So what bow build are you playing in Bows of Exile next ladder?

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Gotta say, pretty much spot-on. Except Bladefall mines/traps are still gonna be there too.



Back to my Prismfall trapper it is.



Hell, even Reach didn't get nerfed that hard (while voidheart got crushed), I could probably go back to that just fine (seriously, still a 290 pdps bow with free global GMP? What a love-tap).

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1707517

Top Primary Skills for Characters Over Level 60
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Hardly overwhelmingly bow heavy, and bow skills got something of a nerf with Frost Wall being fixed.

Try harder trolling maybe?

Point blank chin sol poison RoA trapper obviously. Racking up them more multipliers and double dipsies.

Using a bow to trap counts right?

Peace,

-Boem-

Inquisitor Phys Scaling Tornado Shot with Full Conversion (Signal Fire).
Maybe start as Doomfletcher and then convert to Harbinger + Signal Fire a bit later or something.

15 grand spectrum CI Prolif Voltaxic with skyforths sounds fun.

I'm hoping one of the new unannounced uniques is a quiver that holds actual bows. Players will be able to load up the quiver with bows of their choice, and your bow skill gems will shoot bows at the monsters, which then fire off whatever skill gems you socketed into them before putting them in the quiver.

These new projectile bows will automatically animate ranged weapons that they fly over, which will then automatically drop into your bow quiver of bows to be reused as ammunition upon expiration.

This will pair well with the new Slivertongue bow and Powerful Precision, as your result will be a bow that fires bows that fire projectiles (that are bows) which animate other bows, all of which are always critting, forking, chaining, bleeding, poisoning, shocking, freezing, igniting, returning, critting again, doing all the other things again, until they turn your character model into Lioneye's Glare and the game tells you you've won, then proceeds to uninstall itself.

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Boem a écrit :

Point blank chin sol poison RoA trapper obviously. Racking up them more multipliers and double dipsies.

Using a bow to trap counts right?

Peace,

-Boem-

Worked for me, I used RotC with poison barrage mines to 1-combo max key uber izaro. With the slap on the wrist Reach got, I can probably still do it next league too.



Also, screw Chin Sol. Doomfletch's all the way.

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Dethklok a écrit :

15 grand spectrum CI Prolif Voltaxic with skyforths sounds fun.

kind of impossible since some jewels u will use Energy from within instead of grand spectrum, or your Energy shield gonna suck.

Rory never would allow any bow build be nerfed and any unique item which is used in bow builds to be ajusted too hard.

Reach of the Council is still a 300pdps bow with free GMP (=25% more damage = 375pdps effectivly with an extra support gem which means +30% more damage = 487.5dps effectivly). The bow is somewhat easy to obtain to and outclasses 90% of crafted rare bows out there in a challenge league.

If you are a bow build in 2.4 you have 2 options:
- get a Reach of the Council if you wanna play LA/TS or any other skill you want GMP for
- get Slither Tongue if you wanna try some fancy Split Arrow/Poison Barrage (single target) build
- if you want to go full elemental Inquisitor/Chieftain --> convert 100% to elemental and use RotC

Very diverse Bow-meta i would say *sarcasm* (ok, it is 100% more diverse than it was in Prophecy :D)


To nerf bow builds GGG would have to nerf bow nodes on the tree, especially bow crit notables - but this will never happen as long as someone bias like Rory is somewhat responsible for balancing the skilltree. Bow cirt nodes are currently the same effectivness as dagger crit nodes (can someone explain the logic behind that?)


TLDR: calling out Rory here for beeing bias towards bow builds and balance regarding that topic - come on throw hate comments at me if you disagree :).