Clustered shots?

[OnlyOffensive]

How they work? Basically shots ignore DR?

[Entropie]

No, but they do mitigate the DR especially on higher levels.

The way it works is that if you use a full attack to make multiple attacks in a round against a target (you get multiple attacks on one hand by having high level (and thus high BAB) and also by having certain talents like rapidshot, a full attack requires that you do not move that round)
all of the damage is tallied first and then DR is applied rather than it being applied to each attack.

For example:
You make 3 attacks with a full round action, dealing 8, 12 and 14 damage against an enemy with damage resistance 10

Withough the talent your damage would be 0 + 2 + 4 = 6
with the talent it will be (8+12+14) -10 = 24.

[OnlyOffensive]

i have bonus BAB, rapid shot and manyshot. Ah i see, pretty ok feat than, alot of tough enemies with DR.

[Entropie]

Then it probably makes sense to pick it, especially since there are only few ways for ranged chars to get around most DR

[OnlyOffensive]

yep The ranger dps is ridiciolus but once you hit DR enemy, hes useless kinda. This feat should really improve situation.

[dfedwards2001]

For mine, clustered shots is one of the worst designed feats for all of pathfinder. So by all means take and abuse it.

[OnlyOffensive]

abuse?

[Graygan]

Originally posted by dfedwards2001:

For mine, clustered shots is one of the worst designed feats for all of pathfinder. So by all means take and abuse it.

In the world I play in, once you hit 3rd/4th level, a goodly percentage of critters have some form of DR... any character with primarily ranged attacks needs clustered shots.

It all depends on the enemies you face in whatever world or scenarios you are playing with.