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May 30 2022 08:48am
Quote (Vallynne @ May 30 2022 07:36am)
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?


This is a bowzon after all. You can't compare the clear speed it to top 3 meta builds.

I have enough fg to make any godly geared meta builds but I don't because I only enjoy telebowa. Well I pvp with her too so it's not just pvm. I'm over with pvm anyway.

What skills you put in? And yes you need 800 life. And sounds like you literally just finished gearing her up. Just play more to get better. I have like 50 videos in my channel. Watch them and see if you can get some tips in game play.
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May 30 2022 09:09am
Quote (KimSulki84 @ May 30 2022 11:48pm)
This is a bowzon after all. You can't compare the clear speed it to top 3 meta builds.

I have enough fg to make any godly geared meta builds but I don't because I only enjoy telebowa. Well I pvp with her too so it's not just pvm. I'm over with pvm anyway.

What skills you put in? And yes you need 800 life. And sounds like you literally just finished gearing her up. Just play more to get better. I have like 50 videos in my channel. Watch them and see if you can get some tips in game play.


Thank you for the advice! To be honest, it's not even the clear speed I'm not happy with but how glassy she feels, so getting a bit more life should definitely help. I'm not a super fast player by any means but I enjoy the lazy farm offered by nova sorc or hammer - play something on Netflix, farm while watching - although that also makes me wonder why I'm even playing this game sometimes. With this bowa I actually have to focus instead.

And you're right about me just finishing gearing her up. I'm still trying to get a couple more +max/ar/lifers, then I'll respec for a bit more vit as well. I was running andy ~850 life before getting the tiara and it felt better to play.

Current stats and skills:
https://i.imgur.com/xet5q7n.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/fwUVodU.jpeg
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May 30 2022 09:13am
Quote (Vallynne @ May 30 2022 08:09am)
Thank you for the advice! To be honest, it's not even the clear speed I'm not happy with but how glassy she feels, so getting a bit more life should definitely help. I'm not a super fast player by any means but I enjoy the lazy farm offered by nova sorc or hammer - play something on Netflix, farm while watching - although that also makes me wonder why I'm even playing this game sometimes. With this bowa I actually have to focus instead.

And you're right about me just finishing gearing her up. I'm still trying to get a couple more +max/ar/lifers, then I'll respec for a bit more vit as well. I was running andy ~850 life before getting the tiara and it felt better to play.

Current stats and skills:
https://i.imgur.com/xet5q7n.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/fwUVodU.jpeg


haha I know what you mean. This one you need to focus and play.

And I ALWAYS recommend 800 at least after gear/charm then vitality. I burned like 69 tokens in NL while making this build trying to come up with the proper life number.

800 is enough to tank P8 Diablo smack when you are amped. That's why it's important. I can confidently say that I don't die with this character unless that BS connection interrupted error.

Definitely get some more charms and respec. And use eth reapers merc and 1 point wonder freezing arrow for crowd control if needed. And pump more into center passives for more tanky if you want. Those make a big difference which is why its so OP in pvp.

For P1, literally you can just tele multi 2-3 times and multi to melt all. Takes 1 mins 20 seconds always for 90% clear.
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May 30 2022 09:47am
Respecced to exactly 800 HP, gonna see how it feels with that now.
Noob question: do we ever cast slow missiles or inner sight?
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Respecced to exactly 800 HP, gonna see how it feels with that now.
Noob question: do we ever cast slow missiles or inner sight?


No need for those skills.
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May 30 2022 11:47am
Things definitely improved once I realized the character is near immortal when swapped to wizzy/spirit and started using freezing arrows. Was able to watch some Vikings while farming CS in players 2 :lol:
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Things definitely improved once I realized the character is near immortal when swapped to wizzy/spirit and started using freezing arrows. Was able to watch some Vikings while farming CS in players 2 :lol:


Yes! Max block max res on switch :)

It was all designed for that!
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May 31 2022 01:08pm
Quote (KimSulki84 @ 15 Apr 2022 18:25)
Talk is cheap.

Motherfricker if you're really feeling froggish leap.


Hope someone gets it, i'll see myself out.
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Quote (LsP_BaboON @ May 31 2022 12:08pm)
Motherfricker if you're really feeling froggish leap.

Hope someone gets it, i'll see myself out.


Oof baby that hurts me
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Jun 1 2022 01:03pm
Hmm I could swear I saw a video of Kim using infinity swap to kill diablo quickly but can't find it. Or was that someone else?
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