Slayer arrows

[D'rin]

So it is my understanding that slayer arrows now hit for 500 points of damage and do not have the vorpal effect. If this is true does the 500 points of damage hit red and purples also?

[Impaqt]

So it is my understanding that slayer arrows now hit for 500 points of damage and do not have the vorpal effect. If this is true does the 500 points of damage hit red and purples also?

Arcane archer "Slayer" arrows.. Not the regular ones you loot out of chests.

and Yes. They hit raid boss's

[D'rin]

Thanks Impaqt. Yes I meant the AA arrows. So while not as good for trash mobs certainly good for raid bosses. Many shot, silver long bow and some luck you will have 20 seconds of some very nice damage.

As a side not I respec'd my 19th lvl ranger into the AA last night and am trying it out. I used your build as a template. Pretty solid so far.

[Impaqt]

Thanks Impaqt. Yes I meant the AA arrows. So while not as good for trash mobs certainly good for raid bosses. Many shot, silver long bow and some luck you will have 20 seconds of some very nice damage.

As a side not I respec'd my 19th lvl ranger into the AA last night and am trying it out. I used your build as a template. Pretty solid so far.

Another really cool thing I just learned was that the Imbued effect attaches to all Arrows. Not just your Conjured ones. So you can make Silver Slayers to use with that SIlver bow.... Very nice indeed.

[D'rin]

That was my thought as well so a new tactic for the shroud a bunch of AA with many shot ripping Harry a new one.

[grodon9999]

Another really cool thing I just learned was that the Imbued effect attaches to all Arrows. Not just your Conjured ones. So you can make Silver Slayers to use with that SIlver bow.... Very nice indeed.

Yes, it is nice. Extremely useful in the Shroud but gotta be careful in VoD as I've pulled aggro from the tank every time I've tried it.

[grodon9999]

That was my thought as well so a new tactic for the shroud a bunch of AA with many shot ripping Harry a new one.

I SO want to try this, two of us were in a Shroud together the other night and it went smooth as silk (granted we'd tried this the night before and all died because of healing lag but that's another story . . .). Somebody's done an all-bow Shroud already and with AAs being the new "black" soon we'll see enough 18's to try 8 in a party to see what happens.

Can Harry be intimitank'd? I've never seen anyone try it.

[D'rin]

Ran SOS last night and with many shot on I was at least getting 3-4 slayer hits on him and the best around 6-7. I was able to cycle about 3 many shots since we only had one caster he did not go down that fast.

The no save damage portion is really nice. It does not put us up to par with the maxed out kensaii or barb but I am not getting hit either.

I could see a bunch of AA with silver bows or any DR breaking bow owning Harry. He wouldn't know who he wants to go after.

[grodon9999]

I could see a bunch of AA with silver bows or any DR breaking bow owning Harry. He wouldn't know who he wants to go after.

For the record I don't believe the "Silver Bow" is actually a 'Silver' weapon, you need to use the House D arrows to cut through the DR

Manyshot and slayer arrows kinda saved my butt last night. I lead my first Shroud (thank God 11 great guys showed up, a party-wipe would have been really embarrassing my first time leading . . .) we get to part 4 and the lag-monster kills 4-5 guys leaving me as two other melees left, harry is about 15% health. Whipped out the bow and unloaded, we were able to kill him quick enough to rescue the mission. Thankfully I rolled a lot of 20s. later on that night on Genesis point it was really useful when we took on hell's army. it's nice when 10 devils are standing in a row and then disappear 5 seconds later.

[D'rin]

I know the silver bow is not silver. But it is holy with d10 and increase crit range. So it makes it one of the best bows for Harry other than greensteel(depending on the type of bow) and some epic stuff.

[Creeper]

can you make bolts or just arrows?

[LargeMarge]

can you make bolts or just arrows?

just arrows for the AA enhancements

[Talon_Moonshadow]

A word of caution with ranged DPS and raid bosses...especially those that teleport.

I find that I have to be extremely careful with manyshot on raid bosses....even without the Slayer Arrow enhancment.

I can only imagine how bad the agro will become with the new AA enhancments.

We really need a subtle archery enhancement in this game.

[Cedwin]

We really need a subtle archery enhancement in this game.

I'm sure it would work just as well as subtle spell casting.

[grodon9999]

A word of caution with ranged DPS and raid bosses...especially those that teleport.

I find that I have to be extremely careful with manyshot on raid bosses....even without the Slayer Arrow enhancment.

I can only imagine how bad the agro will become with the new AA enhancments.

We really need a subtle archery enhancement in this game.

I stand in their face and fire point-blank. it also helps me get the mass-heals from the clerics (unless the lag-monster fouls things up . . .).

[Turial]

A word of caution with ranged DPS and raid bosses...especially those that teleport.

I find that I have to be extremely careful with manyshot on raid bosses....even without the Slayer Arrow enhancment.

I can only imagine how bad the agro will become with the new AA enhancments.

We really need a subtle archery enhancement in this game.

-50% does nothing which you have the potential to put out 4 slayer hits and 4 lightning strikes in a manyshot volley. Not that it will happen but it is not unusual to have over a thousand damage go up in 2 or 3 volleys from slayer hits alone.