My original plan was to not even use the gift and keep farming untill a 2nd gift dropped so I could use this on my current weapon and always have one spare incase another good weapon dropped
What do you think? SHould I still wait for a 2nd gift to drop or use it now on my new cold damage weapon:
I'm gonna say two things here and not give you an opinion, so I'm sorry for that:
a) Holding on to a gift to wait for another one is almost always a losing proposition. If you use your gift now, that should allow you to farm better/faster which increases your liklihood of getting another one. In any case, they drop so infrequently that losing out on that DPS upgrade for so long is just compounded even worse.
2) Your cold damage on your bow does not matter. The % bonus you get to cold skills does not affect your cold weapon damage. In other words, a bow with fire dmg and a bow with cold dmg will do the same dmg, even with cold bonus. Also, because of the burst damage from Cluster Arrow, you need to concentrate less on your paper or weapon dps and more on the actual damage on the weapon. Your weapon here tops out at 1800 which is decent for an ancient 2h bow, but what you want to be looking for and using is a 2h Crossbow. The crossbow base damage can get up past 1900 which means that each of your individual cluster arrows will do more damage, even if your paper dps is lower. The reason being is that your paper dps and weapon dps assume that you can attack at your attack rate (1.4 on that weapon) consistently, and anyone who uses DH can tell you, you can't cluster arrow at 1.4 the entire time you're playing. This is why you see so many people rolling Arcane Barbs from the blacksmith.
All that said-If you are going to stick with an Ice build, you probably want an Etrayu. If you want to look in to Fire/Physical (which are the better group/high grift builds) then a 2h crossbow is the way to go, but Etrayu can have 20% cold damage on it, which should make up for the difference in base damage between the two types of weapons.
All that said-If you are going to stick with an Ice build, you probably want an Etrayu. If you want to look in to Fire/Physical (which are the better group/high grift builds) then a 2h crossbow is the way to go, but Etrayu can have 20% cold damage on it, which should make up for the difference in base damage between the two types of weapons.
Yeh thats a weapon id like more but just wanting to work out if i should use the gift on the best i have atm
I would salvage that bow. Not worth keeping. First off you only need about 350k - 400k HP. your actual toughness should come from your all res / armor.
Next off you have a CA build, you want a slow hard hitting xbow. you will burn through resources super fast with that bow. you either change to multishot build to use this bow or get a xbow.
Sup everyone
I am on the fence on using my one and only Gift I found a while ago. I am way over due for another one I think!
I have 2 ancients of the same weapon but this time i found a much better one:
I am a cold build following this guide: http://www.diablofans.com/builds/30668-2-1-2-cold-cluster-solo-gr45-capable
so the cold damage on the new bow is pretty good
My original plan was to not even use the gift and keep farming untill a 2nd gift dropped so I could use this on my current weapon and always have one spare incase another good weapon dropped
What do you think? SHould I still wait for a 2nd gift to drop or use it now on my new cold damage weapon:
http://imgur.com/In7Blyz
I'm gonna say two things here and not give you an opinion, so I'm sorry for that:
a) Holding on to a gift to wait for another one is almost always a losing proposition. If you use your gift now, that should allow you to farm better/faster which increases your liklihood of getting another one. In any case, they drop so infrequently that losing out on that DPS upgrade for so long is just compounded even worse.
2) Your cold damage on your bow does not matter. The % bonus you get to cold skills does not affect your cold weapon damage. In other words, a bow with fire dmg and a bow with cold dmg will do the same dmg, even with cold bonus. Also, because of the burst damage from Cluster Arrow, you need to concentrate less on your paper or weapon dps and more on the actual damage on the weapon. Your weapon here tops out at 1800 which is decent for an ancient 2h bow, but what you want to be looking for and using is a 2h Crossbow. The crossbow base damage can get up past 1900 which means that each of your individual cluster arrows will do more damage, even if your paper dps is lower. The reason being is that your paper dps and weapon dps assume that you can attack at your attack rate (1.4 on that weapon) consistently, and anyone who uses DH can tell you, you can't cluster arrow at 1.4 the entire time you're playing. This is why you see so many people rolling Arcane Barbs from the blacksmith.
All that said-If you are going to stick with an Ice build, you probably want an Etrayu. If you want to look in to Fire/Physical (which are the better group/high grift builds) then a 2h crossbow is the way to go, but Etrayu can have 20% cold damage on it, which should make up for the difference in base damage between the two types of weapons.
Yeh thats a weapon id like more but just wanting to work out if i should use the gift on the best i have atm
WHat about if I do it this way:
I could roll the VIT to + % damage and keep the socket on the weapon and not use the gift?
I have 600k hp already
what do you guys think? Or is this a bad idea
I would salvage that bow. Not worth keeping. First off you only need about 350k - 400k HP. your actual toughness should come from your all res / armor.
Next off you have a CA build, you want a slow hard hitting xbow. you will burn through resources super fast with that bow. you either change to multishot build to use this bow or get a xbow.
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ok but i am yet to find one with decent damage
ok will do thanks all