01-21-2009, 11:31 AM
Quote:Your post was extremely helpful. Quick point - assuming constant click time (which seems reasonable to me) if the hit + recovery is greater than 0.7 seconds the swiftness isn´t necessary/helpful for the double stun either. Right?
So the usefulness of a swiftness bow is pretty much limited to shooting faster at one target? Clicking every 0.3 seconds on 1 target seems quite doable.
Correct in both cases. Just to clarify, it's not just useful when shooting at one target, it also works great against a LINE of targets. When the first one dies, the arrows simply pass on to the next one. Lining them up is pretty easy, just retreat to the nearest corner and walk a fair distance around it hugging the wall. The monsters will round the corner and come at you in a nice line which you can cut to shreds. If they get too close simply retreat and repeat. Of course this strategy works with all bows (and a lot of spells).
If you wish to compare the damage per time unit of a swiftness bow to a normal bow, just multiply the damage displayed on the character screen by 7/6 (almost the same as increasing it by 17%). The result will be damage per 0.35 second, which is the attack time of an normal bow.