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

[Richardd]

Hmm, something isn't right here


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)

There's nothing wrong with the parse, all the information is pulled directly from XIV Log Parser when the testing was done. The only thing that was left out were the number of evades calculated into the total number of shots in 90 second periods. As I said before the sample size, while small is still a preliminary indication of why CB3 is 'as close to as wash as it comes' with Verdant. It is MARGINALLY better over a longer duration of time.

And don't think I'm white knighting for Verdant either. I main CB3 over Verdant because I do believe it's marginally better. Do I think its dps vs. Verdant is worth 15M? Nope.