Dreamer Bow-Sorc

[colojaro]

So I took a sorc I have with maxed lit mastery, gave a dream helm to her, then a low level bow.

It said she had 20k max damage and with no attack rating it was a little hard to see if that was true. In hell shooting at zombies I never really saw the one-hit-kill that I expected when my AR finally allowed me to hit.

DOES THE LIT MASTERY REALLY COUNT TWICE (I know that's why it says such a high number)? IS THE NUMBER IN THE WINDOW CORRECT?

I plan on making a dreamer/widowmaker/hydra sorc that shoots guided arrows with 25k lit damage (she'll be a little slow). Before I do I need to know if she really will do 25k or if that is untrue.

I need a lot of IAS but it could be a fun char for pvp.

Thanks

[colojaro]

This post in the fire ranged enchantress build made me question it.

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Uzziah:
Okay first we do not always hit. The explosive arrow is an animation that occurs when the arrow strikes something.

Second, I have one of these ranged enchantress'es, believe me the damage read out on your LCS (Lying character screen) is off by a factor of your fire mastery % your real damage * (firemastery + 1) = damage displayed. IE at slvl 20 163% fire mastery 100 fire damage * (1.63 + 1) = 263 fire damage if it were melee the fire mastery would be done twice but its ranged so the enchant only gets fire mastery once.

Third you can boost your explosive arrow damage with gloves with charges of fire arrows or immoltion arrows, yes the charge bug will work with it though you won't see it on any screen in game. the percent synergy bonus will have the fire mastery added to it, a quick calc could determine if that or magefists +1 fire skills results in more damage. Either way you could get knockback and charges of firearrow/immoltion arrow, with a crafted glove.

About the storm ranger vs ranged enchantress storm rangers would gain the aura bonus to the arrow only not to the splash damage. but the area effected by the aura would area damage.
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[PhatTrumpet]

I just asked about this in the Statistics Forum:

http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=464619

[Gimmershred]

Masteries only count once with ranged weapons. The charscreen shows incorrect damage

[Aeonios]

That's why everyone, including blizzard, calls it the "LYING CHARACTER SCREEN". Nothing except your base stats are correctly displayed there.

[Soepgroente]

So if your HS adds 1-1000 lightning dmg, multiplied by 4 (300%) 4-4000, then you smack a monster you do 16-16k dmg because it's multiplied again? Sounds like enchant sorcies with maxed lightning mastery would do really well then.....

[Aeonios]

there's been a ton of threads on that -_-.

[nickedoff]

So if your HS adds 1-1000 lightning dmg, multiplied by 4 (300%) 4-4000, then you smack a monster you do 16-16k dmg because it's multiplied again? Sounds like enchant sorcies with maxed lightning mastery would do really well then.....
60k with correct equipment.