Ranged Sweet Spot Chart

[Zamphire]

Could anyone point me in the direction of a nice guide or chart on how to find the ranged sweet spot?

[Macht]

Re: Ranged Sweet Spot Chart

Could anyone point me in the direction of a nice guide or chart on how to find the ranged sweet spot?

That's a bit hard, I've found that depending on what I'm fighting that right spot varies. For example the Puk I have to stand were the mob ends up about 3/4 of the way away from the center to get 110 unbuffed shots (150+ buffed), yet the Colibri I place them about 1/2 way from center or a little in either direction to get better damage with them.

Kind of seems that were you should stand and all is guided by something indicative about the mob itself. Reason I base on that is because of certain Empty type mobs were success on hitting for me has been many times when they are at a distance you'd would expect it to auto-miss like it does with other mobs.

[kuu]

Re: Ranged Sweet Spot Chart

Most charts or rather calculators use windower distance, so it's not really useful to you.

It has to be like this because of multiple variables in range weapons and monster types.

Also best distance isn't always max damage.

[Zamphire]

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I use windower distance as well, just need to know the numbers really

[Caspian]

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I know bow is w/in .5 of 10.0 either way.
Gun is immediately outside of melee range, as soon as it gives you the "you are too far away" message, thats sweet spot. Xbow is a little farther than that.
I think they're all listed on KI's ranger forum, on like the second page maybe. Just have to do a little looking first.
I used the distance plugin for about a week while doing random things just to try and get to where I could eyeball distance on on bow. I don't like using it anymore.

[Omni]

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Yea, you need to find out for yourself. Just play around with it, move to and fro to find a good distance.

on small mobs, like goblins or crabs, etc. using windower, xbow i find to be at 7.5 +/- .4 or so. Gun is around 5.5 +/- .4

but, like last night when fighting dhamels in bibiki bay, these mobs are so much bigger. you can be a distance of 7 away from it and still melee the thing. so for these im usually standing around 11ish when using xbow.

it all varies, but finding the distance isnt hard, once you get the feel for it, you'll know how to gauge yourself.

[kuu]

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Different weapons have different ranges just so you know

[Eohmer]

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Yeah... when I started leveling RNG, everyone always used to tell me so many different things. So my conclusion was.... I'm going to shoot from wherever I want. :-P

So yeah, like a couple have said, experiment around and see what suits you.

[Kensaki]

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I usually just move about abit and find the spot where I think it works best. Just use what works best for you.