Is Attack Rating really this broken?

I've been working on an off-meta build and just realized something today...

Mist runeword in a

Diamond Bow only gives 10% bonus to attack rating, not 20%.

If my math is correct, 6178 base X 1.2 (120%) should be 7413. When equipped I'm only getting 6795 base!

This is a build that I have to focus heavily on AR and losing 10% is a pretty big deal I feel...



Jeremy

The AR% bonus on the weapon works additively with any bonus you get from your skills (most attack skills grant some AR%, some classes have passive AR% bonuses, like Amazon via

Pierce and Barbarian via weapon masteries, etc). Have you accounted for that?

my multizon was built with tons of health and str/dex just to equip gear, had like 7k AR, reseted her and maxed attack rating pasive and gave her Obedience alt weapon and left vitality at 100 and the rest went to dexterity, now she goes around with 15.5k attack rating and I can notice how everything dies faster besides the extra base damage it means more

Arrows hit instead of missing and flying into the void lol.

ShadowHeart wrote: 6 hours ago

The AR% bonus on the weapon works additively with any bonus you get from your skills (most attack skills grant some AR%, some classes have passive AR% bonuses, like Amazon via

Pierce and Barbarian via weapon masteries, etc). Have you accounted for that?

I set my skill to Normal Attack to take all of that out of the equation and it is a 10% bump between having the bow equipped and not equipped.

The "additive" point is exactly how percentages work in my head, and why you have to multiply by 1.2, which is the equivalent of 120%.



Jeremy