scout c3 still viable ? someone help ?
Still viable, mergens barrage is not going to have 0 cd, anyone that believes that also thinks the moon landing was a fake and al gore created the internet. Mergens aoe is gonna have 2-3 overheats and a CD, pretty safe bet, just slap mergen onto the current idreamy scout build and youll be fine, mines lv262 and breezes through everything.
if mergen skill is 0 cooldown , not viable
This may not be the answer OP is looking for, but I thought I’ll put my thoughts out there anyway.
I personally don’t like Scout C3 all that much, and my 1st character was an Archer C3 > Scout C3. The reason being that the higher in Scout ranks you go, the less the returns seem to become, but if you’re going Scout C3 it’d be for Split Arrows, a strong 0 cd, versatile, high sp consuming skill that unfortunately is bugged as it sometimes only splits to 1 target instead of 2.
Camouflage, a good but rather situational skill stops at lvl 5 in circle 1.
Flu flu is just bad compared to other skills out there and doesn’t deserve more than 1 lvl. You only gain 1s duration every 5 lvls in this skill…
Flare shot is good.
Cloaking beyond lvl 5 - 6 seems redundant, as you can just recast it every time it’s about to run out.
Perspective Distortion has questionable use with high sp consumption… can be used inside barrel. (camouflage) Probably better when you have good communication with your party. Lvling this skill only increases duration by 1s.
Scan is only used to detect stealth and hats, aside from that an attribute that has 30% of causing confusion. lvling increases duration by 2s.
So the question is, is it really worth going C3 with all these shortcomings? Maybe if you have good synergy with other classes and those make up for it… but personally, I wouldn’t take more than 1 circle in Scout for the utility if that’s what anyone is looking for in their build. If you look at what you gain from going Scout C2 (which most people should be aware of) what I’m seeing is just a maxed flare shot and maybe a point in pointless distortion. So what do you do with the rest of the 8 points? lol Scout C3 suffers from this exact same issue of diminishing returns. Only Split Arrows can save you. (Which is, as mentioned before, bugged)
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you help a lot!! but now?
this way fletcher is beter like. archer c2 ranger c1 scout c1 fletcher c3 ?
or http://www.tosbase.com/tools/skill-simulator/build/mb7099erho/
Well scout is pretty annoying in battle league.
Tbh your bad experience is b/c you went archer3 scout3, scout 3 really only shines with the rogue1/ranger1 dreamy build, the feint + barrage combo is massive and you can double flare shot, cast flare shot, capture it, engage the boss, lay down captured flare shot, and your normal flare shot, not to mention that +70% crit chance from sneak attack. With your path all you got was twin arrows lol, not singling you out, I know a lot of people tried a3 its just a trap is all.
I also have an Archer2 / Ranger1 / Scout1 / Rogue1 atm with the feint barrage combo and it’s great indeed. 
That being said, one weakness of barrage + feint is that you need to be at point blank range for it to work at its full potential.
I can imagine double lvl 15 flare shot being great too, but I can’t say that this would be the build for me either.
On another note, I just got to circle 3 on my QS now and having a BLAST with it!
ya my only issue with QS is this; you are locked into a low dmg grand cross for 99% of your ToS life until you get the 0.0000008% chance for a didel grand cross, but ya running shot is great
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If you switch from grand cross the buff goes back to level 5 ?
but boss level 280 HP is 260 million maybe next high level boss is 500million, can that feint barrage and double flare shoot carry you for the cube vs fletcher ? because rank8 is aoe class like that why need feintbarrage , double small aoe long cooldown flareshoot , 3hitbugged2splitarrow
Triple arrow looks like it’s a 0 cd skill in the notes.
from the looks of it yes. but the buff timer remains.
so from 280% back down to 200%.
BUT the buff timer will not be reduced AFTER it was casted WHILE USING Grand Cross.
if you rolled a scout3 to world boss then your retarded, idk how you went from “is scout 3 still viable” to is scout3 or fletcher better for world bossing lol, scout3 excels at field farming, its decent on bosses, hardly the best
Scout 3 is good for future proofing, as besides world bossing you can pretty much do whatever you want, think about what you have, either A3//SC3 or the I Dreamy build both wrap up at rank 6-7 so your free to pick up whatever you want it just so happens that mergen is IMC’s answer to dwindling player retention rates as it’s a one class wonder that does all the things. That being said Scout 3 is definitely viable:
The world map isn’t complete yet, Scan will net you new hidden treasures when the maps get released. It also allows you a spot in GvG or battle league without being instantly destroyed. Flare shot and split arrow are still going to be worf and trust me with monsters getting more and more ridiculous flu flu is still going to be used in parties. If you haven’t made your toon yet I say wait for Skill cooldowns and the like, theory crafting now is a mistake as is saying one class or another is viable/unviable. Your time is better spent farming for items/ silver for this future archer instead.
this, the only rerolling I would suggest would be building a few low rank bases like A1 Q3 and parking it, or A2 R3 for a future SR3 etc, ive been out of pve content for months, the new ktos patch quests took me a few hrs on patch day, I’m just farming/stockpiling silver aswell
but does the atk bonus goes back up when you switch back to GC?
This is a hard question to answer. You can only see the effect of the bonus upon hitting Enemies.
Even outside of TBL you cannot see the damage increase in your Status bar/window correct? (i am referring to running shot damage)
Since you get to have different opponents a lot of times and by the time you see each other, blood rushes through your fingers and start smashing your keyboard like it stole your girlfriend.
Scout C3 for me is still viable, in terms on farming and on bossing i haven’t seen any archer class that beats me on boss mission other than qs3-sr2 and sometimes fletch C3, my path isn’t the popular build for scout (A2-Sap2-Scout3) and im having 1:1 str dex. i have normal equips w/o 2 sissel but still i can easily out dps other archer class path other than those 2 i mentioned above.
yo…im in a dilemma right now
need halp
build:
A2>R1>Sc3>Musket?
or
A2>R1>Sc1>Fletcher3??
currently rank 4…almost rank 5 soon