Archers ring is not as weak as the general consensus thinks - testing


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Hi, regarding a lot of suggestions being thrown around regarding the new rings, I decided to go ahead and test one of the lower regarded rings, the archer ring. This ring is stated to provide a +2 ranged bonus which doesn't mean much to us considering we don't know how values are calculated based off of it so I decided to do some testing with the ring.

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Killing 20 lesser demons at 60 ranged with magic longbow, rune arrows, dragonstone amulet, archer's ring (10 kills equipped and 10 kills unequipped)

Did some good ol' excel statistical analysis, here are some notable stats:
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Although I only did 20 kills (could be more accurate with more, but I levelled up to 61 ranged so would be biased if I included it in the same data), it seems to show that archer's ring is quite a useful ring, giving boosts to both accuracy and ranged strength. Hope this gives some insight to some people smile

If anyone wants the raw data I used (as well as analysis), the file is here:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/q0khio9rx … rcher.xlsx


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beatdown said:

The methodology is good, but you would need several hundred kills atleast for any statistically significant results, as the error bars are quite wide and not so well defined (rng)

Yeah I understand that, just did some brief testing as of current but will do further testing later hopefully, although the issue being that I would have to split results per ranged level, so would be better if I tested it with a character with 90+ ranged which I don't have D:


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Looks promising!

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When I asked n0m to review my attributes, I asked to make mage and archer ring on par with each other. Since ranged bonuses are stronger, the +2 ranged should be on par with the Mage ring's +1 str +4 acc


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