Is 'Focus Fire' our most useless skill?

[TwistedFaith]

Anyone else think the 10sec duration to be pretty pointless, 30sec ok but 10sec, come on.

[ADW123]

<div>While it certainly needs an upgrade to make it last a few more seconds, I find it useful now that our procs have been removed. When soloing I hit the mob with a hard hit then debuff it, throw up focus fire and start back pedalling. With this up it potentially doubles the damage of ranged attacks. With adamantine arrows equipped I've hit for well over 1300 w/ this buff up and usually get 3 hits off before it drops.</div><div> </div><div>Its not a really powerful buff or anything like that but occasionally it has its uses.</div><div> </div><div>Sacrifice</div><div>63 Ranger</div><div>Unrest</div>

[GeneRul]

Try macro:/useability Focus Fire/useability Sniper Shotenjoy <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /><div></div>

[DarkMalken]

doin that with sniper shot is good for orange mobs on raids you miss on alot, just because of the + ranged.. but it does not add dmg to combat arts, only auto attack

[dbmoreland]

<div></div>I think the 10sec duration is perfect. My typical pull is Stealth, Focus Fire, Stealthy Fire, Leg Shot, Tripple Arrow, Cheap Shot, Debilitating Arrow, Sharp Shot.This series takes about 10 sec and with any resonable luck the mobs is trying very hard to be dead. The negative effects of Focus Fire are now down so I am ready to melee. Shocking Thrust, Fatal Reminder, Lunging Blade, Tear, Cheap Shot, Surveil, Dire Blade, Long Shank, Tangle Flame and I have one dead mob.Now that they have made the reuse timer on Focus Fire the Same as Stealthy Fire (90 sec) instead of the almost unusable 4 min, I find it works very well. In fact I would rather have them change the reuse timer to 45 sec so I could use it every pull, once with Stealthy Fire and once with Culling the Weak before increasing the duration beyond 10sec. But then again I solo more than I group so I am only using ranged for 10 sec of each 30 sec fight.The one CA that I find I almost never use is Brutal Instinct because with a 5 MIN recast timer I almost never remember to use it.<div></div><p>Message Edited by dbmoreland on <span class="date_text">03-06-2006</span><span class="time_text">07:12 AM</span></p>

[ChaosUndivided]

<div></div><div>It's pseudo Useless,</div><div> </div><div>The + ranged is usefull, even though skill boosts have been negligible since LU13, but the Haste and DPS boost is wasted imho.</div><div> </div><div>I would have like it to be a Permanent on, + ranged, - Slash/Pierce Self Buff.</div>

[Fireci]

<div>No, our most useless skill since LU20 is Stream of Arrows.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Fireci - 62 Ranger - Najena</div>

[ADW123]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Fireci wrote:<div>No, our most useless skill since LU20 is Stream of Arrows.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Fireci - 62 Ranger - Najena</div><hr></blockquote><p>Agreed. Haven't touched that since LU20</p><p>Sacrifice64 RangerUnrest</p>

[ChaosUndivided]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>ADW123 wrote:<div></div><blockquote><hr>Fireci wrote:<div>No, our most useless skill since LU20 is Stream of Arrows.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Fireci - 62 Ranger - Najena</div><hr></blockquote><p>Agreed. Haven't touched that since LU20</p><p>Sacrifice64 RangerUnrest</p><hr></blockquote>Not even for bathroom breaks?:smileywink:

[Steezi]

<div></div><p>Aye we have fully been over this... Stream is one of our more useful spells cause u cant cast and go afk for any reason 30 secs... dont even need to worry about aggro!</p><p>Also, i think that focus fire adds more dmg in one shot than our melee Dots have ever done for me... granted ones gone but still one left heh. Thats our most useless spell imo...</p>

[TwistedFaith]

<blockquote><hr>dbmoreland wrote:<div></div>I think the 10sec duration is perfect. My typical pull is Stealth, Focus Fire, Stealthy Fire, Leg Shot, Tripple Arrow, Cheap Shot, Debilitating Arrow, Sharp Shot.This series takes about 10 sec and with any resonable luck the mobs is trying very hard to be dead. The negative effects of Focus Fire are now down so I am ready to melee. Shocking Thrust, Fatal Reminder, Lunging Blade, Tear, Cheap Shot, Surveil, Dire Blade, Long Shank, Tangle Flame and I have one dead mob.Now that they have made the reuse timer on Focus Fire the Same as Stealthy Fire (90 sec) instead of the almost unusable 4 min, I find it works very well. In fact I would rather have them change the reuse timer to 45 sec so I could use it every pull, once with Stealthy Fire and once with Culling the Weak before increasing the duration beyond 10sec. But then again I solo more than I group so I am only using ranged for 10 sec of each 30 sec fight.The one CA that I find I almost never use is Brutal Instinct because with a 5 MIN recast timer I almost never remember to use it.<div></div><p>Message Edited by dbmoreland on <span class="date_text">03-06-2006</span><span class="time_text">07:12 AM</span></p><hr></blockquote>You do realise that focus fire doesnt effect the CA damage of your attacks right? Granted it has the +ranged but thats barely useful most of the times.As for brutal instinict, your missing out bigtime! Pop our bloodlines haste spell and then brutal instinct and go autoattack you'll be amazed at how much dmg is done. Cant wait to see this combo on proper ranged auto attack and with crticial hits AA maxed.

[ADW123]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>ChaosUndivided wrote:<div></div><blockquote><hr>ADW123 wrote:<div></div><blockquote><hr>Fireci wrote:<div>No, our most useless skill since LU20 is Stream of Arrows.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Fireci - 62 Ranger - Najena</div><hr></blockquote><p>Agreed. Haven't touched that since LU20</p><p>Sacrifice64 RangerUnrest</p><hr></blockquote>Not even for bathroom breaks?:smileywink:<hr></blockquote><p>Honestly, if I need to afk for a bathroom break and still appear to be playing, I just use my instinct/reflexes buffs then use my auto ranged attack. It provides better damage then stream of arrows in its nerfed form.</p><p>Sacrifice64 RangerUnrest</p>

[Gareorn]

<div></div>Am I the <strong>only</strong> one who uses a catheter while playing EQ?  Ummm... Did I say that outloud?

[Avendelf]

<div>Auto attack on longer fights (nameds, groups, raids etc.) accounts for 25-30% of my overall damage.  So any chance to increase the DPS of auto-attack should be taken advantage of.  Up until I started parsing did I think it was useless, and now I see what a difference it makes.  This 33% increase on auto-attack bow damage would lead to an 8-10% overall damage increase.  I am now going to upgrade both focus and instinct to adept3 or master after seeing these results.  I have numbers to back this up so I am not just pulling this out of my .... I really do think both of these spells are worthwhile now.  With Grizzfazzles bow and both of those running during raid i was seeing auto attacks of 1-2k (summoned adamantine arrows being used).  Not worthless at all IMO.</div><div> </div><div>Avendolas, 66 Ranger, Valor</div>