So it's possible to get a +5 bow skills Matron bow

As shown in the image, I was wondering if it is possible to get a

Valkyrie's prefix and a cruelty suffix together, so it's a +5 bow skills +250% ED matron bow?

MichaelWolf wrote: 3 years ago

As shown in the image, I was wondering if it is possible to get a

Valkyrie's prefix and a cruelty suffix together, so it's a +5 bow skills +250% ED matron bow?

Wouldn't 250ED be cruel, which is another prefix?

bow builds don’t really benefit much from +bow skills

Bounder wrote: 3 years ago

MichaelWolf wrote: 3 years ago

As shown in the image, I was wondering if it is possible to get a

Valkyrie's prefix and a cruelty suffix together, so it's a +5 bow skills +250% ED matron bow?

Wouldn't 250ED be cruel, which is another prefix?

This.
The OP is incorrectly assuming that "damage = damage".
Max damage (as in the screenshot) and min damage are indeed suffixes and can hence appear along side +skills on a magic bow. %ED enhanced damage however, such as "Cruel", is a prefix and hence mutually exclusive with +skills on a magic bow. So no, there won't be a +5 skills/250ED magic bow.

Schnorki wrote: 3 years ago

Bounder wrote: 3 years ago

MichaelWolf wrote: 3 years ago

As shown in the image, I was wondering if it is possible to get a

Valkyrie's prefix and a cruelty suffix together, so it's a +5 bow skills +250% ED matron bow?

Wouldn't 250ED be cruel, which is another prefix?

This.
The OP is incorrectly assuming that "damage = damage".
Max damage (as in the screenshot) and min damage are indeed suffixes and can hence appear along side +skills on a magic bow. %ED enhanced damage however, such as "Cruel", is a prefix and hence mutually exclusive with +skills on a magic bow. So no, there won't be a +5 skills/250ED magic bow.

Thank you for the explanation.

weeezy wrote: 3 years ago

bow builds don’t really benefit much from +bow skills

True. Thank you for replying.

don't elem bowazons benefit a LOT from +skill? they are like casters but with attack speed instead of cast speed, from everything I read ? Frostmaiden's best weapon is Ice on a

Matriarchal Bow IIRC?

MichaelWolf wrote: 3 years ago

weeezy wrote: 3 years ago

bow builds don’t really benefit much from +bow skills

True. Thank you for replying.

This is not true.

Rare bows can have both as they can have up to 3 preffixes and 3 suffixes

geo89 wrote: 3 years ago

MichaelWolf wrote: 3 years ago

weeezy wrote: 3 years ago

bow builds don’t really benefit much from +bow skills

True. Thank you for replying.

This is not true.

Thank you for the input.

MichaelWolf wrote: 3 years ago

geo89 wrote: 3 years ago

MichaelWolf wrote: 3 years ago

True. Thank you for replying.

This is not true.

Thank you for the input.

It is true that physical bow builds don't benefit much from the + to bow skills but Ice bow builds definitely do, so there is a caveat there. However, the post was about a +2 to amazon skills with a +3 to bow skills, and a physical bow build might be better with the cruel prefix rather than the +2 to amazon skills whilst the Ice bow build BiS weapon is an Ice

Matriarchal Bow.

Astarafas wrote: 3 years ago

don't elem bowazons benefit a LOT from +skill? they are like casters but with attack speed instead of cast speed, from everything I read ? Frostmaiden's best weapon is Ice on a

Matriarchal Bow IIRC?

Yes, they do. But mathematically it's still better to have +25-30% cold dmg + 2/3 b&c skills from the bow than to have +5 skills total (even if you are running a dual elemental/any other hybrid build). That being said, for physical one

Windforce is much, much, much more effective in practice than any other +ED/+MinMax dmg could ever achieve. Alternative to that is Faith in GMB (depending on needs)...

cannot
but youcan get a +6 sk in Javelins