Forgot to share this..

This was a Frost Maiden bowa using Ice bow. Its fun for popping elites. Burst dmg is very good.

This can be made pretty cheap too

A lot of cool info from everyone in here.

Wow truly beautiful

Okay got some more stuff to make it a bit better.

This video has P1 Chaos then 2 x P8 Chaos solo to show how it plays. Not a speed run. Just showing how it works.

Picked up a cheap -7% physical resist Renewed Bone Break. Don't want to get a great one because in the next patch, Sunder charms will drop like candy, no reason to get a really good one. That's why most of my stuff are pretty budgety for this one.

Changed to Act 1 Merc with Faith to bring WF up to 7 frame. You need 95% IAS to hit 7 frame with WF Hydra bow with 15 Fanaticism from Faith Merc.

Stone Jewel the WF 20IAS + 30IAS from Horazon Glove/Boots combo + 45IAS from 3 x 15ias ed jewels. I went 110 total not 120 because it's so much cheaper LOL

Some cool thing about Windforce is that it has Knockback so as long as you strafe, you likely won't die since nothing can't really hit you. It has Mana Leech so you just need FCR life leech ring.

You don't need Mania offhand bow buff to hit 7 frame like GMB so you can use Wizzy + Spirit to get to 99FCR on swap. You are most likely Max Resist + Max Block. So you can freely zip around anywhere. It's great for TZ farming.

You can host chaos or baal runs easy.

I will try Blackhorn helm on my merc because that helps a lot with slow vs bosses.

I might be able to have any javelin on cube to swap to Impale vs boss or herald because that's 50% slow easy.

Will do some more fun stuff to test.

This can be made for very cheap since WF itself is just dirt cheap.

Okay this is actually pretty EPIC for bowzons.

You get 35 charges of Level 4 Decrepify.

Void has 40FCR. So you can easily get to 99fcr on swap with Void dagger + Spirit.

Safer boss/herald fight. Can gap the time when target not Amped.

You can use Sigil Lethargy + decrep.

here's my topic for RotW telebowa. You can find some good info from others too.

Check the previous post with VOID on offhand with spirit. That's actually very good swap.

Thanks man, willc heck this out!

Just showing how you do the boss with both Sigil Lethargy and decrepify from Void Dagger.

Strafe works the best when you are close to the target and just shoot at it. So boss slowed down means you get to freely shoot at it.

Decoy
Lethargy
Decrepify
Inner Sight (optional)
Strafe

Lvl4 Lethargy lasts about 8 seconds so recast if you need to.

Lvl4 Decrepify from Void lasts about 4 seconds.

If the target is amp-ed from Atma amulet, don't recast decrepify because it will override Amp.

If amp is gone and target isn't dead, recast Decrepify.

Rinse and repeat until target dead.

Which build do you think is best right now for PvE if there were no gear limitations?
Could you help me figure out the best route for my offline situation?

I dusted off my bowa the other day and have gone back and forth between faith gmb, and windforce with pride merc and hustle swap doing terrorized chaos p7 runs.
I still need to try WF + faith a1 merc. I kinda hate doing the hustle swap to proc BoS.
I tend to use mostly strafe with very little multi. That's probably an error but I've just always enjoyed strafe. I care more about strafe breakpoints than 7fpa multi, unless it feels worth it to multi more like i should.
I do prefer to have knockback somewhere on the build.
I'm thinking about doing some laid back act/game clears with or w/o the magic find easter egg buff, so using enigma is starting to look appealing.
Not planning to use lethargy ring with upcoming nerf, and almost certainly not going to use a zod for void.

To work with I have:
Faith GMB 2/15 non superior, WF 8ml (shael'd for a test i was doing), eth pride, artisan's diadem of the magus with 3x plain 15ias for testing, fort, enigma
gloves: hitpower 20ias / 15dex / frost nova proc, rare 2/20 bowa with 12str
rings: good 5 point 117ar / 3%ll / 18str / 14dex / 8@all / 1maek, various unremarkable dual leeches with 2-3 additional high/mid roll stats
charms: pre rotw bonebreak -10%, inventory full of 10-12 max gc mostly plain but one with 35life, small charms with max/ar mostly plain but one with life (3/16/11)
jewels to use: -10/43ed uber, -9/43ed uber, 15ias/40ed, 2x 15ias/15max, 15ias/12max, 15ias/25ed, 17min
random: i kinda like using stealskull w/ a 15ias for dual leech and mf with faith and that doesnt hit 7fpa multi. also have a giant skull 2os. seems like magus diadem is only option for tele build.

So i have a lot to work with, but pretty much missing life or frw from charms.
That puts my life in a max dex setup at ~640 with fort and only 500 with enigma.
When using enigma i was sinking some vit up to ~750 life and that helped but still got popped by archers doing a countess run yesterday.
it feels super squishy when not just offscreening in chaos.
Losing some dex for vit feels ok while using WF, but kinda sucks for the faith setup.
My res is painfully low without faith + fort so i probably need some res charms

So my main stopping point is sinking the good jewels I found in a sub optimal setup.
It took a long time to find them and i cant trade for more so i want to get it right.

I plan to keep testing options w/o putting an uber jewel in wf or diadem yet.
Thanks.

This post was edited by EaterOfSound on Apr 28 2026 05:09pm

What do you do with your bowa usually? P1? P8? Chaos baal? Tz farming?