Why are ele-bows better than physical bows?

I worked out using the base values and mod conpendium and physical bow damage values go around 300 max dmg.

Ele bows have around 155 total elemental damage
there are also a lot more increased physical damage nodes than elemental damage nodes

Dosent that mean physical bows should do more damage?

So why are ele-bows so good?

The bows that do 300 top end, also have attack speeds in the range of 1.1-1.2, making them slow as dirt. Meanwhile you can get that 155 elemental damage on a thicket that has 1.55 aps, get IAS to make it 1.75 (1.8?) so you have big hits going very quickly.

The reason ele scales higher is because of mob resists. If you notice, I don't think there's a single mob without at least one. Blue, rare and uniques will commonly have all resist. Physical resist is a fairly uncommon mod.

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moosifer1 wrote:

If you notice, I don't think there's a single mob without at least one. Blue, rare and uniques will commonly have all resist. Physical resist is a fairly uncommon mod.

Isnt that a reason that phyiscal is better than ele damage bows?


Also for PVP which one is better? I can see ele-bow peple getting butchered because of max resists. Not sure how much armor most opponenets have and thr %reduction itll have on a pysical ranger

There is also the fact that Life Leech on gear only leeches off of your physical damage, so that Physical bow is much nicer if you're Leech based :)