Chess, Will do, I'd probably snag that when I drop down to standard.
Barrage is interesting. The DPS on the tooltip, is calculated per projectile, instead of as a skill (which makes sense, it's multiprojectile in nature). A lot of people pan it, because of the "tooltip DPS", and because they haven't mastered the art of using their cursor's range from char to augment their shot pattern. While Barrage has a "small" AoE template, it can still be manipulated in the same manner as other LMP'd / GMP'd type spells, where the closer your cursor is to your char, the wider the pattern.
It has been an absolute blast to play for the little time I've got on it. Barrage feels beefy, and with a LGOH on my RoA, My health never moves much. In the Cave, in A2, I think it took 3 casts to kill the great white beast. As my first two casts stacked shock nicely, and then my final cast just seemed to rip the last 50% of his health right off.
I am a little curious though. I'm looking over things, and doing math, and I'm unsure how people are making Storm Cloud work for them in a "This is my weapon, and I'll use it forever" type thing. It's definitely what attracted me to trying it, but I'm unsure how it works all the way to mapping. Maybe it's just my lack of knowledge related to elemental bow type things, but the bow I have is 66.12 DPS, with a fairly respectable 45% increased Attack Speed (max 50).
Obviously, my passives, and my gear will serve to augment this, but I'm just not seeing how it stays ahead of a very nice Grove, or Thicket, in terms of DPS. I don't know, We'll see. So far, I'm using
Storm Cloud + Ondar's Clasp, while sporting
Barrage + WED + Added Lightning Damage
RoA + LGOH and Faster Proj
I figure as I get more links, more gems, it will flesh out more, but I'm just curious how it will all come together.
Obviously, if I can score a Voltaxic Rift for End Game, I'll be doing jumping jacks, but that thing is stupid expensive.
Barrage is interesting. The DPS on the tooltip, is calculated per projectile, instead of as a skill (which makes sense, it's multiprojectile in nature). A lot of people pan it, because of the "tooltip DPS", and because they haven't mastered the art of using their cursor's range from char to augment their shot pattern. While Barrage has a "small" AoE template, it can still be manipulated in the same manner as other LMP'd / GMP'd type spells, where the closer your cursor is to your char, the wider the pattern.
It has been an absolute blast to play for the little time I've got on it. Barrage feels beefy, and with a LGOH on my RoA, My health never moves much. In the Cave, in A2, I think it took 3 casts to kill the great white beast. As my first two casts stacked shock nicely, and then my final cast just seemed to rip the last 50% of his health right off.
I am a little curious though. I'm looking over things, and doing math, and I'm unsure how people are making Storm Cloud work for them in a "This is my weapon, and I'll use it forever" type thing. It's definitely what attracted me to trying it, but I'm unsure how it works all the way to mapping. Maybe it's just my lack of knowledge related to elemental bow type things, but the bow I have is 66.12 DPS, with a fairly respectable 45% increased Attack Speed (max 50).
Obviously, my passives, and my gear will serve to augment this, but I'm just not seeing how it stays ahead of a very nice Grove, or Thicket, in terms of DPS. I don't know, We'll see. So far, I'm using
Storm Cloud + Ondar's Clasp, while sporting
Barrage + WED + Added Lightning Damage
RoA + LGOH and Faster Proj
I figure as I get more links, more gems, it will flesh out more, but I'm just curious how it will all come together.
Obviously, if I can score a Voltaxic Rift for End Game, I'll be doing jumping jacks, but that thing is stupid expensive.
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