I’m playing a freezing arrow zon and generally rotate from freezing arrow to strafe or explosive arrow for cold immunes and it seems like strafe is ok but I’m conflicted, I play solo using mavinas for now and my clear times are decent. I’mma respect soon to trade my points around since I was setup for leveling and I’m thinking of consolidating to strafe and guided arrow (maybe 10 each) for single targets & cold immunes. Any help is appreciated!

Change whatever amulet you're using for atma's scarab and you'll see that strafe is worth using. Also use enchant from demon's limb on you and merc, hel it to lower str req if necessary.

I like the ideas, thank you! instead of atmas I was planning on using reapers toll tho the damage increase is less it slows & weakens bosses which increases poor Emilio's survival, I'm torn between highlords, cats eye & seraphs (I know seraphs sounds funny but that % damage to undead & demons goes a long ways)

Reapers toll is a good and cheap option.
As amu, go with highlords, you have freezing arrows to kill phy inmunes. If you want damage to demons use laying of hands.

Use guided vs bosses, insight for merc = near infinite mana. Kite bosses in distance with merc. Use atma's.

Some day when I can afford better gear I’ll get laying on hands, for now since I’m using mavs set (cheap option) I can’t change gloves, belt, helm, armor & bow till I get something better to replace all of em.

This post was edited by Cybuss on May 18 2022 01:04pm

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if you're on bnet, loh should be cheap.

strafe is garbage, provided you have enough DPS, multi is the way to go, espcially with the damage bufffs and guided synergy, guided/magic arrow for single target, multi for everything else

Magic Arrow in its current form is pretty ridiculous, its pretty much like shooting a blessed hammer every arrow in max attack frames

Only real benefit of using strafe would be if your going for Crushing Blow with atmas, but even then crushing blow is halved with bows, so its not worth it, much better to spam multi with max crit


I would just max out Magic arrow no matter what build your doing, or at least try to,

Not many monsters are magic resistant, especially in the areas youll be farming (cows, pits, chaos etc)

This will solve cold immunes easily, im not sure what your current tree looks like but feel free to post it, also if you plan on switching to phys you need quite a lot of dex to do a decent ammount of damage, id try to do cold/magic arrow, magic arrow for immunes

another option would be to use obedience runeword for your merc, cast enchanct = more fire damage, for cold immunes

if i were you id do enough strength for gear

150 vit

rest dex, this will give you a decent ammount of survivability with enough dex to do solid damage with magic arrow

try to make Harmony or Insight in a fast Bow (Blade Bow, Matriarchal Bow) Personally i was never a big fan of mavs set

but yeah main thign right now is to find a way to kill the cold immunes, and magic arrow is your best option for that right now if your on a budget

heres my zon doing some cow runs a few days ago: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1483549901

if you have any questions just pm me

This post was edited by Cash5s on May 18 2022 07:51pm

Strafe is not garbage.

I've been back and forth between Multishot and Strafe this ladder season...and honestly I prefer Strafe like 90% of the time...Cows being the exception.

Just because Cows is so wide open Multi seems to do a TINY bit better of a job. However, once you learn how to really position yourself for juicy Strafe's, it gets awfully close to how well they do.

Chaos Sanctuary though, Strafe is tons better than Multi and with next to no effort in making it happen. Monsters naturally just line up with the layout of CS.

I know it's mainly a coin flip, but people will defend their 'choice' to the death...but I've settled on Windforce + Pride/Might merc. If you primarily use Strafe this seems to work out the best. The damage output of Windforce is incredible, and naturally having Knockback is something not to be ignored.

Phys immunities aren't a problem because Atma's procs often enough that once it does, they just fall over.