It's meant in the meaning of: you still have to grind the armor down first.
Of course you need to get the armor down first. My point was that using skills is probably a faster way to get the most armor destroyed the quickest than normal attacks, taking into account many skills hitting more than one target, and single-target skills usually dealing 100% of regular damage or more.
Though standard attacks from our archer outdamaged many skills as far as I remember.
Most Huntsman skills do at least 100% of ranged damage. Ricochet does 90% of basic damage to 1-3 targets, which is more than 100% on one target. Barrage does 60% * 3, which is more than 100% on one target. The other notable exception is Arrow Spray, which fires 16 arrows at 0.4x damage per arrow.
If you meant compared to every skill in the game. I'm not going to go through the entire list of skills.
