Couldn't find a topic on this. When does hurricane out-DPS strafe, when sharp eyes is maxed? What about when speed infusion is involved?
iirc hurricane level 1 is better than strafe, unless you are looking for KB in which case stick with strafe until hurricane is able to KB.
I'm pretty sure strafe with SI+ well timed sniping beats out hurricane. Of course SI does not help BM's at all (assuming everything maxed + SE). Other than having SI hurricane always beats out the snipe/strafing combo though if you're talking DPS.
With se the average crit bonus is +132% per shot. Strafe will do 232% while lvl 1 hurricane will do 183% Hurricane shoots 6 arrows while strafe only shoots 4 so it's 50% faster. it will be 274% for hurricane and 232% for strafe. I think even with a low lvl se hurricane will still outdamage strafe a little bit.
Is there an unambiguous answer for this? I know hurricane gives 500 shots per second, while strafe+booster gives about 85*4=340 shots. Big difference is that lvl 1 hurricane gives 51% damage, as Max strafe gives 100%.. Adding this to the equation means max strafe is better than lvl 1 hurricane. Is this right or did I miss something?
You're not taking into account criticals. With 160 extra shots you'll also have more criticals hence more damage. As someone stated before, if you need to kb something, strafe is better. if not, stick with hurricane.
I did forget that, though if calculated, it still seems that strafe is better. Let's say each hit gives X damage by average. 340 hits per minute with strafe would give 204x + 136*2x = 476x damage per minute. This assumes that 40% of the hits are critical (giving twice the damage). With hurricane, you would get 300*0.51x + 200*2*0.51x = 357x. Still less if its level 1 without meaningful SE. I might still missing something though..
You had a few mistakes there. Strafe shoots 333.33 arrows per minute with a normal speed bow+booster(making hurricane like a 6 arrow strafe) The main thing is that critical shot does not double the shot damage but add a +100% damage to it (so a crit on a lvl 1 hurricane would do 151% damage and not 102%). SE also adds a huge bonus to damage (it doesn't add +40% like it says but +140% on top of the +100% from critical shot which gives you a 55% chance to deal +240% more damage) Without SE a maxed strafe will outdamage hurricane but with SE (even a low lvl one) hurricane will outdamage it due to the huge bonuses SE gives to criticals.
