I like act 5 as a aura stick. He's not that strong. Eth mythical or cryptic are popular I think. It really doesn't matter tho. Any elite is fine as long as you can make runewords.

LoH is BiS in 85% of content. No need for kb as a pvm bowa.

Use 1 point wonder freezing arrow for crown control. Very OP.

I almost went through the whole topic, it's really interesting but when I try the max roll char planner I don't see MAT > GMB

this are the numbers:

GMB:
Multi:

Strafe:


MAT:
Multi:

Strafe:



Gear Setup:
Diadem with3x 15ias/40ed juwelen
Forti
Faith GMB or MAT Aura lvl 13
Atmas
LoH
Raven
Dual Leech Ring
Razor
Wts
Torch
Anni
Max DMG Charms
A2 merc might + pride


/edit: When I go for Eni the dmg is of course a little bit lower but it's still GMB > MAT

This post was edited by mRe on May 27 2022 03:11am

Kim will help u out bro!

Hi!

People never believed me when I first made the topic when d2r released.

That's why I started making video and called out every GMB users to show me the faster clear. Never a single dude brought the video.

Maxroll comparison is like bench racing cars.

It's only showing the possible damage output. Put enigma and the range gets smaller. Then take out Pride because that's not the best weapon for physical bowzon. Then the range gets smaller.

Then it's not factoring in the actual gameplay situation like amp/decriptify and your ias breakpoint change when you get decriptify in runs.

Then Mat 7 frame can work better as a cs hybrid as well.

If someone likes GMB then so be it. It's a game. Should be enjoyed as own likes. But I'm simply saying that from testing all possible set up for bowa, Shadow Faith is the best dmg and fastest clearing bow for PvM in game.

Kimsulki84 - D2R Ladder GMB Faith Telebowa - Chaos P1 Clear

Don't think I ever uploaded the GMB+Eth Reapers Might Merc set up in Ladder.

GMB is definitely the king of P1. Extremely quick.

How come you’re playing bowazon again on ladder

Because I love bowa.

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Kimsulki84 - D2R Ladder GMB Faith Telebowa - Chaos P8 Solo Clear

Pretty smooth.
GMB telebowa needs to play more aggressively to proc Reapers curse more often.

It's harder to play than Shadow/Mat variant.

But clears fast.

Nice to see the effort made on the content OP, more than so many here.

I loved bower in 1.09 then haven’t returned since, might be worth a drive again as this looked cool.

Thank you! Bowzon is extremely fun to play! Just needed some right formula to efficiently clear content. 2.4 buff did help a lot. Not enough but definitely helped!

I've been working on building this out as a little side project on ladder after getting sort of bored with my infinity scythe sorc and hammerdin.
Haven't played bowa since 1.09 buriza times so I'm pretty much clueless about what's going on. I was just watching Kim's videos and reading this thread, the build felt fun so I decided to try my luck and rolled a Faith in a mat bow. Got a 14/2/344 on the first attempt which felt nice enough to carry on with the rest of the build, so I stole enigma from the pally and now here I am with a level 86 tele bowa.

Today I got the final parts of the gear set in tiara (socketed with 3x1513 because I'm poor and also still want something to aspire to) and a somewhat decent double leech fcr ring.

And well, it's fun when it works, but definitely not comfortable playing ppl8 games with this yet. After playing ES sorc (and mostly in players 1, at that) this feels like a rude awakening even in players1-2, because I keel over if anything just stares at me the wrong way. I'm not fully loaded with max/ar/life yet, life is at 684, I'm guessing I need to get a bit more vit instead of pumping everything into dex to make the transition a bit easier? And compared to sorc's 96 Emilio with Forti buffed by CtA, my poor eth reapers Jemali has a hard time staying alive too. All of this is just making me want to skip the FCR provided by wizzy and use a CtA instead, lol.

I guess it just demands a lot more from me as a player than the common op pvm meta builds I'm used to, and it'll get better with experience, but there's also a big and vocal part of me that wants to cut my losses and just sell it all.
Other than maybe trying to not teleport into the middle of fana packs (bad ES sorc habit), any other advice on how to play this efficiently? Do I just git gud?