Thank you, @Maulkin! I knew there was a reason why I hung onto my Viper gear. I’ll give the 5 Viper / 5 BP / 2 VS setup a try. I’m assuming all impen? Or is a mix of impen small pieces/infused big pieces (with tri-stat glyphs) preferable? My magicka pool for streak/crit surge is super low ATM (still need to grind out Undaunted on this character, ugh), so tri-stats would help with that.
Also, what are your thoughts on using Endless Hail/Arrow Barrage for applying pressure at, say, flag capture points? I have a vMA bow that’s not seeing any use on my other characters, which seems a shame.
Thank you, @Maulkin! I knew there was a reason why I hung onto my Viper gear. I’ll give the 5 Viper / 5 BP / 2 VS setup a try. I’m assuming all impen? Or is a mix of impen small pieces/infused big pieces (with tri-stat glyphs) preferable? My magicka pool for streak/crit surge is super low ATM (still need to grind out Undaunted on this character, ugh), so tri-stats would help with that.
Also, what are your thoughts on using Endless Hail/Arrow Barrage for applying pressure at, say, flag capture points? I have a vMA bow that’s not seeing any use on my other characters, which seems a shame.
I run all impen with tri-stat on the big pieces. Your magicka pool will be low, but that's unavoidable unless you go for Shacklebreaker body, which is actually what many heavy builds do. Basically you get a choice between Bone Pirate and Shackle for the permanent 5-p buff. If you go for BP, you can use one magicka regen glyph to help you with the sustain.
I don't like Endless Hail at all for PvP to be honest. Nor do I think you have space for it. You need a hard CC which is what Draining Shot is. And you need your Poison Injection DoT to push single target skills. Your AoE Damage can come from Hurricane, DBoS and (potentially) Steel Tornado.
vMA is best weapon ever for PvE but complete pooh for PvP. Skip it. Do you have a Master's Bow? It works great with that build since you only need viper on the DW bar.
@Sixty5
Ravager or Steel Tornado. Pick one, not both. Ravager has extremely low proc chance (8%) unless you land multiple melee attacks. Works well with Jabs or Flurry. Without them it's kind of a wasted set imo. Hence I recommended Viper which will allow the OP to experiment with Steel Tornado and Bloodthrist without having to change the gear.
One word of general advice. I generally recommend people new to BGs or new to a class, to lean more towards survivability than all out damage at the start. Until they get the hang of the class. Erroring on the side of caution if you will.
So I generally recommend people that want to play dw/bow Sorc to start by incorporating troll king, draining shot, blood craze and bloodthirsty, basically heals and CC, to help you disengage and recover from tricky situations which are very frequent in no-CP content.
Once you get the hang of it, you can build for more aggression.
Thank you, @Maulkin! I knew there was a reason why I hung onto my Viper gear. I’ll give the 5 Viper / 5 BP / 2 VS setup a try. I’m assuming all impen? Or is a mix of impen small pieces/infused big pieces (with tri-stat glyphs) preferable? My magicka pool for streak/crit surge is super low ATM (still need to grind out Undaunted on this character, ugh), so tri-stats would help with that.
Also, what are your thoughts on using Endless Hail/Arrow Barrage for applying pressure at, say, flag capture points? I have a vMA bow that’s not seeing any use on my other characters, which seems a shame.
@Sixty5
Ravager or Steel Tornado. Pick one, not both. Ravager has extremely low proc chance (8%) unless you land multiple melee attacks. Works well with Jabs or Flurry. Without them it's kind of a wasted set imo. Hence I recommended Viper which will allow the OP to experiment with Steel Tornado and Bloodthrist without having to change the gear.