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Mr Pvper · Feb 10, 2008, 01:41 AM // 01:41

From what I've noticed with these skills, the 2 attack skills are different than most other ranger attack skills(Power shot and Precision shot work the same as Penetrating Attack / Sundering Attack)

Sundering attack and Penetrating attack:

-They remove downtime caused by attacks that shoot at the normal attack rate of the bow (i.e. Prepared shot, Screaming shot, auto attack)

-They always shoot consistently for 1 second, despite the fact that u have ias ( im not 100% positive on this)

-They dont have a downtime (this is like aftercast for spells)

-This attack does more dmg in general than most other attacks on a 60 nonbuffed armored target (this is kinda opinionated)

Along with that, i've noticed the attack rate on flatbows and shortbows go like this-

-They shoot an arrow at 1.5seconds, and have a .5second downtime. Hence ur literally shooting at 2second shot rate (im not 100% positive on this)

Sooooo if i use read the wind and use a flatbow, and i shoot a screaming shot followed by Penetrating attack and sundering attack, ill end up shooting 3 arrows in 3.5seconds + the arrow time to get to target.

feedback on this would be nice

TheLordOfBlah · Feb 10, 2008, 02:14 AM // 02:14

they are affected by ias skills, lowering the cast time further from 1s, they do have aftercast like most skills, they do more damage because thats what the skill does... i dont know where you got "They shoot an arrow at 1.5seconds" because the cast time is ONE second..

moriz · Feb 10, 2008, 05:05 AM // 05:05

like all attack skills with a "cast time", these skills activate in half of the advertised time. for example, dshot/savage/magebane shot all activate in .25 seconds instead of .5 seconds. penetrating and whatnot fire in .5 seconds, instead of 1 second. the only exception to this rule are agonizing and critical chop, with both activate in 1 second no matter what.

Amy Awien · Feb 10, 2008, 09:33 AM // 09:33

Sundering, Penetrating and Quickshot combine into a nice and steady flow of arrows, where the first PA recharges in 3 seconds, nicely matching the activation times of the following Quickshot, Sundering and Quickshot. I'd say that for practical purposes they activate in 1 second.

Normally there is an aftercast, but it seems that the following fixed cast of PA/SA/QS overrides this and fires as normally. As far as I can tell they are not affected by IAS, not that it would matter much.

Kilroy Stonekin · Feb 19, 2008, 06:03 AM // 06:03

You'd be better off using a hornbow(10% AP), recurve bow(Lowest Arc), or a longbow(Lower arc than flatbow) with sundering/penetrating/power attack, since the activation time remains the same for all bows.

IAS does work.

masta_yoda · Feb 19, 2008, 06:46 AM // 06:46

rapid fire with this works nice 1,2,1,2,1,2 spam