C4ph's Bow Shadow Compendium (Under Construction)

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/wave C4ph. Your version of the elemental shadow bow user guy (can we think of a good title for this playstyle?) looks way fun. Every reset I say I'm going to go into the ranger tree but have yet to do it.

How well does Arrow Dodging work? Thats what Im interested in.

The Area of Effect passives make the Ice Shot cone huge. Especially if you use a Deaths Harp for the 2 for 1 attacks. I fire off Ice Shot to get mana back lol. Use Pierce in the chain & rejoice.

Ive gone even deeper into the Templar tree. New .QQ Build

I posted in your thread before actually reading this.

I use LMP with Ice Shot so i might think about the area skills again. I tested it once and could not really feel an impact. Maybe I should try to get a closer look.

Good thing: Since the Legacy migrations i have 2 unskilled shadows lvl 71 and 70 to use for testing purposes. I will probably do that and compare 2 distinct versions of the build.


In default, I actually started to work towards your build more closely. I will tell you how it turns out.

Arrow dodging works the better, the more evasion you have. And since My shadow so far used



it worked pretty well. I mean it says it "doubles" the chance to dodge arrows so I believe it simply takes my usual evasion * 2 for arrows and projectiles. I felt very comfortable in that way, and seriously felt the impact of archers being less scary!

If i understand the iceshot mechanics correctly.. it actually converts ALL of physical your dmg to cold for the AoE effect...

that means those +cold nodes are giving even more +dmg than what your dps sheet says :o

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If i understand the iceshot mechanics correctly.. it actually converts ALL of physical your dmg to cold for the AoE effect...

that means those +cold nodes are giving even more +dmg than what your dps sheet says :o

Yet, the AOE effect is quite small in my opinion. Unlike explosive arrow or lightning arrow, which both have decently sized AOE circles, this one simply creates a cone behind the first mob it hits. As a consequence it is quite decent vs large packs of mobs that are close to each other and running at you (e.g. Bandits, Spawns, Monkeys...) yet less effective against other type of groups.

Great post C4ph, lots of great info and ideas, cheers.

Thx Bro,

I have another goal now:

In-to-Deep guide for Bow Shadows! I want to gather the best and most viable builds and deliver all sorts of insights.

Asking all of you to contribute to create something really valuable!

After the latest respec I managed to take the second AOE passive. Ice shot is a crowd stopper. AOE range is 32% increased & I lol all the way :)

I wrote this before realizing .13 had deployed x.X AOE range is now 40% :)

How have you speccd? Im trying a bizarre HP & EVA & Acrobatics & Phase Acrobatics build for pve.