Anyone got potency numbers for ranged LB?

I need to know, so I know if I need to feel guilty or not (and i probably won't either way) if I blow my LB1/2 over a melee.

Well it's weaker then melee

I wish they'd just make them all equal so we can quit this "wtf why you lb melee does it" bullcrap.

If you aren't melee, they might as well not have given you limit break.

Its AoE, or rather a frontal cone attack so it should be less damage than melee. LB2 hits for about 2.5k while LB1 does about 1.4k.

And thats capped at level 44 in Stone Vigil (been doing that one a lot lately).

Depends on the situation, are you hitting more than 1 enemy? If so ranged LB, if its just one, better for the melee to use.

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Originally Posted by Nadirah

I wish they'd just make them all equal so we can quit this "wtf why you lb melee does it" bullcrap.

If you aren't melee, they might as well not have given you limit break.

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If you aren't melee, then you should blow it on groups of 3+ mobs before you hit the minibosses where melee *will* use it. A single mage LB1 that hits 7 mobs has equivalent potency to two Melee LB2. If they give you crap for "wasting" LB kindly inform them they don't understand the basic concept of DPS efficiency.

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Originally Posted by AlphaFox

Depends on the situation, are you hitting more than 1 enemy? If so ranged LB, if its just one, better for the melee to use.

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LB is typically only used on low health bosses, so it's *always* one hit.

Should have made all DPS limit breaks single target with splash damage. They put all this work into giving each job a special limit break, and most of us will never get to see or use ours. Healers? Melee should have blown it before everything went to hell. Ranged? If you don't have melee maybe... Caster? See ranged. Tank? Don't make me laugh.

I've used healer LB once, seen it used twice. Tanks I've seen blow it to troll, and since the expansion went live, I've seen LOTS of folks blow it on trash trying to jump it before anyone else does because they want to *see* theirs. Can't blame them.

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Originally Posted by Reinfeld

If you aren't melee, then you should blow it on groups of 3+ mobs before you hit the minibosses where melee *will* use it. A single mage LB1 that hits 7 mobs has equivalent potency to two Melee LB2. If they give you crap for "wasting" LB kindly inform them they don't understand the basic concept of DPS efficiency.

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It is wasted though when a ranged DPS uses it on a solo boss while there's a melee DPS in the party.

Use it when appropriate- if there are a lot of mobs to hit, you'll not be remiss using it. People will always give you crap about using an LB when they want to, some people are just like that.

I had a guy get mad at me for wasting an LB on the golem boss in Qarn today, as a Machinist. While he was also a Machinist. He proceeded to piss and moan and call me a noob the whole dungeon and refuse to explain why it's a waste if no one else was going to LB and his would be the exact same as mine. Like, I went out of my way to be polite and ask what he planned to use it on and I just got an almost cliche "ugh noobs" out of him.

Point is, some people just suck. You know when to LB and it's not always "Save it for the boss, melee". Just be smart about it.

ranged LB dmg for single target is worse than melee but better than mage , and can hit every mob in front of u