Guide BUILD - Chaos Bowazon

Fuzzey · Jan 26, 2021

Light86 said: ↑

Well, I am a big friend of windforce Bowazon over Faith GMB just for the low cost/effectiveness ratio.
First of all, why would you compare a minimum pride with a perfect Faith? Whether u go down to fana lvl13 or pump concentration to lvl20.
Secondly, Maths isn't as simple as you quoted it out. All those physical dmg auras are handled as off-weapon %ed. Now in addition both builds would use a fortitude (another offweapon source) and you will use LoH Gloves in CS for that 350%dmg vs demons without doubt (another source of offweapon %ed).
Now look at the on-weapon %ed or bonus dmg. An OHM'd wf will have 300%ed on hydrabow (39 average dmg) + 3,125max dmg/lvl.
Let's take for example a lvl90 Amazon using windforce:
4x39 + 140 = ~296 average dmg.

A Faith bowie would get 345%ed on a perfect base GMB (43 average dmg):
4,45* 43 = ~191 average dmg.

At this point you see that the base dmg of your weapon is much smaller. Now let's look what lvl15fanatism Aura would give us:
288%ed (144% for ur party) off-weapon %ed, 110%ar (not necessary in pvm imo), 33% attackspeed which works on the base attack speed.
You must now take all sources of your off-weapon %ed to get a clean calculation what this means:
Fortitude 300%, LoH 350% (vs demons only), ~500dex = 500% (for pvm builds) Might Aura Merc ~220%ed (lvl19), Pride Merc 345%ed (lvl20). I ignore any jewels here you would put into tiara/Giant Skull/Kiara and any dmg bonus from max dmg charms and wartravelers.
For Windforce you get: 17,15 * 296 = ~5076 average dmg.
For Faith GMB: 20,03*191 = ~3825 average dmg.
At this point you see why weapon dmg is so important compared to offweapon dmg. And windforce beats Faith Gmb in terms of rawr dmg ANY day!
Now lastly lets look into attack speed.
You can make a wf bowie with 90ias (4frames) and socket Ohm in it without act1 faith merc. A Faith GMB bowie would need 3sox tiara/diadem with 45ias to reach the 2frames bp (just to mention here how much cost good tiaras/diadems with 3sox + suffix + jewels...). Otherwise you will only reach 3frames. The speed difference between 3frame and 4 frames is...minimal:
First of all Strafe (3frames is maximum here due to a bug):
80ias windforce is maximum - easy to reach.
18ias lvl15 Faith GMB maximum - well, not to mention how easy this is. More ias wont give you anything because of the 2-3frames bug on strafe.
You see that there is absolutely no reason to go for Faith GMB + use strafe. Windforce will also add knockback effect which can trigger on all strafe salves making it the 100% better bow here.

Now let's look into multishot / guided arrow:
Windforce: 89ias = 4frames = 2,77 attacks per second. Higher caps would be 147ias (requires 60ias armors over fortitude, not recommended) and 292ias (not reachable)

Faith GMB lvl15 fana: 22ias - 4frames (as wf), 46ias - 3frames = 3,12attack per second, 92ias - 2frames = 3,57 attacks per second.
You can only reach 92+ias with a 3sox tiara and nosferatu belt + 20ias amu + 20ias gloves. That means you lose pierce on razortail + knockback on giantskull. So you would either lose 350%dmg vs demons and use crafted kb 20ias gloves (these can be really expensive with good stats) or wont have knockback.

At the end of the day you would have 0,35attacks per second more than a windforce amazon or you will lose pierce/knockback/dmg vs demons on LoH gloves.
In my opinion using Faith GMB over windforce in pvm is just...none sense. It's much less dmg, you would need much more expensive equipment to make her hit 2frames on multi/guided arrow and lose alot of effects like knockback/pierce/dmg vs demons. Faith GMB is just for pvp for those rich players who can afford 40/15 jewels and 3sox tiaras...
And I close the faith/gmb discussion with a screenshot of my pvm bowie in town (no auras from merc) with equipment/inventory which would cost 3bers on top
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I'm building a version of your bowazon atm. And im currently trying to figure out what would benefit me more, an act 1 faith merc or an act 2 might/obediance merc. Do you have a suggestion?

Azure · Feb 26, 2024

Karxh said: ↑

Hi i will post my skills , gear , stats so you might like something and maybe change something in your build if you need to.
Stats:
Str:Enought for equip
Dex:Everything else
Life:None
Energy:None
Gear:
Weapon : Windforce(shael)
Helm : Kira(15ias)- Mavina(15ias) or 30/45/120 if u have it
Amulet: Cats Eye
Armor:Forti
Gloves : Laying of hands
Rings:2 Ravens
Belt:Razortail
Boots:War Travs
MErc : Faith (ward bow)15/1 , Andariel's, Leviathan , highlord , Gores , NosCoil , Raven , Crafted gloves
Inventory : Anni , Torch , posion charms
now for skills i maxed MultipleShot insted of strafe because you are locked in animation and Multishot has more AOE and i clear Chaos quite fast
and its quite fun.Max guided arrow , multipleshot ,penetrate x20 , critical strike x20, few in pierce and the rest of Passive and magic x1.
I do 5067-11k Guided,3753-7809 Multishot,magic arrow 5011-10k, Strafe 3766-7954.
I have no problems with leach i shoot before seeing monsters so i dont get hit at all.
Hope i helped in some way.
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Sorry to revive the post... I'll be starting this build ASAP

Why? Just because got a WF XD

Cheers

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