Originally Posted by
Energizeric
Unfortunately I don't yet have the crafted shanks, but I intend to get it at some point, so I will do this when I do. Keep in mind a couple of things....
I'm not sure about crafted, but with the non-crafted Tiki Set, the bow and shanks give the same exact stats except for damage and dps. Crit is 51 for both sets.
The other thing which is hard to quantify is speed. You are calculating 100 stomps as if that is the true measure of damage caused by a bear.
If we take a boss fight as an example, a bear is going to run through all of his skills in a hurry, and then there is a couple of moments when you are just on auto-attack waiting for your attack skills to "cool-down" so you can use them again. For me I usually start with beckon, stomp, then crushing blow, and then the slashes. When I am done with the slashes, I cannot yet use beckon/stomp again and have to wait a few moments. During that waiting time I am on auto-attack, and it is during that time when DPS does matter when considering which set causes the most damage. During this cool-down period, the shanks can hit 3 times for every 2 times the bow can hit.
I suggest you just buy a cheap lvl70 tiki helm, armor & shanks set (cost of less than 200k) and try it out. Go fight in Nuri or the Sewers against a boss that will not kill you with the low armor this set provides. Just keep auto-attack on and spam your skills. You will see the boss will die in a hurry compared to when you use other weapons. I'll also add that the shanks set is the only set I've ever used that makes me capable of soloing the Bandit Queen. With any other weapon set, she heals herself faster than I can cause damage and the net result is a stalemate.