I TR'd a toon down last week, a Drow chucker.

Going for a rng/rog/bard thrower for giggles.

The real focus of the build is to make it a full leveling experience, meaning something effective and fun level to level that changes as he goes. For instance I won't be back to chucking until 20 and beyond, in the meantime I don't rush it just hit every quest for max favor, as he will be parked at end game when I get him back up in a month or so.

So to my point, one of my drives was to take full advantage of fletching's recycle property once I hit lev 8 and could use slayer ammo at level almost exclusively. My early levels focused on Harper Int dam and ranged power, adding GxB mech buffs as the levels went.

Then when I hit 8 (4 ranger, 4 rogue) I reset points and put most everything (23 of 28 points) into Mech to get full levels of fletching, so no Int damage etc... as I would be using slayer ammo and looking for one-shots as opposed to DPS.

First quest I hit was ToEE on Hard, I hotbarred human, orc, giant, vermin ammo and set off, funny thing happened along the way. Even running at level hard=8, the mobs were saving pretty often, don't get me wrong, it still worked great and I didn't even go through a full stack of human ammo in completing Part I, still had 34 left after 532 kills, so fletching definitely was doing the trick.  But often it would take two or three shots to get the fail/kill shot.

So, in some cases where I was breaking shit I had switched back to my GxB and base ammo and occasionally I would run into Mobs while doing it. And just like the slayers, It would take 2 or 3 shots to drop them with a GxB running base ammo, pretty funny.

Now it was a different story with the Ogres, they dropped way more often with one shoot from the giant-slaying ammo, Orcs did a little better but still worse than humans. I ended up using/losing 24 orc slayer arrows, and only 11 giant slayers, and I did run into three of the Ogre parties.

I will keep using the slayers for a level or two, but now I realize that if I put all those points back into harp and dam, and some ranger as opposed to spending all just to get Fletching, I would still be killing at the same rate. 

Sounds fun, what race? and what are you planning on chucking?

I assumed so, but one can always hope that some new and untold thrown weapon option will emerge from the mists of Chucking. Needless to say my Drow will be doing the same.

Some day though.

Hag Master wrote on May 7^th, 2015 at 4:55pm:



Until halfling is a weapon type, I am not interested.

On the UI numbers listed? yes. In action? can't say for sure as of yet.

FM wrote on May 13^th, 2015 at 8:57pm:


No.

Just tested for a couple of hours, it's only a UI buff it does not change the actual multiplier, I am so bummed.

How fucking hard can it be?

Edit: forgot to mention that it is the same for all thrown weapons, not just shuriken. No +crit multiplier for any of them.

It was working just fine when I tested it on an iconic in GH a couple weeks ago.

Can you post a screenshot of you inventory with the damage tab expanded and you critting something?

I was doing 21-25 on my Swash iconic test character, and 70-75 on a crit. That's x3

I have tested Holy Sword and Assassin Knife Spec on iconic pally / rogue. I've used +2 Silver Returning Throwing Dagger. In my tests, the crit multiplier did not work.

I've used the default paths
I have used no enhancements for paladin.
I have used enhancements for rogue, did a test run before taking Knife Spec and after taking Knife Spec.
I used no gear, except starter speed V item, and the dagger.
No ship buffs.
I've tested in Kobold's New Ringleader on normal. Beware the two sleeping kobolds near gong, they are probably helpless and skew the results.
Note: Shadar-kai default path takes Power Critical, you will see slightly bigger crits than expected.

Too lazy to test swashbuckling atm.

EDIT: 200 posts, yay. If anyone wonders if there's a restricted access forum for people with 200 posts. No, there is not.

Same for all thrown weapons.

Time to update the spreadsheet?

Alex DeLarge wrote on May 19^th, 2015 at 7:11am:


I have some pures, and some mixes, what I don't have is the time to scratch my ass much less to log on and play. I will get to this in the coming week hopefully.