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

[Meatdawg]

Should probably use the ATK hands regardless of your bow. Otherwise, looks pretty good to me.

My favorite testing targets for convenience are the static amalj'aa outside Zahar'ak -- I think the Halberdiers in particular are always L52. So you could do some quick reps of Light Shot and basic WSs against those to directly compare one pair of gloves to the other.

Carraway is correct.

I would go with PIE>ATK>DEX when gearing Brd. The cap on dex is more around 280 for AA which will affect your light shot/barrage. This is pretty easy to achieve. Always go atk gloves.

The Flame Lieutenant's Bow > Ifrit also. Pretty much any GC bow is better then ifrit.

[zzapp]

Carraway is correct.

I would go with PIE>ATK>DEX when gearing Brd. The cap on dex is more around 280 for AA which will affect your light shot/barrage. This is pretty easy to achieve. Always go atk gloves.

The Flame Lieutenant's Bow > Ifrit also. Pretty much any GC bow is better then ifrit.

Thanks to both you and Carraway for the kind guidance. Without getting into extensive testing for my mnk war drg, would the same apply to those jobs? I.E. - the attack gloves vs. str gloves. I'm guessing probably not, since the primary stat for all 3 is str, whereas arc/brd is a little out of the norm with dex capping so low.

Thanks again for you guidance.

[Meatdawg]

Thanks to both you and Carraway for the kind guidance. Without getting into extensive testing for my mnk war drg, would the same apply to those jobs? I.E. - the attack gloves vs. str gloves. I'm guessing probably not, since the primary stat for all 3 is str, whereas arc/brd is a little out of the norm with dex capping so low.

Thanks again for you guidance.

The general rule on those jobs is to cap str at 350, 2ndary to 300ish (280 for AA) then to do Atk. Remember, Str adds to atk as well(3:2 though you don't see it in the stats it does parse this way), where as with the BRD dex really adds nothing of value (acc isnt a problem for most brds).

[zzapp]

The general rule on those jobs is to cap str at 350, 2ndary to 300ish (280 for AA) then to do Atk. Remember, Str adds to atk as well(3:2 though you don't see it in the stats it does parse this way), where as with the BRD dex really adds nothing of value (acc isnt a problem for most brds).

Awesome, thanks so much for your guidance.