Note: with the changes to Demo and Havoc set, those two are now the new meta, and the Stalker/Snipe sections of this guide are outdated.
Hi folks,
I'm shamelessly copying the idea of Romme and creating an ultimate guide too. This time for Bounty Hunters.
It's a WIP, currently based on the existing guide I already posted to the #bounty_hunter channel on Discord. More will get added over time.
First things first: If you've just started this game, no matter what class, it is critical you do 2 things:
1) Visit Liana and buy the crafting recipe she has in stock for 50k gold. Every 3 hours you can for free get a new refresh with another recipe, so keep on visiting her regularly! Don't waste gems on this.
2) Get your crafting Mastery Level to 50. It is absolutely critical for the end-game and you will reap the benefits every step of the way.
BH strenghts and weaknesses
BHs are great at dealing loads of damage in a short time, and we rely on Snipe (and especially its Damage over Time - DOT - bleed effect) to do so. There are some other builds around Demo set and Sticky Bombs, but they are definitely not newcomer-friendly (you need a lot of Glory to get started) and difficult to play well. For 95% of the successful BHs, Snipe is the ability you need.
What we are bad in, is survivability. You will at some point reach trials where you still do enough damage to complete the trial in 10 minutes, but just die too often to actually win. No way around that, the other classes can absorb a lot more, BHs are the real Glass Cannon class.
Luckily we have a second strength: we're fast. Really fast. That means we're great at farming gold in story mode and it also means we can improve our survivability by running and dodging enemy attacks. The higher your Trial level, the less time you'll spend attacking and the more time you'll spend on the move to stay alive. This is fine, it just requires practice.
The second weakness we have: we don't have good abilities to damage very large groups of enemies fast and consistently. This means that Mage and Warrior will both be better at farming XP than us, often at almost double or even thrice the pace.
BH stats
As said, Snipe's DOT effect is our bread and butter. In high level trials, it outputs 20-30x more damage than all other abilities combined. So everything we do focuses on increasing it to the limit.
1) You need Critical Damage and Critical Rating on everything. The Snipe bullet gets boosted by it, and afterwards each 0.5 second Snipe's DOT gets boosted a second time by it. So each extra point in CD and CR multiplies your damage quadratically. You can never have enough CD and CR, put it everywhere.
2) Nature Damage. The DOT is counted as Poison, which gets a boost from Nature Damage. With bracer, belt and trinkets you can add +NaD 4 times, and it almost doubles your damage at max level.
3) Movement Speed. Since we rely on movement to survive, both boots and pants need movement speed.
Hi folks,
I'm shamelessly copying the idea of Romme and creating an ultimate guide too. This time for Bounty Hunters.
It's a WIP, currently based on the existing guide I already posted to the #bounty_hunter channel on Discord. More will get added over time.
First things first: If you've just started this game, no matter what class, it is critical you do 2 things:
1) Visit Liana and buy the crafting recipe she has in stock for 50k gold. Every 3 hours you can for free get a new refresh with another recipe, so keep on visiting her regularly! Don't waste gems on this.
2) Get your crafting Mastery Level to 50. It is absolutely critical for the end-game and you will reap the benefits every step of the way.
BH strenghts and weaknesses
BHs are great at dealing loads of damage in a short time, and we rely on Snipe (and especially its Damage over Time - DOT - bleed effect) to do so. There are some other builds around Demo set and Sticky Bombs, but they are definitely not newcomer-friendly (you need a lot of Glory to get started) and difficult to play well. For 95% of the successful BHs, Snipe is the ability you need.
What we are bad in, is survivability. You will at some point reach trials where you still do enough damage to complete the trial in 10 minutes, but just die too often to actually win. No way around that, the other classes can absorb a lot more, BHs are the real Glass Cannon class.
Luckily we have a second strength: we're fast. Really fast. That means we're great at farming gold in story mode and it also means we can improve our survivability by running and dodging enemy attacks. The higher your Trial level, the less time you'll spend attacking and the more time you'll spend on the move to stay alive. This is fine, it just requires practice.
The second weakness we have: we don't have good abilities to damage very large groups of enemies fast and consistently. This means that Mage and Warrior will both be better at farming XP than us, often at almost double or even thrice the pace.
BH stats
As said, Snipe's DOT effect is our bread and butter. In high level trials, it outputs 20-30x more damage than all other abilities combined. So everything we do focuses on increasing it to the limit.
1) You need Critical Damage and Critical Rating on everything. The Snipe bullet gets boosted by it, and afterwards each 0.5 second Snipe's DOT gets boosted a second time by it. So each extra point in CD and CR multiplies your damage quadratically. You can never have enough CD and CR, put it everywhere.
2) Nature Damage. The DOT is counted as Poison, which gets a boost from Nature Damage. With bracer, belt and trinkets you can add +NaD 4 times, and it almost doubles your damage at max level.
3) Movement Speed. Since we rely on movement to survive, both boots and pants need movement speed.
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