Archer Low DPS :(

[u/Worried-Ad-6339]

Hey guys, my Ranger feels really underpowered. I'm always the lowest DPS in the party, even with full +10 gear at 2100 gear score and 96k power.

Is anyone else feeling like the Ranger is underpowered?

(Sorry for any mistakes, this English was written by AI. I'm not a native speaker.)

[u/Messoz]

Getting Vaziels to 20 for the cdr and getting gale arrow to 16 for -10cd helps a ton. Ranger isn't exactly underpowered just requires some things to feel good. Also getting as much combat speed as you can as well goes a long way.

[u/ohkingdreamz → u/Messoz]

Best way(s) to farm the stigma shards/points? Im stuck trying to progress my combat score and feel like im behind on my stigma points. I know they can be bough through shops but is there a best method or shop to buy them from?

[u/DiliThighSnacker → u/ohkingdreamz]

Nightmare dungeon + abyss token (i really startes enjoying 5v5 tbh) + shugo all of my points go into stigma until vaziel is 20 then i might catch up on Passive tree points

[u/Useful_Cup2531]

Archer is pretty dependent on stats / skill lines / stigmas for the majority of their dps If you have bad rolls on your gear your gear score will be high but likely wont have the neccesary balance of crit / cd reduction / dmg boost ect. They are meant to hit really fast and crit alot in order to take advantage of their buffs cooldown resets.

Your in the 2100 bracket so you're pretty much just farming now for the rest of the year, just start looking at horizontal content like your wings collection, pets / genus farming, statues from pantheon. All of those minor stat points where you can get crit and accuracy to cap will be what makes your dps rise. and reset all your stigmas to get the lvl 20 stigma buff skill to get cooldown reset on crits

[u/DiliThighSnacker → u/Useful_Cup2531]

So i get vaziel to 20 asap, prolly not worth if its the only stigma skill right?

[u/Useful_Cup2531 → u/DiliThighSnacker]

yeh at least +1 the others, might consider explosion over griffon till you have more stgma to make griffon 10 which is a ways out as u want the other two buffs really badly too at 20 (bow) and 15 (supporting) at least since they are very well matched with the build;

remember snipe 16 lowers deadshot cd giving you alot more deadshots

deadshot 16 is a massive dmg increase

Gale arrow 16 makes the gale buff (combat speed and dmg boost) 100% uptime

Drill dart 16 gives you twice as many uses

and arrow scattershot 16 basically resets your cooldowns every stagger

But thats a ton of skill lines so until we are full yellow arcana and have gear that we've rerolled to hit more then one or two lucky 16s our dmg is less then ideal. Once our full kit is in place we have bow on a 2m cd with massive dmg boost and supporting and vaziel coming up every min with perma gale your firing extremely fast add in some cooldown reduction and you can see where it will be wild at lvl 50

[u/DiliThighSnacker → u/Useful_Cup2531]

Just one more thing i see a lot of ppl not running scattershot at all but those are on TW/KR any reason for that?

[u/Useful_Cup2531 → u/DiliThighSnacker]

Its like just not having enough places to put skill lines, my first decent rings both had scattershot on them till 2100 i ran 16 scatter shot and the dps increase is noticeable its likely just less effective everywhere (only good for staggered bosses essentially) where something like gale arrow is just an all around increase in all instances

[u/DiliThighSnacker → u/Useful_Cup2531]

You are the goat thanks a lot, i screenshot this and pin it on my monitor xd

[u/hohobe]

Aside from buying the 25euro pack for the EA i am 100% f2p with no alts. I easly reached 2.4k gs and 114k combat power, Vaizel at 20, gale shot at 16 and deadshot at 16. I consistently outdps everyone. My average dps is 26-27k in conquest, 34k if im allowed to stand still and dps without caring for mechanics(dummy dps is around 35k). All i did was watch whelps ranger guide, setup the macro as shown in the video and spam rotation. Ranger depends heavly on crt, penetration, % dmg and lvl 16 gale shot, deadshot and 20 vaizel. My dps without 20 vaizel or 16 gale shot is around 19-20k.

[u/abricton → u/hohobe]

How are you f2p players 2.4k gs in like 10 days lmao. Are you just no-lifing this shit

[u/hohobe → u/abricton]

It’s honestly not that hard. I don’t even have crafted gear, just dungeon gear at +10/+12. People are exaggerating how difficult it is. If you actually play the available content, you can easily reach 2.4k+ GS. That said, yeah, I’ve been playing 6–8 hours a day since EA. I've been selling all the crafting mats i got for kinah in order to turn them into boxes and then sell for Quna. The whales have been funding my battlepasses and skins. I think i farmed a total of 13k Quna while spending the bound kinah for character progress.

[u/Ropepluschair]

Stigma reliant. We’re capped at stigma 25 but on a balance patch that was based on not being capped

[u/RileyR_IV]

Not that hard to find multiple sides with uploaded logs to realize, that the margin between classes is minuscule.

[u/Prior_Frosting63 → u/RileyR_IV]

what website is this?
p.s nice profile pic

[u/Tequslyder]

All the rangers I see have low dps so idk.

[u/Latter_Ebb_6649]

Isn’t ranger like, one of the best dps in game ? Maybe your build is just bad

[u/Corsonacon]

What are your stats speced for? If you are taking advantage of all your mobility options then you sacrifice a lot of defense, evasion and HP in favor of attack and crit.

[u/Bradford_Pear]

If you haven't started messing with the macro feature you will want to

It seems it's kind of required to keep up in this game and it does make combat a lot easier

[u/Ralposki → u/Bradford_Pear]

Easier yes. Better? Not for my class, at least. I've switched between 2-3 macros, was not satisfied. I've started manually learning the spells and rotation, my dps increased by 30%.

Macros just prioritize what to hit, not when to hit to increase everything you need, depending on the situation.

[u/Tasty-Designer-4489 → u/Ralposki]

Not a single class is optimal manually. You're having a skill issue making the macro, ironically.

[u/Skom666]

ranger is gear dependent heavily. you can't play randomly ranger and expect results

[u/Aggravating-Copy151]

Uhhh.

How are you finding out your lowest DPS?

And what DPS are you at?

[u/Comprehensive-Run615]

It’s weird they forced us on 4 stigmas. Thats really bad imo. 5 unlocks a lot of classes.

Now I have to set two presets just to play open world vs dungeon

[u/Straight_Walrus4689]

I feel like ping makes the most part of my dmg. If the Server is crowded and my ping is high the makro hangs behind and that causes my snipeshot not to get in between which is important for various reasons but that could also be a provider problem on my end

[u/LordYamz]

Archer is like top 3 dps in current reports. Set up your macros and look at guides.

[u/Immediate_Hawk_309 → u/LordYamz]

domt lie

[u/ilJumperMT → u/LordYamz]

Lol no he is lowest on logs only cleric is lower