Big surprise - 3.9 is no bow meta. wow

Ok ok, since ggg does nothing to TS but this:

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Tornado Shot
The secondary projectiles now fade over time, similar to Freezing Pulse, but without the gradual damage drop-off. In other words, the secondary projectiles will have a shorter range by default, but can be increased by increasing the skill's Projectile Speed.

TS will still be king. But that's not surprising at all, we all knew that it would be that way. The big surprise is:

They really buffed arc! I almost can't believe it but they do. Thanks to this change arc is really great again and when I say great I talk about great like necro in 3.8 great. Fuck summoners, fuck bow builds, it's arc time again bois! :)

Well, you are not wrong. Arc will be strong.

Still going ExploArrow though

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polimeris wrote:

Well, you are not wrong. Arc will be strong.

Still going ExploArrow though

I haven't played EA in years, no idea how strong it is these days.

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666lol666 wrote:

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polimeris wrote:

Well, you are not wrong. Arc will be strong.

Still going ExploArrow though

I haven't played EA in years, no idea how strong it is these days.

Neither does anyone because no one knows how it feels for explosive arrow to not get an auto-refreshed timer when you add more arrows.

It's possible that it feels great now.

It's also possible that a 1-second timer is still too long for the clearspeed meta.

Well, well, well... Arc... hello darkness my old friend.

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codetaku wrote:

It's possible that it feels great now.

It's also possible that a 1-second timer is still too long for the clearspeed meta.

i imagine that a 1 second timer is too long for clearspeed, especially with the recent changes. but i also think that a 1 second timer is too short to stack a good amount of arrows to get significant damage out of it.

but you can always make the timer longer or shorter to your needs

The question is how good EA will be on boss.

EA never had any problem with clearspeed.

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ffogell wrote:

The question is how good EA will be on boss.

EA never had any problem with clearspeed.

elementalist EA is pretty damagey but needs stormfire, taming, empower 4 and +3 bow to get past 1 mil ignite dps 5 fuses.

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pr13st wrote:

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ffogell wrote:

The question is how good EA will be on boss.

EA never had any problem with clearspeed.

elementalist EA is pretty damagey but needs stormfire, taming, empower 4 and +3 bow to get past 1 mil ignite dps 5 fuses.

That was before the (rumored) 50% damage effectiveness on the skill. I'm not sure if the ignite meta will be much better then just using burning arrow now.