Power Rangers: A Guide To Pewing

Aeonic Weapons

Depending on how the new boosts will be next month, I firmly believe that relics will be slightly ahead of Aeonic. If following the increases that were shown back in December and guessing the raw damage (as I posted earlier above), quick spreadsheet settings show Yoichi as the top dog for Bow by about 4-5% DPS over Fail-Not(Aeonic) with Gandiva in 3rd. Gun has Annihilator over Formault by a very very small margin, while Armageddon trails.

Bow right now will continue to be the weapon of choice unless Coronach gets its fTP bumped up to 5.0.

So I've been thinking about this for a while, but after I realized rng is on vamp I am thinking of putting together this set and trying out wildfire:

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Kind of unsure on the rings though. I wonder if NQ garuda would be better cause of the AGI mod. (definitely not rich enough to be buying the HQ on a whim lul)

So I've been thinking about this for a while, but after I realized rng is on vamp I am thinking of putting together this set and trying out wildfire:

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Kind of unsure on the rings though. I wonder if NQ garuda would be better cause of the AGI mod. (definitely not rich enough to be buying the HQ on a whim lul)

I'd suggest dropping the Vampirisms in favor of 2x Malevolence, instead. A lot of additional MAB and macc on those. Carmine hands +1 are the best MAB you can get, but are fairly rare. You can make very good Herculean MAB hands if you're lucky and patient.

For rings, you'll definitely want to use Arvina +1 and maybe Garuda +1. For the back, Forban Cape +1 will probably outperform Izdubar, but that's simply eyeballing it. And a very tiny change would be Achiyalabopa bullets to Orichalcum for the extra 2 MAB.

Also notable that Armageddon has same dmg/delay/skill as Anni. The differences:
Anni: Racc+60 Ratk+45 Magic Damage+155, AM: Racc+10% Enm-25
Arma: AGI+60 Magic Damage+217, AM: Occ. deal 3x damage

And then add in the EX ammo from each:
Eradicating Bullet (Anni): DMG:289 Delay:240 Racc+30 Ratk+30
Devastating Bullet (Arma): DMG:277 Delay:240 Racc+35 Macc+35

Anni won't win for physical pew pew(though it's no slouch with the damage/skill/AGI/bullets and nice AM), but is better for magical WS and and works for two jobs instead of one. Definitely one to look at if you play both RNG and COR. Plus I guess there's the likely much cheaper cost of 10,000 boulders versus 10,000 plutons. Of course, 1500 HMPs LOL. But at the very least, worth a serious look for the RNG+COR players out there of people who for whatever reason already have a 119 Armageddon.

I think you mean Arma won't win for physical.

Thanks. I totally forgot Arvina existed. Is there any rule of thumb you use to gauge AGI/MAB trade offs? It would be helpful when auging.

Gun in general won't win for physical unless they've somehow nerfed Jishnu's Radiance. With that 50 dex and the AM on gandiva is it best in slot or is yoi going to win b/c of higher base dmg and way more racc?

Last stand is a 2 hit, coro while powerful is a 1 hit and JR is a 3 hit which does well with crit buffs like ramuh's favor and rogues roll. Before the update a fully buffed JR ranger absolutely destroyed a rng w/ LS or coro thanks to the fact that it's so hard to pull hate from a pld now. I don't see a 10% ratk boost shifting things that far in anni's favor - especially as you would have to alternate between coro and ls to maintain aftermath.

Here's my analysis of this, and this is pretty quick math (I can post the graph and sets if needed be. The graph is quite large)

I was interested in this as well and in reality, the spreadsheet total DPS doesn't give a clear picture of this. It only gives overall DPS but doesn't account for moments where one weapon can pull ahead of the other which does occur when comparing Anni/Last Stand vs Skirmish/JR for the first few weaponskill rounds.

I did a simple plot of both weapon based on their delay using 66% snapshot (Flurry and VS buffs + preshot snapshot). Target was Tojil with capped attack. Acc of course was capped as well.

Annihilator was an average of 1950.96 per shot every 2.43 seconds with 10,429 damage on Last Stand. Skirmish bow was an average of 1733.93 per shot every 2.81 seconds with 15,096 damage on Jishnu's Radiance. Both were set up to gain enough tp for a WS at the start after 4 shots using Reforged Relic for recycle. After the first weaponskill was used, TP to 100 was 3 shots. I inserted a 4 second delay for weaponskills due to animation (I can't remember offhand the minimum lockout during weaponskill)

What I found is that due to the lower delay, Annihilator keeps up with the Skirmish Bow very early on and surpasses it in damage for very very short periods of time. There is a back and forth between the two from 0 - 2 minutes, but after that period, the skirmish bow begins to pulls ahead and by the time 5 minutes have passed, the skirmish bow does 4% more damage. In my tally using the above numbers for damage, after 5 minutes the Skirmish bow only does 25 weaponskills plus 2 shots for 512,665 damage vs Annihilator that does 30 weaponskills plus 1 shot for 492,364 damage. On the surface, 4% doesn't seem like much until you see those numbers which is a 20k damage difference.

Of course Gun and Bow have different sweet spots and more often than not when facing mobs with AoE's, Gun is at a disadvantage and is out of the sweet spot range where bow is. At this point, the gun keeps up for a very very short period, but the bow pulls ahead by a large margin and after 5 minutes, the difference is 69k.

Right now, for Annihilator to be on equal footing with the Skirmish Bow for fights longer than 2 minutes, it would require new bullets that are at least 273 DMG (or a new ilvl bump of +20 DMG) if both are in the sweet spot.

It was not very close before the update. We did parse it, it's why I stopped using my anni and switched to nobility. On the other hand anni vs yoi using relic ws was very close before the update.

i was referring to this simulation Tummie made, unless we have reasons to believe it's not accurate.

Anyone got to test how ranged ws's are doing with the new pdif cap?