Bow sorcerer, its viable at vr levels/pvp?

kellemdros

as tittle said XD

Dekkameron

Yup, but make sure you have the Arrow spray morph "bombard" (roots enemies) you can just spam away

kellemdros

Any other advice someone? XD

Danarchist

I honestly did not know there was a rooting morph for that, i need to start using it i guess ><

Bow would work fine for you but it is going to force you to split between magika and stamina without the synergies (i think i need to slap myself for using that word....ouch!) you'll get by using melee or staff. Basically look at the sorc abilities and you will see there are some great melee stuff like lightning form etc that just do not work as well with bow.

Bow also gets allot of its late game power from alpha damage out of stealth which will require 5 piece medium armor to get the best value out of.

Also bear in mind that the real boom boom of a sorc is their powerful AOE which, with a couple exceptions, is either PBAOE or cone based. Meaning you will need to be up close to use it. I am no professional, but when I started my sorc I started with bow and my power gamer buddy (actually has one vr10 and a SECOND vr4 already ><) edumicated me before I got too heavily invested in it.

That being said, I could see a bow/daedric pet build being pretty good with resto staff secondary for healing yourself and your pets. You could stand back and use your stamina pool for damage while maintaining 30% of your mana bar for 2pets+armor. Good for soloing maybe

kellemdros

Hmm... thanks, im thinking in reroll then to another class... really dont like the sorcerer as a classic mage in this game so...
For archer then i guess that is NB, with all his bugs.....

Lynx7386

Archer works well with any class, but from my experience bowplars synergize best with it. Templar with a bow, aurora javelin, and some self heals.

Tadhg_Longhouse

If you focus on stamina and just use a couple of sorc skills to assist it I can see it working. Surge should increase bow damage. Encase can root and snare multiple enemies. Bolt escape could be used to keep at range but you might lack the magicka to utilise it often. Wear med armor for stam regen and crit chance.

You could go for a 'hunter' type class too and just use summons and your bow. Not good for pvp I wouldn't think though.

Krovax

I used to play Bowplar up until VR1. Bowplar is awesome vs single target mobs, but those are rare and, if heroic, sometimes are immune to CC, too. But against the standard group of three mobs utterly useless or extremely kite intensive. I switched to sword and shield now and I can do pulls of three and four again, against which I stood no chance with bow starting VR1.

This is my general opinion on bows in VR. If you manage to synergize bow ae with your own stuff that might work, but I really didn't like the bow AE and found the overall DPS of bow lacking, too.

Anyways, I respecced 163 skill points yesterday and not one went into bow again.

cisadanepajsuxrwb17_ESO

The problem with bows i think is the fact that it has an ungodly longwinded animation even for the light attack and its damage is so bad compared to all other weapons. To top it off, none of the bowskills are hard hitting, so i'll stick to bow for pvp (vr3 atm). And this is coming from a sorc who lvled his way up to 50 exclusively on bow and clannfear

Bhakura

cisadanepajsuxrwb17_ESO wrote: »

The problem with bows i think is the fact that it has an ungodly longwinded animation even for the light attack and its damage is so bad compared to all other weapons. To top it off, none of the bowskills are hard hitting, so i'll stick to bow for pvp (vr3 atm). And this is coming from a sorc who lvled his way up to 50 exclusively on bow and clannfear

Cant wait for poisons in this game and make some stun/ravage health/ravage stamina and shoot that stuff around.

Artemiisia

got restro staff and destruction staff both at lvl 50

now I put bow into my skill bar everytime I turn in a quest just to start leveling that to lvl 50 also for future fun.

this thread and some of the answered in it, really shows me its the right 3rd weapon Im leveling

kellemdros

so... good for leveling bad for dps ok xD

RianaTheBosmer

I use it, but my bowsorc is only level 12 but he seems to be doing fine. I must admit though that I use more magicka and the stamina use comes from silver bolt and poison arrow which is the only two stamina uses I have. On the other hand, I have a destro fire staff wielding DK and I'm loving her. She uses a lot of Ardent Flame and wears Ashen's grip armor. Works so well, major dps.