Is auto shot any good?

[Repaired]

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So I was just pondering...

is Auto Shot any good? The skill description states that it allows you to shoot four arrows WITHOUT FAIL. Sounds pretty good to me; but is the damage any good?

Does anyone here have maxed Auto Shot? How does it compare to JA and/or Aimed Shot?

Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks guys.

[guorbatschow]

hm... i might actually max it out to see. my BJ still got lots of skillpoints to use and i still got that one free reskill. maybe when im going to change to yoyo jester around lvl 80

[Jinxy]

The damage of auto shot is actually very good. It has 100% hit rate, which makes it better than junk arrow. It also has a cooldown though, which is the only reason you should want to use junk arrow rather than auto shot.

As for aimed shot, it only has 60% chance of doing almost as much damage as the 4 arrows of auto shot, it does however deal that damage in one shot not allowing the opponent to heal between the hits.

I have them all maxed, I will test it... soon >.<

EDIT:
Okay I did the testing of the skills, so here goes:

With 151 dex and 1065 attack rate and all skills in question maxed I got these damage results (rounded off most results and calculating).

Junk arrow - 1630 per shot - maximum potential: 6500 - 70% success rate means you are most likely to miss with 1 and hit with 3 meaning 4900 damage.
Silent shot - 1650 - Dark illusion state plays no role anymore.
Aimed shot - 1950 regular hit - 3900 when it does inflict double damage which it only has a 60% chance of.
Auto shot - 1430 per shot - 100% hit rate means you always do total damage of 5700

So considering the success rate of junk arrow auto shot is better, but if you get lucky junk arrow has the better damage potential.

If you just want to find out what's best to grind with just go with junk arrow because it has no cooldown.

[Repaired]

Based on your calculations...I would say auto shot is pretty good.

I reckon use Auto Shot everytime the cooldown finishes (how long is it again?), then just use JA.

So Auto Shot is pretty good huh?

[Jinxy]

uh.. I don't remember, its like 4 or 6 seconds.

And yeah, auto shot is great... at master it has 12% chance of blindness :P

[Repaired]

..and what does blindness do? XD

[idowo]

It actually make a beautiful equaling between junk arrow and auto shot.
with junk arrow, you sometimes gain 0 while using, and you need to reuse the skill, and until the acro take up the bow and the skill is restarting it takes 3 seconds or something like this. you know, like mage skills.

with auto shot you have the cooldown, but he`s stronger then the 3/4 junk arrow, and here still, you need to wait 3 seconds.

the desicive factor is the action slot while comparing to the F buttons, or the loading of the skill, like the quick loading of skills like snitch and the slow loading of skills like mage`s skills.

[Jinxy]

Blindness reduces the opponent's hit rate... but only for a very few seconds.

[Tor]

I have to vote JA or AS because it's just way more powerful and potent. In this game, it's about killing speed, and even when it's only at 70% chance of hitting, i notice it hits ore like 90% of the time with my ranger, though i don't use anymore except in GW.

Blindness is awesome, but the chances it happens is pretty slim. Both of these skills however are useless after cranes?

[Zestible]

Most get Auto shot and Junk both maxed, use auto, use 2 junks in Action slot, repeat.

[Aelita]

can't you action slot JA? If so wouldn't that make JA better regardless? full action slot of JA before you can use 2 of AS?

[Jinxy]

Originally Posted by Aelita

can't you action slot JA? If so wouldn't that make JA better regardless? full action slot of JA before you can use 2 of AS?

You'll need to use so many activition scrolls if you wanna fill up your action slot.

Anyway junk arrow takes a while to fire off, so I doubt a full action slot of junk arrow will take that long... I haven't tried though

[lilguy]

i find auto shot useless because of higher mp cost and the low % of blindness makes it useles IMO

i usually go with a 2 JA action slot to conserve MP and MONEY

[Repaired]

Originally Posted by Zestible

Most get Auto shot and Junk both maxed, use auto, use 2 junks in Action slot, repeat.

That was what I had in mind...I guess I have to give it a try myself.

Rangers don't use any of these skills anymore do they?

Oh yeah abit out of topic but I've got one question - you know that reskill we get at job change? You can't store it in bank can you?

[Jinxy]

Originally Posted by Repaired

That was what I had in mind...I guess I have to give it a try myself.

Rangers don't use any of these skills anymore do they?

No they don't... maybe in pvp...

Originally Posted by Repaired

Oh yeah abit out of topic but I've got one question - you know that reskill we get at job change? You can't store it in bank can you?

Nope. Wastes one precious inventory slot D;