7...6 second[s]). Easily interrupted.
Rangers can have pew pew damages at the cost of any utility attack skills.
Forked Arrow[edit]
Current:[edit]
10 5 Bow Attack. You shoot two arrows simultaneously. Shoot only one arrow if you are enchanted or hexed.
Proposed:[edit]
5 2 Bow Attack. You shoot an arrow at target foe and one nearby foe. Shoot only one arrow if you are enchanted or hexed.
Another condition-spreading skill. Doesn't spread as fast as Arcing Shot, but is less energy intensive.
Hunter's Shot[edit]
Current:[edit]
5 1 10 Bow Attack. Inflicts Bleeding condition (3...21...25 seconds) if your target is hit.
Proposed:[edit]
5 1 7 Bow Attack. Inflicts Bleeding condition (3...10...12 seconds) if your target is hit. Inflicts Crippled condition (1...3...4 second[s]) if that foe was moving.
Awesomed up.
Keen Arrow (PvP)[edit]
Current:[edit]
5 12 Bow Attack. Deals +1...4...5 damage. Deals +5...25...30 more damage if you land a critical hit.
Proposed:[edit]
10 2 Bow Attack. Deals +5...13...15 damage. Always a critical hit. Easily interrupted.
Another pew pew skill. It's like Focused Shot but it costs energy.
Marauder's Shot[edit]
Current:[edit]
10 6 Bow Attack. Deals +10...30...35 damage. Your non-attack skills are disabled (10 seconds) if this attack hits.
Proposed:[edit]
10 1 12 Half-Ranged Bow Attack. Deals +5...17...20 damage. If this attack hits a foe that was using a skill, that foe is knocked down.
This skill is for good rangers to wreak havoc upon a team's midline.
Too slow for most reactive ints, this skill will rely on quarterknocking or prediction.
Needling Shot[edit]
Current:[edit]
5 ¾ 4 Bow Attack. Fast-moving arrow. Deals 10...26...30 damage. Recharges instantly if target foe is below 50% Health. Your other attack skills are disabled (2 seconds).
Proposed:[edit]
5 ¾ 7 Bow Attack. Fast-moving arrow. Interrupts an action. Interrupt effect: this skill and interrupted skill recharge instantly. Deals only 1...12...15 damage.
This skill is for interrupting everything everywhere, if you're a good ranger and can land ints with a ¾ second interrupt. To counteract the slow activation time (which bypasses aftercast delay), this skill has a fast flight time. In fact, under 33% IAS, this skill would feel exactly like using a normal un-IASd interrupt with Read the Wind up.
Penetrating Attack (PvP)[edit]
Current:[edit]
10 1 4 Bow Attack. Deals +3...9...10 damage. 10% armor penetration.
Proposed:[edit]
15 3 12 Bow Attack. Deals an additional 0...60...75 piercing damage. 20% armor penetration. Unblockable.
Spike support.
Power Shot[edit]
Current:[edit]
10 3 Bow Attack. Target foe takes 25...45...50 damage.
Proposed:[edit]
10 3 8 Bow Attack. Deals +10...34...40 damage.
More spike support.
Precision Shot[edit]
Current:[edit]
10 1 6 Bow Attack. Deals +3...9...10 damage. Unblockable. Easily Interrupted.
Proposed:[edit]
10 3 12 Bow Attack. Deals +10...34...40 damage. Always a critical hit. Interrupts an action. Easily interrupted.
Even more spike support.
Punishing Shot[edit]
Current:[edit]
10 ½ 5 Elite Bow Attack. Deals +10...18...20 damage. Interrupts an action.
Proposed:[edit]
10 1 12 Elite Half-Ranged Bow Attack. Deals +5...17...20 damage. If this attack hits a foe that was using a skill, it instead deals +10...34...40 damage and that foe is knocked down and Dazed (2...4...5 seconds).
Elite Marauder's Shot.
Rapid Fire[edit]
Current:[edit]
5 2 12 Preparation. (5...21...25 seconds.) You attack 33% faster while wielding a bow.
Proposed:[edit]
10 12 Stance. (1...7...8 seconds.) You attack 5...27...33% faster while wielding a bow. Ends if you use a non-attack skill.
Rangers have better things to use their preparations on.
This allows helps rangers to participate more effectively on spikes, assists in condi spread, and enhances interrupt ability.
Read the Wind (PvP)[edit]
Current:[edit]
5 2 12 Preparation. (24 seconds.) Your arrows move twice as fast.
Proposed:[edit]
5 ¾ 3 Skill. (1...3...3 second[s].) Your next arrow moves three times as fast. You gain 0...2...2 Energy if it hits.
Again, rangers have better things to use their preps for.
This is designed as an interrupt aide, but I fear it may be too strong when used with something like Crippling Shot.
Savage Shot[edit]
Current:[edit]
10 ½ 5 Bow Attack. Interrupts an action. Interrupt effect: deals +13...25...28 damage if that action was a spell.
Proposed:[edit]
10 ½ 5 Bow Attack. Interrupts an action. Interrupt effect: deals +0...28...35 damage if that action was a spell. Deals 50% less damage otherwise.
Buff for normal rangers using this as an interrupt (especially with high Marksmanship), nerf for rspike.
Seeking Arrows[edit]
Current:[edit]
15 2 20 Preparation. (3...12...14 seconds.) Your arrows are unblockable. Ends if you fail to hit.
Proposed:[edit]
25 2 12 Preparation. (24 seconds.) Your arrows are 66...40...33% as likely to miss, stray, or be blocked.
Blinding a ranger isn't done so that they stop doing damage; it's so they stop interrupting.
Because ranger interrupts are so important to balanced builds, shutting down a ranger via standard anti-physical means was, imo, too easy for its benefit (when compared to blurring a Warrior for the same cost).
This is a direct means to counteract that, though with a strong opportunity cost.
Sloth Hunter's Shot (PvP)[edit]
Current:[edit]
10 15 Bow Attack. Deals +5...17...20 damage. Deals +5...13...15 more damage if target foe is not using a skill.
Proposed:[edit]
10 ½ 8 Bow Attack. Deals +5...17...20 damage and causes 1...6...7 Energy loss if target foe is not moving, attacking, or using a skill. Otherwise, deals half damage.
I expect this to be fun and interesting.
Volley[edit]
Current:[edit]
5 3 Bow Attack. Deals +1...8...10 damage. Hits up to 3 foes adjacent to your target. All your preparations are removed.
Proposed:[edit]
10 Bow Attack. Shoot arrows at target foe and up to 2 nearby foes. These arrows move 66...40...33% slower and deal 66% less damage.
More condi-spread.
It's potentially faster than Arcing, and always faster than Forked, with the drawback of doing almost no damage and costing more energy.
