A new appreciation for Faith

and a basic question..
if Faith ignores target defence, what's the point of attack rating bonus? isn't it attack rating / (attack rating+ defence rating) = x + (x + 0) = 1 regardless of the x value?

ganseng wrote: 2 weeks ago

and a basic question..
if Faith ignores target defence, what's the point of attack rating bonus? isn't it attack rating / (attack rating+ defence rating) = x + (x + 0) = 1 regardless of the x value?

ITD aint work on superuniqs (read bosses) at all

3 more points about the bows that haven't been discussed in detail..

1)

Hydra Bow is 26 points of strength over the

Grand Matron Bow, which is a wasted stat, and if you are not careful (like me), you won't be able to put on

Windforce and Fortitude simultaneously and witness ridiculous dmg become ludicrous.. unless you

Sacrifice one ring for high str or get some godly

Diadem and / or gloves with a ton of str..

2) while res is generally not a problem, instant Death to the souls in wsk is no fun.. so i normally wield Mist on lvl 2 & 3, and only switch to

Windforce before murdering

Baal

3)

Windforce's knockback is a great help against heralds, you generally can kill them even if valk sleeps on the job and doesn't tank for some reason.. against heralds every additional layer of safety is welcome

ganseng wrote: 2 weeks ago

btw, what's the best allround gloves for strafezon?

It depends. If you're using WF, 2/20/10 crafted

Blood Gloves with extra GG stats (like dex, life) are probably BIS. If you're using Faith and need the knockback, then 2/20 crafted

Hit Power Gloves with extra GG stats are probably BIS. If you don't care about knockback then it's same answer as for WF.

ganseng wrote: 2 weeks ago

Laying of Hands obviously against demons, but it's no good in the tombs or vs cows, and it's so annoying to switch (or worse forget to switch)
i use

Lava Gout recently, but a good pair of 2/20 would likely be better?

You should have enough AR either way if built correctly (at very least 10K) so there's little reason to go with

Lava Gout unless as prebuff for ubers or something.

Demon Limb would be more practical in that case.

Any decent (2/)20 IAS gloves (or even 3/20 magic gloves) will do.

Laying of Hands is good especially if you run a lot of Chaos like me. Apart from that, I think they're still good all-round gloves just for the 20 IAS and 50 fire res though.0

ganseng wrote: 2 weeks ago

and maybe counterintuitive, but isn't 2 to passive and magic better than 2 to bow &

Crossbow if i invested heavily into valk and all the passives are relatively low and would get ~one more percentage point per skill point?

Yes, physical bowazons actually benefit more from passive skills. Extra bow skills do little because that's not where the real damage is coming from while extra passive skills buff a wide range of (mostly defensive) stats that help keep your glass cannon alive and firing.

So when I said 2/20 or 3/20 gloves before, I meant + passive skills. Also don't misunderstand, bow skills are nice to have in the sense that you'd still put Faith in bow that has +3 bow skills, but you're probably not going to cry if it rolls +1skill 15fana though you might want to cry if it rolls +2skills 12fana.

ganseng wrote: 7 hours ago

1)

Hydra Bow is 26 points of strength over the

Grand Matron Bow, which is a wasted stat, and if you are not careful (like me), you won't be able to put on

Windforce and Fortitude simultaneously and witness ridiculous dmg become ludicrous.. unless you

Sacrifice one ring for high str or get some godly

Diadem and / or gloves with a ton of str..

Respec so you can switch between WF and Faith comfortably or pick one and respec to optimize only for those requirements.

ganseng wrote: 7 hours ago

2) while res is generally not a problem, instant Death to the souls in wsk is no fun.. so i normally wield Mist on lvl 2 & 3, and only switch to

Windforce before murdering

Baal

Decoys + recasting

Valkyrie + liberal use of off-screen 'detecting' and firing with

Strafe is what usually gets me through safely. Not as fast as I'd like though.

ganseng wrote: 7 hours ago

3)

Windforce's knockback is a great help against heralds, you generally can kill them even if valk sleeps on the job and doesn't tank for some reason.. against heralds every additional layer of safety is welcome

You can use

Giant Skull with Faith setup for cheap source of knockback before you waste a fortune trying craft GG

Hit Power Gloves.