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Poison Bow skills and Elfborn
So previous to the Orsinium patch, Bow skills that deal poison damage would gain a critical damage boost from Elfborn instead of Precise Strikes. After reading the Orsinium patch notes, I saw this:
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•Precise Strikes: Fixed an issue where this passive was not correctly increasing the critical value of healing or abilities that did not use Physical Damage (such as Vigor, or Stamina morphs of class abilities). We also fixed an issue where this passive was increasing critical damage and healing less than intended. This passive will also now properly increase healing from effects that scale off Stamina and Weapon Critical (such as Rally).
Has anyone on the PTS or when the game goes live tested this? I am currently at work and cannont test this, but was curious if other players have. Might be good for the community to know since previously people thought Precise strikes would actually increase thier crit damage for poison bow abilities when sadly, it was Elfborn that did this.
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•Precise Strikes: Fixed an issue where this passive was not correctly increasing the critical value of healing or abilities that did not use Physical Damage (such as Vigor, or Stamina morphs of class abilities). We also fixed an issue where this passive was increasing critical damage and healing less than intended. This passive will also now properly increase healing from effects that scale off Stamina and Weapon Critical (such as Rally).
Has anyone on the PTS or when the game goes live tested this? I am currently at work and cannont test this, but was curious if other players have. Might be good for the community to know since previously people thought Precise strikes would actually increase thier crit damage for poison bow abilities when sadly, it was Elfborn that did this.
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@ZOS_GinaBruno, Do you know if poison bow abilities were affected by this change? Thanks in advance.0
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If this thread doesnt get any responce today, I will test it first thing when i get home (about 5 hours) and post my results. Always thought it was kinda dumb that some stamina abilities (even being of an element, or poison) would scale off Magic Critical Damage. Could be a big factor as to why alot of bow users have trouble pulling competitive DPS in dungeons.
If the poison bow skills do now scale with Precise Strikes, that will be a nice improvement to dps as arrow barrage and light/heavy attacks will get a decent crit damage boost.
Like I said, ill give this a look at when I get home and post what I find here for anyone interested. Bow PVE DPS may not be the best right now, but dont give up bow users, it can still be good.1 -
JoshenReborn✭✭✭As a pure archer I hope you're right friend. This change would be huge! I really don't want archers to be some dps joke, ranged dps deserves to be viable.0 -
OK ppls, I haz tested. Precise Strikes does infact increase the critical damage from poison bow attacks. This is a good change as now bow will be in line with the other stamina based weapons, except for it will still use Thaumatarge instead of mighty. I meant to post this last night but got caught up in harvesting mats in Wrothgar before the masses showed up. Happy Bowing!3
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Sorry I forgot to update this post and left it for dead. So to revert my previous statements, my numbers were accurate but so are the tooltips. The Champ points are working as intended as far as Im concerned. Poor bow, hes just week.
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