physical immunes

[creepcolony]

whats the best way to deal with physical immunes for a bowazon? max fire arrow? max cold arrow?

[Rune-Templar]

I think getting a hellrack (unique colossus crossbow) would work wonders, as it adds 63-324 cold, fire and lightning dmg.

[Evrae Altana]

Harmony in a Matriarchal Bow. Faster than Hellrack and none of the insane str req.

[Billweed]

Harmony in a Matriarchal Bow. Faster than Hellrack and none of the insane str req.
yes yes yes
I use this on switch.
Upgraded WWS and a Freeze Arrow with doom merc too.

[Omikron8]

weapon switch with titans + level 1 lightning bolt

3/4 weapon damage

100% conversion to lightning

only costs two skill pts

now if you meet a PI + LI well.........run

[denverpoker]

whats the best way to deal with physical immunes for a bowazon? max fire arrow? max cold arrow?

1) Get Reaper's Toll on Merc. I can't think of better weapon, without an uberexpensive Rune word that helps bowazon. It breaks PI when decrepify is cast. 33% of the time. This weapons does insane damage, my lvl 88 merc is 289-1568. There is LL on the weapon. A lem can surely buy one of these and the price is cheaper. The main thing is decrepify breaks their PI.

2) Harmony bow - You can even make it in a non Matriachial bow. If you need one I have an empty four socket I'll trade, as well as a complete Harmony. Does 55-160 damage in Cold, Fire, and Lightning. This is great on top of the other stuff. Throw in the lvl 10 vigor and you can truly RUN the pits. It also adds plus skills to Valk, between 2-6. Great for prebuffing. The main thing is since you are primarily using this bow against PI's. You want the fastest sucker you can to deliver the elemental damage.

3) Charms, Charms, Charms - Some of my favorite are 100 psd sc's. I carry a couple and would love to get more.

Do these three things and you'll be able to deal with them fine. It can be annoying with huge mobs of wraiths or other PI's if there is a large group. But you can kill them and won't die.

[DennisBergkamp]

These are all good suggestions... I personally use treachery as a "switch" armor in cube, that is, I put on treachery, attack monsters with strafe and get a lvl 15 venom. Now switch back to original armor. This combined with a fast harmony bow kills phys immunes quickly enough.

[creepcolony]

i appreciate the suggestions but my main question was which is a better skill to max, fire arrow or cold arrow? i'm not a big fan of weapon switching.

[Dacar92]

Cold. It slows or freezes non cold immunes. That is a major benefit to those who don't like to get hit.

[denverpoker]

Cold arrow. Actually freezing arrow. If you go this route. Remember small cold charms are great as they add 1 sec of frozen time and every second the monster is frozen you deal the whole freezing damage per second.

As for being the fan of weapon switching. I don't like the idea of switching out armor for in the cube. I understand that kind of switching, but the normal weapon switch, with Harmony, is the way to go. Just hit that W key. Don't be lazy. If you want to be lazy play a paly.

[Leohappy]

Magic arrow allows you to deal with PI quite well if you have a good bow.

[creepcolony]

hmm the description for cold arrow says that it does 1/2 of arrow damage. fire arrow doesnt say does, so does that mean fire arrow will do more elemental damage than cold arrow?

[Leohappy]

hmm the description for cold arrow says that it does 1/2 of arrow damage. fire arrow doesnt say does, so does that mean fire arrow will do more elemental damage than cold arrow?Magic, Cold, Fire arrows just convert a certain % of physical dmg to magic/ele and they add some of their own.

I prefer Magic arrows since magic dmg isn't resisted, Cold or Fire often will be resisted or negated.

[Bladewind]

Upped WWS has almost no problems with PI.

Chance to cast amp damage and its inherent lvl20 magic arrow. If the amp damage casting is still too slow for your liking (WWS is pretty darn fast with Strafe already !!), put on Atma scarab.

Watch em all die.

[secretzone]

i recently used a demon limb (lv23 enchant) i found to help kill those PI
works quite well :xmas30:

[Billweed]

i appreciate the suggestions but my main question was which is a better skill to max, fire arrow or cold arrow? i'm not a big fan of weapon switching.
Swap a runeword body armor while in combat during solo, party or dueling is not something I do.
The 1 point LF and carry a titan tgod in stash, or a harmony elite any tyoe bow, a strong merc and a good frostmaiden (Cold/speed dam) build and you can handle a lot for cheap - if you have spare armors to drop get FAITH and be done with it.

[Billweed]

i appreciate the suggestions but my main question was which is a better skill to max, fire arrow or cold arrow? i'm not a big fan of weapon switching.
Swap a runeword body armor while in combat during solo, party or dueling is not something I do.
The 1 point LF and carry a titan tgod in stash, or a harmony elite any tyoe bow, a strong merc and a good frostmaiden (Cold/speed dam) build and you can handle a lot for cheap - if you have spare armors to drop get FAITH and be done with it.

[Billweed]

i appreciate the suggestions but my main question was which is a better skill to max, fire arrow or cold arrow? i'm not a big fan of weapon switching.
Swap a runeword body armor while in combat during solo, party or dueling is not something I do.
The 1 point LF and carry a titan tgod in stash, or a harmony elite any tyoe bow, a strong merc and a good frostmaiden (Cold/speed dam) build and you can handle a lot for cheap - if you have spare armors to drop get FAITH and be done with it.

[Omikron8]

Triple post for teh win

[Leohappy]

Triple post for teh winI think he's just trying to make his point clear :xmas9:.