A Closer Look at Improved Steady Shot

Improved Steady Shot –

Your Steady Shot hits have a 5/10/15% chance to increase the damage done by your next Aimed Shot, Arcane Shot, or Chimera Shot by 15%, and reduce the mana cost of your next Aimed Shot, Arcane Shot, or Chimera Shot by 20%.

Let’s take a page from a WWS to see what effect this might have on damage. This here is last night’s Vault of Archavon clear. Let’s simplify by pretending that I did not have Improved Steady Shot at all, and we’ll make these numbers my base numbers. Then we’ll use the 15% chance and 15% damage increase to show the effect of the percentages on the overall damage.

Number of Steady Shot Hits (remember, you have to hit to proc, so cap it, suckas!) – 28

15% of 28 = 4.2, rounded to 4

Number of Arcane, Chimera Shots – 29 (16, 13)

Number of Affected Shots – 4 (for the sake of equality, we’ll say 2 of each, but it’d be great if you ended up buffing only Chimera)

15% of the average Arcane – 339

15% of the average Chimera – 500

Total Added Damage = 1678 in a 3 minute, 10 second fight.

Total Added DPS –  9.0

Fun Fact – 2 points in Wild Quiver did more damage than Eidan’s Rake.

In reality, I currently have 2 points in Improved Steady Shot, and my log states that it procced 3 times. Always remember that when dealing with chance, there’s….well….a chance. Like anything in life, you have to decide whether or not that chance is worth taking.

❤ Nass

~ by Kelly Jennelle on January 29, 2009.