How the guide is made

The simulator

• Plays a boss fight cast by cast.
• Uses each skill's real values: coefficients, cooldowns, cast, cancel and charge times, every trait and stigma rank.
• Fires skills the way your macro and keys would, under the game's queue and cancel rules.
• Runs buffs, procs and cooldown resets on their own timers.
• Each fight runs in a fraction of a second, so every option is tested over many fight lengths and rolls.

Damage per hit

(Attack × coefficient + rank bonus) × damage boosts × crit × Double

• Coefficient: fixed per skill. Rank bonus: flat, and grows with rank. A rank-up adds a little; the big jumps come at the trait ranks.
• Crit: ×1.5 plus your Crit Damage. Crit chance caps at 80%.
• Double: exactly ×2. Bosses take 30 percentage points off your Double chance.
• Multi-hit: up to 4 extra hits, each 10% of the hit.
• Perfect: the top of the damage roll. Other hits average 92% of it.
• Damage over time (Griffon Arrow's burn, Drill Dart's bleed) never crits or Doubles.

Crit against bosses

• Bosses resist crits. In Korean and Taiwanese boss logs, crit chance rises about 0.07 percentage points per Critical Hit point above a resist of about 650, up to the 80% cap.
• That resist is our estimate for Global's first-season bosses: it grows with a boss's level, and the Korean endgame bosses in those logs resist more.
• A level-45 Global Ranger has about 1,300 Critical Hit, so it crits on such a boss some of the time, and far more while Precision and Bow of Blessing are up.
• Point for point, Critical Hit nodes still add more boss damage than Attack nodes: outside Precision and Bow of Blessing a level-45 Ranger is below the 80% crit cap, and your crits also make Drill Dart usable.
• Drill Dart needs one of your crits in the last 3 s.

Speed and timing

• Animation time = base time ÷ (1 + Combat Speed).
• The server acts in 50 ms steps. The shortest cancel is 100 ms.
• Deadshot's charge stages scale with Combat Speed too.

Test character and fight

• Level-45 Global Ranger in typical first-season gear, at typical skill levels: Attack 2,692, Critical Hit 1,312, Combat Speed 41.5%.
• An endgame boss, fought at range, over fights of 55 s to 3 min 45 s.
• Mobility traits are also tested with 10–20% of the fight spent moving.

How we check it

• Skill values and gear are Global's. The Korean and Taiwanese logs below only check the combat mechanics.
• Over 800 Korean and Taiwanese boss fights: cast timing, skill order and each skill's share of damage.
• 3 full-fight logs of one Korean Ranger, skill by skill: 16 of 22 skills land within 2 percentage points of their real share of damage.
• When the simulator and a real log disagree, the log wins and the simulator changes.