All bowazon players, we should call blizzard to give bowazon a good way to spell amp.
Amp is a very good design for bowazon to break immu and buffer damage. but we don’t have a efficient way to cast it.
rare bow and atma ammy have too low chance to cast it.
Brand use a incredible way to cast it: by stuck.
Plz design a new runeword to spell amp, no matter how bad it’s or how expensive it’s.
Some others have used WWS or Lacerator to do this. Personally, I couldn’t get Lacerator to work well for me but atma’s works well for me even with multishot.
The chance of WWS is just 2%, too low. Lacerator is good, but no merc can use it. And bowazon has to switch weapon to use it, not worth to do that. Atma’s works well just when killing speed is slow. Maybe used for P8 or killing baal.
So hope they design a new gear.
Yeah good point about Atma’s, I never use it in players 1 now as cat’s eye is just faster.
It would be good to see items that reduce physical resistances more passively, like a more end-game version of WWS that can be put on an act 1 Merc.
I had huge success with atma and strafe in ptr 2.4. The proc works reliably even in p8 due to increased attack rating granted by strafe. The downside is amulet slot is taken.
That is price for amp - ammy slot taken.
It’s the strongest curse for physical dmg dealers. Atma is fine.
It would be nice to have some source of amp on a5 merc (like Lacerator ;)).
Use Lacerator.
You fire a volley of Multishot and then before they hit, you swap and hold the Lacerator. The 33% lv 3 Amp proc will work while holding the Lacerator, as the Multi passes over creatures.
This same thing works with any other ranged attack in the game on any character.
But if you want a more legitimate way to make Amp, they should overhaul Brand so that it casts Amp on striking rather than on being hit. It could do something like 25% Amp and it would become the favored Strafe bow.
Amta’s, 5% chance, so need 20 arrows to cast it. but 90% mobs will be killed in less than 5 arrows. For phy immu, MA is better. But amta’s good for boss. Lacerator is not good. Two problems of it:
Best solution - play with nec friend 
Genius amp and corpse explosion all day. I think summoner + bowazon are best buddies.
No, i need LSor with infinite run together with me. Hah
Kev, you don’t just throw the Lacerator.
You swap to and hold the Lacerator as a volley of Multi passes over everything and the Multi arrow will proc the Lacerator.
This is how you make Lacerator effective.
Thx, TS, it works, but it’s not very easy to manage the timing to swap weapon. Maybe 9f will make this way work better. But another problem is if casting amp by swapping weapon, bowazon has to get close to confirm if amp is applied or not. It’s not safe for bowazon.
Anyway, it’s a good way for amp in some situation.
Best way is: Let’s call bizzard to change brand a little bit. Hah
If using multishot with lacerator, do you know if the attack rating/ITD values are taken from the time you shot with your bow or when your hits land?
Also, you suffer an indirect DPS loss since you’re not always shooting.
Another approach, though doubt it’s better than act 2 Merc and likely gimmicky, is put the brand on your merc and let it tank some shots for you.
I am actually not too sure about that. I know the damage and proc effects definitely work with the currently equipped weapon so I would assume the AR would also adjust, but you know what I’ve never actually ran a field test on that vs. AR. I’d have to get back with you on that.
Yes. DPD loss definitely. So just use Lacerator for killing boss.
Brand has a lvl 14 amp, which can cover a big area, good for multi. But merc move too slow, maybe it still not so good as act 2 merc. Anyway, it will be a good way to deal with the phy immu group and boss.
Lacerator is a good way to cast amp, sounds it’s better than atma’s when killing boss, but it need do some practice to control the timing. Currently, maybe that’s the best way for amp without damage loss but at the cost of losing CTA or Teleport for P1.
If using lacerator, it’s best to carry this on a cube while using harmony to reach the boss. For me, it’s pretty hard to pass up the convenience of using Atma’s:
The only catch is if you need the IAS from the ammy slot (ie, you’re using faith GMB), that makes it hard to use Atma’s.
Yes, there is no perfect solution for amp unless blizzard do some change about brand or sth else.
Maybe amp could come from an armor piece so that all physical classes can make use of it. Something along the lines of x% ctc amp and +20% attack speed.
Similarly, Blizzard could’ve added lower resists on Mist to support magezons instead of making another useless RW for bowazon.