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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dandu" data-source="post: 5514575" data-attributes="member: 85158">What awesome extra damage?You give up a full attack to launch one bolt with precision damage dice tacked on. A well made archer will have greater damage output with his regular full attack making the ranged precision damage meaningless.A level 10 OOTBI with, say 20 strength will deal 1d8+5+3d8 (average 23) damage using ranged precisionA level 10 Fighter archer with Weapon Specialization and Ranged Weapon Mastery will deal 1d8+5+4 (average 13.5) damage per shot, but he can get 3 shots off with Rapid Shot, 4 if under the effects of Haste (from the spell, Boots of Speed, or the weapon enchantment). Granted, one of those attacks is at a -5 penalty, but if we assume that only the attacks made at a full attack bonus hit, that's 27 damage with 2 attacks and 40.5 with Boots of Speed.To be fair, volley attacks have the problem of being negated by DR, but ranged precision is useless against elementals, undead, plants, constructs, oozes, people with concealment and other things.</blockquote>