How's Explosive arrow looking?

EA has been one of my favorite skills for as long as i can remember. quill rain nerf killed the skill though. I'm thinking it will be good again because:

1.Lower mana cost - the mana cost used to be so high that the only realistic way to play EA was with blood magic.

2.No more 5 fuse limit, the old play style was shoot 5 then stand and wait for it to explode. (I'm pretty sure i made a forum thread suggesting this a year or two ago lol.) Now you can just stack a 50 arrow explosion ignite on a boss. I think stacking increased duration would be good now because it means you can get more arrows per explosion for even bigger ignites (right?)

3. barrage support. I'm not 100% sure how this works but i think it shoots all your arrows 1 by 1 but super fast, which would make getting big stacks easy.

4. Small quill rain buff - it went from 40% less damage to 30% less, it might be worth using again but probably not. Guessing a + fire arrows bow with as much attack speed as possible would be best

Are there any builds for it yet? What class/items would be good? What are you guys thinking?


Normally i'm good at making my own builds but i'm not really sure what would be good with it now.

2. wouldn't it be like a lot of smaller hits? so ignite would pick the highest explosion hit?

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satanttin wrote:

2. wouldn't it be like a lot of smaller hits? so ignite would pick the highest explosion hit?

"Explosions now deal 3% more damage with Ignite per explosive arrow on the target.
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imanubcake wrote:

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satanttin wrote:

2. wouldn't it be like a lot of smaller hits? so ignite would pick the highest explosion hit?

"Explosions now deal 3% more damage with Ignite per explosive arrow on the target.
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its more than that it totals the hits together, there will be a clip of someone one shotting a major boss with a colossal ignite from EA this league can guarantee it, looks busted.

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imanubcake wrote:

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satanttin wrote:

2. wouldn't it be like a lot of smaller hits? so ignite would pick the highest explosion hit?

"Explosions now deal 3% more damage with Ignite per explosive arrow on the target.
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ahh alright that's something :P thought u meant a ignite based on all explosions together:') and didn't read that part cause i won't play it :P

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Draegnarrr wrote:

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imanubcake wrote:

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satanttin wrote:

2. wouldn't it be like a lot of smaller hits? so ignite would pick the highest explosion hit?

"Explosions now deal 3% more damage with Ignite per explosive arrow on the target.
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its more than that it totals the hits together, there will be a clip of someone one shotting a major boss with a colossal ignite from EA this league can guarantee it, looks busted.

Oh yea, most certainly.
And it'll then get nerfed shortly after and nobody will play it again

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satanttin wrote:

2. wouldn't it be like a lot of smaller hits? so ignite would pick the highest explosion hit?

If im understanding it right, the timer starts with the first arrow that hits and when that first arrow explodes it consumes all the other arrows

it'll be fun to watch people struggle with making it good. hope some succeed. i love explosive arrow.

personally im not sure how it'll play out. i also think that stacking some duration might be the best way to go, either on hit or ignite focused. but at this point with ignite burning arrow probably will be better.

i just don't like the thought of waiting that long to put down your damage. lets say you get the duration up to 2 seconds. at 8 attacks per second you get 16 arrows into some fool.
so you need to just stand there and attack for a full 2 seconds. then it explodes and you need to wait for the ignite to tick down, if ignite focused.

i dunno...at least if you're doing the same thing with toxic rain it has a massive built in slow to make it much safer to do so


i could see people using explosive arrow, barrage support, mirage archer with quill rain. you'd get a ton of arrows in a mob, just not sure if it would be worth doing

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Brinstar4 wrote:

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satanttin wrote:

2. wouldn't it be like a lot of smaller hits? so ignite would pick the highest explosion hit?

If im understanding it right, the timer starts with the first arrow that hits and when that first arrow explodes it consumes all the other arrows

that's true i know that but they are all their unique hits though mean one would think

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Brinstar4 wrote:

Are there any builds for it yet? What class/items would be good? What are you guys thinking?

I've been considering a Berserker EA or possibly Berserker EA ballistas build. You just can't get more attack speed than Berserker, and you should be able to build a pretty big life pool and armor for defense. Swap GMP and Barrage for clear vs single target => win.