Deadman

There used to be a command you can toggle from melee to ranged autoattack, something like /toggle????. Something that u can put into a macro and combine with other CAs.

Anyone remember the command?

I don't find dps suffer if u only joust 2 m (and not more) for ranged CA, AND you have a uber bow that crits 5-6k, AND you have good ranged crit and DA, AND you can time everything right. If you time the ranged CAs with kbs, it's even better, coz you continue to do work while you run back in.

Vexthorne is a good choice and u don't have to joust at all. But it doesn't crit well. If only I can get my hands on Voldrath...

Having said that, ur dps won't increase much either, even if you joust for ranged CA So some of you may say - why bother

Vlix_Oasis

Deadman, I think you may be referring to /autoattack X (X equals 0=autoattack off, 1=melee on, 2=ranged on). Forgive me if I am mistaken but that is the only command I am aware of to change between the three.

I'd say save your Ranged CA's for when you have to joust or on the pull. With the Assassin Gear in RoK, you should have greater bonuses to melee combat (melee crit, double attack) over ranged (ranged crit, ranged double attack). We're not Rangers so the gear we roll with isn't suited for maxing out ranged DPS.

My 2 cents is to stick with what we do best.

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Hoss

It took some practice to get the timing down on the ranged CAs, but I think it adds DPS. Anytime all of your melee CAs are on cooldown, step back and at least fire off the 2 big ranged ones. By the time you do that the melee CAs will have started refreshing. If you don't, I think you are leaving DPS on the table, because not only are you not making use of those Ranged CAs, but most of us are agi spec'd and you're wasting that ranged crit if you never use it.

Vexthorne is da bomb. With it, I don't have to step anywhere to fire the bow. When I got it, my ranged damage approximately doubled with no dropoff anywhere else that I could detect. In fact, I think in the last set of parses I studied, my crushing dmg alone was getting close to 10%

BTW, I was using the di'zok bow of flame before I got vexthorne. And my weapons are battleaxe of venom and the fabled epic.


-h

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TheUndertow

I'd be surprised if your auto attack damage (provided you are buffed okay) didnt' do as much damage as the 2 ranged attacks you get in w/ a double attack or Flurry proc going off.

I haven't played around with it too much to see if you miss auto attack swings doing that, but at least with the Mythical, it makes your free swings hit a shit load harder.

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Benji

With the mythical, using your bow is stupid except in ranged-only fights.

Without the mythical, it's something of a toss-up, but close enough you don't need to bother.

jiish

agree with beji when u get mythical move to range is stupid because our melee dmg is high than ranged. Without mythical its easy move a bit back when all skills are down to cast range CA. Vexthome is good bow for stats and +CA my old box is Star Darkened longbow 100% crit proc and very max dmg, so i think for stats Vexthrme and dmg ranged one with more dmg when no mythical