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accessably geared decently performing pve stamblade bow build
dangutang
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Partially for funsies, and partially because lag, mechanics, and visual clutter mucks up my melee rotation, I wanted to try a bow build. I've seen a few around the forums, always using trials gear which just stinks to farm. With this, I'm able to easily sustain 30k dps on a 3 mil practice dummy with purple gear, gold weapons, mostly purple enchants, and no potions (not even trash pots...which you should obviously at least be using; I just like the extra room for error and the opportunity to fantasize about how much better it'd be if I was really trying). Just wanted to post it and see if anyone has any feedback or pointers.
Gear:
Monster set: stormfist (heavy head, medium shoulders)
Body/jewelry: 3 pc hundings and 2 pc spriggans on body, all medium; all robust spriggans jewelry
Weapons: front bar hundings bow, back bar maelstrom bow (not that easily accessable, but in my tests I don't lose much dps using hundings on back bar as well)
Traits/enchants:
Armor: all divines (lover mundus), 6 stam and 1 health on chest
Jewelry: 1 stam recovery, 2 weapon damage
Weapons: frontbar infused with weapon damage enchant; backbar nirnhoned with poison enchant (also tried infused with stam regen; enables me to run a 3rd jewelry damage enchant,
with comparable dps results)
Skills:
Front bar: focused aim, acid spray, relentless focus, channeled acceleration, flexspot (expert hunter for no pots, otherwise vigor or w/e else you might want); flawless dawnbreaker
Back bar: endless hail, caltrops, poison injection, leeching strikes, flexspot (expert hunter for no pots, piercing mark for dummy tests); ballista
Rotation:
Channeled acceleration, relentless focus, leeching strikes, piercing mark; endless hail, caltrops, poison injection; weave focused aim and hit relentless focus when it's up and maintain buffs
CP:
Same as for my melee build, which is fairly similar to alcast's, with some extra into penetration star to hit 9-10k. Sitting at 666 CP currently.
Food/drink:
Dubious camoran throne
My questions:
Nirnhoned or infused for front bar bow? My reasoning is that infused gives you nearly 100% uptime on 452 weapon damage that applies to both bars, whereas nirnhoned gives 200 for
frontbar only and relegates the weapon damage enchant to 348 every 5 seconds on a 10 second cooldown.
Other monster sets? I've tried 1 pc veli + 1 pc kena, and I seem to do better with 2 pc stormfist. I'm planning on trying balorghs. Seems like it might make for good burst and a sort of
pseudo-execute.
Other sets? I've thought about using swamp raider with lethal arrow morph. Also wanting to test morag tong. Would be nice to have something with a 5 pc bonus that persists for several
seconds and could apply to backbar as well. Tried gryphon's, but I honestly don't know what I would replace channeled acceleration with. Might try briarheart, although it seems the uptime
would stink (currently have 66% crit chance).
Rotation/skill tips? I double cast endless hail and caltrops and try to light attack into all other skills and bar swaps. I've tried crushing weapon but the sustain and damage is worse (might
be a l2p issue; i feel like it should get better damage and allows for more relentless procs, but in actual play I can usually only manage 1-2 per cast anyway).
Gear:
Monster set: stormfist (heavy head, medium shoulders)
Body/jewelry: 3 pc hundings and 2 pc spriggans on body, all medium; all robust spriggans jewelry
Weapons: front bar hundings bow, back bar maelstrom bow (not that easily accessable, but in my tests I don't lose much dps using hundings on back bar as well)
Traits/enchants:
Armor: all divines (lover mundus), 6 stam and 1 health on chest
Jewelry: 1 stam recovery, 2 weapon damage
Weapons: frontbar infused with weapon damage enchant; backbar nirnhoned with poison enchant (also tried infused with stam regen; enables me to run a 3rd jewelry damage enchant,
with comparable dps results)
Skills:
Front bar: focused aim, acid spray, relentless focus, channeled acceleration, flexspot (expert hunter for no pots, otherwise vigor or w/e else you might want); flawless dawnbreaker
Back bar: endless hail, caltrops, poison injection, leeching strikes, flexspot (expert hunter for no pots, piercing mark for dummy tests); ballista
Rotation:
Channeled acceleration, relentless focus, leeching strikes, piercing mark; endless hail, caltrops, poison injection; weave focused aim and hit relentless focus when it's up and maintain buffs
CP:
Same as for my melee build, which is fairly similar to alcast's, with some extra into penetration star to hit 9-10k. Sitting at 666 CP currently.
Food/drink:
Dubious camoran throne
My questions:
Nirnhoned or infused for front bar bow? My reasoning is that infused gives you nearly 100% uptime on 452 weapon damage that applies to both bars, whereas nirnhoned gives 200 for
frontbar only and relegates the weapon damage enchant to 348 every 5 seconds on a 10 second cooldown.
Other monster sets? I've tried 1 pc veli + 1 pc kena, and I seem to do better with 2 pc stormfist. I'm planning on trying balorghs. Seems like it might make for good burst and a sort of
pseudo-execute.
Other sets? I've thought about using swamp raider with lethal arrow morph. Also wanting to test morag tong. Would be nice to have something with a 5 pc bonus that persists for several
seconds and could apply to backbar as well. Tried gryphon's, but I honestly don't know what I would replace channeled acceleration with. Might try briarheart, although it seems the uptime
would stink (currently have 66% crit chance).
Rotation/skill tips? I double cast endless hail and caltrops and try to light attack into all other skills and bar swaps. I've tried crushing weapon but the sustain and damage is worse (might
be a l2p issue; i feel like it should get better damage and allows for more relentless procs, but in actual play I can usually only manage 1-2 per cast anyway).
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