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[quote=xXMCheifXx]I've found it's a horrible approximation to judge how a bowmaster would do based on a phantom video. Phantom's are a stupid class.

I switched to a bowmaster recently for a single day. I had 337% boss, 85% ignore, 16k dex, which gives me around 3.5-4m top range (if there was no visual cap).
Now, this is a MUCH higher range than many phantoms I know about and yet I was doing much less damage. I was only hitting around 15-23m with turret on gollux and I couldn't even solo hell mode.[/quote]

Well, I was less talking about range and more about damage dealt...And that's pretty surprising that you couldn't solo hell mode gollux, how close did you get/did you use turret on the gem?

Also, when you played as a BM for a day, weren't you using decent CO, which cut your damage in half when that glitch for BMs was around? Soooooooooo? Love your videos by the way

doesnt heal anymore it shouldn't be too hard. i solo it (and v2 summon wait time) in like 8 mins i think
just time the DR's

[quote=DogmaBirds]Nobody really posts videos of bowmasters soloing anything anymore, which is really sad. But, what kind of works is finding phantom videos, since they use arrow blaster anyway, and approximate how much damage you need to do based on that, although carte triggers much more than magic arrows, so you also have to account for that.

In terms of strategies... I can't really help because I haven't actually tried empress, but just know when she DR's and be able to time it so that when you place down turret you don't just kill yourself automatically, which I'm sure you know already. I've heard somewhere that you can use binding shot to approximate how long her DR lasts/when the next one will be.[/quote]

I've found it's a horrible approximation to judge how a bowmaster would do based on a phantom video. Phantom's are a stupid class.

I switched to a bowmaster recently for a single day. I had 337% boss, 85% ignore, 16k dex, which gives me around 3.5-4m top range (if there was no visual cap).
Now, this is a MUCH higher range than many phantoms I know about and yet I was doing much less damage. I was only hitting around 15-23m with turret on gollux and I couldn't even solo hell mode.

Should be well over 1m. At 800k I can tickle her facny. I'd estimate minimum of 1.5m range.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsoAhdUdAoA
Not a full solo, but it's something. Doesn't show the guy's stats either.

[quote=DogmaBirds]Nobody really posts videos of bowmasters soloing anything anymore, which is really sad. But, what kind of works is finding phantom videos, since they use arrow blaster anyway, and approximate how much damage you need to do based on that, although carte triggers much more than magic arrows, so you also have to account for that.

In terms of strategies... I can't really help because I haven't actually tried empress, but just know when she DR's and be able to time it so that when you place down turret you don't just kill yourself automatically, which I'm sure you know already. I've heard somewhere that you can use binding shot to approximate how long her DR lasts/when the next one will be.[/quote]

Alright thanks for the help!

Nobody really posts videos of bowmasters soloing anything anymore, which is really sad. But, what kind of works is finding phantom videos, since they use arrow blaster anyway, and approximate how much damage you need to do based on that, although carte triggers much more than magic arrows, so you also have to account for that.

In terms of strategies... I can't really help because I haven't actually tried empress, but just know when she DR's and be able to time it so that when you place down turret you don't just kill yourself automatically, which I'm sure you know already. I've heard somewhere that you can use binding shot to approximate how long her DR lasts/when the next one will be.

2-2m to solo empress