Effects of Marksmanship

[Brynn Caddoc]

I'm currently building my 17 R/W to be one hell of a damage dealer, and I was wondering if anyone had any specifics on how exactly the Marksmanship attribute affects your damage output.

Also, if you boost your Marksmanship attribute past 12 (lets say, to 17), will it continue to increase the damage on your attack skills? Or will it stop increasing skill effects once your attribute gets the soft cap?

[Glorfendill]

my understanding (though this is by no means proven anywhere that I am aware of) Is that all weapon attributes and skills give quickly deminishing returns as you pass rank 12. So while you will continue to deal higher damage the increases would quickly drop, combined with the increased attribute point requirements to raise skills to 12 most people choose to use runes to get the skill up to/near 12 then leave it.

[Nairax]

I notice a big difference between 13 and 14 marksmanship.

Try it and see; I like having my marksmanship as high as possible.

[Glorfendill]

I notice a big difference between 13 and 14 marksmanship.

Try it and see; I like having my marksmanship as high as possible.


While that's good to hear, I myself never planed to put any points in marksmanship to begin with until I found out you needed it just to be able to use good bows. So Mine won't be going that high.