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

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feyith wrote:

Yeah, if you don't benefit from ES, you could go around the other way through Physique and get an extra +30 Strength and 8% Life. :)

Yeah, sounds good. Or I can go grab Doom Cast... Probably not necessary with Ice Spear/Cold Snap.

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feyith wrote:

The real question though is whether you prefer the 50% increased item Rarity and added damage from Shock or 25% increased item Quantity and added survivability from Freeze. :)

I'm pretty sure monsters can die having multiple status ailments (see Elemental Trinity) so you can get both increased item quantity AND increased item rarity from Windripper (Yay!).

You mentioned earlier that you want more orbs... which I'm taking to mean as currency in general. If you want more currency you only need to get increased item quantity since currency is not affected by rarity.

Thanks for the links.

Shock vs. Freeze: I meant in terms of things to consider if you have to pick between Hatred or Wrath. Also, I forget who asked about Acrobatics but I didn't take it because without the ES penalty, Discipline doubles my effective life pool.

Doom Cast isn't a bad idea. Although, now I'm curious if you have to get the kill shot with your actual bow attacks vs. CoC procced spells or if you just have to kill something with the bow equipped. Anyone know?

BTW, just wanted to say thanks again for all the great discussion and activity you guys have been bringing to this thread. Talking through it has made me change a lot of things around and optimized my own choices quite a bit!

How is everyone doing anyway? :)

Here's that new flask.


Edit: I was looking at aut0m0ney's "DarkDeceit" thread. Have you Windripper guys with the mana issues tried Berek's Grip? It would be much cheaper than a Thief's and keep your other ring slot open. Also a Crown of Eyes and The Taming would make things just ridiculously insane.

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DustyLenz wrote:

Could you explain why you prefer poison arrow for leveling? It doesn't seem to benefit very much from Storm Cloud... did you mean rain of arrows?

Sorry, I misunderstood the question. Poison Arrow and Rain of Arrows both have base damage (and then an added physical component, which the Storm Cloud doesn't benefit from). Rain of Arrows' damage initially starts out higher (75% of your bow's damage) and then Poison Arrow's cloud damage quickly catches up and surpasses it.

The only skills that are entirely elemental (as opposed to converting/adding X amount of physical) are Explosive Arrow and of course Elemental Hit. Elemental Hit is great for single target while leveling up. I have not played around much with Explosive Arrow, so please let me know how that works for you if you use it. :)

hello

Im looking for some upgrades my current build.

My stats 3500 live, more then 95% crit chance (with 6 power charge) 89% hit chance.
I use difrent skill's depends of sytuaction

My skill tree



My gear



Working on 21 skills gem , better rings and amu and kill atziri ;)

thx for advices.

Holy...wow.

If you can afford a 6-link Windripper with white sockets, you can probably afford The Taming, Berek's Grip, etc. and make up for the life/resists with Voll's Devotion?

Your tree looks solid. How are you doing against Reflects?

Im playing on ambush so i cant get this items ;p

i dont die becouse of GMP. On psyhical reflect just put out ek or shot from far away. From 87 to 88 die one time on corruption elite.

Sorry, I don't know much about the new drops in Ambush league. I am tempted to reroll, though, after watching the price trends on Windripper.

It's an interesting social/economy study. I noticed it started around 40-50 ex in both leagues and has since dropped to 18-25 in Ambush. In Standard, where the orb farmers live and the economy is all fucked up, the price has gone up to 70-100.

Whereas most people who play temporary leagues enjoy the sane economy and are more concerned with high life end game builds, killing Atziri, etc. Hence specialized gear like this being more affordable. I imagine it would take me less time and be way more enjoyable to get to 82 on a new character than it would be to farm 100 exalteds.

Edit: In other news, broke 80,000 Puncture (displayed DPS on character sheet) in a party today but came dangerously close to one-shotting myself with it, so had to drop some crit multi and changed my CwDT setup.


Devouring Totem is awesome! It's like an automatic health potion! :)

Also, splitting up Enduring Cry and Immortal Call seems to work better, so will update the first post shortly.

Been playing around with LA+GMP+CoC+IS (Ice Spear). I somehow forgot that LA has "mini-chain". I swear I'm proccing CoC much more now with the new setup.

I'm also considering ditching Voll's Protector in favor of something with better defensive stats. (Most likely a Daresso's Defiance... yay for Endurance charges.) If I end up doing this I will be adding PCoC as my fifth link.

Game mechanics question: If I have LA+GMP+CoC+PCoC+IS I have a chance to get a Power Charge whenever I crit with LA OR with Ice Spear, right? I'm assuming this is the case because LA and IS are affected by GMP in my current 4-link.

Very random question: How does Exile's Essentials look with a quiver? Does it replace the quiver? I'm curious because I'm considering purchasing it.

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mechclams wrote:

Been playing around with LA+GMP+CoC+IS (Ice Spear). I somehow forgot that LA has "mini-chain". I swear I'm proccing CoC much more now with the new setup.

Lightning Arrow with GMP is awesome! I can't remember why I stopped using it other than possibly the Mana Cost? Thanks for reminding me. :D

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I'm also considering ditching Voll's Protector in favor of something with better defensive stats. (Most likely a Daresso's Defiance... yay for Endurance charges.) If I end up doing this I will be adding PCoC as my fifth link.

I use a non-Voll's, 5-link with PCoC too. Voll's is mostly for when you either can't get more than a 4-link or you have two 6-links and want to make them both effectively 7-links. Midway between those, any 5-link works. Daresso's has great defensive stats! I loved mine until I got the Lioneye's, then had to switch back to Infernal Mantle for crit chance.

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Game mechanics question: If I have LA+GMP+CoC+PCoC+IS I have a chance to get a Power Charge whenever I crit with LA OR with Ice Spear, right? I'm assuming this is the case because LA and IS are affected by GMP in my current 4-link.

I have no idea. I would think so. Usually one arrow with that setup takes you up to 5 fairly quickly.

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Very random question: How does Exile's Essentials look with a quiver? Does it replace the quiver? I'm curious because I'm considering purchasing it.

It crisscrosses it. :)

Updated first post to add Lightning Arrow and Bandits. Thanks for the great input!

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feyith wrote:

It crisscrosses it. :)

Okay, that's what I was hoping for.

Thanks!