Since I capped Prepared Shot recently, and considering bow attack skills are likely to get buffed in the future, I wondered how much damage I can do with the current attack skill stats.
For easy calculation I used this skillbar:
read the wind|prepared shot|arcing shot|screaming shot|power shot|precision shot|flail|res, 16 marksmanship, 13 expertise
Flail can be kept up constantly, and focused shot+expertise is enough e-management to use an attack skill on every attack.
mean bow damage (not counting criticals): (15+28)/2*1.15(from 16 marksmanship)*1.35(+15% and customized) = 33
attacks per second: 1/0.67(flail)/2(shortbow) * 22/24(activating RtW) = 0.69
attack skill bonus: +26 on every attack
mean attack damage: 33+10(RtW)+26=69
69*0.69=48dps
bleeding: 6dps
vampiric: 5/0.69 = 3dps
total: 57 dps, of which 33dps is armour-ignoring
with forked arrow instead of power shot it would be 60dps.
While the lack of interrupts, self heal etc make it a poor build, I was nonetheless surprised at the pretty good single-target damage you can get with it. I wouldn't run it myself though, except on a hero, since it is a rather boring build to use.
(as reference: the single-target damage of spamming searing flames+glowing gaze on recharge with mark of rodgort is ~60dps of which 14dps is armour-ignoring)
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