Barrage

is now 8 hits, thought you should know

so, since the number of hits per attack round caps at 8, i wonder if the ASA legs and AF1+1 hands are now useless

there really is a cap to number of arrows u can shoot with barrage?
i never heard that u can shoot max 8 arrows

Barrage is still a single attack though, so you can go beyond that 8 hits per round cap.

Lv30 RNG shoots 4x with Barrage.
Lv50 shoots 5x.
Lv75 shoots 6x.

Hunter's bracers +1 add a shot, putting you at 7x.
Desultor tassets add another shot, putting you at 8x.

What changed now ?


Edit: or are you saying that despite the extra 2 shots gained at 90 and 99 (as well as any newly added gear) it stays at 8 ?

I think it means it's natural 8 hits, whereas as you stated it used to be naturally 6.

Which means you can get 10 (or 11 with that gun), hopefully, which is tight.

Yeah but what are the chances of all 10 hits landing xD

The more hits you put within a single attack, the greater the margin of error you get. I'm sure at one point for the sake of consistency and depending on other various circumstances and situations, it could be better to equip something else for your hands and legs than Desultor Legs and AF+1 hands.

if capped ACC (95%), i think it would be...

1 hit - 95%
2 hits - 90%
3 hits - 85%
4 hits - 81%
5 hits - 77%
6 hits - 73%
7 hits - 69%
8 hits - 66%
9 hits - 63%
10 hits - 59%

thats using the formula of each progressive hit having 95% accuracy of the previous.

also, if you are running at near capped or capped ranged accuracy, you may as well toss the AF1+1 and ASA legs on for the chance for 10 hits

I'm not sure about this, but I have a hunch that if a barrage crit (on 1st hit?) The subsequent hits will definitely scores a crit.

I couldn't find any viable explanation of while my Slug Shot is doing 3k, my crit barrage doing up to 5.4k+

It is possible the same rules of missing a shot from barrage applies to critical hits as well. As whenever the following hit misses, subsequent hits after that will always miss. So if the second hit missed, all 6 following it will miss as well, and you will only get one successful hit.

Hard to test the crit hit thing as there are many variables especially if the critical hit applies to the last or last few of the hits.

This will never be the case. You'd have to be cratio starved and firing twenty arrows for anything of the sort.

Has there been any testing on whether Barrage caps at 8 arrows or not, yet? Trying to decide the augments on my ASA pants.

ive yet to notice landing more than 9 hits, via watching my TP return

Totally necro'ing this because I too after months of never getting more than 8 shots am rather certain that the +1 hands are now broken (assume same for ASA legs).

Can anyone attest to getting more than 8 shots?

Has anyone addressed this on the official forums? Needs to be fixed...

I have seen 9 shots multiple times.