I'm leaning heavily towards Faith but am struggling to put it in Hydra.
The + skills of a GMB don't matter much to my build, altho they're always nice
The + str difference of 26 is pretty much covered +str gear

So with same weapon speed, does it come down to the + skills and min/max damage?
Hydra bow is 10-68 avg 39
GMB bow is 14-72 avg 43

obviously if I had both, i'd go GMB.
The question is it worth farming GMB



thread to IronRabbit is here:
https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=79763433&f=161&o=320

Faith would be a huge piece that would open up my jewelry and I'd probably start farm meph for reapers

Gmb imo. I also see people do them in mat bows. I never knew why may have to do with stat req. but that’s my vote

Ias too good to pass up so Infinity is out of the question. Hydra could be put to a merc so you benefit from the ias with javelins

very loose research is telling me it is easier to hit highest attack speed with less ias on an MB vs GMB, so maybe I should be considering this?
I should probably go play around with attack speed calculator (this makes me sad because i've been tossing MBs the whole walk haha)



this is good foresight, however, I don't think I'll ever go pure bowa...unless WF dropped then I'd have to.

GMB and Hydra bow have the same speed (10), MB is two levels faster (-10), with higher dex req, but lower str req, and obviously way less dmg than GMB/Hydra.

On the other hand, if you want to use for another char's a1 merc, or for this char's, you can't use the class-specific bows, since the merc can't use them.

I don't think speed is that of a factor, fana should be enough.

All in all, if you don't need + skillz, go for Hydra. YOLO.

Well, I'd consider the damage increase from infinity and also the -def from conviction is nice if you are lacking in the AR department.

On a side note - found 298%ed ethereal reapers the other day on my holy grail sorc. Decided to do a project of killing mephisto 1000 times (the reaper dropped around run ~65).

Good luck!

Pick the non-class bow for faith.. U will be able to throw the faith on the act 1 rogue merc when u find the windforce u seem excited to find..

Reapers would be good for certain areas but the fanat could benefit just as much when there is no physical immunes around..

Seems ur preferring reapers over infinity to start with so why waste the runes to make it???

This post was edited by 15bucks on Jun 18 2019 07:59am

faith in mb for you or faith in diamond bow for merc