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Poison/Disease-Themed Necromancer Combat Archer (Plague Slinger, Pestilent Host, and Vateshran Bow)
I have been thinking of ways to try to make the Vateshran bow useful, so I came up with this fun thematic build that performs decently in content like VMA.
Setup:
- Equip 5 Plague Slinger
- Equip 5 Pestilent Host
- Equip 2 Vateshran Bow (Point Blank Snipe)
- Style your character with disease-themed armor (especially the Velidreth style bow with it's pestilent cloud look)
Gameplay:
- Cast Beckoning Armor (the Necro armor skill that pulls ranged enemies in close)
- The pulled enemy gets hammered with poison balls from the skeever corpse of Plague Slinger
- You unleash a short-ranged Lethal Arrow (poison morph of Snipe) that always applies the poisoned status effect (important to proc Pestilent Host) and you also get that sweet 33% more damage on snipe from the Vateshran Bow
- The enemy dies while poisoned and Pestilent Host procs and travels to another enemy who is already near you or has been pulled in by your Beckoning Armor
- Rinse and Repeat
All three sets work well with the Necromancer skill Beckoning Armor because it pulls enemies in close where each set has a chance to shine. The build has a unique playstyle -- a combat archer -- and it looks awesome, especially with the Velidreth style bow among all of the poison/disease sounds and visuals, corpses, and fetcherflies.