Celtic Heroes

It says right in the chat you cannot cast it if you're too close

What Napol's saying that OTM should make the skill that you don't necessarily have to be far to cast skill..,

It says right in the chat you cannot cast it if you're too close

What Napol's saying that OTM should make the skill that you don't necessarily have to be far to cast skill..,

Then it would be called closeshot

It says right in the chat you cannot cast it if you're too close

What Napol's saying that OTM should make the skill that you don't necessarily have to be far to cast skill..,

Then it would be called closeshot

What I am saying is that just because a sharpshooter can hit a target at 3,000 yards DOESNT MEAN HE IS ALWAYS GONNA BE ABLE TO BE THAT FAR AWAY!!!!!!!!!! Anyone who thinks otherwise is kidding themselves and I hope they are on the other side, because my sharpshooters will kill yours every single time of every single day of every single month of every single year of every single decade until they either run out of bullets or die of sheer old age if you think that!!!!!!!!!!

sigh. Anyway, not to be insulting hawkye, but closeshot IS double shot... longshot's function should have no distance requirement. If OTM wants to mess around and say the farther away one is to the target the higher dmg bonus we get that's fine, it would still make everyone wanna back up as much as possible. BUT TO PUT A PERMANENT STUPID DISTANCE REQUIREMENT IS ... ... ... WRONG!!!! JUST TOTALLY WRONG!!!!!!

... end of rant. I apologize OTM but every word written here is a deadshot true. I am going to go play Napoleon Total War and shoot the enemy to bits with skirmishers just because I can from a distance of only 5 yards just to prove my dang point. Sharpshooters can be at the rear or at the fore or in the battle line. I prefer them on my far flanks because they are dead shots and they shatter more units than many would believe possible including me. One particular battle one of these units, with zero support from the units astride it routed and then shattered no less than 8 enemy infantry regiments in addition to annihilating the enemy general and his bodyguard consisting in total 18 fast moving horsemen. So that's 9 enemy units and this enemy army consisted of only 19 units AS IS!!!

Anyway... cya laterz alligators!

Anyways... ...IM WRONG!!!! iM JUST TOTALLY WRONG!!!!!!

For a hybrid ranger you seem pretty mad

Anyways... ...IM WRONG!!!! iM JUST TOTALLY WRONG!!!!!!

For a hybrid ranger you seem pretty mad

1. I didn't say what you 'quoted'

2. Of course I am ... not happy... with OTM, in my opinion they gave us a decent dmg skill then ruined it so it is almost completely unusable for the day-to-day combat

3. I have tried many builds and used more alt books and rebirths than I would care to admit, trying to find SOMETHING that works

4. Atm I am more dex than hybrid but I do need to alt again perhaps just to get rid of bolas, then mayhap I can lose my 'hybrid' status and rebirth to a proper decent dex build so im not using a ton of restos...

Anyway point is longshot is crap. unless you have a huge room with not that many mobs AND a tank who is nice enough to keep the boss from moving around longshot is useless: aka to simplify what I just said longshot is useless for training of any kind.

I prefer to be a dex dps build which is where longshot is supposed (according to OTM apparently) to come in. If you can only get off one shot what the heck is the point? Who cares that you just got in 1.1k dmg and reduced your opponents hp to almost half IF YOU CAN ONLY CAST IT ONE DANG TIME... because of the bloody distance requirement. If the requirement was taken away I would not hesitate 1 millisecond I wouldn't mind paying 8-10k for an alt book just to get this skill in my build. Until then I wouldn't pay 1 gold for an alt book to get this skill in my build.

Sharpshot has mixed results for me. Its a good skill overall but the dmg is terrible. It too needs fixed. Which is why I have my current build that doesn't incorporate either of these two skills in it.

I prefer to have dmg skills in my quiver to do most of my dmg, I am used to decent but not great autos. The destruction of our dps skills are terrible. And do not even mention rapid shot, it is as bad as longshot. the long cd is ridiculous. When your toe to toe with a mob you need to heal every 6 or more hits, you don't have time to let rapid continue forever. Rapid at 1 gives seamless dps... or rather GAVE it in v3. v4 the cd is so long I barely bother with this skill except to cast it while fighting 3-4* or greater mobs. otherwise its completely pointless.

If defensive spikes didn't suck so bad I would gladly use the skill over longshot, sharpshot and rapid. The only decent skill that is barely worth the name of dps is sharpshot when one compares the 4 of them. (for those who can sit back while agro is given to others in their grp rapid is wonderful maxed but otherwise sorry but its pointless). Between sharpshot and double shot I must say I am in a quandary. Overall for most rangers (as most of us are str [gee wiz mebbe that's because all our skills suck...]) dble is better. Personally I think I will try:

Light heal
Sharp Shot
Sharpen
Double Shot
Rapid at 1 ofc
Extra: Steady Aim/Longshot

Havent decided on my extra yet but this seems like it may be ok as a dex build. Perhaps long should replace dble however in training dble is worth at least 3 longshots put together.

As I do have some skill rings that give me extra points that I use for other skills...

That means that I can almost max another whole skill my 'extra skill'.

Feel free to give advice.

I know exactly what peeps are saying with long shot. Best way to fix the skill would be for it to hit at all ranges, but have it hit for more damage if you are at the right distance versus not being able to cast at all.

I tried myself to make the skill work for a solid 6 months, but after being in some boss fights where the target was closer than the skill would allow it to be cast and me wasting time clicking the skill, I finally just dumped the points elsewhere.