Runes of Magic US / AU

I'd say you have the correct understanding of a Curse rune. Your cast-time skills will simply go off faster. As far as I know, there isn't any change to your instants.

Physical skills are different (mostly) as they are %DPS rather than a static damage. So as you decrease your attack speed, the actual value of the %DPS goes up (the same number divided by a smaller number gives a bigger number). However as most physical skills are controlled by the cast times or GCD, you don't hit more often, only harder.

Though in Chapter III, scouts by decreasing weapon speed could fire faster and hit harder, and thanks to a broken rounding mechanism once attack speed reached 0.5 it rounded to 0, giving nearly unlimited damage. This "shot bug' was fixed by introducing the GCD on Shot, but that didn't stop the huge amount of damage that Scouts could reach by lowering attack speed.

It is the Speed Shooting Mastery, that in my opinion makes it very awkward to allow Scouts to have access to Raid runes.

Quoted from "ray1981;485087"

again, what are the req's for a scout in gch v the req for a warr, warden or rogue in gch???

other dps classes have higher req's than scouts, cuz ur dps is mostly based off your bow/xbow rather than pa req's for every other melee dps...

basically scouts have it alot easier at end game than other dps classes...

Scouts only get 1 PA per str or dex, warriors get 2, plus berserk, they should have no issues with PA... unlike scouts. The dmg calcs are the same for scouts as melee now, since the dex mod was removed, so really scouts are just gimped because it is so much harder to get PA... plus weapon dmg is lower in general than warriors, and dps% skills are also lower than rogues.

Quoted from "ray1981;485087"

plus, the whole reason i guess is if u can rememer post ch3. after dod hit?....

yea thats the reason...

no we dont hate scouts, but every one did hate the situation...if i wanted to clear rt/kt in that time of rom...guess what i had to bring 3-4 scouts with me...thats why

Correct, now you got it.. that's the exact reason. Scouts were OP for a while, so instead of just balance things, they decided to make them pay for a while. Again, not a QQ by me, I'm fine with it.. just want noobs to understand before they pick a class, especially the ones that want to be "best dps in the game".

For those that point out a few examples saying "this guy in my guild out-dps'es this other guy"... unless you state all of the stats/gear/etc for each person, doesn't really matter. Also, please state which hacks they use as well -- but ofc they won't tell you that

Seems like a good time now to enable scouts to use raid runes . I see no reason not to. Any 1 can give me a good reason ?

Quoted from "Me"

And the obvious reason (again please excuse my boldness in using such vocabulary) that Scouts are not allowed to use a Raid runes is because of the multiplicative effects if weapon speed reduction. Scouts already have a passive that decreases attack time, adding a Rune in with the same effect with all the existing potions (not to mention new ones that have yet to be released) and other buffs could just result in another Chapter 3 situation.

This would be my educated guess.