Marksmanship Sniper/Sharpshooter Gunslinger Compendium

[tdr]

(04-19-2012 12:37 AM)Talshai Wrote:  

(04-18-2012 11:42 PM)tdr Wrote:  You appear to be using a blaster rifle instead of a sniper rifle...

Yeah, the blaster rifle is kinda intended. I didn't see the point in buying a sniper rifle that time. Cause the only difference on stats are accuracy. Which I thought I wouldn't need. So I bought a blaster rifle instead. I used a sniper rifle before and that doesn't seem to do any difference in point of my dps or useability of my skills.

(04-18-2012 11:42 PM)tdr Wrote:  I would also only use *either* CD or EP as filler in the snipe/ambush,followthrough,filler,filler tuples instead of both. I find the immediate energy drain of popping both those abilities on cooldown in the same followthrough cycle to run me OOM all the time.
You might work shattershot into early filler slots and use O(rbital)S(trike) on cooldown. OS is especially tasty if you can work it in during a sniper-volley proc or during target acquired.

Others can correct me, but I think a snipe may be universally superior to overload shot for MM unless run-n-gun is required.



Just some quick impressions. YMMV



-t

I didn't list shattershot in the normal rotation, but I'm pretty sure I mentioned I'm keeping the debuff up. So I usually start with it.
I haven't thought about OS als single target attack in my normal rotation. I'll try that.
Thanks for your help. Your advice seems good. But I don't see how anything of that will nearly double my dps. There must be some other major mistake.

What I've been doing lately, that seems to help, is to get logs from people who truly know what they are doing and parse out just their ability activations and timings. That lets me see what specific rotation maps to what DPS (...I know procs mess up a purely deterministic comparison, but it's pretty good.)

Tibbel posted some combat logs from PTS a while back and I picked up a few things from them. I think they're linked somewhere in this thread (but I'm too lazy to link them.) You might start with those. That's why I keep encouraging all the 1500dps-on-an-OperationsDummy high rollers to post logs, so we can learn from them.

Also, I think the blaster vs. sniper rifle difference is bigger than you may think:
Shadow Fist has a damage range of 302-453
No Regret (same tier SniRi) has a damage range of 408-499
(Both of these ranges apply to the same 1.5 sec Rifle Shot, so they can be directly compared.)
Looking at the damage formulae listed on this site, that 46-106 point discrepancy in damage may result in a fairly significant nerf to DPS in the long run.