Feedback on crit and hit (ranged)

I would love to hear from a Dev what the intended effect of material / innate bonuses actually are.

Obvious what they currently are

 

There multiple threads about this but ill add my stats here also.

Gm ranged gm aimed shot armor weak points 87 +5% crit, +9 bow supple strings +15% crit 70 dex.

After extensive testing last night I was avg 5% crit.

 

as an archer, adventure lvl 53, I miss a lot on green conned wolves and a whole lot on everything else conning yellow .... what hurts also is the down time to regen my health/power ..... till I can find a safe place to eat or what ever ... can only at this rate handle 1 at a time, since it takes a lot of shots, which eats power after each shot to take any thing down , including greens. Was testing this in a 4 skull zone, Serpents Spine Foothills, that's where I got fed up and logged ... probably will not return at this point. Not fun running from a GREEN wolf .... give me a break ...

 

Dev's, Silence is not always golden ....

 

What you don't like the new bows?

 

Well at least that adds up. Anyone want to buy my set of +8-9 supple leather and Pine Bow? I think I'm heading back to cloth (lots of focus ) and maple.

 

The silence is deafening.

 

now the archer is unplayable

 

Yeah with the increase in the respawn rates, and how horrible ranged is now I can barley play, will see if they patch it on Monday, if not it might be time for a long break. Kind of frustrating dealing with the wild swings, I know we are still testing, but being persistent I guess I had hoped that they had a lot of this close to where they wanted it and only needed to fine tune some stuff.

 

Um...yeah...and I play as an archer/mage

 

OK, I spent the evening killing archers and fire mages in a 5 skull area. The hit ratio seemed normal, so either it was fixed in the last patch or I was just having a really bad time before that.

The +crit items may still be nerfed though, I didn't try that (I was using an elf bow).