i was actually heading over here to see if anyone is actually using the elemental arrow plus lightning rune, as i havent seen many DHs using it but ive been using it since i got the ruin and it is just a homewrecker, i love it!
the speed of the ball is what makes it good, combined with entangling shot chaingang. Slow enemies with a slow projectile moving through them means more hits
Yeah, certainly didn't pick up on that at first cause I'm an idiot and most of the time I'm playing I'm also half watching baseball so I'm never 100% focused. After playing with it for a while though it became apparent.
I kinda fell for the nether tentacles version:p Switched between EA with electroball, chakrams with twin rune and multishot with fire at will earlier, but now, nether tentacles. Just love how it slows, wrecks and heals, all in one shot.
It doesn't slow.
Nether tentacles does "weapon damage" so if he has +frost damage on his weapon (can +frost damage come from anywhere else?), it could slow for him on top of everything else. I recently started using nether tentacle and i love it.
I guess so:p My weapon has + frost damage on it, to a total of somewhere between 800-900 weapon damage.
I kinda fell for the nether tentacles version:p Switched between EA with electroball, chakrams with twin rune and multishot with fire at will earlier, but now, nether tentacles. Just love how it slows, wrecks and heals, all in one shot.
It doesn't slow.
Nether tentacles does "weapon damage" so if he has +frost damage on his weapon (can +frost damage come from anywhere else?), it could slow for him on top of everything else. I recently started using nether tentacle and i love it.
I guess so:p My weapon has + frost damage on it, to a total of somewhere between 800-900 weapon damage.
Hm, enlight a noob here: Does a weapon with +frost damage give you a chance to slow on hit? I thought that it was different than in diablo 2 in that frost/cold doesnt slow anymore, and poison doesn't DOT and etc. What did I miss?
Piercing impale is by far the best elite killing aoe and multishot is by far the best normal mob killing aoe, i see no point in elemental arrow. It's not bad, but the others are just better imo
Hehe, smiled when I read this. You'll eat your words, I guarantee it 100%.
Try Butcher on Inferno with your build, then spam nether tentacles with marked up on him, tell me that's not a MASSIVE difference. The impale ur out of hatred in a few sec, and you didn't do a lot of damage. You line up the Tentacles and it's not even comparable.
(Used Butcher as an example since he's a fight where Impale is close to being "best").
And because I tested the different with those two spells, and it made me feel embarassed xD
Multishot is fun and lol when everything is super easy.
I'm about to start inferno act4, 110k dps aimshot up DH.
I tried it out and i agree its amazing but there's a downside. Its lightning damage and i've come across many electric elites that this skill does very reduced damage, which means twin chakrams are better all around, but if u dont mind switching back and forth i guess u can go with ball lightning. (I'm on hell btw)
I run with ball lightning and cluster arrow with the missles and I have no problem dropping the electric affix mobs. Champions/Rares if their lightnining affixed I just spam cluster on them, other wise I ball lightnining and collect my loots. It's funny with 5 stack buff how much gold and rare items you can get to drop in less then an hour.
Honestly I think ele arrow is one of the best abilities we have. I love it. It has a very low cost. If you use the bat pet your hatred will regenerate quickly even as you spam it and you can spam it longer! The same thing if you add hatred regen on your gear, or specialize your templar into hatred regen. Then take all this and add marked for death with the rune that gives 3 hatred per attack. I do this and use the screaming arrow rune. In inferno, it almost feels broken. Get an elite pack into a close corridor, and spam it into them. The fear (I'm not sure though) seems to be AoE upon proc, because it seems to happen a lot more than 40% of the time. It also goes through mobs, so it can proc on many. The best part, aside from completely locking down groups, is that elite packs can't use things like mortar because they're feared!
Edit: When you take this low cost and such into account, you can also see that the single target DPS is likewise insane. You can spam this much more often than abilities like impale, so it adds up. Use the frost arrow rune, and the damage will go up even more!
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Yeah, certainly didn't pick up on that at first cause I'm an idiot and most of the time I'm playing I'm also half watching baseball so I'm never 100% focused. After playing with it for a while though it became apparent.
I guess so:p My weapon has + frost damage on it, to a total of somewhere between 800-900 weapon damage.
Hm, enlight a noob here: Does a weapon with +frost damage give you a chance to slow on hit? I thought that it was different than in diablo 2 in that frost/cold doesnt slow anymore, and poison doesn't DOT and etc. What did I miss?
Hehe, smiled when I read this. You'll eat your words, I guarantee it 100%.
Try Butcher on Inferno with your build, then spam nether tentacles with marked up on him, tell me that's not a MASSIVE difference. The impale ur out of hatred in a few sec, and you didn't do a lot of damage. You line up the Tentacles and it's not even comparable.
(Used Butcher as an example since he's a fight where Impale is close to being "best").
And because I tested the different with those two spells, and it made me feel embarassed xD
Multishot is fun and lol when everything is super easy.
I'm about to start inferno act4, 110k dps aimshot up DH.
I run with ball lightning and cluster arrow with the missles and I have no problem dropping the electric affix mobs. Champions/Rares if their lightnining affixed I just spam cluster on them, other wise I ball lightnining and collect my loots. It's funny with 5 stack buff how much gold and rare items you can get to drop in less then an hour.
Edit: When you take this low cost and such into account, you can also see that the single target DPS is likewise insane. You can spam this much more often than abilities like impale, so it adds up. Use the frost arrow rune, and the damage will go up even more!