I just recently dinged 44-45 and was checking through my player info and RA abilities when I came across Sure Shot im nearly positive i didnt put any points into it especially since i couldnt see it on the RA list on the herald can anyone tell me when or how i got this and what exactly does is it kinda like Quick Cast cept for bows? and does it only fire one arrow then have a timer? I dont have any caster friends who can duel me to test it out and dont want to waste the rps by dieing from it in NF.....

It works like rapid fire in that you toggle it on and off. All arrows fired while you have the sureshot icon up do half normal damage but shoot in the same amount of time as a normal shot (cannot critshot with sureshot).

The thing about sureshot is that you cannot be interrupted by ranged attacks while using it. This includes spells and other arrows. I'm not sure how it works with Amnesia since that is technically not an interrupt per se.

Whoa sounds like fun :) BEWARE CASTERS

Thanks for the 411

Originally posted by Poucha
Whoa sounds like fun :) BEWARE CASTERS

Thanks for the 411

It sucks man.. to be honest with the casting speeds where they are right now your dead before you can break through the caster's bt's. I never use it, and in fact, don't even have it hotbared

/agree Its a useless ability i dont have it on my hot bar either, instead of half damage it should use double endo and be able to be incorparated with RF.

I've only really used it in PvE and once during an aoespaminterrupt session in the frontiers... it interrupted the healer (after my timers were up and I could fire again) but that's about it...

I am starting to use it in conjunction with the GoLM anti-mez spell.

Pretty neat.

To be honest, I personaly found Sureshot to be a pile of shite, any half decent caster will have killed you within the Sureshot draw time in my experience.

But some say its brill, perhaps in certain situations it is, I didn't see any when I was 45bow.

it is actually quite good for gaining the initiative in an archer vs archer encounter. sure shot til you damage the archer shooting at you, then switch to normal or RF.

Originally posted by jaem-
To be honest, I personaly found Sureshot to be a pile of shite, any half decent caster will have killed you within the Sureshot draw time in my experience.

But some say its brill, perhaps in certain situations it is, I didn't see any when I was 45bow.

Their interrupt timer is based on your drawtime, so no, they won't kill you within the SS drawtime.

SS is good if you know when to put it on and when to take it off. You won't kill anyone if you use nothing but SS against a target. ;)

bah ******s all of you.

SureShot r0x, just have to know when to use it, think of it as a mini moc and as for 1/2 dmg, well I'll still take doing 200~300 dmg to a caster & interrupting him to doing 50~600 dmg once

bah ******s all of you.

SureShot r0x, just have to know when to use it, think of it as a mini moc and as for 1/2 dmg, well I'll still take doing 200~300 dmg to a caster & interrupting him to doing 50~600 dmg once

I can tell you as a caster if you surshot I will fry you before you get 2 off. Reason being the casting speeds for casters are too fast. I can cast regualr spells through archer RFing and melee attacks.

Now you should feel extra lucky that the casters you shot do have the ability to just laugh at you then nuke you while healing themselves to full.

Sureshot= a Trud

Very very limited uses and yeah you will never kill anyone with it.

Originally posted by cambridge
I can tell you as a caster if you surshot I will fry you before you get 2 off. Reason being the casting speeds for casters are too fast. I can cast regualr spells through archer RFing and melee attacks.

Now you should feel extra lucky that the casters you shot do have the ability to just laugh at you then nuke you while healing themselves to full.

Sureshot= a Trud

Very very limited uses and yeah you will never kill anyone with it.

You can't cast through RF and melee attacks, no. Your interrupt timers are based on the attackers swing delay. They have nothing to do with your own cast times. If anything else happens, it's a bug.

What you say and what I actually do are 2 different things I guess.

There are well know bugs and a lot of the stuff people believe because its posted by Mythic or "supposed" to work a certain way we know is not always the truth, examples:

- No casting speeds below 1.5 sec hard cap
- Dex bug have double the effect for casters that over cap not dimishing returns, posted bug by Mythic.

that kind of thing.

I cast through melee/archers ALL the time even in Pve I can cast through a mob on me and no not a grey 8).