My ranger, Props to Vanquisher of Idiot Savants for the help.

For a quick shot build like this, I think the best attribute layout is

11+3 Expertise
10+2 Marksmanship
9+1 Wilderness
4+1 Beastmastery (though the +1 doesnt do anything )

However, Id love to have an 8 or 9 second TF, as opposed to my 7. But this would require 7 or 9 BM, and I dont know what to lower because all the other attributes are very important to the build as well. Seems like the others are necesary, and high level TF is just an indulgence. Thoughts?

Coming from a Monk, let me just say that a bad self-heal like Troll Unguent probably isn't worth it, especially since Rangers are usually a low priority target. What I would recommend instead, since you aren't using a secondary at all, is to go R/Mo and use Smite Hex. You don't have to put any points into Smiting Prayers to use it and it only takes 5 energy and 1 second to cast. Removing something like Backfire would help me a lot more than healing yourself.

Better off using remove hex because of way better recharge. But taking a step back, there are about 10 ranger skills that go well in my (and other peoples) quick-shot build, so I dont think there will be room anyways.

Nothing really beats Quickshot + Tiger's Fury for pure damage output, if you have buff stacked arrows. Assuming you learn to time it correctly.

And if your Tiger's Fury is at 8 seconds, use a Dual Shot in the period of time where you're not under it's affect and it's stil recharging.

Quickening Zephyr + Quickshot + Tiger's Fury is even better, but, is detrimental to your own team's casters. You also won't be able to keep it up for long even with zealous.

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I may not be leet enough being only in a top 100 guild, but the whole leave the monks to die thing is just strange to me.

By that logic, shields up on a warrior would be worthless because he should be using his entire char for damage, even if the whole enemy team is like 8 rangers for instance?

Take care of your monks so they can take care of you I say.

Tsunamii Starshine

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It's quite tedious to accomplish though, i've seen several barrage bots complain about the 1 second recharge on barrage.

It doesn't act like Barrage. Barrage is too slow to activate.
The quickshot timing is not tedious at all. Becomes second nature after an hour of play or so.

Is it? they both have 1 second cooldowns; I assumed the way to use them was related.

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Yes, but Quickshot activates 2x faster, that's what make the skill so good. Barrage on the other hand, activates like a normal attack skill, say a Penetrating Attack or Power Shot.

Quickshot is alot like Distracting Shot. It activates so fast it follows the normal attack very quickly, and so you're able to output more arrows in the same period of time.

You can even do better, you can start drawing the normal attack and hit Quickshot. As the normal attack completes and the Quickshot animation is in progress, hit Distracting Shot. You'll fire off all three in very rapid succession.
And the nice thing about buff stacking, is that your Distracting Shot may do "only" 15 damage, but stil carries the buffs and so does ok damage.

Since it's hard to interrupt a Monk's 1 second spells, especially with a bow, a neat trick to getting a skill disabled with Distracting Shot is this:

Make one sequence of normal + Quickshot attack a couple of time, you should have the monk down to 1/2 life. Now make your next sequence a normal + Quickshot + Distracting Shot chain.
The monk will just start his heal once the next normal attack and quickshot hits, so your distracing arrow will land right as he's executing the spell, about half the time. It doesn't work all the time, but I disable Healing Touch/Orison of Healing/Healing Breeze often enough to try.
Ofcourse you're stil unlikely to get Reversal of Fortune disabled, but things like Mark of Protection or Shield of Regeneration I do managed to knock out sometimes.

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