After more testing and figuring how to enable logging, been awhile. It does seem that dex is reducing cast time. For 196 dex, this is the following cast times. Standard Shot 5 Skill is listed as 5.0 sec Power Shot 4 Skill is listed as 6.0 sec Point Blank Shot 4 is listed as 4.0 sec [11:13:08] You pr...

I also just tested this From 1.88 patch. - Abilities, bonuses and items that affect spells will now also affect Archery. And item bonuses to All magic skills does not apply to Archery which it should since it is consider a magic skill line. This should also apply to other magic bonuses like cast spe...

Did some more testing and found the following on the Forest Servant training pet in Mag Mel. Using Standard Shot 5 which is listed to deal 79 dmg and a cast time of 5 seconds. All tests is with the same stats and same + to bow. Training Bow (1.2 dps, 4.0 spd, 90% quality, effective dmg 1.1 dps) = 14...

While leveling up a Ranger I had noticed that the DPS of my bow had no effect on damage. Not counting stat bonuses on the bow, you can have a high level bow and the training bow and shoot an enemy for the same damage. I believe what is going on is because the new archery system is more like casting,...

I have been leveling up a ranger on Eden and been noticing that my archery shots cast speed are not being reduced by my Dex stats or my Dex/Qui buff. A 7 sec shot, takes exactly 7 seconds. According to the official 1.88 patch notes, when they switched to the new archery system they had gone from Qui...