Power Rangers: A Guide To Pewing

Burmte gloves is an amazing accuracy piece, with dex augment it's like 42 accuracy. Dex is nice on it anyways for those dex weapon skills like cdc

I use Arcadian Jerkin +1 in preshot now. Caban offers nothing useful anymore. I've been debating about the head slot, but still use Sylvan for now.

My instinct is that at a certain level of rapid shot, it will surpass snapshot so I'll try to figure out that magical number.

Just reading on bgwiki and doing basic maths:
21 snapshot = 42% delay reduction with no base job attribute and + 10% max with merits.
32 rapid shot = 32% better proc chance with 30% base proc chance from job attribute + 5% more max with merits average delay is assumed to be 65% based on bg wiki.

that means snapshot is 52% delay reduction and consistent.
Rapid shot is a 67% chance to have an average 65% reduced delay = .67 * .65 = average reduced delay of 43.55%, meaning on average your dps with Snapshot is still greater. Additionally I'm not sure that if rapid shot goes off snapshot still applies or not and that could make things really complicated requiring graphing things.

As it stands with these calculations and the info I have at least, which could be wrong, you'd need an effective rapid shot proc rate of 80% (or rapid shot + 50) to tie with snapshot 52% or 21 snapshot + merits. That's assuming they don't work together additively or even interact at all.

Multiplicative returns are very small, for instance on 100 delay 65% reduction = 35 and an additional 50% off that would be 17.5 meaning the effective delay was 82.5% not 115% :P

If they do interact with each other multiplicatively then you'd have to graph a ton of values plugged in for each of them to really visualize and discern the point of optimum snapshot + rapid shot and see if that's doable by gear. Hmm. Before i put that much time in I'd want to see if anyone knows if they do even interact with each other.

edit: further velocity shot gives 5 snapshot so further complicates if they act together as you have a base for snapshot outside of merits.

So, new hypothesis:

1) Nominal delay in seconds = delay / 120

2) Effective delay is nominal delay plus the effects of Snapshot (so 10% Snapshot would give an effective delay of 90% of nominal delay)

3) Rapid Shot generates a delay between 50% and 100% of the effective delay

4) Base proc rate on Rapid Shot is 35%

Is it possible, with gearswap, to precast twice?

Like, start the shot in rapid, immediately swap to snap, then immediately change to midshot.

The general consensus was that snap > rapid if you can't do that.

The double shot is prob gonna do more for you than you think, the rapid shot is probably going to perform not as well as snapshot but I'll get some math together this weekend when I have time.

That would indicate a multiplicative relationship on delay reduction. Also some of my math was already wrong above, final delay is calc'd delay * (1 - reduce%) not delay * (reduce%) meaning 100 with 75% reduced delay is 25 not 75.
In any case I'll do the graphs this weekend and try to figure out at least an optimal way to make them work together. Due to diminishing returns on each other because they are multiplicative, having a lot of one would probably be better than mix matching after you start getting above a certain percent at least (instinct says 50%).

The double shot is prob gonna do more for you than you think, the rapid shot is probably going to perform not as well as snapshot but I'll get some math together this weekend when I have time. Though a quick calc, the snapshot was 52% delay overall and you have 35% base rapidshot at 75% reduced delay =

100 * (1 - .62) * (1 - (.35 * .75) =
100 * .38 * .7375 = 28.025 = 71.975% total reduction

And Rapid Shot:

100 * (1 - .1 [from velocity shot]) * (1 - .72 (with merits) * .75) =
100 * .9 * .46 = 41.4 = 58.6% total reduction

So you will attack with 13.375% less aimed delay on the snapshot setup. For the double attack it's an instant shot right? That is harder to calc because it probably removes all the static times before/after. With that in mind it'd be kind of close. But as just an aimed delay modifier you would consider it .05 * 1 on average delay reduction or 5% delay reduction on average over a large sample size making snapshot still better by 8.375% but if it takes out those static delay pieces then it's more difficult to calc. Consensus on limited info: snapshot setup is about 5-8% better for the purpose of delay reduction. You might take into account things like accuracy, ranged attack and attributes on the base items tho to decide if it's worth it for you.

A Rapid Shot proc creates a roughly equal distribution at 90%, 80%, 70%, 60%, 50%, and rarely 40% of the original delay. The highest percentage cannot be higher than what's allowed by Snapshot.

Would be interested to know at one point you are capped and can replace snapshot/rapid shot with damage gear or -enmity.

At all times. As states quote often, Rapid Shot and Snapshot gear are in your preshot setup. You remove them use Store TP, R. Acc, R. Atk, STR and enmity gear in your Midcast. Replacing Rapid Shot or Snapshot in your Preshot build will serve no functional purpose

Ah thanks, I read that and knew that, but I derped and forgot D:

Additional question do mages have precast gear for haste etc then swap out during animation to +mattack or something?

oh ya??