Matriarch Ursula - Magic Arrow Bowazon

[Ugla]

Belated congrats
Nice to see someone using MA as the primary skill. And with some high end gear too.

I'm thinking of respeccing Ursula to a Strafer to see how she goes running the CS compared to my existing Windforce equipped Strafer.

I recommend going with MS instead. I observed a substantial difference in performance in said area with my own bowzons. With MS and maxed pierce, you hit pretty much everything on screen (plus some additional off-screen stuff) with each shot. If you manage to squeeze in amp, mobs melt away. Though still lacking compared to hammerdins and the likes, a bowzon can clear CS quite nicely.

[Jason Maher]

Interesting. I might try that, since I've still got a spare respec. I'm guessing Guided Arrow to take down Big D himself? Would you suggest a Windforce based setup or sticking with the Faith?

[MYK]

Interesting. I might try that, since I've still got a spare respec. I'm guessing Guided Arrow to take down Big D himself? Would you suggest a Windforce based setup or sticking with the Faith?

Have a Fleshripper and a Stormshield? Or any other shield, maybe a Sanctuary or anything else with big resists that you have maxed block with. That's what I liked.

[Jason Maher]

Yep. I'm building a Daggerzon at the moment (from scratch), with the intention of using Fleshripper and Stormshield. The only items I don't have are the super rare ones, and a handful of Elite Uniques that I don't really care about, other than for completeness sake.

Question: what level does Multishot max out the number of arrows again?

[Jason Maher]

Wowsers! Just respecced Ursula to Multishot/Magic Arrow (level 23 and 13 respectively), with Fleshripper + Stormshield on switch, and she owns the CS. Magic Arrow is a back up skill to handle no mana/arrows, stragglers, and PIs. Fleshripper switch si to take down Big D. I've only tried p1 and p3 thus far, and Ursula clears CS (much) faster on p3 than Rhiannon (my kitted-out Windforce Strafer) can on p1. I might even be able to take it up to p8 viably.

Cheers for the tips (which someone else gave me yonks ago and I never believed)!

Gear:

- Faith GMB
- Highlord's
- Andy's (30% FRes/8Dex jewel)
- Fort
- LoH
- Razortail
- Natalya's boots
- Manald Heal
- Raven Frost
- skillers with life and damage/AR GCs
- shimmering SCs

[zaphodbrx]

Belated congrats on the Mat, and CS running bowazon sounds interesting. I do P8 CS runs too.. but with barbarian. Actually my javazon can do it too, if I make an effort. I have a strafer ( with WF fort etc ) that owns the pits but when I bring her to CS she.. sucks? P8 CS guys have too much hp and D screws me over with Bone prison/LHOD.

[Jason Maher]

Pretty much my experience. P1 is ok with Strafe, but anything higher is a struggle (I also use Windy + Fort).