Celtic Heroes

I'm not debating whether sharpshot is free damage or good for personal dps. What I'm saying is if stuck with a choice between it or sharpen weapons I'm going with sharpen to boost the overall damage of the group which will yield more dps over time.

your exact wording was:

sharp shot isn't a viable endgame skill unless you have full DG or pvping imo.

this statement could not be any more wrong. Also, whilst it may be true in some cases, sharpen weapons does yield more overall dps however what also must be considered is the following: do any other rangers run sharpen weapons? If the answer is yes then you have 50 wasted skill points and are also left without sharpshot. Resulting in a loss of dps. And secondly what classes are you typically grouped with? A rangers sharpen is useless to any dps warriors or rogues. They are not even close to in range to recieve its buff. So that effects the overall usefulness of sharpen weaps.

In an ideal scenario a player should run both of these skill. If however for whatever reason a player can use only 1 of the two i would take sharpshot every day of the week

Sharpshot misses like no other, I rather not use it and save my energy for other skills...Our groups are well planned out with all rangers huddled around the sharpener, "dps warriors" and rogues running back to receive the buff. And like I said it's not viable unless you have full DG or pvping "IMO". Whatever works for you is fine, but I don't use it in my skillet and still do tons of dps. My sharpen buffs for 207 and when multipled 8 times that's a win all around, I'll leave it to the other rangers to slot sharpshot. Everyone is entitled to throw in their two cents even if it ain't worth a nickel.

My sharp shot rarely misses on bosses where we have expose weakness active

My sharp shot rarely misses on bosses where we have expose weakness active

Not every boss has expose tho. Personally I say sharp shot cause 9/10 times there are other rangers that can use sharpen, but rip dps if there arnt any other rangers

Sharpshot misses like no other, I rather not use it and save my energy for other skills...Our groups are well planned out with all rangers huddled around the sharpener, "dps warriors" and rogues running back to receive the buff. And like I said it's not viable unless you have full DG or pvping "IMO". Whatever works for you is fine, but I don't use it in my skillet and still do tons of dps. My sharpen buffs for 207 and when multipled 8 times that's a win all around, I'll leave it to the other rangers to slot sharpshot. Everyone is entitled to throw in their two cents even if it ain't worth a nickel.

Energy is expendable when it comes to lock battles, and in the grand scheme of things, as in bringing the boss down faster and making up for the lost energy lix or resto pots from the time saved.

Also, sharpshot isn't that highly evaded.

Sharpshot, bolas, double, steady, entangle. Sharpen is lame, let some other ranger get it lol.

sharp is evaded as hell even with 3000 ranged combat ability

Sharpshot a great skill, I quickswap gele rings for sharpshot and longshot casting and it boosts dmg by a buttload. As for missing, on a regular raid such as gele my sharpshot does not seem to miss that much.