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Dregos · Jun 15, 2005, 05:03 PM // 17:03

Couple of questions.

1. Is it true that horn and ivory bows have a 10% armor penetration bonus?

2. Does fire rate delay only happen in between shots, or does it happen even at the beginning of the first shot? Reason I'm asking is to find out the fastest bow for interupts and if I should add "Refire Rate" with "Flight Time" or just look at "Flight Time". I'm looking at this table.

Thanks.

Ensign · Jun 15, 2005, 06:09 PM // 18:09

I haven't actually paid enough attention to those bows to answer 1, but I can take a stab at #2.

As near as I can tell, those refire rates are more frontloaded than backloaded, meaning that a bow with a low refire will be noticibly slower even on the first shot. The time after a shot doesn't seem to change that much from bow to bow, and has a definite minimum - play around with Quick Shot and interrupts to see what I mean.

What bow is best for interrupts depends on which interrupts you want to use. If you're using Distracting or Concussion Shot, then flight time is all that matters because those attacks have their own firing rates that overwrite your bow's speed. Of course the back end of your previous shot's animation could lengthen this since you can't cancel out of that, so refire is still important in that sense. If you're trying to use Savage Shot, refire + flight time is a more reasonable metric.

Also remember that the closer the target is to you, the less the flight time matters, since those flight times are at a fixed distance.

Peace,
-CxE

Dregos · Jun 15, 2005, 07:54 PM // 19:54

That helps. Thanks for the reply Ensign.

Rhombus · Jun 16, 2005, 06:03 AM // 06:03

You never fire 2 seconds after your last shot hits, it most of the time fire, in the air....... pow, it hits and you immediately fire again.