Freyas FA guide(repost)

[lextalionis]

Everyone for gets about MELODY Matriarchal Bow, that already has +3 Bow and Crossbow skills on it. That will give you a total of +6 Bow and Crossbow skills. This will add up to roughly 500 more damage. That may be more useful than the -35% Cold Resist from a perfect Wizendraw. This would require a different bow on Weapon Switch for physical damage, some more IAS. But would allow for a build based more around +Skills.

This is a fairly cheap weapon, but still a good one.

[Dark-LYNX]

[COLOR=White]Cool guide Freyas! [/COLOR]

[sloven]

how about hell cow run?
even in one player game

[D'Shay]

how come I do not see WindForce suggest here?
just curious

[royalesse]

Are +to freeze lengths added to the FA explosion. Say if someone was wearing IceBlink would the Freeze length on be added to the FA explosion?

I was thinking to myself if that holds true then the HoJ would be nice on a bow... then I thought a little bit about it and realized it's not the HoJ it's the Cham rune that's important :lol:.

[Freyas]

Yes, freeze length will increase your freeze duration from your FA explosion.... The freezes target on buriza, iceblink, cham rune, or Arctic set will increase the amount of time that monsters stay frozen just like cold damage sources(like charms). A HoJ will increase your freeze duration. However, if that's the only reason that you'd be using the bow, you might just look into getting some dual-modded cold damage small charms to increase the duration. Of course, HoJ has some other nice mods which would make a nice bow, but the increase of your freeze duration will only be 3 seconds from the bow.

[royalesse]

the increase of your freeze duration will only be 3 seconds from the bow.

I heard Cham was calculated like Ice blink:

Iceblink: Ice Blink has a 13-50% Chance to work. Ice Blink works with Ranged Weapons. This is not displayed on the item.
Freeze Time in seconds = (100 + CharacterLevel*2)/25
The minimum Freeze Duration (at Character Level 1) would be 4.08 seconds, and maximum (at level 99) would be 11.92 seconds. Freeze Length is reduced to 1/2 and 1/4 on Nightmare and Hell.

only times three since it's +3 to freeze. Of course I could have mis-interpreted if they meant 3 times more likely or I've been fed misleading information on these forums before.

[Freyas]

I heard Cham was calculated like Ice blink:

Iceblink: Ice Blink has a 13-50% Chance to work. Ice Blink works with Ranged Weapons. This is not displayed on the item.
Freeze Time in seconds = (100 + CharacterLevel*2)/25
The minimum Freeze Duration (at Character Level 1) would be 4.08 seconds, and maximum (at level 99) would be 11.92 seconds. Freeze Length is reduced to 1/2 and 1/4 on Nightmare and Hell.

only times three since it's +3 to freeze. Of course I could have mis-interpreted if they meant 3 times more likely or I've been fed misleading information on these forums before.

I'm not all that positive- I might look into doing some tests on how hit freezes target things work with FA. I know the formulas you are using apply for if the cham/iceblink freezes the target, but I'm not positive on how that affects the freeze duration from FA. I'll see what I can do for testing this out in single player and post my results.

[halohalo]

Thinking about the Melody Matriachal bow, I came up with the following idea for gears:

Full Disciple's set
Melody mat's bow(+6 bow skill) // lycanders on switch
Andy's visage
Raven Frost
Dual leech ring
Anni, and an all resist Gc
cold dmg charms and light resist charms

Reasons :
1. Mat's bow needs 45% IAS to have 9 frame attack. With this setup it gives 60%.
2. Can easily get all positive resistances, especially poison and fire, even with andy's visage. Lacks light resist somehow and needs charms to complement that.
3. +6 to all skills, particularly +12 to bow skills, even without any skill charms.
4. Lycanders : on switch to have mana leech.
5. Disciples will give +100 to mana.

Just my idea. I haven't really played a FA zon before, so I might lack some important points here. I.e., I think i'll have some mana problems.

[royalesse]

Thinking about the Melody Matriachal bow, I came up with the following idea for gears:

Full Disciple's set
Melody mat's bow(+6 bow skill) // lycanders on switch
Andy's visage
Raven Frost
Dual leech ring
Anni, and an all resist Gc
cold dmg charms and light resist charms

Reasons :
1. Mat's bow needs 45% IAS to have 9 frame attack. With this setup it gives 60%.
2. Can easily get all positive resistances, especially poison and fire, even with andy's visage. Lacks light resist somehow and needs charms to complement that.
3. +6 to all skills, particularly +12 to bow skills, even without any skill charms.
4. Lycanders : on switch to have mana leech.
5. Disciples will give +100 to mana.

Just my idea. I haven't really played a FA zon before, so I might lack some important points here. I.e., I think i'll have some mana problems.

Have you looked at some of the old Magezon guides? Just wondering... I'd think about a fast piercing bow/xbow over a high damage bow or a +skills bow. Haven't run the numbers yet... will probably post them up later.