Skilling up ranged weapons.

[kandrathe]

My friend recorded some numbers and made a post in the WoW forums about skilling up ranged weapons.  I thought I'd post them here since he went to quite a bit of trouble and some might find the results interesting.
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Sorry, I'm trying to figure out why this matters. It is interesting, but...

If you are a Hunter you use ranged as a primary, so one empty quiver of arrows later you are 300. You would go through that in an instance run at level 60 and not even notice. Getting the skill from 295 to 300 will happen and the difference in crits and dps would be slight.

If you are not a hunter, then you probably use it as an attention getter rather than needing any sustained DPS, so a skill of 5 or 300 is equally effective in pulling a mob. If you miss, they still come. Getting 300 for this use is just a completion thing, like getting 300 in fishing.

If you are a custom hybrid that wants to use some form of rooting and ranged dps, then you will bear the burden of difficulty with the grace of a deviant. :-)