SliverTongue Unique Is Poorly Made, Heres Why
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Nice, another crap unique to vendor. Always happy to see this kind of unique "upgrade" the loot tables. I hope there is more to see. The hype is REAL.
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So the bow seems not as powerful as RotC, which is a good thing (we do have some threads going on how OP RotC is - cannot blame GGG for taking this into consideration, can we? :)). Another good thing is that there's already discussion about it and people having plans to use it differently.
Also, it was stated that rares will be made great again. So we can't have 1 bow again that makes 99% of the crafted not worth it. I'm thinking it will be a good pack clearer at decent price. Any player going for the final boss will farm Hydra, which from what it looks like is much less gated than the Pale Council. Funky bow for the masses, elites will have better.
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And it doesn't even 10% fear. #Boem
Did you try turning it off and on again?
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Please drop any new league trash vendor unique items in the box marked treasure on your way out of town, Im sure many non elite (lol ) players will be happy to put them to good use.
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" this leads to an awkward situation. the hydra is considered top tier end game content. it is only logical that top tier content should drop top tier items. however if all the drops we are seeing are struggling to even break into high tier... then we have an issue. |
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Necroing this thread by a couple of weeks to say that Slivertongue is quite good!
It's no mirrored bow, but OP just hasn't thought through how to build around it. As soon as I saw this bow I realized it's single target would be meh, but it is clearly designed for fast clearing. Explanation: *Rigwald's Quills provide the Fork for 100% crit chance, but this is just a nice perk. The real reason to use fork is to get better AoE clearing. I feel like the bow was designed specifically with this Quiver in mind. *Deadeye Ascendancy provides chain, which means pierce is then free *+1 arrows from Deadeye and +1 arrows from Bow or Quiver (I only have quiver) corruption, on top of the fork means you don't need LMP or GMP at all. You can use all damage gems. Given that you don't need *any* less multipliers to do great AoE with this bow, it's actually an underrated beast. So far I've just been using Ice Shot on an phys crit focused passive tree. It would also work well with Lightning Arrow, Fire Arrow, or poison using Cospri's will and Vulnerability on Hit gloves. It's stats don't look like much, but for how good it is it's definitely worth farming hydra to get one. |
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it probably was but let me ask you is it good because your bow gives you 100% increased crit on fork .. or is it good because the quiver gives fork and you just have a happy synergy?
put another way... would you say the same thing if that quiver didn’t exist and wasn’t giving you a free 7 link? at this point it can only be half decent as a minimum by simple fact that its a crit bow with a decent dps. But i feel you could just switch it out with the >>>nerfed<<< reach of the council and be better off or break even. Which.. when you examine it is .. fine .. just fine ... not amazing .. not horrifically bad (like its initial stats) just fine... though its dependence on that quiver inherently locks it out from the superior drillneck option for damage.. which in my book makes its a tad inferior heck its kind of like the raider of bows... it works ... there are just better things out there that are more versatile After the latest lioneye's watch it makes sense that ggg are a bit shy about making another powerful end game weapon that feels like its bis.. so they definitely hit their mark... i just wish a t16 boss dropped something that was atleast t10 worthy...... Last edited by Saltychipmunk#1430 on Sep 20, 2016, 7:24:04 AM
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"atleast t10 worthy"
Maybe you're being facetious but this is bow can do endgame content. The fact that you need to min-max and use a rare quiver to get the most of it doesn't make it bad in my book. In terms of item design, Reach is actually worse because it's just so generically strong that it fits into almost anything. It's lower damage numbers seem bad if you look superficially, but the higher crit more than makes up for it. I'm levelling a character with it now and one shotting entire packs in t12s with no trouble. I expect to be able to handle up to t15 without much slowdown in my clearing as I continue to build my character. If you think this bow needs to be stronger, I'd say you are failing to see it's potential. It's designed for AoE and it does it well. |
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This bow is a great design. Lol. It can be used in different setups, where you can use different properties to achieve different things.
Unless you plan on using ALL OF THEM AT ONCE. Yeah. Then you'll have a terrible time. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
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" It's a decent bow for rangers and besides that it is the most beautiful bow-skin in game. For me it's like a great bow mtx I don't have to pay money for! I rate 8/8! German saying: Schönheit und Funktionalität in Sekundenschnelle zu ruinieren, ist dem wahren Dilettanten keine Herausforderung!
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" perhaps i chose my words poorly i meant t10 level drop worthy not "it can only do up to t10" that was my bad. being able to do aoe is nice and all but frankly being able to one shot a whole screen is not really that novel any-more.. and being only able to do that is limited .. most meta builds these days pick things that have the aoe and the single target in one package like i said its an .. ok bow , fine, just fine .. it does what it does and nothing more.... but for a t16 boss drop .. i was hoping for something more .... |
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