Great to see some things in action. I was trying to figure out a gear set for the bow for pvp/pve for Season 5, but the video did not lead into any information to that directly. Still, great video. Thank you for doing that.
@alexandrcorbin1709 it's rough out here. I have footage, just grabbing better clips. I think It may turn into a discussion type video. Trying to think of a way to pivot.
Crazy to me that players who main melee complain about Bow users so much, personally I just think melee is to easy. You picked up a rapier and you just stick to people like glue the tracking is so easy like your character looks like it just floating and stuck on your target.
Sadly some bow ability have been desactivated a few hours before you posted this, they look like fun build tho il try them when available thanks for the video!
Great stuff! Appreciate the more positive tone of this one compared to all of the doom and gloom on YT following the S5 release. It's definitely a bit hard to get back in to NW with all of the bugs and what not going around, so having this little glimpse into what's going on with bow in the meantime is awesome. I think the duels showed what you wanted yea. I noticed you're running a lot of nature's wrath. How does the damage on that compare to alternatives? One thing that is a little weird to me about building with it is that you can't get the free 15% empower from the evasive tactics bow capstone because nature's wrath sets all dispellable empowers to 0 sec. Even with full harnessing/runeglasses and so on, you can only get 10+10+7+7=34% elemental empower. Might still be worth it on bow/vg though because that build can still hit empower cap (for ele damage) off of tether, which I _think_ still grants empower w/ nature's wrath since it's not dispellable. Also, is 150 int just not worth it on Boltcaster? Or is that the optimal choice w/ nature's wrath? For the Link build, I'd highly recommend trying medium armor with tumbler's if at all possible (not sure if this messes with the armor weights too much). There was a bow/spear build floating around in past seasons with much the same idea as your Link build. Drop all of your DoTs, then swap to a melee weapon to keep the pressure up. Very good for 1vX. Pair it with all of the shirking perks you can find lol. I don't think butcher would be best on that setup, but I'm honestly not super familiar with SnS perks. Pen backstab and maybe keen speed sound useful though. I'm honestly the last person to know what the meta is like but I doubt it's changed enough to make physical aversion worth it tbh. 5 conditioning sounds super helpful though. I'll prob never play the game enough to make "my build" a reality but if I was playing rn I'd do bow/vg with harnessing/conditioning/SH on armor and either 350/150/150 with attuned leather pants or 350+/150/sub 150 with the crit dmg reduction armor artifact. Then on the bow I'd put attunement/plagued crits/x. You can do this with the corrupt progenitor set, but I think the absolute most optimal element is still probably ice or nature. But then you have to craft everything lol.
Wow awesome comment! Thanks for the compliment on the tone of the video. I know what you mean bc I've been seeing the same thing and been keeping away from that style video. For natures wrath, you are definitely spot on the math there. The elemental empower is pretty high and we are capping out base damage with natures wrath. Boltcaster provides an additional 20% more damage, natures also provides 20% more base damage, and passive on the bow tree has a ton of base damage increase meaning you can dish out more damage. With testing, I'm dealing 300 more damage on a standard light attack. Still feeling it out. Link build, yes I'm working on the medium varient rn. Using heavy frigid dawn and boots, featherweight, to keep the build toppling over to heavy since shields do add to the weight. I will take that into consideration. Tanglevine is a hit or miss. Since it has a lot of physical aversion not a huge fan of it but the conditioning im all for. Testing it out now and I got to say, Spear tears right through this armor still. I have to add gems to it of course since I'm saving gold to get runeglass. I'll update you in a separate video! Definitely goin void bow again this season, I am looking to redo my build as it has shirking fort on it. So yes great shout out. Thanks for the huge comment! Hope to see you on the next one.
I’ll be honest I’m a bow main. Going over 350 Des IS NOT worth it. The dmg scale is so minimal compared to using something like 100 int. Plus your using shirking heals. Use 50 focus… ankh is good too. Your rapier and bow elemental will benefit from int. 350 dex 100 int 150 con. For a featherweight build. Wars would be 350 dex 50 int 200 con. Anyway good vod.
Took your advise. I agree! I don't go over 350 and I put 50 in strength for 5% light and heavies. I dump the rest into con. I'm currently using a medium bow build. Ik ik it's not ideal but right now the meta seems heavy on tanking or extreme high dps. I'm opting for a tanky Bow style but only loosing 300 damage from light build. I'll put a video on it next sharing my thoughts
@@theGPC2 sure I’ll be waiting to watch it. If I could post a picture I have a spreadsheet containing a dmg % increase every 10 points of dex increase. The main take way, 350-400 is only a 4.65% increase 400-450 is only a 4.13 increase But you get my point. I’ve been thinking about going to med. but nah, i could never get used to the hop. Sns spears are the hard counter for us bow users if you wanna stay light. Best way to get around them is actually hatchet. 🪓 popping social distancing to get away. Berserk to run away without getting cc. Tanky bow. Use featherweight with 2 frigid dawn pieces gives you 12-1300 armor. Plus that gear set gives the illegal perk combo. You can stay in light! Haha. Slot in slash con and thrust con with some onyx’s
This chest peice is the lumberjack tier V. And it's quite hard to find unless it's available in the market. The boots are pvp boots, and im using Quickdraw gauntlet artifact. And then a standard hood. There are plenty of version of this type. Pick which one and look good 👍🏼
Yes that will be in the works. Currently going for a build to counter the massive damage Spear is giving rn using tanglevine since it has thrust conditioning on all the gear. I like to go against the meta opposed to sticking with it. But I will be looking into venom after sins hatchet build is complete.
Great to see some things in action. I was trying to figure out a gear set for the bow for pvp/pve for Season 5, but the video did not lead into any information to that directly. Still, great video. Thank you for doing that.
Agreed, I could be better at this information but maybe one build at a time to reduce run time. New video is coming out this week 🙌🏼
@@theGPC2 Looking forward to it, thank you!
@@theGPC2 I'm waiting for your video
@alexandrcorbin1709 it's rough out here. I have footage, just grabbing better clips. I think It may turn into a discussion type video. Trying to think of a way to pivot.
Crazy to me that players who main melee complain about Bow users so much, personally I just think melee is to easy. You picked up a rapier and you just stick to people like glue the tracking is so easy like your character looks like it just floating and stuck on your target.
Solid video brother. Next time give us a quick hover over your pieces/armor loadout 🤙
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Sadly some bow ability have been desactivated a few hours before you posted this, they look like fun build tho il try them when available thanks for the video!
I know 😅 I logged in last night and was like thank goodness I made this video a while back! I have more builds coming soon so stay tuned.
Great stuff! Appreciate the more positive tone of this one compared to all of the doom and gloom on YT following the S5 release. It's definitely a bit hard to get back in to NW with all of the bugs and what not going around, so having this little glimpse into what's going on with bow in the meantime is awesome. I think the duels showed what you wanted yea.
I noticed you're running a lot of nature's wrath. How does the damage on that compare to alternatives? One thing that is a little weird to me about building with it is that you can't get the free 15% empower from the evasive tactics bow capstone because nature's wrath sets all dispellable empowers to 0 sec. Even with full harnessing/runeglasses and so on, you can only get 10+10+7+7=34% elemental empower. Might still be worth it on bow/vg though because that build can still hit empower cap (for ele damage) off of tether, which I _think_ still grants empower w/ nature's wrath since it's not dispellable. Also, is 150 int just not worth it on Boltcaster? Or is that the optimal choice w/ nature's wrath?
For the Link build, I'd highly recommend trying medium armor with tumbler's if at all possible (not sure if this messes with the armor weights too much). There was a bow/spear build floating around in past seasons with much the same idea as your Link build. Drop all of your DoTs, then swap to a melee weapon to keep the pressure up. Very good for 1vX. Pair it with all of the shirking perks you can find lol. I don't think butcher would be best on that setup, but I'm honestly not super familiar with SnS perks. Pen backstab and maybe keen speed sound useful though.
I'm honestly the last person to know what the meta is like but I doubt it's changed enough to make physical aversion worth it tbh. 5 conditioning sounds super helpful though.
I'll prob never play the game enough to make "my build" a reality but if I was playing rn I'd do bow/vg with harnessing/conditioning/SH on armor and either 350/150/150 with attuned leather pants or 350+/150/sub 150 with the crit dmg reduction armor artifact. Then on the bow I'd put attunement/plagued crits/x. You can do this with the corrupt progenitor set, but I think the absolute most optimal element is still probably ice or nature. But then you have to craft everything lol.
Wow awesome comment! Thanks for the compliment on the tone of the video. I know what you mean bc I've been seeing the same thing and been keeping away from that style video.
For natures wrath, you are definitely spot on the math there. The elemental empower is pretty high and we are capping out base damage with natures wrath. Boltcaster provides an additional 20% more damage, natures also provides 20% more base damage, and passive on the bow tree has a ton of base damage increase meaning you can dish out more damage. With testing, I'm dealing 300 more damage on a standard light attack. Still feeling it out.
Link build, yes I'm working on the medium varient rn. Using heavy frigid dawn and boots, featherweight, to keep the build toppling over to heavy since shields do add to the weight. I will take that into consideration.
Tanglevine is a hit or miss. Since it has a lot of physical aversion not a huge fan of it but the conditioning im all for. Testing it out now and I got to say, Spear tears right through this armor still. I have to add gems to it of course since I'm saving gold to get runeglass. I'll update you in a separate video!
Definitely goin void bow again this season, I am looking to redo my build as it has shirking fort on it. So yes great shout out. Thanks for the huge comment! Hope to see you on the next one.
I’ll be honest I’m a bow main. Going over 350 Des IS NOT worth it. The dmg scale is so minimal compared to using something like 100 int. Plus your using shirking heals. Use 50 focus… ankh is good too. Your rapier and bow elemental will benefit from int. 350 dex 100 int 150 con. For a featherweight build. Wars would be 350 dex 50 int 200 con.
Anyway good vod.
Took your advise. I agree! I don't go over 350 and I put 50 in strength for 5% light and heavies. I dump the rest into con. I'm currently using a medium bow build. Ik ik it's not ideal but right now the meta seems heavy on tanking or extreme high dps. I'm opting for a tanky Bow style but only loosing 300 damage from light build. I'll put a video on it next sharing my thoughts
@@theGPC2 sure I’ll be waiting to watch it. If I could post a picture I have a spreadsheet containing a dmg % increase every 10 points of dex increase. The main take way,
350-400 is only a 4.65% increase
400-450 is only a 4.13 increase
But you get my point. I’ve been thinking about going to med. but nah, i could never get used to the hop.
Sns spears are the hard counter for us bow users if you wanna stay light. Best way to get around them is actually hatchet. 🪓 popping social distancing to get away. Berserk to run away without getting cc.
Tanky bow. Use featherweight with 2 frigid dawn pieces gives you 12-1300 armor. Plus that gear set gives the illegal perk combo. You can stay in light! Haha. Slot in slash con and thrust con with some onyx’s
@pakalolosweet6072 look like you'll gave to see the video when it drops. It's my next one, gathering footage for it now.
where i can i find help to get the boltcaster? nobody is on the island now
The gorilla is pretty strong and doing it solo is difficult. Ask for help in game chat. Maybe someone will reach out
@@theGPC2 the the problem. nw servers are dying and people only wanna run myrk and glacial tarn lol. very aggy
On your transog..what is the pants you are wearing?
They are called the Woodland Warrior Heavy Legwear.
What transmog for Link?
This chest peice is the lumberjack tier V. And it's quite hard to find unless it's available in the market. The boots are pvp boots, and im using Quickdraw gauntlet artifact. And then a standard hood. There are plenty of version of this type. Pick which one and look good 👍🏼
Go for Venom if you want dots!
Yes that will be in the works. Currently going for a build to counter the massive damage Spear is giving rn using tanglevine since it has thrust conditioning on all the gear.
I like to go against the meta opposed to sticking with it. But I will be looking into venom after sins hatchet build is complete.