Hi, I was talking over the issue of Archery’s autofire with a friend and I think I might have something that could help. I understand the reasons behind not wanting a ranger to have an auto bow like melee (ranger too) have for auto attack. The main reason it seems there is no auto bow (other than I get a feeling devs don’t play rangers as any sort of main) is that someone would be able to box a high damage toon with minimal effort. I understand that autofire would make it pretty simple to box a ranger but past that argument and the fact that most classes are relatively simple to box, taking a ranger from one extreme to another (probably the most focus intensive class to box to possibly the least, while producing high dps) might seem unbalancing in SoD.
In EQlive during 1 of the beta’s a ranger used a macro system to push the archery attack button rapidly instead of using the EQ autofire button. What he found was not a massive but very noticeable DPS loss using the EQlive autofire. The reason was because the EQlive autofire was more or less spamming slower than his macro.
I was wondering if it would be possible for a Dev to look at what could be done with setting up a permanent autofire key with a speed that would lower Ranger dps but not to an extreme of half Archery DPS I would hope.
To toss out unrealistic but simple numbers to represent what I am proposing as a “fix” to saving keyboards and help with the fight against arthritis. If a ranger were able to do 500 strait dps, no nukes but with himself spamming archery, then with the use of a autofire it would put the ranger more around 425dps or somewhere around that. I would think that the autofire speed would effect all bow’s equally but being I can’t test this seeing it’s a rule breaker I can’t tell for sure.
I would think of course a few different fast delay bows and a few slower delay speed bows would have to be tested to know.
In the end I love the class and the server, you guys do a great job and I’m ok with nothing being changed with archery but it never hurts to ask =D.
In EQlive during 1 of the beta’s a ranger used a macro system to push the archery attack button rapidly instead of using the EQ autofire button. What he found was not a massive but very noticeable DPS loss using the EQlive autofire. The reason was because the EQlive autofire was more or less spamming slower than his macro.
I was wondering if it would be possible for a Dev to look at what could be done with setting up a permanent autofire key with a speed that would lower Ranger dps but not to an extreme of half Archery DPS I would hope.
To toss out unrealistic but simple numbers to represent what I am proposing as a “fix” to saving keyboards and help with the fight against arthritis. If a ranger were able to do 500 strait dps, no nukes but with himself spamming archery, then with the use of a autofire it would put the ranger more around 425dps or somewhere around that. I would think that the autofire speed would effect all bow’s equally but being I can’t test this seeing it’s a rule breaker I can’t tell for sure.
I would think of course a few different fast delay bows and a few slower delay speed bows would have to be tested to know.
In the end I love the class and the server, you guys do a great job and I’m ok with nothing being changed with archery but it never hurts to ask =D.
