BOW AMA - non ladder. advice need

Hi create my sec char in ressurected. I make Bowazon. Any advices after 2,4 ?
Any advices about gear ? For now i planned and collect WF ,Fortiutude.
Any advices would be great.
Now im 38lvl.

Unless you already have gg endgame gear for a physical bowazon ( Strafe / multi / Magic Arrow), I’d recommend maxing Freezing Arrow and its damage synergy. Its damage has always been high due to piercing splash damage being generally a powerful mechanic, but now the (much lower) new mana costs really make it shine. Or go hybrid and have Thunderstroke on switch for Charged Strike vs bosses and immunes. CS wrecks bosses, which is bowazons only weakness.

moonlit wrote: 4 years ago

Unless you already have gg endgame gear for a physical bowazon ( Strafe / multi / Magic Arrow), I’d recommend maxing Freezing Arrow and its damage synergy. Its damage has always been high due to piercing splash damage being generally a powerful mechanic, but now the (much lower) new mana costs really make it shine. Or go hybrid and have Thunderstroke on switch for Charged Strike vs bosses and immunes. CS wrecks bosses, which is bowazons only weakness.

thx for answer. Meaby im precission. I ask about conception and gear mostly and build. But most important are conceptions speeking over 80lvl.
Im thinking aobut making this way:
Strafe, guided a , multi shot,
in passives i have problem dont know how spend points.
critic , Valkyrie but what about rest how many points add to rest passives:

aaabbbccc666 wrote: 4 years ago

moonlit wrote: 4 years ago

Unless you already have gg endgame gear for a physical bowazon ( Strafe / multi / Magic Arrow), I’d recommend maxing Freezing Arrow and its damage synergy. Its damage has always been high due to piercing splash damage being generally a powerful mechanic, but now the (much lower) new mana costs really make it shine. Or go hybrid and have Thunderstroke on switch for Charged Strike vs bosses and immunes. CS wrecks bosses, which is bowazons only weakness.

thx for answer. Meaby im precission. I ask about conception and gear mostly and build. But most important are conceptions speeking over 80lvl.
Im thinking aobut making this way:
Strafe, guided a , multi shot,
in passives i have problem dont know how spend points.
critic , Valkyrie but what about rest how many points add to rest passives:

Since passives got major buffs in 2.4 I’d just put one hard point in each, and then see what you need later. Keep in mind Penetrate is less necessary now that all the bow skill AR bugs were fixed.

For Valkyrie, either put a single point, or put enough points to reach lvl 17 valk with gear bonuses. At 17+ the valk gets a War Pike. Previously, valk cast delay was so bad that Decoy was objectively better for endgame, but now you can just spam both Decoy and valk…good times.

Keep in mind physical bowazons don’t benefit a ton from skill levels, which is why I highly recommend sprinkling in some elemental damage for a much smoother and consistent play style.

Personally the only passive I boost now in my hybrid builds, is Critical Strike. I wear Highlords too, and the result is very consistent mana leech and life leech, which means you can play hyper aggressively and run into amazing positions without worrying about it.

If you’re not worried about Critical Strike, Dodge is probably the best alternative to pump, since it’s nice to be able to sit there again spamming AoE damage while you safely leech, and the vast majority of non-trivial enemy attacks are melee.

Start with full M'avinas. Cheap set, solid performance.

Max out Frozen arrow, Guided Arrow, and your choice of straft or Multishot (straft is my pick).

Keep an Atmas Scarab amulet in your inventory to swap in areas with lots of cold immunes or Cold/Physical immune, the Amplify Damage Procs help a lot.

Have a high damage bow on Swap, like Windforce for Cold immunes / Physical immunes (to buff Magic / Cold Arrow damage).

Don't sleep on Ice Arrow/ Fire Arrow/ Magic Arrow, they help out a lot on Cold/Physical Immunes if you don't want to skip them. Even if you go all physical, I recommend putting points in one of these for that purpose.

Guided Arrow can be used for bosses before your straft Attack Rating is high enough. With crushing blow from Gore Riders / Goblin Toe you can kill them without much difficulty.

Try the WWS build