Sharpshooter is very very good, but it has a bad reputation cos it tends to inflates displayed dps.
Its
very good the best for opening aoe burst, but thats not all.
The bonus crit ticks start at 0 sec, so you get that 3% crit chance for free, and if youre a skeptic that the bonus benefits you for 1 sec only, thats already 6% crit chance.
Ppl says that its effects diminish by the more crit chance you have, but hey, guess what.Sharpshooter is a BONUS to crit chance.
The so called big diminishing returns only applies for the bonus per sec aspect of the skill, but NOT sharphooter as a crit chance entirely.
Crit chance also have diminishing returns(albeit a smaller percentage), yet you crank it up all the same.Why? Because its a source of dmg and its stupid not to grab it just because you get less increments.
I facepalm at those ppl who are looking to amp up their crit yet still look at sharphooter like its AIDS when they are basically the same thing.
Sharpshooter provides a nice buffer for ppl before they hit up a reasonable crit chance with their gear, but if you look at the glass half full, its a free 6% crit chance, and at a 300% crit dmg, thats 12% dps.
And I always saw "can I ditch sharphooter with my current crit chance" threads, but to be frankly speaking with higher crit chance, you can have a shorter wait time window between burst.
Its all about perspective.
In a way true, but lets not forget that many of our attacks hit multiple times. NT, BL, Cluster Arrow etc etc. I crit every single time I use any of these attacks, as they hit multiple times (NT still hits everything it passes through, just not multiple times per mob). Thus, SS will almost never give me more than 6% crit chance at any given moment except when walking around and looking for champ packs to bully. 43% Crit Chance. I rather use that passive slot for Grenadier, allowing me to use one extra Cluster Arrow for really good burst. 3 Cluster Arrows > 2 Cluster Arrows that crit. I crit with every Cluster Arrow (w/ Cluster Bombs) anyway. SharpShooter does not increase my damage at all in practice. Only when single targetting with Hungering Arrow do I not crit that often. But when going after champs, big burst is what matters in Inferno. I rather crit for 200k+ multiple times on all 3 mobs, 3 times in a row.
Jul 1 2012, 04:04 PM
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