Help Pls with Hybrid bow choices

[Thorgaard]

Help Pls with Hybrid bow choices

Hey guys, could some of you pros in here help me with a choice i need to make for my Strafe/LF/CS hybrid zon?

Right now i've got a Lycanders Bow and just found an Eaglehorn Crusader Bow, these are my best bows that i have, I don't have HR's for Faith as an option. Pretty much i envisoned most of her time spent in Cows, farming for goods or the occasional romp thru Chaos, pits, and other lvl 85 areas. That being said, her main skill on the bow side is strafe (only have 1 pt. spent in multi) and i want her to have the best bow possible for when i need to grind.
Would u guys up the Lycanders or just roll with the eaglehorn? If u roll with Eagle, would u socket it with IAS or ED%? Same question for Lycanders? I think i would really miss the +skills stats, my build stretches points pretty thin and i know that i'm going to have to probably rely heavily on +skills gear to make her a true killing machine.
Thank you for any advices.

 

[illestkhmai]

Re: Help Pls with Hybrid bow choices

Get a Titans and you're pretty much good to go reguardless of your bow, I'd go for a harmony or something though for immunes.

 

[crawlingdeadman]

Re: Help Pls with Hybrid bow choices

i'd definitly pick the eaglehorn. the ITD is too nice to give up. you also wont be able to put 20 into penetrate like a regular bowazon might. bonus of the build is that the things you'd normally worry about ar on an ITD bow are the ones you'll take out with CS, bosses. now for light immune bosses you will want a decent cth (unless you're gonna use ga a viable option), so maybe a demon limb in your stash or something such as that. check your ias breakpoints for whether you should shael the bow or ed/ias it. another thing, you dont need +skills on bowside as much as you do on jav side. i also tend to use multi quite often vs a pack of LI's that arent lined up quite right so another point or two wouldnt hurt if you feel it necessary.

vs li/phys immune magic arrow is your friend.

 

[slayer37]

Re: Help Pls with Hybrid bow choices

Right now i've got a Lycanders Bow and just found an Eaglehorn Crusader Bow, these are my best bows that i have, I don't have HR's for Faith as an option. Pretty much i envisoned most of her time spent in Cows, farming for goods or the occasional romp thru Chaos, pits, and other lvl 85 areas. That being said, her main skill on the bow side is strafe (only have 1 pt. spent in multi) and i want her to have the best bow possible for when i need to grind.

You are using a physical-based skill so +skills don't matter so much. I recommend going for Eagle. Be aware though that you need to reach 120IAS for optimal strafing (read: 9/2) since Eagle is a 10WSM bow. Eagle has good damage, ITD which will help your bad AR, decent AR boost and dex. Regarding socketing, I'd stick a shael in there to help out the immense IAS you need to reach optimal strafe breakpoint.

edit: pwned by CDM