Explosive Arrow Witch for HC leagues. 8900+ HP Pool, AA, Instant Healing, Burn the whole screen

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royvisser1990 wrote:

I have a question about the "simulating a 8link" with the 2 explosive arrow setup.

I notice that it is kinda hard to hit all your explosive arrows on one single monster because they move around alot so i cant shoot all my arrows on the same target most of the time.

Both the strong arrow + 4 weak arrows need to be on the same target before this works? or can i shoot the strong arrow and 4 weak ones without having to worry about missing 1 arrow on my main target.

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SeeD_MR wrote:

(for some reason I can't edit my previous post any more...)

Hi,
I have a few questions:
1) For people who don't have a 6 linked chest (only 5L):
Do you really need the life on hit gem? How about double curse by dropping life on hit?
Is life regen from fife leach with EA not enough?
2) For people who don't have a 6 linked bow (only 5L):
Wouldn't the 20 quality increased burning damage gem be better than concentrated/ increased area of effect? That way you would have 10% more chance to ignite and achieve a higher damage (since the burning is the main source of damage)?

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muir wrote:

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SeeD_MR wrote:

(for some reason I can't edit my previous post any more...)

Hi,
I have a few questions:
1) For people who don't have a 6 linked chest (only 5L):
Do you really need the life on hit gem? How about double curse by dropping life on hit?
Is life regen from fife leach with EA not enough?
2) For people who don't have a 6 linked bow (only 5L):
Wouldn't the 20 quality increased burning damage gem be better than concentrated/ increased area of effect? That way you would have 10% more chance to ignite and achieve a higher damage (since the burning is the main source of damage)?

In a hardcore league it is important to have a way to heal when you hit many (many) times quickly due to effects like Lightning Thorns. You could run w/o LGOH but it would add a risk to your gameplay. Honestly I'd rather drop Chain than dropping LGOH, but your risk tolerance may vary.

Burning damage is based off the explosion's damage. MORE damage from Conc is enormously enormous and there is absolutely no way a burning damage gem will compensate for that. I'd just run w/ conc and no inc aoe if you had a 5link. Interestingly it is fairly easy to pick up inc AOE from the Templar tree now so Inc AOE isn't *that* important.

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Amongalen wrote:

What do u think about getting bow with +2 bow gems and +1 all gems? U can always swap weapons to apply stacks with guill faster. And switching inc aoe for empower?
With this bow and 3lvl empower ur EA will be 26lvl. Explosion dmg at 20lvl avg. 654 vs 1280 at 26lvl.

With some nice corruptions (EA 21lvl and empower 4lvl) EA will be 28lvl. It's not even listed on wiki but dmg will be something like avg. 1600-1700.
Imo its HUGE increase in dmg.

Dropping life leech and picking doryani's invitation instead isnt enough, right?

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muir wrote:

Thats not an apples to apples comparison. If you use empower you need to drop a gem, and if this gem is LL you're literally playing with fire.

The comparison of note would be 21 EA and Level 4 empower in quill rain vs +3 bow. In the end, you will find the APS of quill more than compensates for the difference in base damage as quill will be near twice as fast, vs a 20-30% increase in base dmg for +3 bow.