Answered Bowazon question - Corpse Quill

Hello!

I'm trying to figure out whether or not this thing is worth socketing and then dropping some jewels into?
Or will it get outclassed by loads of other things anyway?

Opinions very welcome!

Thanks.

One of my mains is a phy bowazon, I'm gonna tell you right now, don't do it. It has nice fire dmg, but once you're in Hell, at least 1/3 of all monsters will be immune to it. Once you're in hell, if you dont have any better, you can keep that bow as a Swap option for when you come across Phys immunes (If you aren't running elemental build). Although I have a

Windforce now, depending on your build, I recommend you buy either of these options:

Goldstrike Arch,

Demon Machine,

Buriza-Do Kyanon,

Lycander's Aim,

Witchwild String. Do your research into the stats of these bows and figure which might be best for you. If you are low on runes to buy them, some sellers will accept Pgems, so shop around.

Kosh_ch wrote: 3 years ago

If you have access to a

Sol and a

Ko rune, go for Harmony (rune word, 4os Bow).. you can buy them here in diablo2.io usually.

Yep, Harmony is awesome. I got one in an exceptional xbow (

Chu-Ko-Nu) and one in an elite bow, and I still use them both in Hell from time to time. They work well against Wraiths, which are sort of a bane for phys dmg characters. Harmony is quite possibly the best "cheap" bow RW that is actually Hell viable.

I used Harmony right up to

Windforce. Just upgraded bases as I went. Gives a good chunk of Ed, nice ele DMG and goddamn lvl 10

Vigor.

halflife wrote: 3 years ago

One of my mains is a phy bowazon, I'm gonna tell you right now, don't do it. It has nice fire dmg, but once you're in Hell, at least 1/3 of all monsters will be immune to it. Once you're in hell, if you dont have any better, you can keep that bow as a Swap option for when you come across Phys immunes (If you aren't running elemental build). Although I have a

Windforce now, depending on your build, I recommend you buy either of these options:

Goldstrike Arch,

Demon Machine,

Buriza-Do Kyanon,

Lycander's Aim,

Witchwild String. Do your research into the stats of these bows and figure which might be best for you. If you are low on runes to buy them, some sellers will accept Pgems, so shop around.

Thanks for this. I do actually have a

Demon Machine and a

Kuko Shakaku as well, which would you recommend out of these two?

DrGustav wrote: 3 years ago

halflife wrote: 3 years ago

One of my mains is a phy bowazon, I'm gonna tell you right now, don't do it. It has nice fire dmg, but once you're in Hell, at least 1/3 of all monsters will be immune to it. Once you're in hell, if you dont have any better, you can keep that bow as a Swap option for when you come across Phys immunes (If you aren't running elemental build). Although I have a

Windforce now, depending on your build, I recommend you buy either of these options:

Goldstrike Arch,

Demon Machine,

Buriza-Do Kyanon,

Lycander's Aim,

Witchwild String. Do your research into the stats of these bows and figure which might be best for you. If you are low on runes to buy them, some sellers will accept Pgems, so shop around.

Thanks for this. I do actually have a

Demon Machine and a

Kuko Shakaku as well, which would you recommend out of these two?

Demon Machine is the stronger one of the two. One way you can make it Hell viable is to use it with either Lionheart or better yet, Duress runeword armor so you get better ED%. I currently alternate between Harmony or

Demon Machine in Hell depending on whether the mobs I face will be fire immune or not. I also use a Buriza and a

Hellrack with Shaels x2, mainly experimenting with which weapons are best to deal with phys immunes. Highly recommend you get a

Windforce though, it is considered endgame, especially with Fortitude armor. Faith is the true endgame bow however.

I made a tier list for bows.
maybe it helps.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

You can socket a

Blade Bow using

Ral +

Amn +

Perfect Amethyst. Half the time that will get it 4 sockets (weapons of that item level can go up to 6 sockets, and a

Blade Bow caps at 4, so on a 1/2/3 make another RW but on 4/5/6 you get 4 for Harmony). I like it because it's very fast attack and not too much strength required. Plus, I can give it to a level 45 merc that accompanies my melee types too.

Vigor aura is sweet on Harmony, and 3 types of elemental damage are applied quickly with the rapid attack of the base bow (in addition to triple the base damage (since it has a minimum of +200%ED)).

Kosh_ch wrote: 3 years ago

I made a tier list for bows.
maybe it helps.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

You have a nice tier ranking of those bows, but I disagree on Kuko being so low on the tiers. In terms of endgame/higher level needs, it definitely drops off and you don't want to be using it past NM, but for it's level it's the best unique bow hands down. NM is a breeze using Kuko in my experience. Also, the xbows aren't bad either, at least a couple of them. Buriza and DM are useful to a degree, at the very least if one can't get the regular bows, plus xbows are cheaper because they aren't as much in higher demand amongst the playerbase. The small quiver size of

Bolts are annoying though, at 250 ammo vs.

Arrows of 350. Pros and Cons I suppose.