Stam-Perial-DK. (PvP)

Bow is buff bar for me. (poison injec/shuffle/flappy flappy/bombard/vigor ult: corrosive armor/Meteor/standard)
2H bar is main bar (crit R/Wb/Exec/fossizile or igneous shields/rally, ult: leap or DB of smiting)

SanSan wrote: »

I'm planning to make a Bow/2h NB build. (maybe dk)
Bow being my dps bar and 2h my buffs with brawler. Is anyone running a similar set and having problems? With stamina imperial of course.

That is very viable as a build.

TitanJeff wrote: »

I'm a Bosmer bow/2H now. I started DW but switched to 2H once I hit level 45 because of Brawler.

I added the bow at 15. It felt really ineffective early on. But, if you stick with it, you'll enjoy it once you open up more skills.

What class are you? Are you doing good damage?

EsoRecon wrote: »

Bow and 2h is a very popular setup and is what I always run. The mobility that bow provides is just too good to not have to me.

Yeah i agree but i'm just concerned about bow being my primary. I researched about builds and everyone is saying stay away from primary bow.

TitanJeff wrote: »

SanSan wrote: »

What class are you? Are you doing good damage?

Stamina Nightblade.

I'm unable to log on right now for specific damage info but the bow starts out pretty weak, IMO. I would use it from a distance, get in what I could, then switch to DW. Once I got to higher levels, and opened up some of the higher bow skills, I was able to do much more damage in PvE and often didn't have to switch to DW.

Bombard is just amazing when fighting mobs. Against a boss, not so much. Poison Arrow is good. Snipe is a game-changer.

I'll be glad to share my setup in more detail once I can log on.

Bottom line for me is that I like using the bow. It's why I went Bosmer. If you enjoy it, go with it and explore playing around with various skill combinations.

That sounds really reassuring. I was hoping to use the mass hysteria and shade combo with bow. I'll start it and see how it goes then. Thanks

My stamina templar uses 2h and bow.

Bow is for buff, aoe and dot setup.
2h is for main and boss.

Works well.

I been working a bow/2h build with bow being primary and it has worked out very well. I'm a bosmer NB, bow bar is Ambush, surprise attack, poison injection, camo hunter, draining shot with flawless Ult. 2h bar is cloak(crit morph), rapids, vigor, rally, relentless focus, shooting star Ult.

My gear is 5 hundings/ 5 marksman, molag kena shoulders. I don't quite remember my weapon damage on bow but I believe it's about 3500-3800 buffed. My stam regen is like right under 2k. I have almost 33k stam, and CP's are spread into mighty, precise and the armor decrease.

I've enjoyed very good results with this build. If running with a zerg, draining shot can be replaced with bombard, and rapids can be replaced with caltrops. Also if you already have a high crit, you can put shuffle in place of camo hunter. Some people ask me why no fear on my bar? I tried this in the beginning, but with blue food my magicka was just under 10k and it was unreliable when I needed it. I found draining shot was better for the resources along with the synergy of knocking them back and I instantly Ambush/ surprise attack to them. Poison injection hits like a truck too and most people while in the fight fail to notice the 5k+ poison ticks creeping on them. And it hits while roll dodging. With the upcoming changes to draining shot popping a heal when disorient ends, this gives you another spot heal option. Hope you enjoy!

Edit: when I get home, I'll try to post a screenshot of the buffed unbuffed stats.

Honestly I love bow but it really lacks in the dps. I've tested 2H, DW, S&B and bow, bow is last in dps for crit and base damage. Poison injection is nice, magnum shot is good to create space and snipe hits super hard. For me though I'll stick with 2h for my dps bar and s&b for my buff/defense bar.

*Note- I did not take the poison injection dots or any other dot for that matter into consideration when doing the test.

I'm playing Stam Sorc using 2H and Bow. These are my solo builds. Gear is focused on crit chance and Weapon damage and stamina regen. The only thing usually change is what food/drink I'm using.

For longer sustained fights i go for regen food, for better resource management, and to be able to spam skills.
When playing more easy content, i usually go for higher Health/Stamina food to take out smaller groups a bit faster.

2H bar. If you sacrifice some DPS for Stamina regen (2000+) you can pretty much spam brawler to solo group dungeons. Currently I'm Critting around 6300 on regular light attacks. 48K damange + around 20k splash damange on heavy attack sneak attacks. Very fun

Thundering Presence - for a bit of area dmg and resists.
Streak as a gap closer/escape/stun (utility)
Brawler
Critical Surge
Bound armor/Evil hunter
Flawless Dawnbreaker

Bow bar 1. Mosly using in puplic dungeons or group dungeons for massive AOE, to take out big groups of enemies fast. With 20K+ health and 2000+ Stamina regen you can pretty much stay stationary and spam bombard, to stay alive. With high crit chance and critical surge, you will outheal most incoming damage, and survive a few hard hits. Bombard usually critting for 8-9K per hit.

Arrow Barrage
Streak - for escape
Bombard - For aoe / immobalize
Critical Surge
Evil Hunter
Charged Ataronach/Flawless dawnbreaker

Bow bar 2. a very specialized bar for kite/soloing bosses only. Focus is mobility, staying out of range and interrups.

Magnum shot - To keep distance
Streak - for distance when there's no room backwards / escape
Venom arrow - for interrupts / dot.
Critical surge
Evil Hunter/Elude depending on situation
Charged Ataronach/Flawless dawnbreaker

Sometimes i go Bow/Bow or 2H/Bow depending on where I'm hunting.

kylewwefan wrote: »

In PvE, wrecking blow has a good feel when you hit something with it. But it's kind of slow. You can double the damage with surprise attack/light attack weave. You can do way more damage setting up DoT's which I think is your intention.

Caltrops, scorched earth, switch bar, rending slashes, surprise attack, light attack, rinse repeat. It doesn't "feel" real good like one super strong wound up wrecking blow, but the added up damage will be an incredible help to dungeon run groups.

With a reapers mark, from hidden, I snipe focused aim 20k+
It hits nasty hard, but is kind of slow. Makes for a great battle opening.

For an alternate opener/insanely fast kill try this...
1. Acquire Nightmothers gaze 5 pc set bonus.
2. Use shadowy disguise
3. Use focused aim
4. Use ambush
5. Use suprise attack
You can do all of that fairly quickly and in most cases before the target realizes what is happening.
The reason this is so strong is because of all the resistance the target loses combined with the strong damage output.
With the guaranteed crit from shadowy disguise procing NMG bonus combined with major and minor fracture from FA and SA youre looking at ~10,000 physical resistance debuffed. Plus your initial damage is a snipe (with crit damage) followed by ambush (which closes the gap) and an empowered Suprise Attack (because of Ambush). So youre looking at easily upwards of 20k damage (after battle spirit takes effect) from the first 3 attacks. Now that they are missing a good chunk of health and missing 1/3 of their resistance (if they are capped) you can follow up with whatever you want... (Execute if in execute range)/mass hysteria for more free damage (if needed(/incapacitating strike (to further increase your damage on top of another big hit) etc...