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Arcane Shot is an extra shot. It does not interrupt or replace an autoshot, so if you hit it at the right time, you can see the two shots going off at the same time. While leveling, it can suck up mana really fast, so use is sparingly. After you get Steady Shot (I forget what level it was lowered to.) you'll hardly ever use it.

Raptor strike is a melee attack, and is dependent on your melee hit chance. If your melee weapon skill is very low (you can check by hitting "k"), your hit chance with that weapon will be very low, and chances are high you'll miss. If you keep up with your weapon skill, you'll hit most of the time.


If you ever get into melee range of your target, a REALLY handy macro to hit is:

/cast Raptor Strike
/cast Wing Clip

It'll cast Raptor Strike to make a really big melee hit, and then instantly cast Wing Clip to slow down your target while you get back to range.

Edited, Nov 23rd 2008 5:24am by ProjectMidnight

It's still necessary if you want to slow down your target without having to hit another button. They still cast with 1 keystroke of the macro, so there's no reason not to. The reason to use Wing Clip was never to do damage, it was to slow the target and make it easier to get away. The great thing about it not doing damage, is now you can wingclip a trap and not break it.


No. Raptor Strike *IS* your next attack and completely independent from Mongoose Bite or any other special. Test it out for yourself. Go melee something, hit Raptor Strike, and immediately hit Mongoose Bite. If you look at your combat log, they are two separate lines, and two separate hits of damage.


Have you? You clearly didn't understand the mechanics of Raptor Strikes. I don't see anything about whether it misses a lot, or if Arcane Shot is an extra attack (as opposed to replacing an auto shot). The guy asked legitimate and uncommon questions.

The point of spamming wing clip isn't for the slowing effect, its for the imp wc proc. If you didn't spec into imp wc, you'd be wasting a ton of mana by spamming it in melee.

thats because it used to cause damage by itself, the change to it is recent. but i understand what your saying, i just dont think you understand what im trying to say.

Edited, Nov 24th 2008 12:29pm by montaghar

Ok, i re-read everything and can see where what i said is confusing. But this is what it translates to:
Project said that raptor strike *is* your next melee. That is wrong. It may cause you to melee attack when you hit it, but its still not your next attack, because as the tooltip states, it does no damage, just adds to it.

The whole point i was trying to make about the wingclip thing is that it has nothing to do with raptor strike, but it came out confusing. Sorry bout that.



Edited, Nov 24th 2008 12:44pm by montaghar

I wasn't wrong, I worded it the way I did because you tried to say that it added damage to any hit, including Mongoose Bite. The rest of your post suggested that it used to add damage to the wingclip, but since wingclip no longer does damage, Raptor Strike would no longer work.

It does still work. If you do it and look in your combat log you would see something like (and I'm paraphrasing):

Your Raptor Strike hits for xxx damage
Your Mongoose Bite hits for xxx damage
Your Wingclip hits

Ok, i only called sir an idiot because he called me one, i called no one else an idiot, nor did i do it multiple times, nor did i ever mention mongoose bite, but for the sake of dropping this

i was wrong, i will not post false information again, happy hunting :)

I would accept sir, think of all the awesome conversations you could end up with!

To get all the correct information in 1 post (because this thread is confusing as hell now):

Raptor Strike:
Adds X damage to your next melee attack.
Melee attack here means next normal melee strike, or white hit.
It adds that amount of damage, and it will show up in your combatlog as "raptor strike hit/crit for X amount"

Wing clip:
Deals no damage, slows the enemy that's it.

Mongoose Bite:
deals X damage, this is a separate attack and it will go off the second you use it.


So to answer the OP's questions: Raptor strike is an attack that adds damage to your next normal attack, arcane shot, mongoose bite and your other shots are extra attacks that will fire independently from your normal "white" hits.