[1.1.x] Party-Friendly, Multi-Purpose, Bow Crit (Physical CoC/Puncture/Lightning Arrow) Guide

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feyith wrote:

CwDT, flasks, manually dodging the things they don't cover, and freezing/killing everything on the screen before it gets close to you. :)

Experimenting with the Lioneye's right now. Clear speed about doubles, but switching to single target Puncture is pretty much a must against Physical Reflect (since I can no longer evade my own hits).

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alkoxide wrote:

how do deal with the half mana of volls? is that partially why you changed to infernal mantle?

The half mana isn't too big a deal since auras are percentage based. As long as you have enough to cast 2-3 Barrages, it will sustain itself. Split Arrow you might need the Clarity on life setup.

I switched to Infernal Mantle for the ES and also because I'm running a triple DoT as my off attack.

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feyith wrote:

Don't get a Thief's. You don't need it with the leveling tree in the first post.

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feyith wrote:

Start with a 4 or 5-link Voll's (since it's the lowest level and cheapest item), just to see if you like the play style. Everything else can wait. I found almost all of my items in map parties.

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helikz wrote:

half mana is easy, either thief's torment or a combination of mana leech, mana on kill, and clarity.

0 life? the base build has little, but the "goal" build basically takes the base and adds all efficient life nodes in the area to it. just because the build is tagged "base" doesn't mean rush to these 74 points first. it's just the core, and all the rest of the nodes can be customized as you see fit.

also, it's a party aura support, support by definition means, you're not facetanking things, so you shouldn't need 10k life.

I play something similar to this at 3500 unreserved life and map up to 77 without issue. I die from time to time, not commonly, and they're all my own damn fault. imho, if you need 10k life to play this game, you're doing something extremely wrong.