Talk:Prepared Shot

I recommend the usage of a Marksmanship headgear upgraded with a rune of superior Marksmanship. That, a preparation like Rapid Fire (low cost, tied to Marksmanship) and Expertise at 12 means a net energy gain of 7 each 7~8 seconds - roughly resulting in a +3 energy regeneration! Noctarch 15:19, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Where to cap

"It's a lot easier and faster to get to the Eye than the Realm of Torment" - That's pretty much an opinion, not a fact. If your character is Nightfall born, there is a pretty good chance you will go to the Realm of Torment before the Eye. Misery 15:33, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

You can cap this at level 10 in the Eye of the North. If you can get to the Realm of Torment before level 10 to cap this, you're a better player than most.

There are many elite skills that can be captured in one campaign much faster than in other. And no1 makes notes about that. IMHO the note about capturing in eotn is pretty useless. Gunm 17:45, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Well, as getting it from RoT is at the end of a campaign and the Eye is at the begining of the expansion campaign, I'd say it would be easier to get from Eye of the North. If you're a prophecies or factions character or even a new NF character, capping from EotN would be much faster. --JonTheMon 17:48, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

I agree with JonTheMon. EotN is much easier to acces the the RoT, and Johon is a fairly easy boss to kill under any circumstance. so i'd say that the EotN cap point is the easier of the two places to cap this skill.--Xenktray 15:07, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Bread and Butta

This is a wonderful skill to have. If you have EotN, its also the easiest to cap. It does decent damage, it's spammable, it makes other skills spammable. It is a great "in between attacks" attack. Use this skill. FleshAndFaith 09:27, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

It sure is good. It also allows higher cost skills to be used with lower Expertise. I used it in Alliance Battles and won 4 out of 5 battles, most won by at least 200 points. The Slayer 17:00, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

I like it because it's balanced and only works for actual rangers, with bows. It's a pity that makes it bad. —Jette 10:14, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

I think it's "bad" because it doesn't do anything outstanding, like offer maintainable burning or hit 7 people at once. Yet still, it offers decent damage and allows for more expensive bow attacks to come often. I don't even use regular attacks anymore, this skill lets me perpetually throw attack skills. FleshAndFaith 00:28, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Exactly. If a skill doesn't do something incredible, it's pretty much bad. It's also kinda bad because rangers should never need energy management, since expertise is so broken. Ranger elites always have to be amazing because they get stuff like Crippling Shot, Burning Arrow and Melandru's Shot. I guess it'd be pretty okay if it was non-elite though. –Jette 06:12, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Point in perspective: why use a balanced skill when there are OPed alternatives? Pika Fan 06:15, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Because bringing Burning Arrow to fight destroyers is dumb. FleshAndFaith 05:42, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Trivia correction

I recently stumbled upon the high resolution gallery and noticed that it is not Acolyte Jin in the skill icon, but a female ranger wearing Vabbian armor (see here and here). Correct me if I'm wrong. HarunoMidori 13:12, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

I agree. The hair looks similar but it isn't the same. Furthermore, Acolyte Jin does not have any Vabbian-like chest armor even with the Primeval-Vabbian reskin. Markus Clouser 13:23, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

I disagree. The person on the icon looks very much Canthan (to me) and she has the flowing bangs over the right eye look as does Jin. The deciding factor for me was the very first quote you ever read from Acolyte Jin talks about being prepared not once but twice. Heroes can obviously change their armor, so it's not as strong an argument against imo. The girl in the picture is also wielding a Bladed Recurve Bow. Jin does not start with that weapon, but I don't think you can draw the inference it is not her because of this. Much like the icon for Renew Life is assumed to be Mhenlo, I think it is a fair assumption that it is Acolyte Jin on this icon. It would be nice to get some confirmation obviously though. pjfresh 02:50, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Heroes...

Use this skill very badly... They use it as if it were a normal attack skill, without taking the energy gain into account. They either use it without any preparation active or ignore it altogether and never use it if they have an attack that does more damage. I suppose it's my fault for trying to teach them the subtleties of energy management instead of just using their godly split second interrupts. Haruno Midori 13:04, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Heros like maintaining preps so thats not a problem. Heros tend to use active energy management when they actually need energy. As stated above, with a respectable lvl of experstise, this skill can be overkill and that being said, your ranger hero probably doesnt use this frequently because they dont need it. Justice 10:57, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Available in prophecies WiK but..

Uncappable if you do not own nightfall? so does this mean that if I do WiK I may not cap it even there? (my friend only has prophecies and EOTN.) Rogueonion 06:39, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

That is correct. When you use the Signet of Capture, the skill will appear with a Locked icon on it. elix Omni 06:41, 1 October 2010 (UTC)