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<blockquote data-quote="Ranger19k" data-source="post: 5765156" data-attributes="member: 98621">Greater Many shot is a good way to activate skirmish damage, but it severely limits your number of attacks, and stacks a very painful -4 on to each shot.&nbsp; You are going to be far behind the standard BAB when you finally get a 3rd or 4th shot per round, and the minus to hit on each and every arrow increases to -6, then -8.Travel devotion, on the other hand, allows you to move as a swift action (which activates your skirmish) and then do a full attack, which gives you all the attacks that you get from your BAB with skirmish damage on each but without the additional negatives.&nbsp; You can also benefit from buffs like haste that give you an extra attack, but only when you full attack. This doesn't help with greater many shot.&nbsp; When you do the math on the increased number of attacks per round and the better to hit bonus on each arrow, it is pretty clear that travel devotion trumps greater many shot as a way to increase skirmish damage in combat.Honestly, since travel devotion is limited times/day, I usually get both for my scouts, and use greater manyshot for the times when I don't want to or can't activate my travel devotion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ranger19k, post: 5765156, member: 98621"] Greater Many shot is a good way to activate skirmish damage, but it severely limits your number of attacks, and stacks a very painful -4 on to each shot. You are going to be far behind the standard BAB when you finally get a 3rd or 4th shot per round, and the minus to hit on each and every arrow increases to -6, then -8. Travel devotion, on the other hand, allows you to move as a swift action (which activates your skirmish) and then do a full attack, which gives you all the attacks that you get from your BAB with skirmish damage on each but without the additional negatives. You can also benefit from buffs like haste that give you an extra attack, but only when you full attack. This doesn't help with greater many shot. When you do the math on the increased number of attacks per round and the better to hit bonus on each arrow, it is pretty clear that travel devotion trumps greater many shot as a way to increase skirmish damage in combat. Honestly, since travel devotion is limited times/day, I usually get both for my scouts, and use greater manyshot for the times when I don't want to or can't activate my travel devotion. [/QUOTE]

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