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Dragonknight bow build?

Sleeping_OwI
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I'm thinking of trying a pvE bow/bow build on my DK for fun, but I'm not sure on the exact setup.

1- Snipe or Stone giant as spammable?

2- What trait for front bar bow? Precise or Nirn?

3- And poison glyph due to DK passives, I assume?

4- For front bar, crown poison or just use the bow's own poison enchant?

5- Monster set or kilt or vateshran bow? Since with a DK I have to stay in melee anyway. But is the vateshran bow's dps worth ditching monster sets or the kilt?

6- Which skills on front bar? Acid spray worth slotting for add packs? Or maybe slot the whip and take advantage of its weapon damage passive?

7- Any sets particularly good for bow builds? Or just the usual meta sets?

Thanks for any comments and info :)
  • WrathOfInnos
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    Stone Giant for any group content, and I think whip beats snipe when solo. Precise, poison glyph, kilt. IMO Acid Spray is not worth it, Silver Shards is a decent ranged AoE spammable with better passives. Sets are pretty much the same as meta, just don't have access to some (like AY unless you farmed the bow several years ago before it was removed from the drop table).
  • SwoopIM
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    I am playing around with a DK bow build at the moment - for fun, overland content, not trials or parse optimized. Are you using Vateshran Point Blank bow? That would be great I think. Don't have it yet. I like Nirn for sheer damage personally but I'm using Thief mundus for crit boost along with passive boosts from flames of oblivion and barbed trap. Doing poison inject, acid spray, lethal arrow, molten whip, flames of oblivion, and flawless dawnbreaker on front bar and endless hail, barbed trap, molten arms, volatile armor, resolving vigor, and toxic barrage on back bar. Using Deadly, NMA and Slimecraw, mainly because I had it in the bank already. I like Deadly for the DK and layering DOTs. You could also use Swampraider, Briarheart, Tzovgins, and/or Relequins. Front Nirn/Poison and back Infused/Weapon Damage. Acid spray has been good for mobs. Stam Dk and bow is definitely an "interesting" departure from the old 2-hand builds for me. The setup is a bit... Hmmm.
  • Faulgor
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    My post from your other thread:
    Faulgor wrote: »
    Haven't rolled out my Bow DK in some time, mostly because he was perfect at the time and didn't warrant any changes, or so I thought lol.

    1) Lethal Arrow is a great spammable for Bow DKs, because it has a guaranteed poison proc to proc your Combustion passive.

    2) Depends a bit on your other setup, I'd say. The weapon damage from Nirnhoned is also buffed by your Minor Brutality, so especially solo that would be beneficial. In group setups with good Major Force uptime, Precise might be better.

    3+4) Don't people use poisons anymore? As said above, if you use Lethal Arrow, you'll have guaranteed poison proc anyway, so that's not a huge concern. But otherwise, yeah poison enchant.

    5) I use Vateshran but haven't tested all alternatives. It just seemed the logical choice because of the spammable and range I use it at.

    6) Depends on the content you run, Acid Spray is of course only useful for AoE, I wouldn't use it in a boss fight.

    7) I'm using Morag Tong and Defiler, which aren't meta in any sense. I just liked the theme and they are actually quite good. Other poison sets like Witch Knight or Swamp Raider might be worth considering too, outside of the meta that is.
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