Hello I am sorry if this has been discussed before, I tried looking for an answer but I couldn’t find one to the specific thing I am wondering about.
I am planning on making an archer and will go archer2-ranger3-rogue-cannoneer. This is for PVE and I will have about 30 con, 150-200 dex and the rest into str.
the plan is to go atleast archer 2 for the crit rate increase on swift step and rogue and ranger for the feint + barrage combo. Now this is where I can’t decide if ranger 3 and archer 2 is the best or if archer 3 and ranger 2 is the best.
If I understand it correctly then more levels into barrage does not affect the amount of hits it does, barrage does 5 hits and then gets 5 extra if you use feint no matter what level barrage is. If this is how it works then wouldn’t taking archer 3 be better so you get more hits on multi shot?
if you are rank 2 archer and got 10/10 multi shot it fires 11 times but if you are archer 3 and got 15/15 multi shot it fires 16 times. Will this scale better than a little bit of extra damage on Barrage? Because if you go ranger 2 and max barrage it still shoots 5 times + 5 extra from feint but the base damage on the skill goes up if you go into ranger 3 but I would think that the extra hits from multi shot would scale better? You also have other benefits from archer 3 or Ranger 3 but these are the 2 main ones that I am thinking about which one will scale better.
TL:DR barrage vs multi shot, which one scales better having more levels put into it? Barrage always hit 5 times + 5 extra hits from feint but base damage goes up. Multi shot hits 11 times at rank 10 and 16 times at rank 15. Which one scale better? I will go about 30 con and 150-200 dex and rest into str.