Best bow for ARC/BRD

[Dzian]

0.8 seconds may have more impact than you think, if your keeping everything on cool down then after a full spam there's ~5 seconds of no abils available, in that 5 seconds you can get 2 light shots or 1, this happens every 10 seconds, so every 10 seconds your sacrificing 1 light shot in order to have 10 more dmg for WS modifiers. In a fight that lasts 8mins, this works out to 48 shots difference going from 2.5 to 3.3 delay.

I dunno because even if you keep your 2steps and 3steps on cool down theres still your gloom arrow and heavy shot which you can pop off cos they both have 10 second recast. so in that 5 second window its easily possible to pop 1 or both of those skills which is essentially the same as popping 1 or 2 extra lightshots in that 5 second window...

now looking at some old parses (couple on blog and ls site) on average i put out 20 shots a minute with my ifrit bow. that includes time casting buffs and songs, now a couple of friends with garudas bow have said it's pretty difficult to put out more shots than that using a garudas bow even with its reduced delay. because by taking advantage of the faster light shot means your popping abilities slower. so where in a minute you may get 2 or 3 more light shots out you end up putting out 2 or 3 less skills.

it ends up that you put out a similar number of hits over time with a bow that has about 75% of the ifrits bows damage

[NoctisUmbra]

I dunno because even if you keep your 2steps and 3steps on cool down theres still your gloom arrow and heavy shot which you can pop off cos they both have 10 second recast. so in that 5 second window its easily possible to pop 1 or both of those skills which is essentially the same as popping 1 or 2 extra lightshots in that 5 second window...

now looking at some old parses (couple on blog and ls site) on average i put out 20 shots a minute with my ifrit bow. that includes time casting buffs and songs, now a couple of friends with garudas bow have said it's pretty difficult to put out more shots than that using a garudas bow even with its reduced delay. because by taking advantage of the faster light shot means your popping abilities slower. so where in a minute you may get 2 or 3 more light shots out you end up putting out 2 or 3 less skills.

it ends up that you put out a similar number of hits over time with a bow that has about 75% of the ifrits bows damage

Depends on the player I guess, since I;ve had no trouble keeping LS on cooldown any time I wasnt casting something. I made a LS macro to spam with my gamepad just for this purpose. Between almost every WS I set off a Light Shot. Burning down Garuda was a very good place to compare DPS, and my total damage went up by 1.5-2k just after I adapted to the Gardua's Spine.