[3.8] Arly's Ice shot bower

i played this build for a while and it worked great, recently switched to a howa build but i am selling a full gear setup for this. i will sell it all for a cheap bulk price

So, you take dps in tooltip and multiply it by how many arrows you shoot?

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T5309 wrote:

So, you take dps in tooltip and multiply it by how many arrows you shoot?

for barrage.

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Nephalim wrote:

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T5309 wrote:

So, you take dps in tooltip and multiply it by how many arrows you shoot?

for barrage.

You don't multiple the LA does in tooltip by how many projectiles you shoot to get the total? As in, I do 7kdps, and maybe shoot 7 projectiles. My dps would be 49k, right?

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T5309 wrote:

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Nephalim wrote:

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T5309 wrote:

So, you take dps in tooltip and multiply it by how many arrows you shoot?

for barrage.

You don't multiple the LA does in tooltip by how many projectiles you shoot to get the total? As in, I do 7kdps, and maybe shoot 7 projectiles. My dps would be 49k, right?

It is difficult to make that assessment. More arrows will help LA clear faster but its not right to say 7x7 = 49k dps due to the way LA works and the fact you are not going to shotgun all 7 arrows onto a single target.

With that said, the more arrows you have, the faster you will clear and the more single target you will have.

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Nephalim wrote:

It is difficult to make that assessment. More arrows will help LA clear faster but its not right to say 7x7 = 49k dps due to the way LA works and the fact you are not going to shotgun all 7 arrows onto a single target.

Yeah, that's understood. Now, are there other things that are also not factored into the tooltip dps?

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redrumdog wrote:

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_Saranghaeyo_ wrote:

Flask optimization #1 priority for you right now

Should not be Level 87 and using a white Divine Life Flask

This build is quite good, but really takes off once you have even basic flasks. You don't have to buy Vinktar (although it would be really nice) to start with, but just having a trio of Silver/Diamond/Atziri flask to start would upgrade your results a lot imo

Ok thanks, I'll definitely give that a try!
I saved that for last cause I'm not very good at the game yet, so more buttons to push are gonna mess me up for sure haha. Guess I'll have to learn.
About that...how are you supposed to use those flasks? Just pop em all at once during a boss fight/breach and go crazy?

Thanks!

Imo,

Some Flasks are pre-emptive like Basalt, some Flasks are reactive like Seething Life Flasks for example.

Your setup looks pretty good now. Just make sure you have 1-4 active when you're fighting and the Life Flask as a panic button, and you'll do just fine. LA is great AOE clear but also as a side effect will fill flasks very quickly too.

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T5309 wrote:

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Nephalim wrote:

It is difficult to make that assessment. More arrows will help LA clear faster but its not right to say 7x7 = 49k dps due to the way LA works and the fact you are not going to shotgun all 7 arrows onto a single target.

Yeah, that's understood. Now, are there other things that are also not factored into the tooltip dps?

The only purpose of tooltip dps is to compare relative gains in gear/passive changes or to compare two very similar builds but as a metric to actually measure how fast you clear a map or kill a boss, it is fairly useless.The best example is that a 14,000 dps gmp kinetic blast will clear much faster than a 40,000 dps reave with iaoe gem. It can give a generalized baseline - for example: lightning arrow with 5 arrows and 40,000 paper dps will smoothly clear even A t16 map.

Builds that ostensibly advertise milions dps in the title generally have terrible clear speed.
The only that matters in this game is how fast you can clear a T16,T15,T14 etc map.

I noticed in one of your videos that it appears that you have full mana reserved and that you aren't using any mana when using LA?

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T5309 wrote:

I noticed in one of your videos that it appears that you have full mana reserved and that you aren't using any mana when using LA?

Which?