Originally Posted by lythrdskynrd
just to make sure I understand the 0.5 second autoshot cast time correctly ...
with a bow speed of 2.8 (ignoring haste) I'd get:
2.8 second countup -> 0.5 second cast -> lag -> next autoshot
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Not quite. Think of autoshot not as having a "cast time", but as needing some "breathing room." A 2.8 speed bow, left on autoattack, will still fire every 2.8 seconds, for the most part regardless of lag. But all special attacks need to be used before 2.3 seconds. Suppose steady shot finishes 2.6 seconds into your autoshot cycle: autoshot will be delayed to the 3.1 second mark.
You could re-draw your autoshot bar: instead of a single 2.8 second bar, split it into two bars. Alternate a 0.5 second bar and a 2.3 second bar in the autoshot row, where the autoshot damage occurs at the right edge of the 0.5 second bar. The rule would be that none of the orange up-and-down damage arrows can point at the 0.5 second bar--the little bar would be pushed to the right (a delayed autoshot) so that the damage arrow and the little bar no longer overlap. I wish I could construct an image as nice as yours to illustrate what I'm trying to explain!
just doing autoshot:
-- --------- -- --------- -- --------- --
|.5| 2.3 |.5| 2.3 |.5| 2.3 |
-- --------- -- --------- -- --------- --
^ ^ ^
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autoshot+steadyshot. first SS OK, second one delays AS:
delay
-- --------- -- --------- -- --------- --
| | | | | | | |
-- --------- -- --------- -- --------- --
------ ------
| SS | | SS |
------ ------
^ ^ ^ ^ ^
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Ideally your special shots would never butt against the autoshot warm-up time, but I suppose it's better DPS to delay autoshot by a couple tenths of a second if it allows for an additional special shot. IANAH (I am not a hunter) so I can't say for sure.
