-I’m 607gs, full legendary gear with 5x resil, and most other good pvp perks covered. (Light Armor weight class)
-I have a 600 legendary bow with Arboreal attun, vicious, and empowering explosive shot
-My gear is slotted with full runeglass gems for a total of +5% extra ranged damage
As far as I can tell I’m well geared, but still farming the umbrals to get from 607 to 625
When I queue outpost rush I have tried 300dex 200con, but have also tried more glass cannon full dex. Neither one seems to change the outcome very much.
The problem: My arrows hit for around 1700-1900 on targets with light armor. Other archers and muskets hit me for HALF of my 10k hp. Yes. 4-5k per shot. I’ve clipped it, watched it back and its true. I trade arrows with other players and they are doing more than double my damage in the exchange.
I don’t understand what I’m missing. Is ~18gs that big of a difference? I’ve heard its only 3-5% from 600-625.
inb4 git good
but honestly, I was always pretty decent at the pvp in this game when i played from launch. But now after returning for fresh, people are CRUSHING me with what seems to be double my damage. I just cant understand it.
Cause the whole “oh 25gs doesn’t make a diff” is utter bs.
Get your wep to 625 and gear to like 619+ and you’ll notice youll hit for 3-4k and up to 5-6 on people with not good 600gear
GS doesnt matter, its just a skill issue. I have BIS bow and 385 dex and 100 con and do the same dmg with light attack. Improve your bow mastery for dps and also go light. With heavy attack it goes from 2 to 5k usually which is high already… I dont have bow weapon perks.
Its the only useful perk for bow lmao but u shouldnt have it on weapon ….attu+keen jag+enchanted. + empl on armor. And penetrating shot and evade shot as skills.
I agree tbh, I dont even consider myself a bow main actually. I got my hands on a nice bow and decided to pivot that direction while my mage gear was still in its infancy.
I went all in with the dex build thinking “hey these bow guys 2 shot me all the time, I guess I can do it too”.
Turned out to not be the case. I guess I will take the advice of some on this thread and pump 10k umbrals into the bow and see what happens.
If all else fails, I can just “get good” as pointed out by the one guy with brain damage in the 3rd reply.
One thing very difficult to track are buffs since they are hidden. Some players walk fully buffed by a healer nearby that you may not see (good healers are good at hiding and just throwing heals and buffs). They can be armor or empower buffs, they make a massive difference, especially on light armor.
The getting better aspect relate to keeping your own self buffs up more too, to have more dmg or better protection.
Part of it is your relative bow mastery or lack thereof.
Part of it is not using a 625 Bow.
Part of it is that you are outputting pure Thrust damage.
Part of it is you’re using the Sight runeglass in your armor.
Part of it is most likely your bow build.
There are many reasons why you are not performing as you have seen others perform. If you resolve those issues, you will see your damage increase. But it’s hard to assist you better without seeing your gear and build to make suggestions for improvement.
Pure thrust damage can do quite a lot versus someone who is not geared/gemmed against thrust, as shown below, but that is the rare exception.
The 6k hit is the 3rd Rapid shot, followed by the 3k Penetrating shot. I used this bow, but this clip was taken, I believe, before Runeglass was in the game, as I believe I was only using a Cut Pristine Opal at the time.
So if you’re just light attacking body shots, you’ll never do the damage in the above clip. While I missed the first two rapid shots, the third one was a dead on headshot that staggered him, allowing for the fast follow up penetrating shot to finish him off. The clip is only 3 seconds, but the damage window is between .5 and .75 seconds, which means that guy went from 100%-0% in less than a second.
If you have a high level of relative bow mastery, you’ll be able to duplicate or exceed the damage numbers above, repeatedly. If you have a low level of relative bow mastery, you’ll probably never duplicate or exceed the above shot.
It’s basically quantifying your bow mastery on a scale. At the low end, you can’t even hit light auto attacks repeatedly on a target dummy. On the high end, you can delete players, like I did in the above clip, repeatedly, in almost every condition.
Sorry if this does not clear things up, I’m half asleep while typing this. I can make another attempt to explain in the morning, if you would prefer.
its all about the timing guess, stacking buffs as much as you can to increase your damage for the next shot,for example increase 15% damage after dodge, increase 12%damage when your stamina is not full something like that.
Mortal empower 10-15 stacks, OPR is not good content u have too many free fortifies Tent lvl 3- 9%, each, baron 15%. Bread 5%. Other things Rapid shot perk ? Explosive arrow perk ?. Dodge for 15% empower before shot.
