Curse

Bad Apache · Aug 05, 2006, 03:32 PM // 15:32

Introduction
I was reading through the forums here and there and there seemed to be some confusion on whether Read the Wind and Favorable Winds stack, damage wise. I didn't have anything to do so I thaught I'd test this and try and find an answer.

Skills and Equipment
I used a PvP character, and only the two skills in question. No other skills were used. No other weapon was used.

The Test
The test took place on the Isle of the Nameless, just outside of the Great Temple of Balthazar. I figured a 60 AL target would be a nice target to see the damage capabilities on a caster at the same time.

I fired arrows at the first 60 AL target. When it died, I switched to the second 60 AL target. I believe the targets "ressurect" after 30 seconds. I recorded the readings of 10 kills under the cicumstances of: Normal, only RtW, only FW and finally, both RtW and FW.

The Results

Conclusion
The results highlighted indicate critical hits. These critical hits are consistantly the same throughout each circumstance. For the normal circumstance the critical hit damage was 70. For only Rtw it was 80. For only FW it was 76. This shows that both skills are adding damage correctly.

When I activated Rtw and had FW on me the critical hit damage was 86. This is 16 more than under normal circumstances. The damage bonus from Rtw is 10, the damage bonus from FW is 6, when combined this makes 16. I beleive this tests proves there is no bug with the stacking of the 2 skills.

-Bad Apache

SparhawkJC · Aug 05, 2006, 04:14 PM // 16:14

The only bug with RTW and FW is the speed bost. RTW at the moment already gives you x4 faster flying arrows so the speed boost from FW doesn't come into play.

Bad Apache · Aug 05, 2006, 06:19 PM // 18:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by SparhawkJC

The only bug with RTW and FW is the speed bost. RTW at the moment already gives you x4 faster flying arrows so the speed boost from FW doesn't come into play.

Not x4 exactly. Rtw forces your arrows into an almost (not entirely) horizontal arc. Effectively making all arrow flight times to be approx' 0.25 s.

I must admit though, the speed boosts should be corrected and be stackable.

From what most sources say, the flight time on an unconditional Recurve family bow is 0.5 s. With x2 from Rtw and then x2 from FW, the flight time will be 0.125 s. Making for faster interrupts and unstrayable shots.

Legolas Ravenwood · Aug 05, 2006, 06:35 PM // 18:35

Yea I always thaught the damage was bugged, just never tried testing it, nice work.

Heres the skill description from gwiki:
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Read_the_Wind