Hunter talent discussion

[smithy]

It's a good question. The character screen (for what little or nothing it is worth) shows my lvl 3 multi-shot as adding +88 damage, which looks like the +80 da for a lvl 3 multi-shot plus a 10% bonus from the +2 Barrage talent.

I tried out a quick practical test and recorded 40 pairs of non-critical auto-shot and multi-shot damages on immediately subsequent hits vs a single target. It wasn't well controlled -- I mostly had on hunter's mark, aspect of the hawk,  and trueshot aura, but not always. However, the auras were always the same for each pair of damages I recorded. The auto-shot damages ranged from 104--168; the multi-shot damages ranged from 165--234; and the differences (multishot da - autoshot da) in each pair ranged from 46--98.

The mean auto-shot da was 134 and the mean multi-shot damage was 202, significantly less than the supposed +80 bonus (let alone the +88) that multi-shot should provide, so who knows how it really works. It's still a great skill :)
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"The mean auto-shot da was 134 and the mean multi-shot damage was 202, significantly less than the supposed +80 bonus (let alone the +88) that multi-shot should provide, so who knows how it really works. It's still a great skill :)"

I assuming multi-shot is doing pure physical damage, right?

If so, the extra damage from multi-shot (rank 3) would be reduced by armor. That might explain for the difference in your expected vs. observed damage.

Just an idea.

Smithy