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Perhaps the best advice I've ever received was from an old English teacher that once told me when revising poetry you find your favorite line in the poem and then scrap it. Then you will be ready to make the poem truly great.
There are actual psychological and pratical reasons as to why that advice, while seemingly counter intuitive at first, works in many different fields. So here I am looking at the Bowazon I'm to make (once my V/t is close to done) and am really examining Windforce, the gold standard.
The problems with WF are two fold 1) Slooww.... 2) Inconsistent damage which while not necessarily an issue when spraying a bunch of arrows, if you only get a couple shots could be an issue. I'd rather not rely on luck personally if I don't have to.
So I looked at some alternatives...Lycander's is going to face the same speed issues as WF and on top of that, the +skills it gives just won't make up for its relatively low damage. BotD....I'm not going to go there. To me a waste of a zod when it could be so much better served in a melee weapon or for a nice ethereal unique/rare I want to save and much of BotD seems better suited to a melee weapon anyways.
So then I came across the old WWS builds but I had issues with a few because the ones I saw were pretty much outdated for 1.10
So I'm going to go back and I'm going to attempt to revise this build a little and I'd appreciate help as I'm not working with a character editor to test it in single player and Im waffling between damage/IAS/resists and such.
WWS DB
Level 85 with quests:
Total Attribute Points: 435
Total Skill Points: 96
Str: 20+69=89
Dex: 25+286=311
Vit: 20+80=100
Energy: 15 (Base)
Magic Arrow: 1
Multi Shot: 1
Cold Arrow: 20
Ice Arrow: 1
Freezing Arrow: 20
Guided Arrow: 20
Inner Sight: 1
Slow Missile: 1
Decoy: 1
Valkyrie: 1
Dodge: 2
Avoid: 2
Evade: 3
Critical Strike: 1
Penetrate: 1
Pierce: 20
Helm: Shako (fervor jewel)
Armor: CoH (Duress before that)
Amulet: Crescent Moon (or crafted Blood Amulet)
Weapon: Upped WWS (shael/shael)
Belt: Verdungo
Gloves: Bloodfist (or crafted Blood gloves)
Ring: Ravenfrost
Ring: Dual leech/resists
Boots: Treks
Attack Speed: 9 frame breakpoint
Resists: about 35 in hell without the second ring and charms
Any fervor jewels would be replaced by an ed/ias one if I came across it. Obviously you could also hit faster breakpoints at the expense of life/resists/skills if you used a Cats Eye and a Mavs Helm/CoA with 2 fervor jewels and used a socketed armor with the same. Highlords isnt recommended as youre already batting with a good deadly strike from the bow.
One thing I would have to decide on is whether to go with the skill stats I posted above or kill the freezing arrow/cold arrow and suck it up against physical immunes to then up the avoid/dodge/evade instead. Valkyrie is under the same consideration as well.
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