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Anyone got some info on the rank 5 marksman *talent*?

(Arrows may inflict bonus elemental damage depending on the surface on which your target is standing)

1) Whats the chance it "may inflict"?
2) How much damage? 40% weapon damage like the regular special arrows do? Or a fixed number?

3) Does it apply status effects?
And if so: got some examples on how it works in combat? Which surfaces do what exactly? (like oil and water/blood)

I rushed marksman 5 and hit level 7 so I have a talent. I was going to take quickdraw, and elemental ranger later, but I could reload and try it out now just to see. I've been wondering too.

Aye, that would be great Ripper.

Haven't played a ranger myself yet and read some negative things about it but I think it's possible to make it work quite effectively.

Min AP per shot is 2 or 3 with ranger right? So if the "Elemental Ranger" basically gives you a free special arrow (if your enemy is standing on a special surface) then that saves you like 3-4 AP per shot.
(Do the special arrows also get -1AP from quickdraw btw?)

I'm particularly interested if "Elemental Ranger" has some synergy with Oil. Since it's so cheap to cast, gives a great debuff (slow and less AP) on top of proccing the Bully talent(!)
Even without setting it on fire it's great.

The talent name however suggests it only does extra elemental dmg. So I'm guessing it won't make you shoot Oil arrows.

I am currently playing a ranger and am curious as well as to how this works, and how well it works.

I am a little disappointed with my ranger so far and am hoping quickdraw and elemental ranger help me have a bit more fun with her.

Okay, so I just tested out Elemental Ranger on the source abomination in the black cove.

- I think he took slow effect while on oil, because the slow failed on midnight oil cast, but when I shot him once he got slowed. I didn't notice him taking earth damage from it.
- Takes fire damage on fire
- Takes Water damage in water or ice
- Air damage while in electrified water.
- I didn't have ooze to test on, but I imagine it would do poison damage. Unless it would do earth damage? Don't know.
- Didn't test on blood, so don't know if it does anything. I'm guessing none because blood isn't considered an element per se.

The bonus damage seemed to be about 10-12. This was from my level 7 ranger. I imagine the bonus would go up in levels, but that is an assumption.

As for hit % of the bonus, it seems to be about 30%. I never went more than 2 arrow shots without it doing something. So every 1 in 3 shots basically. I could have gotten lucky over the course of the fight, but I did shoot him a lot to test it.

Neat talent, but I wouldn't take it over quickdraw. I'll probably pick this up later when I'm higher level and the elemental bonus may be higher.

Quickdraw does NOT reduce the cost of special arrows. And the minimum bow cost is 3 AP (with quickdraw) not 2. I don't know why people keep thinking that.