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The new short bow says 50% less weapon damage...since the only weapon damage you're doing with a bow consists of projectiles, I'd assume it is essentially a 50% projectile damage reduction, meaning Elemental Hit isn't going to be as potent as you guys are thinking. At least, that's the way I read it - correct me if I'm wrong!

Explosive Arrow on the other hand... >:) Also could be very good on Blood Magic marauders using their bow for life gain on hit (lighting arrow + greater multiple + life gain + pierce). Could probably heal yourself faster than mobs could kill you, assuming there were enough of them to leech off of.

you could also poison arrow with culling strike. life gain on hit only works on the literal hit, not the explosion btw. the reason elemental hit, is because that'll keep scaling while your physical barely does.

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soul4hdwn wrote:

you could also poison arrow with culling strike. life gain on hit only works on the literal hit, not the explosion btw. the reason elemental hit, is because that'll keep scaling while your physical barely does.

Elemental hit is affected by projectile damage if it's a projectile attack. I didn't say anything about life gain on hit + explosive arrow :p

Also, does the culling strike effect work with poison arrow's poison cloud or only the initial hit?

my Explosiv Arrow WItch with this bow is already lvl 24 and right now all dies easily :D

And is much fun with so many attack speed.

What is "extra gore"?

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MonopolyLegend wrote:

The new short bow says 50% less weapon damage...since the only weapon damage you're doing with a bow consists of projectiles, I'd assume it is essentially a 50% projectile damage reduction, meaning Elemental Hit isn't going to be as potent as you guys are thinking. At least, that's the way I read it - correct me if I'm wrong!

Explosive Arrow on the other hand... >:) Also could be very good on Blood Magic marauders using their bow for life gain on hit (lighting arrow + greater multiple + life gain + pierce). Could probably heal yourself faster than mobs could kill you, assuming there were enough of them to leech off of.

It's still easily the best available bow for Elemental Hit. 50% Reduced Damage is additive to your existing bonuses and easily offset by Increased Projectile Damage or Increased Weapon Elemental Damage from passives and other items. The 100% increased attack speed, however, is miles beyond the bonuses that you can get from any passive or item mod.

(It also has the side effect of making further Increased Attack Speed from other sources considerably less useful)

It's not 50% Reduced Damage. It's 50% Less Damage. That's multiplicative. Every single Attack skill will do 50% less, all bonus damage from gear and passives will do 50% less.

The Poison Arrow DoT clouds and Explosive Arrow AoE, however, would not be reduced.

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malitre wrote:

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found a better one

Ewww I'm not liking Brightbeak. At the least it could have been given all resistances I instead of just 2.
I hope it gets buffed.

there's at least a good 5-7 uniques that I think are real trash.

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Xapti wrote:

Ewww I'm not liking Brightbeak. At the least it could have been given all resistances I instead of just 2.
I hope it gets buffed.

there's at least a good 5-7 uniques that I think are real trash.

Not all of the uniques can be 'awesome'. That is not their purpose, as I'm sure you're well aware. Some will be rarer than others; some will enable builds, some just do funny things. The rate at which GGG needs to fill that unique roster is going to result in some relatively 'mediocre' uniques.

Diamond uniques still should be the 'standout' uniques overall, as well. They're where the really crazy, outlandish ideas come into play.

Finally, rares are still supposed to be the most powerful items. That was GGG's stance then, it's their stance now. Unique items have no onus to be 'powerful'; they simply do things rares can't.

I challenge you to name any ARPG where all the uniques were as awesome as each other, or even an ARPG that didn't have some 'trash' uniques.