"Recycling"?

[Soliloquy]

My friend saw a RNG in AF2 the other day. He was looking at the stats (at my request >.>), and noticed that on the headgear, it gave a boost to "Recycling". I looked around to see if I can find any info on it, and could only find one thing - the person posting wasn't sure, but thought it was a trait that would randomly activate, saving the arrow (or other ammunition) from being used.

Does anyone know anything about this?

[Serpent]

lol yeah I been wondering about it to XD

[oozma]

unlimited shot every 5-10 shots..
i.e you dont use an arrow

[Lilith]

Doesnt that mean you can shoot a conquest arrow like every 5-10 shots?Cool if you are from win;D

[Kunami]

It's a random determination. So it may or may not happen. where as US always works. It just saves you a little bit of gil thats all.

[2.0]

Yeah so in other words it sucks.

[greysenn]

Yeah, because 10-20% savings in arrows sucks.

[2.0]

Yeah level 75 people really need to worry about saving arrows.:angel:

[poweryoga]

rather ignorant belief that all lvl 75 players are filled with millions of gil.

only an idiot woudn't try to save arrows when he/she can.

[TaruSGonEWilD]

sounds like a very helpful skill, I would like to see the percentage upped a bit but thats only cause I'm a cheap skate when it comes to throwing gil at mobs for dmg. Yes I do go with the best available equipment and arrows but I still don't like it :sweat:

[2.0]

Ok let's compare level 70ish ranger headgear shall we?

War Beret HP+10 INT-3 Accuracy+7 Ranged Accuracy+7
Extra accuracy always a good thing.

Optical Hat Accuracy+10 Ranged Accuracy+10 Evasion+10
Even more accuracy. Can't complain about that. A bitch to get but well worth the effort.

Which now leads us to the...

Scout Beret HP+15 MND+4 Enmity-3 Recycling
No accuracy whatsoever. Pretty useless stats for a ranger but hey I get to save 3 arrows in a stack. Only item in the game with the precious recycling ability too.

Bottom line: Recycling still sucks. And if you're level a 73+ ranger(the requirement for using the Crap Beret) worrying about conserving arrows then you suck too.

[Rhayn]

I'd have to say that AF2 hat is probably most useful when helping lower levels with AF coffer keys, genkai items, other quests, farming, or showing off. You shouldn't have much trouble hitting these so the accuracy+ isn't needed and there's no point wasting more arrows than you already are. Plus, you can boast having AF2... not that an Optical hat isn't boastable, but in my opinion it's quite ugly.

[greysenn]

Accuracy that you might or might not need depending on what you're fighting.. considering a good amount of the stuff out there is now VT and below, IE, easy to hit.

I certainly wouldn't wear it for HNM or dynamis.. but thats a whole different animal.

If (Thats a big if) it is as high as it sounds, you're dismissing 10-20% savings in ammunition for a pathetic increase in hit rate on most stuff. That's 1-2 stacks out of 10, not 3 out of 100.
The hat sounds like a winner to me for non-alliance situations

[2.0]

Wow. I must be in the Twilight Zone. How anybody could possibly think that the Crap Beret is even a tenth of the item the other two head pieces is beyond me. Ranger can never and will never need too much accuracy.

If it was a level 53 headpiece. It might be (not really) be worth something. But since it's a level 73 item it's absolutely useless unless you're helping people out like the other guy was talking about.

[greysenn]

You are correct. It is a toy. That does not diminish it's usefulness in those situations however.