Elemental Conversion Bowrauder [High End | Gearcentric | 2 Builds]

Skill tree is still out of date (GGG you have to be kidding me. UPDATE THIS.) so not all passives are allocated.

I'm not going to go TOO in depth on this since LA builds are pretty straightforward, but this specific one is built for specific gear, so don't expect the same pathing when using a different bow.

HP: ~10,000 - 13,000
ES: ???
Regen: ~1000/s


Ideally:
Maxed/Overmaxed resists on gear
31 - 36% Increased Elemental Damage with Weapons on Belt, Ring, Ring, Amulet
Max Attack Speed on gloves
30% MS Boots
+109 Maximum Life on every piece of non-unique gear
Highest Flat ES and % ES rolls on gear. Use pure ES for anything you can, and ES/Arm for anything you don't have the Int for.



Required Gear
6L Lioneye's Glare (6L Godly bow can be used, but you will have to take Resolute Technique and change pathing a bit)
- Lightning Arrow
- Lightning Penetration
- Pierce
- Lesser Multiple Projectiles
- Blood Magic
- Weapon Elemental Damage

4L Helm
- Reduced Mana
- Hatred
- Vitality
- Haste

Double 2L Boots
- Reduced Mana
- Wrath

- Anger
- Blood Magic

4L Gloves
- Decoy Totem
- Frost Wall
- Blood Magic
- Projectile Weakness

Kaom's Heart

Blackgleam (There is a chance that rolling a perfect tri elemental bow with weapon elemental damage, HP and crit is more powerful. This is untested due to LOLGOODLUCK WITH THAT QUIVER)




Pierce + LMP is flat out better than using LMP+Chain or Faster Attacks + Chain.
Pierce + Faster Attacks can potentially be more damaging, but the number of situations in which this occurs is low.

Projectile weakness against huge groups to pierce them all and pretty much destroy everything.
Decoy totem against dangerous things.

Frostwall behind single mobs and fire into the wall to shotgun with Lightning Arrow's area targeting effect.


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Level 72 Non Kaom's/Lioneye Version



This is my current version of the buld. Uses a 6L Bow with the same gem setup, but it uses:

5L Chest
- Reduced Mana
- Vitality
- Purity
- Anger
- Hatred

4L Gloves
- Spell Totem
- Summon Skeletons
- Blood Magic
- Blind

4L Boots
- Bear Trap
- Added Fire Damage
- Blood Magic
- Fire Penetration

4L Helm
- Reduced Mana
- Blood Magic
- Projectile Weakness
- Wrath

=ALTERNATE=

4L Boots
- Bear Trap
- Added Fire Damage
- Blood Magic
- Projectile Weakness

4L Helm
- Reduced Mana
- Blood Magic
- Grace
- Wrath

Skeletons make things a joke by constantly blinding & exploding.

I'm very interested in Pierce+LMP being better than other. Would you please explain the difference in mechanics and damage output? I sadly cannot test the thing myself ingame, and I have never heard that before.

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VenatorPoE wrote:

I'm very interested in Pierce+LMP being better than other. Would you please explain the difference in mechanics and damage output? I sadly cannot test the thing myself ingame, and I have never heard that before.

First off, you only need to hit half the number of targets with Pierce to deal the same damage as chain. It is quite common to hit more targets than it's even possible to hit at once with chain.

The second thing to note is what i said above: There is no cap on targets. Pierce + Projectile weakness breaks 100% pierce chance, and will hit as many things as you want.

Third, the cost is 110% instead of 200% which is rather important with a regen build that is using a blood magic gem

Fourth, double the initial damage means more length on all of your elemental effects

Fifth, it allows the use of the projectile weakness curse (Piercing on it doesn't play nicely with chain) which has additional knockback, and is more useful than Elemental Weakness on this build (partially due to lightning penetration).

Sixth, it's much more consistent at dealing with Allies Cannot Die mobs+totems.

Finally, the damage not being cut in half by chain makes Frostwall + LA Shotgun twice as effective, since this build doesn't have enough sockets for a single target skill unless you drop both decoy totem AND frostwall for bear trap + added fire.

Another thing i like about it is that it was what we used back about half a year ago in CB before we even had chain. I felt pretty annoyed when my once-niche build became cookie cutter.

So the pierce thing relies on two things:

The projectiles damage is not cut in half like in case of Chain.
The projectile pierces through the first monster and hits another one behind it.


Correct? Anything to add?


EDIT: The projectile pierces through the monster and hits another one behind it. -> better wording

Pretty much, yeah. The damage not being cut in half actually makes it better than chain in almost every situation (2 / 3 enemies that are far apart will take more dps if you perfect aim a chain lmp at them, however it's easier to hit them all with a piercing shot instead, and will only deal slightly less damage)

Bump + Thanks for the information! Can't wait to test it out myself.

This is my current version of the buld. Uses a 6L Bow with the same gem setup, but it uses:

5L Chest
- Reduced Mana
- Vitality
- Purity
- Anger
- Hatred

4L Gloves
- Spell Totem
- Summon Skeletons
- Blood Magic
- Blind

4L Boots
- Bear Trap
- Added Fire Damage
- Blood Magic
- Fire Penetration

4L Helm
- Reduced Mana
- Blood Magic
- Projectile Weakness
- Wrath

Im trying to make a conversion from BM node to BM gem but it all comes down to gear; 5-6l is a must and WED on items +hp +res its out of my reach on hc ...

Will try pierce instead of chain.

BTW. I was thinking about making build around Burning Arrow is this viable at all? Ignite + burning dmg nodes? It might be even posible to add shock to it with qADL gem? What do you guys think?

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zkeleton wrote:

Im trying to make a conversion from BM node to BM gem but it all comes down to gear; 5-6l is a must and WED on items +hp +res its out of my reach on hc ...

Will try pierce instead of chain.

BTW. I was thinking about making build around Burning Arrow is this viable at all? Ignite + burning dmg nodes? It might be even posible to add shock to it with qADL gem? What do you guys think?

It woudl be possible to make a build with burning nodes, but you would be EXTREMELY starved for skill points if you use this specific build.

And yeah, the biggest drawback to this build is that you absolutely NEED to use 4+ auras and have at least one 5L to make it work.

Remember to always have projectile weakness running while using pierce, because it gets you 100% pierce.

Wow well i throw out Chain and even without pierce LA does its job.

With pierce gem and curse its even better ofc. I didnt have amplify (now i got it) and with it i dont realy need chain to clean areas from out of screen - i need that cuz im undergeared.

My problem atm is that i have typical BM node bowrauder and i would like to use BM gem and % auras, get back like 17 points and put them into IG and more hp. But it would cost me like 40 regreats. Toon is only 77 lvl i guess i could start a new one. Tips?

One more thing Reduced Skill Mana Cost you could get like -53% for 7 points (they are close) worth it or not?

What do you think about EK + Iron Will Gem? Build would be very similiar. I did 2 LA build already wanna try something else but i love marauders and being kinda fat cannon -.-