10000000 / 10

lol'ed hard

The damage per second change might not be astronomical- only say four-fold, but do bear in mind that beyond the "losing 50% resists & 9 java skills" from the charms, you're dealing that much shorter duration. It might seem easy on paper to just reapply poison with a single arrow each time the poison is over, but the reality is that its not. One of the glories of Plague Javelin is that once someone is touched by it, they will drain to 1 hp, and not only do you know that- but they know that. You can play defensive with plague javelins before they get hit by them once, and they'll be so busy trying to avoid plagues (especially if you're standing in them and they are a hammerdin/smiter) that you can score *free hits* with your bow and javelins. Once someone IS poisoned, they will universally either kamikaze you or run to akara. They won't stick around and play normally- maybe some ultra good conditioned duelers who understand psychology, but normal players and people like you and me and tudey- we go balls out after knowing we're poisoned. And when someone is trying to suicide you, its much easier to play against them, as they are predictable. Running with javelins out, just throwing in occasional hits while WSGing and teleporting around, dodging attacks. Not l8zing with poison, but muting their offensive with dodging their hyperaggressiveness, until they are dead. Playing matador.

You won't get that from poison on arrows. Taking 4x as long to widdle someone down, and giving them absolutely no reason to not just go aggressive on you from the start- you'll wind up in situations where someone is putting you under constant pressure, and either your poison will wear off with them still at high HP, or you didn't poison them at all and taking out your bow would be suicide- they can just continue to pressure you. With plague javelin, as they pressure you they are constantly losing HP until they eventually just die to 1 hit of fury or even by hitting you (damage to attacker).



I'm not saying its not possible. Poison bowas are decent, but they are much easier to kill than osamas or damach zons. Most characters in PvP can simply pressure you down without worrying about the poison. Lets face it, you're dealing one twelth of the total poison damage a plague can do with the poison on your charms per arrow. And a plague based build gets that same physical damage in there to widdle someone down, so you can't include the physical in your math against it. Its really orders of magnitude in difference. A BvC hit a plague cloud and slowly widdles to 1 hp- a BvC hits a poison arrow and only loses 1/10 of his hp.


Its a viable build, but I wouldn't recommend it, but if bow and bow only is your style, roll with it



I'd skip the valk. I don't even use it against trappers- getting hit by stray traps that it procs when they go defensive is more of a liability than its worth at all
On the offense you're basically just WSGing around while poison drains them so its not like it exactly helps there either (since wsging with an immune valk means the traps will be hitting you at random, whereas if they just had a NL and you had no minions, the bolts would all miss)



its a possibility, but I'd keep every point in poison that I could since its the bulk of your damage
I'd be more interested in dropping valk, decoy, slow missiles & inner sight, and even potentially pierce & penetrate than ever pulling a point out of poison.
Valk is mostly useless and decoy is useless but fun for messing around, and inner sight is godly when in BM duels (any necro that casts bone prison), inner sight does nothing, pierce might supposedly be good against druids but your multi isn't ever going to do anything in those duels (better to have javas and blocking out if they're anywhere close and multi just clears the wolves either way, and its not like it dealt enough damage to the druid to justify using it) and penetrate again only helps multi, and not terribly much since faith has +300% ar




I figure at 99 and dropping strafe, all passives but dodge & crit I could hit 1-5430 x 11 on charged strike
Remember that tgods shaves off 1600 average (3200 max) so thats like 1115 x 11 = 306 life lost per CS
frankly, its not all that impressive even then against tgods chars. Remember that you can't put them into FHR with that since its 11 hits of ~30 damage each, and FHR only works per big individual attacks

This post was edited by Goomshill on Jan 21 2011 03:41pm

bump really cool build would like to try it but i dont really see it as viable enough to be a hc dueler

iz srs?

theres no such thing as hardcore dueling

useless but fun + i dont get why u wrote a guide for dat t,t
ps. CH

This post was edited by hihorob on Jan 26 2011 08:13am

because it outperforms every other zon that has a guide

this

[x] TURBO

Thank you for this, always makes me laugh every time someone bumps it.