Bow rangers: Which utility/support skills do you use ?

Other than your damage skills and auras. Which other support and utility skills (gems) do you use?

I use:

Curses: Vulnerability, Temporal chains and Proj weakness. I use vulnerability more often then proj weakness because of DoT damage when using puncture (my single target skill). Thinking of replacing temporal with enfeeble, at least for bosses/exiles.

Vaal Summon Skeletons. (lvl 20) Very fun skill.

Skeleton totem: (spell totem + summon skeleton + blind + minion life (or add chaos dam). This has been a great help especially with bosses like blacksmith. However, I am not using it that often anymore. Still useful to keep monsters occupied. Good to have with Roas approaching. Problem is that you have to recats spell tomtem often when yuo move around which is probably why I don't use it that often.

Vaal Grace: Have not made that much difference so far. I hit dodge cap with it but does not last that long (even with increased duration).

Thinking of maybe replacing my skeleton totem with something defensive like cast when damage taken.

I'm using vaal burning arrow + trap + GMP + point blank. Good for clearing box and proximity shield mobs.

Using smoke screen to open tricky boxes and deal with melee.

Also using the cwdt combos

I use Temp Chains, Enfeeble, or Crit Weakness for curses.

I like to use Ranged Attack totem in a 4link. On my physical archer I have RoA - Conc Effect - Faster Attack - Totem. On my Ele archer I have Ice Shot + GMP + Inc AoE/Faster Attack/Blind (experimenting which support work best) + Totem.

Enfeeble and this as boss finisher

Smoke Mineeeeeeee

I play selffound puncture bow but vulnerability, proj weak, critical weak and temp chains all dropped. Of course temp chains is mandatory as defense spell if things get ugly (it helps puncture too) but for the other damage courses... I am really undecided.

They all work pretty good, if you have enough chance to crit puncture does enough base damage it doesnt really matter which one you use. Just use one to get extra damage.

Problem with vulnerability is that is requires already over 100 int on level 9, so I can not level it up further.

Ranged Attack Totem > Lightning Arrow > Faster Attacks > Elemental Proliferation.

If you are playing a Crit based Physical Bow build that uses Hatred, this Shocks and Freezes.

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Asidra wrote:

Spell Totem > Lightning Arrow > Faster Attacks > Elemental Proliferation.

If you are playing a Crit based Physical Bow build that uses Hatred, this Shocks and Freezes.

that's nice idea, but wouldn't it be better to switch faster attacks for gmp as it's shocks that matters here not the dmg?