Carraway's Guide to the New Archer: 1.18 and Beyond

[Akuun]

Verdant Shortbow vs. Crab Bow +3 Preliminary Testing

At the games current state with stats being off and with the small amount of testing done on the subject we've come to a solid conclusion that Verdant Shortbow and CB3 are as close to a wash as you can get in terms of DPS. The CB3 will always hit for hit be stronger than the Verdant but that doesn't necessarily make it better/the best.

Hmm, something isn't right here

Preliminary raw tests done today: Lv.58 Grass Raptors from Boulder Downs Coerthas. Testing Crab Bow +3 vs. Verdant Shortbow with x5 fights each lasting 90 seconds. Base DEX/STR for this raw testing because stats are never going to be an accurate way to test until they fix them in 1.19. Evades and Auto Attack are filtered out of the chatlog data.

Verdant Shortbow Test
Quote:
Total Shots = 135
Total Damage = 16,168
Critical Rate = 11.42%
Miss Rate = 24.44%
136 Attack, 200 Accuracy, 26 STR, 26 DEX


Crab Bow +3 Test
Quote:
Total Shots = 105
Total Damage = 16,492
Critical Rate = 5.71%
Miss Rate = 15.23%
155 Attack, 208 Accuracy, 26 STR, 23 DEX

Let me point out the problem with this parse.
The first is the number of arrows from each weapon to damage total.
Verdant Bow average damage 120 per shot
Crab Bow +3 average damage 157 per shot
First, the average damage of the Verdant bow is about 4/5 of that of the crab bow.
Now if we look at the delay of the bows.
The Verdant Bow is 7/8 the delay.

So over the exact same period of time for each weapon.
Over the course of 1 hour, firing at maximum speed for each.
CB+3 900 shots, total average damage 141,300
VB 1028 shots, total average damage 123,360 (only 87% of the Crab Bow's damage)