I need your help to finish my Bowie

[dymi]

I need your help to finish my Bowie

Hello

I dont know where to put my extra skill points.

My skills (naked) right now :

20 Strafe
10 Multi
20 Valkyrie
20 Penetrate
1 in all passives
1 in magic arrow
1 in cold arrow
1 in guided


My gear

Perfect "Faith" + 3 bow GMB
Fortitude
Kira's
LoH
2 Ravens
Rare dual leach amu
WT
Nosferatu Coil

Torch
Anni
2 passive & magic skillers

I have 13 skills right now to spend - i can get like 10 more levels so totally i have 23 skills to spend - Please share your opinions.

Thx in advance

 

[Virility]

Re: I need your help to finish my Bowie

Nice set up. Consider 2 areas, critical strike and the decoy. The first is pretty easy to justify the investment, I believe CS caps at 68% but a number around or near 60% is reasonable for 8 or 9? I am lazy to check the exact number.

Decoy to 20 is something I have never thought of until the very nice post made regarding Mavina's set and a pure strafe primary attack. Valk gets a nice boost in life, that is very good. What impressed and has sold me on the skill point investment is how great it is to have such a durable decoy. I use the decoy constantly and it has made a very noticable difference in allowing me to position, reposition dodging black souls, death lords, PI witches in the world stone keep.

I play hardcore mode and this has saved my butt many times. You may not play hardcore mode, but after around level 95, deaths are expensive and can take a several hours of WSK walking to get back the exp you lost.

I realize these are play style type things, but worth your consideration beyond the intial point investment.

 

[dymi]

Re: I need your help to finish my Bowie

Survive is not a problem.

Behind Valkyrie , merc and 3-5 revives from Faith i really not need Decoys.

So lets improve offence :

Options :

Max Multi shot (10 points)

Max Guided (19 points)

Max Magic (19 points)

Any feedback ??

 

[Tymbark]

Re: I need your help to finish my Bowie

If you really like guided you can max it, but in terms of pvm only with your current setup I dare say it won't make that much difference in killing bosses (besides that purpose GA is useful in pvp, but that's a lil' bit different story

Pumping points in multi is useful only to mid-lvl (can't really remember the exact number, sorry), and beyond that it won't increase the number of arrows but only suck your mana pool. Multi powy?ej 25 ci?gnie bardziej ni? odkurzacz, wierz mirop:

MA - I don't really see a use of it for you, but I may be wrong. If you like the freaking sound while you shoot it, try WWS bow which has 20lvl MA built in as a mod.

If I were you (and have all the GoZu goodies I'd experiment with switching to javellin mode and use of lightning skills (namely CS which covers one of the biggest drawbacks of all bowies - it can tear apart The BiG Ones in a second)
These are my 2 cents, but I may be wrong and all I've written here is based on personal experience only^^

 

[frooglemon]

Re: I need your help to finish my Bowie

Personally i would go with a few extra pts into dodge/evade/avoid (maybe a few in each). If your dueling, max out the guided arrow if not, a few pts in the highest cold arrow are nice for pvm when things are frozen for several seconds.

Dont max the multi shot, i did that my first time and it stops at 24 arrows, which to be honest, 15 or so should bee all that you need so you current lvl is high enough.

If you dont like the cold arrow and like just the multi-strafe combo, a few pts in pierce doesnt hurt

On a side note, i wouldnt max magic since it most likely will not be all that helpful. It's not that its a bad attack but it just doesnt compare to strafe-multishot.

As was said above, this is my 2 cents, Invest it as you will.