Favorite or Preferred Ranger Arrow Types

Hello Everyone!

Just out of curiosity does anyone have a preferred arrow type? Do people see more effective use out of certain ones during particular fights?

I’m personally lower leveled right now, but I find the poison and piercing arrows to be quite effective. Poison from a far enough distance tend to at least knock the monster(s) down enough for a few more shots to kill them quickly.

Any thoughts or insight would be appreciated!

I use those 2 if you want to do damage to a single target, piercing arrows do a ton of damage if they crit and are used while doing your charged shot. They also have a small cool down so they can be used more often. Poison arrow never leaves my side. It’s just got the perfect dot. And the only other arrow I use is the fury arrow (the one that rains arrows down) more so for mobs of enemies. So if you are taking down 3+ enemies I’d go with that one. I think the multi shot arrow is not effective/in accurate.

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I have only ever used poison and piercing. I don’t see the value of the others as I don’t think they help much. It’s easier to focus down enemies in groups by priority, or keep a dungeon boss poisoned while I focus down the adds or other priorities.

I prefer the poison and the fire arrow I love the double dot action the piercing arrow doesnt seem to do as much total damage for me. I just havent used it that much and i like having an available aoe for acidental double pulls.

I keep poison to my left all the time. Depending on the mobs and who im with i switch between piercing and fire.

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idk the dps calculations but i can imagine people playing like you guys but from a far. and i can imagine other people playing as a melee ranged archer. using piercing shot for groups of enemies, and for sure using that spread shot because you can hit 1 target with all the shots if ur close. and u can hit multiple if you just back away slightly. Maybe poison and multi shot up close would be cool. you’d be spamming arrows faster than at range wher you want to charge them. maybe that’s a viable way to play

I started with poison and fire but swapped fire for piercing once I checked how long the cooldowns were. I might swap multi for piercing, depending on the cooldown. I’m guessing it’s longer, but maybe worth it for the extra damage when enemies get close.

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