Windforce or upd Buriza

[sasja]

In practical situations, you're almost always going to be fighting more than two opponents, which completely nullifies the NextDelay penalty. I can safely say I have NEVER noticed it outside of boss battles with a 9/2 WF.

The only time the strafe "problem" even arises is against bosses. Even then it's not a big deal that every second arrow passes quietly on through, because the firepower focussed on the target is still absurd. So half of your arrows pass through. That STILL means that, worst case, you're hitting them with a new arrow every four frames. I'm sorta failing to see the problem here.

Two out of three arrows will auto-miss, if you're Strafeing at x/2. And it isn't only when faced with one opponent the next-delay is a pain. When fighting a group you will try to stand in a way so that your Strafe cone is as tight as possible. That way an arrow shot at one monster can pierce and hit the next. Maybe you're even so adept at this technique that the first monster will be hit with all your Strafe arrows, which means that without next-delay you'd have done upwards of three times the damage you do (depending on your chance to hit). Any time a monster can be hit by two successive Strafe arrows, next-delay becomes important. I think this is sufficient reason not to give up any equipment or sockets to hit a x/2 Strafe.

And Buriza is an excellent Strafe weapon, freeing up your belt slot for something else than Razortail and saves you skill points from Pierce. Of course, because of the longer Strafe cycles, you need extra points in Avoid and (to a lesser degree) Dodge. WF is probably better, but Buriza is excellent, too.

 

[Boooyakasha]

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[Boooyakasha]

You spend 100% IAS to get to 9/2 where 2 out of 3 arrows will miss, while my plain Buriza at 14/4 will have 1 arrow miss out of every 3.

Theoritically if all the monsters line up nicely in one line, the first arrow will hit all the monsters but the 2nd and 3rd will miss out all the monsters. For a hybrid you will not have much monsters to Strafe after a few round of Fury, and the remaining one will have 2-3 arrows go through them and the Next-Delay will kick in.

The calculation above does not include the DEX bonus that come with the bows so I think Buriza will win in the damage apartment, while WF win in the speed field. But when Strafing less and less unit, more arrows hitting a target, Buriza will catch on with it because of it slowness and added cold damage

 

[Frenzied Bovine]

Alrighty then.. you use your Buriza.. i'll use my wf. Agreed?

 

[sir goatscelot]

Okie doh here we go again lol. Windforce in terms of raw dmg, and taking in to account the same set up, is the most dmging bow in the game bar none.., read that again lol. None, not botd, not upgraded buriza will out dmg it. Also, since bows cannot spawn ethereal, you get no dmg bonus. But if you want to do it anyway, go for it! Imho, stick with windforce

 

[iceball_aarf]

Just came here a second to say:
Don´t use a BoTD Hydra bow, use a BoTD Crusader Bow, same average dmg, same speed, smaller str req. ... didn´t bother to check if someone else said that