can someone please help me out with pvp bowazon?

[smokeydeadhead]

hey, I was looking for someone to post their build on here on their godly pvp bowazone. Items + skills with gear. Please be as specific as you can.
I have read the build in the stragety page but I'd like to know someone's personal experience.

thanks

[dagooz]

message me ingame *theastdoctor. I'll give you a good build.

[mephiztophelez]

hey, I was looking for someone to post their build on here on their godly pvp bowazone. Items + skills with gear. Please be as specific as you can.
I have read the build in the stragety page but I'd like to know someone's personal experience.

thanks

err, in my experience (which has been 99% on the receiving end, not the shooting end) all the godly pvp bowazons have the following traits in common:

1: 7fpa Guided Arrows for a Faithzon (or 8fpa for a WF zon) (note: i have yet to duel a 'dangerous' Brand or Ice'zon)
2: 86% FHR
3: absolute GODWAD INSANE AMOUNTS of FRW (you can desynch with a zon too you know!)
4: vast amounts of off weapon %ed (eg: a fort &/or three ed/ias jewels in 3os helms, preferably with a 30FRW suffix as well, read: a damnaby expensive and hard to acquire hat)
5: usually, but not always, a very high dex build (more damage)
6: knockback (for a faithzon, this usually means crafted hitpower gloves with 20% ias and, preferably, +2 Passive and Magic skills)
7: they wear Wartravellers, NOT Gores on their foots.

they also have one of the following two charmsets
1: pdsc's, the dangerous poi'zons tend to have and inventory full of duped 451's
OR
2: +10max/ar/<life/fhr/frw> GC's and/or +3max/ar/<life/fhr/frw> sc's

in my experience, the most deadly ones swing a Faith Matriarchal Bow (NOT a GMB, although there are exceptions) or a Windforce (although these are getting rarer and rarer), have some significant Open Wounds in there somewhere and use the +max charmset.

a good zon will also know when to use Multi, when to use GA and when (there are occasions) to start strafing. they may or may not also hit you with a decent level Inner Sight (bye-bye defence) &/or Slow Missiles (bye-bye ranged attacks)

just my $0.02 from the receiving end of many a 'blonde and what makes some REALLY hurt and some merely irritate me.

[smokeydeadhead]

okay, what about the skill tree though?

7: they wear Wartravellers, NOT Gores on their foots.

why the travs and not gores? It seems like the gores have a lot more suitable mods for a bowazon.

[mephiztophelez]

okay, what about the skill tree though?
not 100% sure here. max GA, a fewin Multi and Strafe and get some decent D/A/E, but best to get some opinions from noted zon players
why the travs and not gores? It seems like the gores have a lot more suitable mods for a bowazon.
because the +damage on wartravs adds to EVERY ARROW THAT HITS.

Crushing Blow is nerfed for bows, then nerfed again for pvp, so that mod is 'useless'
Deadly Strike and the zons Critical Strike skill interract with each other in a non-additive way, so theres no huge benefit from it.
which leaves Open Wounds. yes, nice mod to have, but if it's your ONLY source of OW, then it's a slim chance at best for it to go off, unlike the +damage on travs, which as i said, applies to every arrow that hits. this is especially noticeable if you use Multi a lot. OW etc only gets applied to the centre 2 arrows of Multi (with an Even number of arrows) and to the centre on (with an odd number of arrows).

this is a bone of contention amongst zon fanatics, but my personal experience (again on the receiving end) is that the bowa'zons that REALLY HURT, wear travs. that pussy town guarder'zon who deals almost no damage, is usually wearing gores.

to give you an idea, i usually play an assassin to duel with. by and large, a sin will wtfpwn a zon (simple, WoF > D/A/E), there are TWO BOWAZONS i've encountered on West Ladder that have given me serious fits. One is a 100% Legit WF'zon (LastZonOnEarth), the other is a (surprisingly) GMB Faith'Zon with the GODLIEST max/ar/life charmset you can imagine (something or other_robynhood).

they both wear Travs.

[smokeydeadhead]

omg I see....

thanks for the info