I was helping a guild group in Ruins of Vol Tuniel with slaying some nameds for the Wardship Armor Drops (. Lvl 42 5 to 6 dot mobs)

Group setup was:

Ranger (41)
Cleric (40)
BM (50)
Psi (46)
DK (40)
Me (50)

Now I do miss the weapons lvl 50+ simply because I don't really have a group to help me get the higher level weapons but I was really puzzled about the outcome when I checked the dps logs.

I have my possible self buffs up at all time. Was fully buffed by the other classes and in Storm Dragon Stance.
My DPS shows at 867.68 the Lvl 41 Ranger shows as 842.79 in two log parsers I checked (with slight differences).

Me (without accuracy and haste ratings)
Mainhand
Varesh's Last Resort
Damage 100 - 109 (46.22 DPS)
(plus some stats and 5% crit)

Offhand
Arbokk's Bonesplintered Bandages
Damage 100- 109 (47.27 DPS)

STR 420 / DEX 446
+145 Melee crit rating
+78 Melee Damage rating
(only gear without buffs)

Ranger
Mainhand
Barbed Mandible Shard (lvl 46)
Damage 89 - 108 (43.56 DPS)
(plus some stats and 5% critical hit)

Offhand
Assassin's Quick Blade (45)
76 - 115 (46.34 DPS)
(plus some stats and 5% critical hit)

STR 337 / DEX 408
+115 Melee crit rating
+38 Melee Damage rating
(only gear without buffs)

I mean WTH? at lvl 50 I should anytime outdamage a lvl 41 by a whole lot.
Do I suck so bad? 

Well, since we had similar weapons it pretty much comes down to self buffs and skillset...big suprise there 

One thing to take into consideration is duration of the encounter,  If combat with an individual mob is lasting > 30 seconds. The ranger will most likley be getting the most out of his DPS stance. That could explain some of the added DPS relaitve to yours.

Now having said that is there anyway a ranger 9 levels lower than you should be that close to you DPS wise?? The answer should be a resounding no.

~QTM

edit: *meh* for typos

Quinn, that is a good point. Those fights took several minutes due to the amount of HPs the bosses had.

He was as far as I can tell mostly in melee. He could have had enough space to use ranged however and I didn't really take specific note of which he was using. The log would tell but I sent it to Quinn, so they can hopefully get some good data out of it.

Something I noticed is that I missed A LOT. Also today while soloing some green mobs I noticed that my miss rate is quite high. It didn't used to be like that..

BTW, here is a nice post from tagad on the rangers website...

Originally Posted by Faelor
In the original post (OP) I mentioned how I had the new Ferocity buff on. Well, looking at it now I'm not seeing it. I guess this is a regular crit with Windsong, rawr

If I /did/ have Ferocity up in the SS, that would have been 25,970 damage 


You need to get some more strength gear Faelor. I hit a Legendary Windsong last week (pre windsong chat bug and ferocity buff), for around 74k.

~Tagad

Guild rangers have been nervous to use Windsong in groups (at least with me tanking), because of the huge agro-gaining crits they've been getting.  Something is up with it since the recent patch.

I wonder about our accuracy of late as well, particularly on Ashen Hand but across the board.  I would be interested to see % accuracy stats from parsers under all stances.  I wonder sometimes if certain attacks have an accuracy penalty attached to them.  I certainly don't hit even green cons as often as I would have thought.