Ranger wan-... NEEDS.

[Miera]

I ses a lot of concerns about ammunition and I'd suggest an ammunition NPC shop. Yes, I understand crafters woes but it really doesn't apply anymore since there are HARDLY ANY ammunition for sale anymore since everyone is all about Abyssea and not farming/crafting much. The Auction House is pretty empty here..

[Catsby]

There have been tests that (last time i looked) showed 100% Critical Hit Rate achievable. but i think it was 95% Adjusted after a while.

Well what I'm saying is that it maybe (unsurprisingly) more difficult to raise crit rate for ranged attacks than for melee attacks. See a couple weeks ago I was in abyssea doing the tests and was simply checking to see which stat increases crit rate. I came to the conclusion that it was AGI but I never tested to see how much it improved it by per point. What I really need is help finding what stat it's checked against and then help finding how much a point of AGI increase the rate. The lolwiki stub says 50 DEX over your target's AGI but I have a feeling it's (unsurprisingly) much higher for AGI vs whatever it is for ranged attacks( making it yet again impossible for RNG to reach its potential).

[Wheels]

The reason no one makes ammo anymore is cause no one wants to level synergy to make the new ammo or farm the items. If you think you have enmity issues try doing 3k-5k triple procs regular range attack with Annihilator(weak to piercing that is) even the aftermath of - enmity does not help. God forbid if a triple proc occurs with Annihilator too especially a 8 hit barrage that does 10k. PreAbyssea i have done alot of 5-6k barrages to DI and was more or less instant death. Enmity really needs addressed either give us an ability to reduce or negate the enmity we earn.

[noodles355]

I would be interested to see the results of this claim that AGI increases critical hit rate for ranger and not DEX.

[Catsby]

I would be interested to see the results of this claim that AGI increases critical hit rate for ranger and not DEX.

It's not terribly hard to test anymore. Just run into abyssea with a stack of cheap ass arrows/bullets/bolts and go see for yourself.

[Neisan_Quetz]

Friend already did it, Put on Razed Ruins critical hit rate on Rng was ~40%, put on GH+RR and critical hit rate was over 70%. if RAttack had a dDEX function his crit rate should have been over 50% with just RR.

[Catsby]

Friend already did it, Put on Razed Ruins critical hit rate on Rng was ~40%, put on GH+RR and critical hit rate was over 70%. if RAttack had a dDEX function his crit rate should have been over 50% with just RR.

When I was testing I used Kirin and Strangling wind along with cruor enhancement for AGI and... VIT(cant remember what AGI pairs with in that menu)? Before that I used Omnipotent and War Lion for DEX and the DEX cruor enhancement. With all the DEX crit rate was below 10% and with the AGI around 20%

[Swords]

Well it may be because the crit rate enhancement through DEX caps out at 20% which is speculated to be +50DEX over the monsters AGI. I would not doubt AGI goes by the same limitations for the ranged crit rate. Any gear, merits, or atma that increase the critical hit rate % works for close and ranged attacks interchangeably.

[Catsby]

Well it may be because the crit rate enhancement through DEX caps out at 20% which is speculated to be +50DEX over the monsters AGI. I would not doubt AGI goes by the same limitations for the ranged crit rate.

This is what I would like to go test though. I have a hunch that there is another bullshit limitation that nobody has noticed yet which makes ranged crit rate more difficult to increase. Since the stat that increases ranged crit rate is different and the damage improvement for a crit is different so I wouldn't be surprised if the rate it increases is different as well.

[Fyreus]

Random note: When i first encountered rangers back on 04 i noticed they'd always run from stuff so i suggest we run a campaign where we get dnc/rdm/blm/whatever to gravity stuff or ask se for a really nice ja/ws with -70% movement till VE calms down or we can recast/ws again lol!