Multishot vs Strafe

[ispankpigeons]

mine?

she's fast enough

[tismevader]

the best bow IMO for a multizon is buriza cos it have pierce attack and freeze target

[Thirties Coupe]

Strafe is far more better I've had expiriance with both and the stafe is very fast and deadly.

[Kijya]

Strafe:

• Better for knockback
• Better for ctc effects
• Better arrows/frame against 1-3 monsters not lined up
• Better arrows/frame against monsters when they are lined up
• Autotargets
• Strafelock
• Nextdelay
• +5 ed/slvl
• locked mana cost (11)
• Dodge or the like causes every following attack of that volly to miss

Multi:

• Better arrow/frame against larger groups
• Better for hitting targets running sideways
• Better for hitting targets ofscreen
• Not locked in place for so long
• Spread of arrows depends on mouse position when clicking
• Mana cost increase with each level
• Deleted
• Level 10-14 is sufficent

Strafe for cheap bows (aka poor players) or peaple running tight spaces ... but if you kill most monsters in 1-3 arrows why bother staying in strafelock when you can fire 1-3 multi and kill hoards in wide open areas in less then a second (assuming 7 or 8 frame multi)?

Useing one does not exclude the use of the other ...
strafe+multi>strafe
strafe+multi>multi

I'm still sticking with that, appart from the part I corrected because it sounded fishy, no idea what I was thinking of at that time.

[Syphilis]

How does next dealy affect strafe ?

[Dacar92]

How does next dealy affect strafe ?

http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=146666

[Syphilis]

Thx Dacar.

[maniacholic]

Multi with a lot of damage will kill hordes with ease, since a well built amazon can clear almost any horde with 5-8 shots, depending on the size of the horde. It is more defensive then strafe in that it has the best offense for it's defense. In cow levels Multi is known to kill more cows then what the zon user may thinks as it shoots across almost 2 screens, with say experience to cow level lay outs the zon would be able to clear cow levels in less then 10 minutes if the run walk is great enough.

Strafe with wrath, dream, kb, phoenix, dragon armor, gore rides. hydras which weakens monsters reaching them further then what your arrows can and just a lot of fun watching them mass. Arrows are imbued with CB, DS CS, ITD, OW. All elemental damage (fire from hydras, lightning from dream, cold, and poison is amplified) with ctc decreptify Real problem is trying to get venom from dragon to activate.

These examples are best to distinguish how both skills needs a different strategy to be utilized.

[DANIEL3RD]

Multi with a lot of damage will kill hordes with ease, since a well built amazon can clear almost any horde with 5-8 shots, depending on the size of the horde. It is more defensive then strafe in that it has the best offense for it's defense. In cow levels Multi is known to kill more cows then what the zon user may thinks as it shoots across almost 2 screens, with say experience to cow level lay outs the zon would be able to clear cow levels in less then 10 minutes if the run walk is great enough.

Strafe with wrath, dream, kb, phoenix, dragon armor, gore rides. hydras which weakens monsters reaching them further then what your arrows can and just a lot of fun watching them mass. Arrows are imbued with CB, DS CS, ITD, OW. All elemental damage (fire from hydras, lightning from dream, cold, and poison is amplified) with ctc decreptify Real problem is trying to get venom from dragon to activate.

These examples are best to distinguish how both skills needs a different strategy to be utilized.

I have a lvl 90 zon using strafe and so I have created a new zon who is now at lvl 72 using full MS as main attack. She is wearing guardian angel armour, Wf bow, razertail belt, vampire gaze helm, cow kings boots, mavs gloves, 2 raven frost rings and crescent moon amulet. I use these mostly for the mana recharge. I also have the full mavs set so can swap items over if needed but I quite like the look of my zon in guardian angel armour. I have also saved up 59-60 skill points and am now ready to allocate them. The only skills used so far is as I have said have been on Multishot and preliminaries

The question now is what would be the best skills to use. Pierce I get from razortail so thats not an option.

I dont see any skills that enhance MS so do I go all out for ice, or fire skills. I gues ice if I use full mavs but not sure if I want to go down that line.

Any thoughts would be welcome.

[TedDeeBoy]

Does the hit slows target by % mod carry over to all MS arrows. I see CB, OW, CTC and knockback mentioned as only carried by the middle 2 arrows, but nothing is mentioned of the hit slows target by % mod.

thx in advance