Rapid Fire bugged?

[Eilidh]

Ok, so after finishing with some real life stuff here are some things.

When using Rapid Fire 5 times

Testing: Unbuffed, sitting still (passive), and 5 combo pre-made set up

Round 1: 456, 489, 459, 457, 772
Round 2: 772, 772, 459, 498, 461
Round 3: 772, 482, 475, 466, 772
Round 4: 772, 772, 772, 483, 467
Round 5: 456, 491, 476, 488, 459

Note: Crits are bolded.


So my question is, since people are claiming its doing around 5k-10k per use, how much crit is needed?

I am at, unbuffed:

717 Dex
678 Atk = 67.8
940 crit = 35.64%

Completely unbuffed, I'm at 818 AP with a R8 rifle; with 10x Silver-Tipped and Increased Fire Power bumping me up to 1004 AP, my RFS crits for 1171 on the boss dummy, and I've seen crits in the 1600-1700 range with full raid buffs/debuffs up.

[Durango]

Ok, so after finishing with some real life stuff here are some things.

When using Rapid Fire 5 times

Testing: Unbuffed, sitting still (passive), and 5 combo pre-made set up

Round 1: 456, 489, 459, 457, 772
Round 2: 772, 772, 459, 498, 461
Round 3: 772, 482, 475, 466, 772
Round 4: 772, 772, 772, 483, 467
Round 5: 456, 491, 476, 488, 459

Note: Crits are bolded.


So my question is, since people are claiming its doing around 5k-10k per use, how much crit is needed?

I am at, unbuffed:

717 Dex
678 Atk = 67.8
940 crit = 35.64%

You have newbie gear. My non-crits on RFS hit harder than your crits. In raid, RFS is generally around 8-10K and out of raid it is generally 6-8K per.

[Durango]

I also have another question if this is bugged or not.

Since [Rapid Fire] is considered one ability and by theory all the shots are the same, why is it that [Bull's Eye] doesn't help with crits?

Like the first initial shot crits and it eats up [Bull's Eye] but then the other 4 shots don't crit.

Because it is 5 shots in 1 GCD. Each shot is calculated independently and BE only gets applied to the first one. AKA BE has been useless for months.

[Gyle]

the underwhelming RFS numbers are definitely a function of your gear level. As your gear improves you will find Rapid Fire Shot to be one of the highest damage per second abilities rogues have, and probably the second highest individual damage finisher (SoD being the highest by far).

I think the biggest smile i have had in this game was watching a string of RFS crits for 15k+ each with the crystal buff on the last boss of RoTP. Obviously that is a function of the buff, but none the less RFS is a huge damage finisher, and if you are not seeing it as such, you will as your gearing improves.

[Dunharrow]

Because it is 5 shots in 1 GCD. Each shot is calculated independently and BE only gets applied to the first one. AKA BE has been useless for months.

Yeah, gotta love that useless talent. Its worth about 1k damage every minute and a half, so like 10 DPS or so. Whoop.

[Durango]

the underwhelming RFS numbers are definitely a function of your gear level. As your gear improves you will find Rapid Fire Shot to be one of the highest damage per second abilities rogues have, and probably the second highest individual damage finisher (SoD being the highest by far).

I think the biggest smile i have had in this game was watching a string of RFS crits for 15k+ each with the crystal buff on the last boss of RoTP. Obviously that is a function of the buff, but none the less RFS is a huge damage finisher, and if you are not seeing it as such, you will as your gearing improves.

Honestly, for RoTP last boss, give the crystal to the bard. Insanity will ensue. IIRC, Cadence was hitting for 10K per tick in 10MM/5RS. Need to try it in BD subspec. For some reason both RFS and cadence get an insane increase from the crystal. Other MM attacks, not so much.

[Durango]

Yeah, gotta love that useless talent. Its worth about 1k damage every minute and a half, so like 10 DPS or so. Whoop.

Yeah they probably need to rework it to a +% crit buff for X seconds. Ever since they made it so it didn't work with strafe, its been pretty useless. Something like +5% crit +1% crit for each point above 31 for 5s + 1s for each point above 31 would probably work well and put MM closer to where it should be. Or even .5%/.5s for each point above 31.

Would make it somewhat more interesting weaving in at the right times with the other CDs.

[Dunharrow]

Yeah they probably need to rework it to a +% crit buff for X seconds. Ever since they made it so it didn't work with strafe, its been pretty useless. Something like +5% crit +1% crit for each point above 31 for 5s + 1s for each point above 31 would probably work well and put MM closer to where it should be. Or even .5%/.5s for each point above 31.

Would make it somewhat more interesting weaving in at the right times with the other CDs.

Do we really need more crit though?

[Eilidh]

Do we really need more crit though?

I dunno about you, but I'd rather crit than not crit, all else being equal. MM could use more cooldowns to make Rapid Reload feel more useful and to have something to use during burn phases.

That said, that's the kind of small tweak that should really take a back seat compared to other issues.

[Koe]

Ok, so after finishing with some real life stuff here are some things.

When using Rapid Fire 5 times

Testing: Unbuffed, sitting still (passive), and 5 combo pre-made set up

Round 1: 456, 489, 459, 457, 772
Round 2: 772, 772, 459, 498, 461
Round 3: 772, 482, 475, 466, 772
Round 4: 772, 772, 772, 483, 467
Round 5: 456, 491, 476, 488, 459

Note: Crits are bolded.


So my question is, since people are claiming its doing around 5k-10k per use, how much crit is needed?

I am at, unbuffed:

717 Dex
678 Atk = 67.8
940 crit = 35.64%

No matter what build, you want to aim for ~1020-1040 crit.

You want 1187 raid buffed.

104 from Archon/Bard buffs, 5% dex(let's simplifiy +40), and +35 from cheap vial.

179 crit.

So, ideally, you want to sit at 1008 crit.



This does NOT count +x% buffs. The +5% crit from ranger/assassin/etc does NOT count towards this number.

[aileen]

It's not bugged, It's intended main idea on rapid fire shot, Its working like detonated charges only 1st tick procs even thou as your gear improves your RFS dmg improves so much before crystals when people using Sozu's spec they were still using RFS because of DPS gain from it.

the underwhelming RFS numbers are definitely a function of your gear level. As your gear improves you will find Rapid Fire Shot to be one of the highest damage per second abilities rogues have, and probably the second highest individual damage finisher (SoD being the highest by far).

I think the biggest smile i have had in this game was watching a string of RFS crits for 15k+ each with the crystal buff on the last boss of RoTP. Obviously that is a function of the buff, but none the less RFS is a huge damage finisher, and if you are not seeing it as such, you will as your gearing improves.

Crystal increases damage so ridiculously, my fiery spike was critting 5k dot damage, SoD was doing 18k dmg... (51nb/10mm/5rs) pity you can't get crystal for 5min if you use it and only for 30sec :P