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I play with about 65-85 ping and I think I'm one of the better archers on NA. With your 99 ping, it's questionable but it's still doable. Same with 120 ping because at that point, you can start seeing the huge difference between you and a 65-85 ping archer like myself. It's like how I can see the significant difference from myself and another person who has 20-30 ping. Rapid Fire as a skill just gradually gets worse as the player's ping increases and there's not much you can do outside of moving physical locations or using VPN's.
At a certain point, RF just becomes unplayable and takes too long to full cast, therefore making the charge build much more desirable for higher ping players since only one stage of the charging is impacted by ping while every cast of RF is. However at the end of the day, do what you want and what you feel is right.
http://forum.tera-online.ru/topic/23342/?page=21#post-1356445
I think with slaying and war I can break 2.5kk/s+, gonna tryhard it more :pleased:
My RF is 2.3-2.4. When my Pen Arrow crits around 65%+, it outdamages RF. Since I'm not that perfect with backtime, my usual Pen Arrow crit is 40-55%.
Well, just tested myself, my ping conveniently goes to 150ms when I download something. And in this case, RF lasts about 3s (without atk speed buffs except eye), which is pretty logical since there is a additional 100ms delay between each arrow. It feels really bad compared to 50,but it's still better than overcharging overall. I dunno but it seems hard to use on moving bosses since planning 3s ahead is very hard.
I managed to get 1.6kk dps on Hrathgol which is my personal best so far. With Pen Arrow it's more of gamble, will I crit enough times to make it good.
I also tried to powerlink with Breakaway as much i could. Depends on party, im getting 1.3-1.5kk dps with my slow RF spam, which is quite good imo, I will never get that 2kk+ anyway with my ping.
FYI, my ping isn't always 155ish, some days it jumps between 160-180.
2M should be doable even without RF with a good party, if RNG is by you side (I've seen a few archers do it without using RF that much)
Yeah 3 seconds is super long on RF. Have you tried using a full crit set prioritizing RoA > RA > Explo > TB > Pen? It's true that the hits will do a bit less compared to running 3/2 but the increased consistency on every skill really helps. Notable crit changes: RoA should be at 60-65 (compared to 50-55), Radiant 95-100 (compared to 70-100) and just much more consistent crits on Explo/TB/Pen overall however it's hard to give an exact range since those skills are so fickle when it comes to critting.
The most I've done using that above build on Hrathgol was 2.1 while averaging 1.9. With RF, 2.5 peak and 2.2-2.3 average. So obviously RF > Charge/higher ping priority but since you have much higher ping than me, maybe it's better if you don't RF. However again if it works for you, then do what's best in your eyes.
I was using full crit + rotation before RF, 60+243. I'll give it another try with charge build, although I tried, always had lower dps with really bad crits. Maybe it's just my low backtime when boss decides to dance around.
Perhaps you weren't chasing the back well enough or maybe it was just an unlucky run (we all have a run where we just don't get crits no matter what). If you still feel the same way after 3-5 test runs, then maybe you should go back to your RF build.