Hoj Bow
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It is not a great bow for any bowazon. But since you have it, try a pure strafer. The holy fire aura can't be bad and the ias is nice. The meteor when you die should never go off :smiley: and the blind, DS and LL can't be bad either. Put the Treachery on the zon and the Guillames on the merc. Make an Edge bow and use that for a while. Then try to find a Witchwild String. It is a great bow for a strafer.
Immolation is slow, but it does damage while you need to wait, it burns. It is one second cast delay, and in the mean while you can spam explosion arrow. If you can keep the enemy in one place, immolation can be effective. Let the valk and or merc tank.
P.S. this means that IAS isn't the most important thing so you can focus on other things like more fire damage, big leech,... every fire damage stack. And no knockback.
P.S. this means that IAS isn't the most important thing so you can focus on other things like more fire damage, big leech,... every fire damage stack. And no knockback.
soloing with only fire skills is hard. It can be done but I wouldn't recommend it. Take a look at these two build, should answer some of you questions.
http://www.purediablo.com/guides/news.php?id=492
http://www.purediablo.com/guides/news.php?id=561
with the proper gear, very good gear more or less, you can be good in pvm. There will be builds that are stronger, on the other hand, being the off build might give you more or cheaper good gear, because others doesn't want them.
http://www.purediablo.com/guides/news.php?id=492
http://www.purediablo.com/guides/news.php?id=561
with the proper gear, very good gear more or less, you can be good in pvm. There will be builds that are stronger, on the other hand, being the off build might give you more or cheaper good gear, because others doesn't want them.
Yogirat
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IMO making a mage would waste the bow's great damage (280-330 ED) and speed (33 IAS). I'm with nickedoff on this one, use strafe as your leach-back attack and the fire tree as long as you can. The combined speed of the HOJ and Treachery put you just short of 8/2 strafe. This gives you a lot of leeway for the rest of your gear. Normaly, I would recomend LOH for gloves on any bowzon, but in this case, Lava Gouts might be better. Since you have hit your speed break, the ammy slot can have something different, a Rising Sun? :wink3: A token amount of points into the cold tree, or a bow switch will get the job done against PI/FIs.
depends on how you want to play. Do you want be a straver and use immo/explosion when it comes in handy. Or the other way around, using mostly fire skills and strave when it some in handy.
If you realy want to make a combo, using both often. I would do this*.
at least 6 in strave, so you'll have ten arrow shot. More on a single target is not needed if you won't use this as you bosskill skill.
Max immolation, to up the damage.
Max valk, I just love valk.
Enough pierce to get nearly 100% peirce. Start off with just one or two point. As gear some avable, you might have enough +skill to pull it of. Get raizortails.
1 in all Prerequisites, or more if you feel like it.
Some in ice arrow. This way you can freeze the boss so he stays in the immolation flame.
rest: where you like it, more fire damage, in synergies for immo. More out of strave, in strave self, or in critical strike or penetrate. Better freeze, more in ice arrow. Better valk, more in decoy or in the evading skills.
stats, as low strength as possible. Enough in live and mana, some skills cost a lot of mana and steeling is not always easy, and live is always good. Rest in dex.
If you want is on an other way, go with base mana, find a lot of mana leech. More points in critical and penetate. This way, you might be able to steel back the mana you spend on immo, or an other skill. And if needed, you can still strave to get it back. Max dex, for more damage, so more leech.
*: these are just ideas how I think about it, this is how I would do it, but I'm sure people will disagree with me.
If you realy want to make a combo, using both often. I would do this*.
at least 6 in strave, so you'll have ten arrow shot. More on a single target is not needed if you won't use this as you bosskill skill.
Max immolation, to up the damage.
Max valk, I just love valk.
Enough pierce to get nearly 100% peirce. Start off with just one or two point. As gear some avable, you might have enough +skill to pull it of. Get raizortails.
1 in all Prerequisites, or more if you feel like it.
Some in ice arrow. This way you can freeze the boss so he stays in the immolation flame.
rest: where you like it, more fire damage, in synergies for immo. More out of strave, in strave self, or in critical strike or penetrate. Better freeze, more in ice arrow. Better valk, more in decoy or in the evading skills.
stats, as low strength as possible. Enough in live and mana, some skills cost a lot of mana and steeling is not always easy, and live is always good. Rest in dex.
If you want is on an other way, go with base mana, find a lot of mana leech. More points in critical and penetate. This way, you might be able to steel back the mana you spend on immo, or an other skill. And if needed, you can still strave to get it back. Max dex, for more damage, so more leech.
*: these are just ideas how I think about it, this is how I would do it, but I'm sure people will disagree with me.
i decided to make a pvp bowzon so i maxed GA and got 10 in multiarrow and 12 to aviod dodge etc and im gonna max valkyire.
Right now my gear looks like this
mb HoJ bow
Twitchthroe
LoH
Nosferatu's coil
zon torch
ive got lieke 1k life and guided arrow does 500-1000 dmg :/ is there anyway i can improve the dmg without getting a fortitude or a 160/60 armor, cuz im really poor
Right now my gear looks like this
mb HoJ bow
Twitchthroe
LoH
Nosferatu's coil
zon torch
ive got lieke 1k life and guided arrow does 500-1000 dmg :/ is there anyway i can improve the dmg without getting a fortitude or a 160/60 armor, cuz im really poor
in PVP is a valk not that usefull. can't do much, no distraction and a way to leech life easy for the opponent. Certainly max, or as much as possible, critical strike. Max dexterity, mostly this is better then a lot of life. Crushing blow is always usefull aswell.
500-1000 is notting, don't go PVP with the better guys at high level, you'll be toasted. There is a penalty for PVP, I think only 17% damage is done. With a 5k barb, you need to shoot hell of a lot of arrow.
500-1000 is notting, don't go PVP with the better guys at high level, you'll be toasted. There is a penalty for PVP, I think only 17% damage is done. With a 5k barb, you need to shoot hell of a lot of arrow.